Christmas and New Year's Eve are full of events in all the big Italian cities. Nobody gives up on attracting tourists and residents with shows, events and exhibitions. After Florence, Milano e Napolhere then is the calendar of events and shows for those who spend the New Year in Rome. The highlight will be the classic big concert at Circus Maximus starring Vinicio Capossela and Achille Lauro. The City of Rome has dedicated a website with all the useful information. But the streets of the historic center of the capital will be invaded by live performances of music, art and theater with over a thousand artists from all over the world. Here is a calendar of the most significant appointments, in our opinion.
Music:
- Brancaccio Theater from 22 November 2018 to 6 January 2019: "Add a seat at the table" by Garinei and Giovannini. The story is inspired by "After me the deluge" by David Forrest. It narrates the adventures of Don Silvestro, parish priest of a mountain village, who receives an unexpected phone call one day: God himself instructs him to build a new ark to save himself and his whole country from the imminent second global flood.
- Puff December 31st: “Lembo Show” with Luciano Lembo
- Music Park Auditorium –Sinopoli Room from 21 to 31 December 2018: “Roma Gospel Festival 2018”. It is the most important European gospel festival, in which some of the best spiritual and gospel groups from the United States are presented.
- Petrolini Theatre on December, 31st: "Roman New Year: Songs, serenades, ditties, anecdotes and curiosities of Rome” with Paolo Gatti and his company. The Roman song has a long history of several centuries with different musical forms will be a journey through the history of Roman song from 1200 to today.
- Opera House from 28 December 2018 to 6 January 2019: "Swan Lake”: ballet in four acts with music by Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij.
Theater:
- Ghione Theatre from 29 December 2018 to 13 January 2019: "What are these money for". Armando Curcio wrote this comedy in 1940. Those were years of economic crisis that the town is still experiencing today. It is precisely for this reason that Curcio's words appear current to us.
- San Genesio Theater December 31st: “Santa Claus Superstar”. A story that will make everyone reflect on society and modern times that drag true values into oblivion.
- Ciak Theatre from 20 December 2018 to 6 January 2019: "Interactive yellow Cluedos". A show that moves irreverently and joyfully through comedy, cabaret and game in perfect balance, full of mystery, suspense and humour.
- Palalottomatica from 28 to 31 December 2018: "In love lost". Who is Enrico Brignano in love with? Of his little girl, first of all, and of what surrounds him: his existence, his work, his woman, the world. Of course, not even a man in love escapes the difficult moment, the ugliness of our time and the crisis that is going through the whole earth, but one can try to find the ironic side and evaluate the room for improvement.
- Margherita salon from 21 November 2018 to 3 February 2019: “Female!”. The most loved, most admired, most hated women in history will all find themselves together on a stage: divas, queens, actresses, singers, courtesans of every era, each with its own history, beauty and talent.
- Auditorium of the Conciliation on 31 December: "Choose a card" with Maurizio Battista
- Olympic Theatre from 18 December to 6 January 2019: “Gagmen” with Lillo and Greg
- Teatro Manzoni on 30 and 31 December: “People of easy virtue”. In a society like ours, where everything is degraded and corrupted, what value do honesty, dignity and respect for human values have? Political ideals are at the service of private interests, creativity and imagination are used for advertising sales pitches, the highest values are sold off and liquidated and everything is subservient to profit. Paradoxically, what has remained most coherent to itself is the oldest profession in the world: prostitutes have continued to do what they have always done with clarity, without innuendo or simulations.
Exhibitions
- Exam building from 5 October 2018 to 6 January 2019: “French Impressionists – from Monet to Cézanne”. It is a tribute to the great artists considered the forerunners of a new way of observing the world and the surrounding nature, of expressing immediacy and fluidity through the contrast of light and shadow and vivid colors in the pictorial field. The exhibition itinerary will lead you to XNUMXth century Paris: a bohemian heart, pulsating with creativity and innovation, which was preparing to change the face of European art once and for all.
- Borghese Gallery – The exhibition dedicated to "Picasso - La sculpture" remains open until 3 February, the first exhibition in Italy dedicated to the sculptor Picasso. presents 56 masterpieces by the great master created from 1905 to 1964, unpublished photographs of atelier and videos that tell the context in which the sculptures were born. It is essential to buy tickets online.
- Carlo Bilotti Museum – Orangery of Villa Borghese from 29 November 2018 to 17 February 2019: "Dance at Villa Borghese". The focus is concentrated exclusively on the works painted in the Villa, with an investigation into the early pictorial production of Giacomo Balla, who, not yet a futurist, is already directed to the study of light and colour.
- Onion Museum from 20 November 2018 to 27 January 2019: Ennio Calabria, Works 1958 -2018.
- Vittoriano complex – Ala Brasini from 3 October 2018 to 3 February 2019: Andy Warhol, an exhibition dedicated to the myth of Warhol, created on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of his birth. Furthermore, the exhibition "Pollock and the New York school" will also be on display at the Complesso del Vittoriano from 10 October to 31 December. Through around 50 masterpieces: vivid colours, harmony of shapes, abstract subjects and representations immerse the observer in the context of abstract expressionism.
- Cloister of the Barmante from 29 October 2018 to 5 May 2019: “Dream. Art meets dreams”. Twenty great protagonists of contemporary art tell their dream through visionary works: an exhibition that talks about desires, expectations, exorcised fears and fantasies.
- Palace of Expositions from 9 October 2018 to 20 January 2019: “Pixar: 30 of animation”. From Toy Story to Nemo with over 400 works including drawings, sculptures, sketches, collages and storyboards. Also at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni from 9 November 2018 to 6 January 2019: "Roma Fumettara" in which 70 authors tell Rome.
- Palazzo Barberini from 27 September 2018 to 27 January 2018: "Mantegna's room: the masterpieces from the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris". The selection focuses on Andrea Mantegna's masterpiece, Ecce Homo. Also at Palazzo Barberini from 27 September 2018 to 27 January 2019: “American Gothic. The Masters of the Straus Madonna”
- Stables of the Quirinale from 17 October 2018 to 20 January 2019: “Ovidio. Loves, myths and other stories”. They are works that accompany the story starting from the life of the poet and his contrasted relationship with the emperor Augustus. Room after room we discover the themes at the center of his writings: from the perspective of the gaze on the female world, which he instructed on the techniques of seduction, to the contrast between the dignified severity of the official gods of the principality with the lively and sensual figures that animate the verses of the Metamorphoses. In the Ovidian world, the divinities of the Pantheon become victims of loves as vehement as they are illegitimate or architects of violent revenge and atrocious punishments.
- Baths of Diocletian from 27 September 2018 to January 2019: “Je suis l'autre. From Picasso to Mirò: primitivism in twentieth-century sculpture".
- Dali room of the Cervantes Institute from 26 September 2018 to 12 January 2019: “Spanish art of the 50s and 60s: The poetics between abstraction and figuration”. The works of the components of the two modern art movements of those years are exhibited: "El Paso" which oriented informal art and "Realistas de Madrid" oriented towards figurative art.
- MAXXI from 10 November 2018 to 10 March 2019: “Digging in ditches – Feeding crocodiles”. It is the first exhibition of Zerocalcare which has always been linked to the underground scene. The installation of the exhibition is inspired by the Armadillo, the famous character created by Zerocalcare. Also at MAXXI from 20 October 2018 to 24 February 2019: "Low Form", an exhibition on art and artificial intelligence.
- Museum of Rome from 12 November 2018 to 3 February 2019: “Overtaking. When Italy started running, 1946-1961”. It is the story of a country at the moment in which it enters modernity forever. It is the idea of Italy accelerating and gaining positions, overcoming its archaic and backward traits, moving forward despite enormous problems that it often leaves unresolved, or which are generated by the very forms of rapid and voracious development.
- Archaeological Park of the Colosseum from 15 November to 31 December 2018: “Roma Universalis. The empire and the dynasty that came from Africa”. The exhibition traces the Severan dynasty: the last imperial family, which reigned for forty years, from 193 to 235 AD
- Ara Pacis from 26 November 2018 to 17 February 2019: “Marcello Mastroianni”. The exhibition traces the extraordinary career of Mastroianni. From the beginnings with Riccardo Freda in 1948 to the collaboration with Federico Fellini, of which he became a real alter ego: more than a hundred films between the XNUMXs and the end of the XNUMXs, and many international awards.
- Cembalo Gallery from 27 October 2018 to 19 January 2019: “Alain Fleischer: Je ne suis qu'une image”. Through a selection of photographs and videos, the exhibition traces the artist's entire career, from the first works of the seventies to the most recent.
- State Archives – Sala Alessandrina from 23 October 2018 to 5 January 2019: “The Maimonides Code and the Norsas”. The exhibition project will be divided into three sections: Mantua at the time of the Gonzagas; the Jews in Mantua and the Norcia family: the story of a painting; the Norsa Library and Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed.
- Museum of Rome in Trastevere from 20 October 2018 to 3 March 2019: “Lisetta Carmi. The beauty of truth". The exhibition aims to enhance the photographer's work through an exhibition itinerary marked by three nuclei of works on three very different themes: the Parisian underground, transvestites and Sicily.
- Basilica of Sant'Antonio al Laterano from 7 December 2018 to 13 January 2019: Exhibition of Cribs.
- Gallery of Modern Art from November 1st 2018 to March 3rd 2019: "The overalls and the steel" by Antonio Fraddosio. The monument is dedicated to the workers of Ilva and to the city of Taranto.
