the bestinRome FESTIVAL CLASSICAL MUSIC From 20th at Parco della Musica From 18th at Micca Club Burlesque, the art Maurizio Pollini celebrates Schuman orld renowned Italian pianist of seduction WMaurizio Pollini returns to the he 6th edition of this Rome Sala Santa Cecilia for three performan- TBurlesque Festival takes place ces this week celebrating the two hun- from November 18th to 21st at the dredth anniversary of the birth of compo- Micca Club close to Porta ser Robert Schumann. British conductor Maggiore in Via Pietro Micca 7A. Antonio Pappano leads Pollini and the This four day extravaganza shines Santa Cecilia orchestra for these perfor- the spotlight on the world of caba- mances of Schumann’s concerto in A ret and the art of seduction which minor op 54, plus his overture for Byron’s poem Manfred and his complex fourth symphony in D minor op 120. This symphony, which revolutionised the classical structure of this work, will be on the programme for a Family Concert at midday on Sunday, while the other performances are at 6pm on Saturday Maurizio Pollini 20th, at 9pm on Monday 22nd and at 7.30pm on Tuesday 23rd. Meanwhile Pollini will also be taking the stage on November 28th and again on December 3rd for two solo concerts featuring Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 and Beethoven’s last three sonatas. Details and tickets on www.santacecilia.it or 06-8082058. DANCE Sunday 21st at Teatro Olimpico 110 Paganini performs Gershwin his tribute to the life and music of the great American composer Angie Pontani TGeorge Gershwin by Italian dancer and actor Raffaele Paganini will then go on stage at the Teatro will be accompanied by an exhibition of paintings by well known Olimpico with the show La Dolce artist Roberta Cardinaletti and aims to stimulate a new interest in the Diva. The opening day of the festi- world of contemporary dance here in the capital. Gershwin was val features some of Italy’s best among the first renowned composers burlesque artists performing to the to write music for dance and his uni- music of the Berlin band Kamikaze que ability to blend a classical training Queens. That’s followed by other and traditions with popular American international stars including folk music makes him a bridge Millicent Blinks from London, between ancient and modern, as well Anna Fur Laxis from Manchester, as between the old and new worlds. Honey Lulu from Berlin, Melody This free performance at 9pm on Sweet from New York, plus one of Sunday 21st at Rome’s Teatro the world’s leading burlesque arti- Olimpico takes elements of the com- sts, Angie Pontani. The festival also poser’s biography, his upbringing in features a photo exhibition, film New York at the turn of the 20th cen- shows, a sale of antique books, tury in a Russian Jewish family and records, posters and other memora- his formative years in Paris, set to the bilia, plus a workshop for aspiring music of some of his best known artists on Saturday afternoon. works. In Piazza G. da Fabriano, Details on www.miccaclub.com or Raffaele Paganini details and bookings on 06-45552941. 06-87440079. TROVAROMA JAZZ ROCK Lew Soloff Ozric Tentacles merican jazz trumpeter and composer ive years on from their last Rome show, psy- A Lew Soloff comes to the Casa del Jazz on Fchedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles are back Thursday 19th for a concert entitled ‘New with their blend of electronic, techno trance, York City Scene’. Best known for his years acid and new age sounds. Founded in the with Blood, Sweat and Tears, but also for his early 80’s by British guitarist and keyboards collaboration with Gil Evans, Tito Puente, player Ed Wynne, the band soon made a name Barbara Streisand, as one of the most Carla Bley or Frank eccentric and mind Sinatra, Soloff leads a bending acts on the superb quartet com- prog rock, post hippy posed of pianist Jean- scene. From ancestral Michel Pilc, former druid worship to the musical director for new frontiers of space Harry Belafonte, bas- age sound, prepare sist Francois Moutin your senses for a voya- and percussionist ge of inner exploration Ross Pederson. and discovery of new Tickets euro 10 from frontiers. At the Jail- the Casa del Jazz in break club in Via Tibur- Viale di Porta Ardea- tina 870 on Friday 19th, tina, 55 or call 06- tickets euro 15, details 704731. The Ozric Tentacles on 366-3154776. sents for the first time in Eu- lia 54, launches the new sea- EXHIBITIONS rope the mysteries of the le- son with ‘Macro Fall 2010 – TAKASHI MURAKAMI gendary Teotihuacán civilisa- Images on the Move’, a col- Until January 15th Rome’s tion from pre-Columbian Mexi- lection of work-in-progress by Gagosian Gallery, in Via Fran- co. On display you can see a dozen different artists. cesco Crispi 16, will be ho- over four hundred and fifty Among these is ‘Drawing Spa- sting an exhibition of work by exhibits including ceramics, ce’ the first Italian show dedi- contemporary Japanese artist masks, ritual and ceremonial cated to British sculptor An- Takashi Murakami, whose objects, jewellery, sculptures, tony Gormley, a Mario Schifa- paintings are also currently on wall paintings and architectu- no laboratory and ‘Hiker show at the grand castle in ral decorations, almost all of Meat’ by the young British ar- the best Versailles. Here in Rome, Mu- them on loan from Mexican tist Jamie Shovlin exploring rakami is exhibiting two new museums. At Palazzo delle the exploitation cinema fad of giant art works measuring ei- Esposizioni in Via Nazionale the 1970’s Open from 9am to 111 ghteen metres by three me- 194, open from 10am to 7pm, Tuesdays to Sundays, tres and inspired by traditio- 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays 06-671070400 nal Japanese painting. The till 10.30pm, closed on Mon- VAN GOGH gallery is open from Tuesday days. Tickets ?12.50, The show, which runs until Fe- to Saturday from 10.30am to bookings on 06-39967500, bruary 6th 2011, features se- 7pm or by appointment, for until February 27th 2011. venty of Van Gogh’s master- further details call 06- ART MACRO pieces brought together from 42086498. Rome’s Museum of Contem- museums and galleries MICHELANGELO’S ‘TWO porary Art, in Via Reggio Emi- across Europe and North WRESTLERS’ On loan from the Casa Buo- narroti in Florence, the terra- ART From Friday 19th at Parco della Musica cotta model of these two figu- res by Michelangelo will be on show until december 5th, fol- Wolf Vostell at the Fluxus Biennial lowed by Leonardo’s ‘Portrait of a Musician’ which has ne- ollowing on from the show of work by George Maciunas and ver been seen outside Milan’s FGeorge Brecht, German artist Wolf Vostell will be featured Ambrosiana Library. The mu- from November 19th to January 9th as part of the ongoing two seum in Piazza del Campido- year celebration of the Fluxus movement. Considered a pioneer of glio is open from 9am to video art and environment sculptures and ‘Happenings’, Vostell 8pm, closed on Mondays, was one of the founders of the European Fluxus scene and foun- tickets euro 11 06-0608, der of the Vostell archive documenting in detail the work of his www.museicapitolini.org. contemporaries. On the 19th the Staalplaat Soundsystem will also TEOTIHUACÁN, CITY OF be performing their interpretation of the Fluxus spirit – for more THE GODS details see www.auditorium.com or call 06-80241281. This itinerant exhibition pre- TROVAROMA 1861: THE RISORGIMEN- of the Risorgimento’ is the ti- THEATRE TO PAINTERS tle of this exhibition at the Mu- This exhibition in the former sta- seo di Roma in Palazzo Bra- Peter Sellars bles of the Quirinale palace ex- schi until January 10th 2011. plores the events that took pla- Around a hundred paintings, n the mid-1980’s Hungarian ce in the three years leading up sculptures and other works of Icontemporary composer to the unification of Italy in art from public and private col- Gyorgy Kurtag set to music 1861. Many of the artists on di- lections recall two decades of excerpts from Franz Kafka’s splay here - Gerolamo Induno, the city’s history, from the de- diaries and letters, using just Eleuterio Pagliano, Federico Fa- claration of the short-lived Ro- a soprano voice and the ruffini or Michele Cammarano - man Republic in 1849 to the haunting notes of a violin to were the so-called ‘soldier pain- defeat of Garibaldi at Mentana highlight the existential ters’ who had fought in the front and the storming of the city at dimension of the great wri- line for independence of their Porta Pia in September 1870. ter’s words. Now the creative nation and were able to depict In Piazza San Pantaleo. and controversial American some of the most tragic and Tickets euro 8 with conces- opera and theatre director moving experiences of those sions, details on 060608 or Peter Sellars has staged this years. Open 10am to 8pm Sun see www.museodiroma.it work, Kafka Fragments which to Thurs and until 10.30pm Fri LUCAS CRANACH: THE makes its Italian debut at the and Sat, tickets euro 10, see OTHER RENAISSANCE Palladium on November 19th www.scuderiequirinale.it or 06- The work of German Renais- and 21st, featuring American 39967500. Until January 16th. sance artist Lucas Cranach soprano Dawn Upshaw and LEONARDO DA VINCI- the Elder features for the first violinist Geoff Nuttall. Tickets THE GENIUS AND HIS time here in Italy in this exhi- from euro 12 to euro 26 on INVENTIONS bition at Rome’s Galleria Bor- www.romaeuropa.net or 06- ‘Leonardo Da Vinci – the genius ghese.