What's On This Week 17-20 February

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*WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK 17 - 20 February 2011***

*CLASSICAL MUSIC*

*Opera at the Verdi Theatre: "Samson et Dalila", *from Saturday 19 until 
Thursday 24 Feb. Music by Camille Saint Saens. The Opera is in French 
with Italian subtitles and is directed by Boris Brott. There is a 50% 
discount for the Saturday performance: last minute tickets can be 
purchased one hour before the show from 17:00 to 18:00 directly at the 
Verdi's box office. For programme and more info, call 800090773 or check 
http://www.teatroverdi-trieste.com

*Revoltella Museum Sunday Matinee Concert on 20 Feb at 11:00. *A violin 
and piano duo with Michele Lot and Graziarita Dal Cin, music by Brahms, 
Paart and Stravinsky. Drinks will be served at the end of the concert. 
On the same day there are free guided tours of the Museum at 10:00 and 
12:00 as well as art workshops for children (from 10:00 -- 13:00 for 
those aged 7 to 10, and in the afternoon from 16:00 -- 18:00 age 4 -- 
6). Comprehensive price for concert, drinks and tour is 6,50. The museum 
is situated in via Diaz 27. Check http://www.museorevoltella.it

*ART EXHIBITIONS IN TRIESTE*

* **"Il Giorno del Ricordo"(Remembrance Day), *ongoing until 12 March, 
commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Italians from 
Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia after the Second World War at the Civico 
Museo della Civiltà Istriana, Fiumana e Dalmata in via Torino 8. The 
museum has an interesting collection of paintings, photos, crafts, 
costumes all related to the culture of Italians who lived in those 
territories that are now part of Slovenia and Croatia. Opening times: 
Mon- Sat 10-12:30/16:00-18:00 and Sun 10:00 -- 13:00.

*"Dalla Metafisica all'Arte" (from Metaphysics to Art). Ongoing 
exhibition by Giorgio De Chirico until 27 February at the "Scuderie del 
Castello di Miramare" (*Miramare Castle "horse stables" - converted in 
an exhibition hall - before the main entrance of the Castle on viale 
Miramare). The exhibition presents 90 works tracing the artist's 
creativity. There is also a solo exhibition by the artist Fabio Mauri 
"Un Sognatore della Ragione" (a dreamer of the reason) with 5 
installations and 1950 paintings. At the Miramare Castle, there is 
another exhibition by contemporary artists inspired by De Chirico's 
works: "Gli Specchi dell'Anima. Artisti intorno a De Chirico" (the 
Mirrors of the Soul, Artists close to De Chirico), to name a few: Adami, 
Ceroli, Chia, De Dominicis, Natham, Schifano. The exhibition is open 
every day from 9:00 - 19:00. Entrance ticket euro 8. Ongoing until 27 
February 2011.

*Cavour & Trieste at the San Giusto Castle ongoing until June 2011 
(*Piazza della Cattedrale 3, bus 24 from Train Station). The exhibition 
highlights the special relationship Cavour had with the city of Trieste, 
his stay in 1836, and the political and economic importance of the city 
used as a model for Europe's modernization in the 19th century. Entrance 
ticket euro 5 (opening times 9:00 - 17:00). Check 
http://www.triestecultura.it

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*FREE FILMS*

At the associazione italo-americana in via Roma 15, a documentary in 
English on Friday 18 Feb at 18:00: "Niagara" (on the Niagara falls). 
Free entrance.

At the Miela Theatre in Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi, on Sunday 20 Feb at 
16:30: "Tutto può succedere", the film is in Italian, starring Jack 
Nicholson and Diane Keaton (2003), free entrance. Check programme 
http://www.miela.it

*"Jewish on Screen",* film projections on Jewish culture and traditions 
in different parts of the world, every Tuesday at 18:00 at the Carlo and 
Vera Wagner Museum in via del Monte 7. Check programme, 
http://www.jewishonscreen.blogspot.com

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*MISCELLANEOUS*

*Live jazz at the Cafè Rossetti *on Friday 18 Feb at 22:30 with Mauro 
Ottolin and his band. The Cafè Rossetti is located in Largo Giorgio 
Gaber, same building as the Rossetti Theatre (viale XX Settembre).

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*Jam sessions* organized by the Jazz Club Thelonious and in 
collaboration with the Tartini Music conservatory on different dates at 
the Bar Knulp in Via Madonna del Mare. Check 
http://www.thelonious.trieste.it

*Techno and house music *at the Stazione Marittima, Molo Bersaglieri, 
Sala Illiria on Sat 19 Feb, starting at 22:00. For those who would like 
to have more fun and have their faces painted, there will be a body 
painter inspired by Le Cirque du Soleil acrobats, clowns or wild animals

*Theatre for Children* "Verso la Luna" at the Teatro Orazio Bobbio in 
via Ghirlandaio 12 on Sunday 20 Feb at 11:00. For children aged 6 -- 
10.Ticket euro 6. http://contradaragazzi.it

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*OUTSIDE TRIESTE*

*"Munch e Lo Spirito del Nord", Villa Manin in Passariano di Codroipo in 
the province of Udine.** *For the first time in Italy, "Munch and the 
Spirit of the North. Scandinavia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth 
Century" aims to piece together a story that identifies the spirit of 
the North in painting in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The 
exhibition, composed of approximately 120 paintings on loan from 
Scandinavian museums in particular, but also from several other European 
and American museums, focuses chiefly on landscapes, although it also 
features a good number of portraits and figural works. Ongoing until 6 
March 2011. Opening times: everyday 9:00 - 19:00 (until 1 Nov) and from 
2 Nov Mon - Thurs 9:18:00 and Fri, Sat and Sun 9:00 - 19:00.

*Ski season *in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and Pramollo ski resort 
in Austria. For more info on slopes, ski pass prices and weather 
forecast, check: http://www.promotur.org for ski in the FVG Region, 
Austria: http://www.nassfeld.at/en/winter/

And general ski maps in Italy: http://skimaps.skiforum.it/skimaps/index.php

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