WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK  24 – 27 February 2011

Tonight at ICTP: Cineforum “Delicatessen”, a French film with English subtitles. Free entrance for students, visitors, ICTP staff, DFT and SISSA. The film will be projected in the Main Lecture Hall at the Leonardo Building,  at 18:30.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Concert at the Tripcovich Theatre on Friday 25 Feb at 20:30. The Trieste Verdi orchestra will be conducted by Maestro Marcello Mottadelli, music director of the Cairo symphony orchestra. Mendelssohn (Die Hebriden), Mozart (concert in re maggiore for violin and orchestra) and Dvorak (Aus der neuen Welt). Tickets may be purchased one hour before the concert directly at theatre’s box office  (tickets price range: euro 5 – 15). The theatre is located very close to the central train station near Piazza Libertà. Check http://www.teatroverdi-trieste.com

International Piano Festival at the Miela Theatre on Sat 26 Feb at 21:00 with Korean pianist Mi Yeon. Free entrance. Tel: 040 365119. http://www.miela.it

Opera at the Verdi Theatre: “Samson et Dalila”, last performance tonight. Music by Camille Saint Saens. The Opera is in French with Italian subtitles and is directed by Boris Brott. For programme and more info, call 800090773 or check http://www.teatroverdi-trieste.com

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 in 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

FILMS

At the Miela Theatre in Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi, on Sunday 27 Feb at 16:30: “La versione di Barney” by Richard J. Lewis, with Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman. The film is in Italian, free entrance. Check all programmes at 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

MISCELLANEOUS

“Il Misantropo” (Le Misantrope) by Molière at the Rossetti Theatre (viale XX Settembre), ongoing until Sunday 27 Feb. Massimo Popolizio is Alceste. Ticket price range from euro 16 to 29. For more info call 040 3593511 or check http://ilrossetti.it

Rossetti Cafè entertainments:

-Tonight at 22:00, “PerbaccoNait – conversazione a quattr’occhi (e due calici)”: An after dinner cabaret with Andro Merkù and musician Maxino Cernecca (author of the parody song “waka waka, l’Italia va in waka”).

-Friday 25 Feb at 22:30 with Canadian saxophonist Robert Bonisolo.

- Sat 26 at 23:00 Music and dances with D.J Papastuff.

The Cafè Rossetti is located in Largo Giorgio Gaber, same building as the Rossetti Theatre (viale XX Settembre). Tel 040 5700566, for table booking: cell phone 348 7396445

“Trieste in Festa” – music and entertainment with two comedians from the TV show “Le Iene” at the Molo IV on Sat 26 Feb at 21:00. Andrea Pellizzari, “Mr Brown” (this time he is the DJ) and comedian Niccolò Torielli (“sconvolt quiz”).

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

Ausonia Club:

- Fri 25 Feb “Trash Nite 80 vs 90”. Free entrance but you must buy a drink.

- Sat 26 Feb live reggae music with “Mama Marjas” (ticket euro 10).

The Ausonia club is located in Riva Traiana 1 (bus 8).  Check http://www.radiofragola.com

Theatre for Children “Cuore d’Albero”” 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

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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