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8 interesting, off-the-beaten-path corners of Rome
Erik TörnerMy country´s capital famously boasts some of the world´s most legendary and inspiring tourist attractions, such as the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Spanish Steps, and Vatican City. But Rome is also overflowing with millennia worth of riches that get less attention from visitors intent on their “bucket lists”, and exploring these places off the usual tourist track can give you a deeper, more authentic, and more serene experience of the Eternal City – and by the way, avoid the…
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By BuzzInRome
On Saturday night Rome will be turned into a huge stage for live music for the second edition of Musei in Musica (Museums in Music). After last year’s massive participation – about 60,000 people – on November 20 up to 100,000 are expected to show up.
From 8pm to 2am, more than 100 events will animate the night of 47 cultural sites in Rome: many museums and exhibition halls, universities, academies and international institutions, places of worship and other places of cultural interest will be open and completely free of charge.
Italy’s top jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi will play at Musei Capitolini. Italian, Greek, Estonian and Norwegian folk music will be on stage at Macro Testaccio. World music star Idan Raichel from Israel will sing at Casa dell’Architettura, while Mexican classic guitarist Juan Carlos Laguna will delight the crowd at Palazzo delle Esposizioni. Other Latin American tunes, Argentina’s Milonga, will be played at Galleria Alberto Sordi. A very original show will take place at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, where Francesco Cerasi has created music commentaries to the artworks in exposition.
These are just a few ideas we found inspiring. But for the complete program of the 47 locations and music performances, look here
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After the great success of last year with attending people from all over Italy and even from abroad, the Roma Salsa Festival has emerged as one of the most important events on the international salsa scene.
Its 5th edition will run from November 19 to 21, with 3 exciting days of dance, music, shows and more than 60 hours of workshop at all levels with national and international artists, for a growing event with a unique program.
There will be classes of Cuban salsa, rueda de casino, salsa Puerto Rican, New York style salsa, salsa swing, Los Angeles style, rumba, gestures, bachata, son, cha cha cha, Argentine tango, ragaeton, hip hop, and more.
And do not forget the live concerts that will accompany the evening of the festival, creating a magical atmosphere. At Rome Salsa Festival cultures, music, colors, people meet to give life to one of the funniest events of the year!
So far this is a list of the confirmed artists: Thomas Guerrero y Santorico Dance Company, Adrian y Anita, Ana y Joel Masacote, Alberto Valdes y su Clave Negra, Tropical Gem, Maykel Fonts y Kirenia Cantin, Ahi Nama Dance Company di Antonella Albanese e Arnay, Adolfo Indacochea y Carla Voconi, Chiquito & Dominican Power, Kaytee and Vanessa, Manuel Mascarell y Sabrina Bravi, Swinguys, Jhesus Aponte, Sabor Colombiano, Wilmer y Maria, Sam Rabou, Acela Moras, Angelo Rito, African Jet, Grupo Alafia and Estudio Tropical.
While the confirmed DJs are: El Malo, Ezios, Pedro, Mascalzone latino, Giacomino, Graziano Rossi Pio 4te.
The Festival will take place in Ciampino at PalaCavicchi a facility of over 20,000 square meters, divided into 6 dance rooms. Address: 130, Via Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, Ciampino. From From Termini station you can get on any train for Frascati, Albano, Velletri or Cassino and get off at Ciampino. Once at Ciampino’s railway station, you can reach PalaCavicchi by taxi or by bus (Cotral). Otherwise, from the underground Line A’s terminus of Anagnina you can jump on the Ciampino Airport-bound Cotral bus and get off in front of Palacavicchi.
by BuzzInRome
Fashion is a key element of contemporary Italian culture and is also one of the country’s major export products. And Italy’s top fashion designers have often been called on to create costumes for theater, dance and opera performances. For the first time ever, these creations by the best-known Italian names in fashion for the theatre, the opera and ballet will be on display in Rome. Il Teatro alla Moda. Costume di scena. Grandi Stilisti celebrates the increasingly frequent and reciprocal melding of fashion and art. This innovative event, featuring one hundred original costumes, together with sketches, fashion plates and rare performance videos, will be displayed in Rome’s Museo della Fondazione Roma until December 5.
Il Teatro alla Moda exhibition is an opportunity to admire the garments and costumes created by several of the most important Italian designers for famous theatre, opera and choral music such as Luciano Pavarotti, Katia Ricciarelli, Carla Fracci, Joaquin Cortes, Kiri te Kanava and Raina Kabaivanska
Big name designers showcasing their creations include: Gianni Versace, Roberto Capucci, Emanuel Ungaro, Fendi, Missoni, Giorgio Armani, Antonio Marras, Romeo Gigli, Alberta Ferretti, Valentino and Enrico Coveri.
Museo della Fondazione Roma is located at 320, via del Corso. From 10 am to 8 pm. Always Open.
by BuzzInRome
Rome is becoming more and more a culture club city, with the trendiest clubs such as Goa, Room 26, Brancaleone, Rising Love and Spazio Novecento, hosting some of the best international DJs.
Let’s start from tonight. Three big events for dance and night life lovers on November 13. At Spazio Novecento Bob Sinclair, author of renowned “Love Generation”, the soundtrack of a famous TV adv, will keep the tunes spinning, playing his last album “Jamaica” and his single “Lala Song”. Berlin’s Panorama Bar resident Marcus Meinhardt gets down with his Nordic atmosphere at Rising Love with a perfect balance of house and electronic music. Always on Saturday 13, at Brancaleone, The Field dj-set, aka Alex Wilner, will propose eclectic and sophisticated music from Sweden in his only Italian appearance.
Goa will also feature big names soon: Theo Parrish on November 18 and Paco Osuna on November 25. Anja Schneider, Locodice, Paul Ritch and Ricardo Villalobos from Chile with his peculiar minimal, electronic and tecno sound, will make your booty shake in December at Goa.
On November 21 Free Masons will get behind the decks of Room 26, while on November 26 dj Magda and Marc Houle will be manning the ship. On November 27 Tony Humphries will rock hard all night long at Room 26, followed in mid-December by Kenny Dope Gonzales, of the “Masters at Work” band.
On November 27 Steve Lower will play at Spazio Novecento, while on December 11 it will be Felix Housecat dj-set’s turn with his house/electroclash style. After Christmas crowd favourite Martin Solveig and David Guetta will be Spazio Novecento’s guests.
On December 7 you can shake it on Atlantico Live‘s dancefloor with Sven Vath, a tecno house pioneer and founder of Cocoon, the international event company.
Brancaleone’s program teems with great events in the next few weeks, too. Paris dj-set Cassius and Matthew Dear will hit the dancefloor soon. Followed by Miss Kittin and the danish Trentemoller, one of the most influential contemporary electronic world’s DJs.
By BuzzInRome
The original, authentic show of manga and anime will be in Rome on November 13. Japan Anime Live is the first and official live event made and performed by the Japanese creators of the famous Manga and Anime series. A unique show that brings on stage the “all-star” of Japanese animation such as Naruto Shippuden, Fullmetal alchemist Brotherhood, Bleach, One Piece and Gundam Series.
Japan anime Live is a mix of special episodes displayed on a gigantesque screen, live action, live recitation with the local voice actors, flamboyant effects and live music with Japanese artists.
Over two and half hours of breathtaking performance, divided into five chapters. Each one devoted to an animated series, orchestrated by a script that combines all the different elements of the show.
In fact Japan Anime Live contains what you will never watch on TV: all animations and stories have been re-created and re-edited exclusively for the show. And Live Music, a unique chance to sing along in karaoke mode (Japanese in roman alphabet, very easy to sing!) all the original theme songs of the TV series.
Japan Anime Live is a fast paced pop opera that gives a third dimension to a world of fantasy and its heroes. A time‐space gate that connects the fans with the dreamland of Anime. A “must-attend” event for all cosplayers and Japanese pop culture lovers in general.
On November 13, at 9 pm. Gran Teatro, in Viale di Tor di Quinto (the venue was changed for technical reasons, it is no longer Palalottomatica). For further info click here. Tickets on sale here
By BuzzInRome
Rock, pop, classical music. Rome had great concerts of these traditional kinds of music in the last few weeks thanks to the U2, Lang Lang and Prince. And it will have Sting on stage on November 10.
But music is an incredibly varied form of art and goes well beyond these categories. That's why we thought it would be useful to know what else is on offer in Rome.
On November 7, Africa's most famous singer Youssou N'Dour will perform in auditorium Parco della Musica. Senegalese, UNICEF ambassador, actively committed to fight drought, apartheid, HIV and slavery, N'Dour is one of the big names of world music, with his ability to mix multiethnic music languages, African sound and pop with three different languages: english, french and wolof. His concert will start Sunday at 9 pm in 30, Viale Pietro de Coubertin. Online tickets on sale here
From November 9 to November 17, instead, musical noises will please your ears :-) Stomp, written and directed by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, has no words – everyone can understand it. Stomp is eight individuals playing great music out of tools, tyres, bins and other common objects of daily life. It has little or no melody in the traditional sense, so it doesn’t matter if your taste in music is jazz, classical, dance or pop. Stomp is about rhythm, which is common to all cultures. It is a group of people who use simple building blocks to create something complex. The show will be held at Teatro Olimpico, in 17, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano at 9 pm, except Sunday - 6 pm. Online tickets available here and here.
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By BuzzInRome
Unique trails in the collective space, new signs in the urban landscape, interventions suspended between visibility and anonymity and between real and virtual spaces, icons present in the collective memory and practices of the youngest generations. Invader offers a meaningful and original reading of contemporary culture.
Born in 1969 in Paris, Invader is one of the most important and original international street artists and has exhibited in many prestigious galleries and museums across the world. He is known above all for his public interventions inspired to the Arcade Game Space Invaders, created in 1978 in Japan.
In Rome, the anonymous artist revisits the urban space generating wonder and transforming daily routes into unique journeys. His works will be on display for his first Italian solo show “Roma 2010 and other curiosities" in the Wunderkammern exhibition space until December 21. The exhibition will present various aspect of his work: from the alias replicating the space invaders of Roma to works made with his original RubikCubism technique, by means of the coloured modules of the famous puzzle, re-presenting images extrapolated from the realm of art history or popular culture, along with specific installations and curiosities.
With the invasion of Rome occurred over the summer, the artist has finally added the Italian capital in the list of the more than forty cities he has invaded so far: from Katmandu to Bangkok, New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and above all Paris.
Wunderkammern is at 122-124, Via Gabrio Serbelloni. It is open from 5 pm to 8 pm, Monday to Thursday.
For other Space Invaders works and exhibitions, click here
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