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TOUGH TIMES AHEAD FOR MIGRANTS IN ITALY

Transport

ITALO SPEEDS AHEAD THE NEW OWNERS OF ITALO’S HIGH-SPEED RAIL SERVICE COULD GIVE TRENITALIA AN UNCOMFORTABLE RIDE AS RAIL SERVICES OPEN UP TO EUROPEAN UNION COMPETITION

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(RFI). Opposition from RFI and its operating arm Trenitalia, which had done all the ground work for the high-speed rail network, continued until 2011. It created difficulties over safety certification, network timetables and passenger access at stations, all of which delayed the start of Italo’s service until 2012. Capital investment for rolling stock was no walk in the park for Italo either, thanks to the cost of high-speed Frecciarossa trains, pioneered by Italy’s Ansaldo and Breda and now owned by the Japanese company Hitachi. It was only when the original shareholders brought in Italian heavyweight investors such as the bank Intesa Sanpaolo, Generali insurance group and also the French Railways SNCF that things began to look brighter. The company now operates successfully on Italy’s state-owned high-speed tracks from Turin to Salerno, taking in Milan, Florence, Rome and Naples on the way. In May the Turin-Venice line will be operating full-time and later this year it will be offering connections to Genoa too. These are remunerative routes linking the country’s key cities, competing not only with the state-owned high-speed service, Trenitalia, but also with air traffic between the same cities.

hile Italian politicians were busy campaigning for the general elections on 4 March, the privately-owned train operator Italo, which runs on Italy’s high-speed railway network, was sold off to the Americanbased infrastructure investment fund Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for €2.5 billion. There was very little opposition to the sell-off, which was all the more surprising considering the opposition to Italo, originally a 100 per 4 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

cent-privately owned Italian company, when it first broke the state rail monopoly just over a decade ago. Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV), which owns Italo, was launched in 2006 by a number of Italy’s high-profile private investors, including Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and Diego Della Valle of Tod’s. Initially NTV had a bumpy ride, mainly because of entrenched opposition from staterun rail network Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Italo undercuts Trenitalia prices by just a few euro on almost every ticket and is also well below the airline ticket prices. Its services are attractive and imaginative. It runs Italo buses from many of its stations to the surrounding towns and offers an enticing winter sports package connecting stations such as Turin with Courmayeur, Verona with Canazei, Venice Mestre with Cortina. Its ItaloGo service provides a number of useful extras such as booking taxi cabs to meet trains, car parking facilities and transfers to airports. Italo has made train travel in Italy look attractive, low cost and easy. Now that most of the teething troubles are over Italo should give Trenitalia a good run for its money. Surprisingly almost the only objection to the sale of the company to GIP came from shareholder Della Valle, who believed that its shares should have been floated on the Italian stock exchange. However Della Valle’s opposition, as well as that of two government ministers, Pier Carlo Padoan (economy and finance) and Carlo Calenda

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo was among the founders of NTV.

(economic development) may have forced GIP to up its offer almost overnight from €1.94 billion to €2.3 billion, just days before Italo was to launch on the stock exchange. The considerable increase was too good to refuse, especially for the main shareholders such as Intesa Sanpaolo, which was carrying most of the debt, Generali and founder Montezemolo, whose prestigious name has guided Italo through many difficult moments. Until now GIP, which is chaired by Nigerianborn Adebayo Ogunlesi, has invested almost exclusively in infrastructure projects, as its name suggests. Its portfolio includes airports (Gatwick and Edinburgh – it sold off the small London City at a considerable profit in 2016), container terminals, energy generation, storage and distribution systems. Railways are a new departure. That a large global company should want to buy into Italian train services is a morale boost for Italian high speed rail. But GIP could turn out to be a dangerous rival for Trenitalia, which will be no longer be competing with a home-grown fledgling but against a powerful multinational with international expertise. 5 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

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ANZAC DAY 2018 Australians and New Zealanders in Rome will be commemorating ANZAC Day 2018 with a memorial service. The service will take place at the ROME WAR CEMETERY VIA NICOLA ZABAGLIA (PIRAMIDE) on Wednesday 25 April at 9.00am An informal reception will follow the service at the Australian Ambassador’s Residence (Salita dei Parioli, 40, 00197 Roma) For security reasons an RSVP is mandatory for those wishing to attend the informal reception at the Residence EVERYONE IS WELCOME RSVP: info-rome@dfat.gov.au or telephone 06 852721

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Chairman Ogunlesi has degrees from Oxford and from Harvard Law and Business schools. He clerked for the US supreme court judge, the late Thurgood Marshall, and then went into US-Swiss investment banking with Credit Suisse First Boston. In 2006 he left to set up GIP, with Credit Suisse and General Electric among his first backers. The background of the other fund partners is no less impressive, many of them from Credit Suisse. However GIP has no experience operating trains or working with the Italian railways. When it bought Gatwick airport in 2012 Ogunlesi spelt out in an interview that his formula was to provide an excellent service for both passengers and airlines, insuring punctuality and speed of turn-round. The same blueprint could apply to train services, even though Italo is the equivalent of an airline rather than an airport. With no control over the infrastructure it could run into trouble, as it did when trains had to be cancelled because of difficulties with track maintenance during the snowfalls at the end of February. However GIP has wider horizons than local short-term winter difficulties. Competition on the entire EU high-speed network opens up in two years, so GIP has time to cut its teeth in Italy as it prepares to compete with French, German and Swiss railways. But what are the advantages for Italy? Italo’s original shareholders have come away with more than they could have expected from a launch on the Italian stock exchange. Italo passengers can probably look forward to an even better service and faster connections to north Europe. But what about the rest of the Italian railways? This is less clear. With Trenitalia trying to keep up with Italo in the premium high speed sector, the slower commuter networks such as the Intercity trains (which connect 200 stations throughout the country) and the suburban networks are already getting a raw deal. At almost the same time as GIP was buying Italo, there was a serious rail crash outside Milan on the regional Trenord service in which three people were killed and 10 seriously injured when a trail derailed near Segrate during the early-morning rush hour.

Adebayo Ogunlesi heads the investment fund that bought Italo.

Although investigations are still underway it is thought that bad track maintenance was the cause of the disaster. Three years ago 23 people were killed in the southern region of Puglia when two trains collided. And 32 people died in 2009 when a freight train carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) derailed and exploded in Viareggio. Relatively little money has been invested in regional and suburban services at a time when commuting by rail into the big cities from small towns, where the cost of living is cheaper, is becoming increasingly popular. According to Eurostat, passengers on Italian trains increased from 504 million in 2004 to 852 million in 2016. Only a decade ago it was easy to commute into Rome by car, but now heavy traffic and the cost of parking has made cheap commuter train tickets look attractive. However the strain on the suburban services is beginning to show; trains often arrive late or are cancelled and conditions are bad, with standing room only in the morning and evening rush hours. One of the most instructive and entertaining books about the Italian railways is On and off the rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks. 2013. 7 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

Migration

TOUGH TIMES AHEAD FOR MIGRANTS IN ITALY THE RECENT ELECTION SUCCESS OF POPULIST AND ANTI-IMMIGRANT PARTIES MAKES THE FUTURE EVEN MORE UNCERTAIN FOR FOREIGNERS SEEKING A BETTER LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY

ess than three hours had passed since the close of polling stations on Sunday 4 March when flames were spotted licking at the door of an Islamic cultural centre in the northern city of Padua in what investigators later determined was a case of arson. The timing with the elections in which the main winners were the populist and anti-establishment Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) and right-wing and antiimmigrant Lega may have been merely a coincidence. However, it did not bode well for foreigners seeking a better life in Italy.

Anti-racism rally in Macerata on 10 February.

Laura Clarke Xenophobia rears its ugly head at regular intervals in the Bel paese, particularly at election time, and the run-up to the 4 March polls was no exception. The drive-by shooting of six African immigrants by a 28-year-old Lega militant in Macerata on 3 February – allegedly as retaliation for the murder and dismemberment of a young Italian woman attributed to Nigerian drug pushers in the same city a few days previously – drew condemnation from many quarters, but not before mainstream parties on the centre-right had seized on it for what it purportedly said about the migrant “emergency” in Italy. Lega leader Matteo Salvini and his coalition partners Silvio Berlusconi of liberal Forza Italia and Giorgia Meloni of the post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia appeared to justify the violence, linking it to allegedly intolerable levels of irregular immigration and pledging to deport up to 600,000 “illegals”. Some commentators have suggested that the Lega’s subsequent strong performance at the ballot box, overtaking Forza Italia to become the biggest party on the centre-right, may have in part been due to the “Macerata effect”. The M5S took a more cautious line on immigration during the campaign, largely side-stepping the debate. However, the fact that its premiership candidate Luigi Di Maio led the charge in spring 2017 against

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non-governmental organisations operating migrant search and rescue missions in the central Mediterranean, describing them as “sea taxis”, leaves little doubt as to where the party really stands. The movement also made security and law enforcement a major part of its campaign. On the centre-left, the Partito Democratico (PD) has earned a record for pragmatism, sometimes at the expense of basic human rights. Last year, for example, the interior minister Marco Minniti, a former communist, won plaudits in Italy and Europe for a series of deals with Libya leading to a significant drop in the number of sea arrivals from that country. Too little attention was given initially to the probable fate of the migrants now stuck in the lawless state, or who have little option but to attempt the even more dangerous sea crossing from other parts of North Africa. However, the party also pushed through some important measures to improve conditions for asylum seekers already in Italy, and generally make the migrant reception system more efficient (see page 10). Whoever takes up the reins of government will have to put rhetoric to one side and come to grips with the real issues at stake, data to hand (see box page 10), and also within the framework of binding European regulations on migration and international law. One possible starting point might be reform of the controversial 2002 Bossi-Fini law which, despite a massively changed global scenario, continues to regulate immigration to Italy. This law makes it virtually impossible for prospective “economic migrants” to enter the country legally without having first obtained a job contract, and thus for many people applying for international protection has become the only alternative. This is the prerogative of all migrants arriving on Italian soil and it has put excessive pressure on the asylum system, which simply cannot cope. In this sense, recent measures introduced under the controversial 2017 Minniti decree to make the asylum system more efficient and effective, including strengthening the capacity of the territorial commissions that examine applications, providing more opportunities for

Migrants making the dangerous crossing to Italy from Libya.

applicants to be interviewed and eliminating one level of appeal, are a step in the right direction. Likewise, the creation of humanitarian corridors guaranteeing safe passage to Italy for refugees as an alternative to the dangerous and illegal boat crossings have been a boon. Since the start of 2017, hundreds of asylum seekers coming through Lebanon, Ethiopia and Libya have been resettled to Italy under agreements between the ministry of the interior and religious organisations (the Italian Bishops’ Conference, the Community of S. Egidio, the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy and the Waldensian Table) and have found shelter and support in religious communities and private homes across the country. New protection for unaccompanied foreign minors arriving or already present in Italy is also a positive development, especially given the growth of this particularly vulnerable group of migrants as a percentage of the whole. The measures, set forth under a law passed last year, include the introduction of voluntary guardianship by private individuals (tutori volontari) to complement the existing institutional guardianship system, which has broken down under the pressure of numbers 9 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

Migration unaccounted for, having abandoned their host structures in order to make their way alone. These youngsters are of special concern to children’s rights organisations because they are vulnerable to exploitation by smugglers and criminal organisations for illegal work, prostitution and the human organ trade. People interested in becoming a voluntary guardian must apply to their regional authority for children and adolescents and undergo 30 hours of training in immigration law, psychology, health, cultural mediation and other areas relevant to their duties before they can be declared eligible. Under the new system there can be a maximum of three unaccompanied minors per voluntary guardian, but in Lazio the authorities have set the ideal ratio at two to one.

Unaccompanied minors are being welcomed by private guardians across Italy.

and inadequacy of reception facilities for unaccompanied minors arriving in the country. Unaccompanied minors need a guardian in order to complete all administrative procedures, including applying for international protection in Italy and relocation and family reunification to other parts of Europe. Until now they have been formally entrusted to the local mayor or designated delegate, but in places where there are large concentrations of unaccompanied minors this has led to long delays, forcing many impatient and determined young people underground. There are 18,303 unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy according to the latest labour ministry figures, updated to 31 December 2017. Of these 93.2 per cent are boys and 83.7 per cent are aged 16 and above. The largest national group comes from the Gambia, followed by Egypt, Guinea, Albania and Eritrea. An additional 5,828 minors who had previously been registered in Italy are 10 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

As of 23 February, a total of 3,981 people had applied to act as tutori volontari, according to national child protection authority figures. Lazio was the region with the biggest response with 700 applications, then Piedmont and Val d’Aosta with 589 and Lombardy with 581. There were 5,047,028 legal foreign residents in Italy at year end 2016 against an overall population of around 60.9 million, according to the 2017 edition of the statistical report on immigration produced by IDOS for Caritas. This amounted to around 8.3 per cent of the total. In 2017, 119,369 migrants arrived in Italy by sea, according to UNHCR figures. This was a 34 per cent decrease compared to 2016, when 181,436 people reached Italian shores. Around 13 per cent of sea arrivals in 2017 were unaccompanied children, while a further 2,873 migrants died or went missing during the perilous sea crossing in the same year. Some 74 per cent of the new arrivals in 2017 were men and the largest group by nationality came from Nigeria, followed by Guinea, Ivory Coast and Bangladesh. In all, 91 per cent departed from Libya. 130,180 new asylum applications were lodged in Italy in 2017 and 183,681 adult asylum-seekers were accommodated in reception facilities across the country as of the end of the year.

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History capacity. By 1576, students unable to secure a place there began crossing the Alps to seek their education at the new Collegio Romano, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1551 and today known as the Gregorian University. Needing accommodation in Rome, they sought board and lodgings at the existing English Hospice.

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By 1579, the hospice was so full of students, rather than pilgrims, that William Allen (1532–1594), the former principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford, who had founded the English College at Douai, successfully petitioned Pope Gregory XIII to convert the hospice into a modern seminary for England and Wales: surprisingly, perhaps, the new English College was given the title “Venerable” at the time of its foundation.

ROME’S VENERABLE ENGLISH COLLEGE CELEBRATES THREE SIGNIFICANT ANNIVERSARIES IN APRIL

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aspects of the history of the English Hospice and the Venerable English College and the interactions of these two institutions with both Roman and wider Italian society and with England and Wales since 1362.

The Venerable English College (VEC), the oldest British institution outside Britain, is hosting a major exhibition to celebrate three significant anniversaries. Entitled Memory, Martyrs and Mission, the exhibition runs from 16 April to 11 May, under the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Culture. This stunning display of sacred treasures explores

The age-old buildings of the English Hospice, part of the present-day college complex (including the Wanted in Rome offices), stood on the ancient pilgrim route from S. Giovanni in Laterano to St Peter’s Basilica. Beginning life in 1362, this hospice for pilgrims from England and Wales soon acquired its own church dedicated to that most English of saints, Thomas Becket (c.1118–1170), former chancellor of England and archbishop of Canterbury. Murdered in his own cathedral

discreet brass nameplate on the inner entrance door at Via di Monserrato 45, a stone’s throw from the offices of Wanted in Rome in the heart of the centro storico, provides a very modest indication of an English and Welsh institution which has stood on that very site for over 650 years.

The English College, Douai, founded in 1568.

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at Canterbury in 1170 and canonised at Segni (south-east of the Castelli) just three years later, St Thomas of Canterbury quickly became a popular saint in mediaeval Europe: his shrine at Canterbury, then second only to Santiago de Compostela as a place of pilgrimage, was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1538 following the king’s break with Rome, though today the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury on 29 December is still observed throughout the Anglican Communion.

From at least the eighth century there had been a Saxon settlement (or “schola Saxonum”) in the Borgo, close to St Peter’s Basilica, on or near the site of the Ospedale dello Spirito S. in Sassia – so named because of the Saxon settlement. Though the importance of this settlement had diminished following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and even though the ancient Saxon settlement and the new English College of 1579 had no formal connection, the title “Venerable” reflected the antiquity of the links between early English Christianity and the see of Rome.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, from 1558 to 1603, life for Catholics in England and Wales became increasingly perilous. New penal laws passed by parliament at Westminster aimed to suppress the “old religion” and, by 1603, more than 180 Catholic subjects of Elizabeth had been put to death for their religious beliefs.

Between 1581 and 1679, 44 former members of the Venerable English College (VEC) were executed in England or Wales for their religious beliefs. Ten of these are canonised, including St Ralph Sherwin (1550–1581), the first of the College’s martyrs, and the great Elizabethan poet, St Robert Southwell SJ (c. 1561–1595).

When, in 1568, an English College was founded at the university of Douai in the Spanish Netherlands, now modern-day France, to educate and train Catholic priests to serve on the new, clandestine postReformation Catholic mission to England and Wales, the new institution proved highly successful.

Though, constitutionally, the VEC was never a Jesuit institution, it was placed under Jesuit administration from 1579 until the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773. It then passed into the administration of Italian secular clergy until the College was sequestrated by the French following the occupation of Rome in 1798.

Despite the immense dangers involved, so many young men from England and Wales came forward to train as future priests that the English College at Douai soon reached

Closed for a period of 20 years, the VEC reopened in 1818 under the administration of the secular clergy of England and Wales. Apart from an interruption during world

The English Hospice and Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Rome, before it became the Venerable English College in 1579.

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History flee the French Revolution in 1794, it moved to Stonyhurst, where the treasures have been preserved ever since. Many of these will be returning to Rome for the first time since 1773. Organised in 18 sections, the exhibition explores the three themes of Memory, Martyrs and Mission. These focus on key periods in the history of the Hospice and College; the life and work of the martyrs associated with the two institutions; and the lives and work of those who have served the mission in England and Wales since 1579.

Cardinal William Allen (1532–1594), founder of the English College, Douai, and the Venerable English College, Rome.

war two, when the staff and students moved temporarily to England for greater safety, the College has continued operating on Via di Monserrato for the past 200 years. The forthcoming exhibition will mark three significant anniversaries – the 900th anniversary of the birth of St Thomas of Canterbury circa 1118, the 450th anniversary of the founding of the English College at Douai in 1568, and the bicentenary of the reopening of the VEC in 1818. To illustrate aspects of this long history, the exhibition will include a spectacular selection of sacred treasures and precious documents from three institutions – the Venerable English College itself, Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, and the English College at Douai (which moved to England in 1794, dividing into two new communities: Ushaw College, Durham, and St Edmund’s College, Ware, in Hertfordshire). A number of the artefacts today preserved at Stonyhurst came originally from the VEC: these were salvaged at the time of the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773 by the English Jesuit antiquarian, John Thorpe (1726–1792), who spent most of his life in Rome. Prior to his death, Thorpe bequeathed these precious objects to the English Academy at Liège. When that institution was forced to 14 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

Among the treasures on display is a 14thcentury manuscript life of St Thomas of Canterbury, alongside a fragment of one of the hair shirts which the saint is famously known to have worn, preserved for centuries afterwards at the English College at Douai. The Douai-Rome connection is explored through a number of treasures, including copies of the Douai New Testament of 1582 and the famous Douai-Rheims edition of The Holie Bible, published in 1609–10: this early Catholic translation of the Bible into English pre-dated the King James Version of 1611. Perhaps the most unusual exhibit is a small silver casket containing the eye of Blessed Edward Oldcorne SJ (1561–1606). A medical student who came to the VEC to study for the priesthood, Oldcorne was afterwards sent to serve on the English mission. At his execution at Worcester in 1606, the effect of his decapitation was so extreme that one of his eyes flew out of its socket, only to be preserved by a Catholic bystander as an extraordinary relic of martyrdom. The exhibition is not only about the past: the present-day Venerable English College is a thriving institution and some of its 38 students have prepared, as the final section of the display, a series of visual images outlining the range and scope of the life and work of the College today. The exhibition, Memory, Martyrs and Mission, is being held at the Venerable English College, Via di Monserrato 45, tel. 066868546. It is open from 16 April-11 May, Mon-Fri 10.00-16.00. Entrance is free and visitors are most welcome.

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For an alternative Easter Sunday, explore Rome's second largest basilica, S. Paolo fuori le Mura.

Take in J.M.W. Turner's Families can rejoice in the masterpieces in a major Spring Camp at Explora exhibition at the Chiostro Children’s Museum which offers activities such as del Bramante. science, art and experiments.

Don’t miss the last day of Indulge in an aperitivo at Romics, the international Tree Bar’s weekly We Like event dedicated to comics, Monday event. animation, cinema and games at the Fiera di Roma.

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Wonder at the work of the celebrated photographer Terry O’Neill at his Icons exhibit at the Vittoriano.

Everyone’s favourite artichoke event is on this weekend. Head out to Ladispoli for the Sagra del carciofo romanesco.

Get an eyeful of magic imagery and curious reflections at Palazzo Barberini’s exhibition Curiose Riflessioni.

Marvel at the spectacle Giudizio Universale: Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel. 10 per cent discount for WiR cardholders.

29 Take advantage of the opening of the Giardino di Ninfa in Latina and book a tour of the garden.

Investigate the relationship between the Etruscans and Egyptians through artefacts displayed at the Centrale Montemartini.

Organise a cooking class or private dinner for family and friends with Fabiolous Cooking Day. WiR cardholders receive a 10 per cent discount.

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Jump at the chance to see Bob Dylan in concert at the Auditorium Parco Della Musica.

Get acquainted with Italian history on Liberation Day and watch the parade from the Colosseum to Porta S. Paolo.

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Transport yourself to Germany and attend the FrankenBierFest immersed in the splendid location of Villa Torlonia.

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Craig Richards, resident DJ of Fabric nightclub in London, comes to Rome for a techno and house set at Circolo degli Illuminati.

Enjoy an evening of live music with Norwegian composer Erlend Øye presented by Unplugged in Monti at the Auditorium Parco della Musica.

As part of the marathon of documentary films from the National Geographic library, MAXXI presents a screening of La curva del tempo.

Catch Belgian rockers Girls Celebrate Rome’s birthday in Hawaii perform their new at the opening of the album Nocturne at Monk. Roseto Comunale rose garden on the Aventine Hill, 08.30-19.30.

Viaggio nei Fori returns with interactive audiovisual projections of the histories of the forums of both Augustus and Ceasar.

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GARDENS AROUND ROME CASTEL GIULIANO One of the best rose gardens in Lazio is located about 7 km from Bracciano north of Rome. The estate gardens surround the large square three storey farm castle, which stands on a high island of volcanic tufa rock facing Cerveteri and the sea, and they encompass the church of S. Filippo Neri in the grounds. The planting of the garden is the work of Marchesa Umbertina Patrizi and shows a garden style that is rarely found in public parks in Italy. There are more than 1,000 rose bushes. Open for group bookings. At the time of going to print the dates for the Festa delle Rose were not available but the event is usually held in mid-May. Palazzo Patrizi, Castel Giuliano, tel. 0699802530, www. castel-giuliano.it. FLORACULT The seventh edition of Floracult, the festival, takes place in the La Storta area of north Rome from 20-22 April, from 10.00-19.00. Dozens of exhbitors participate in the four day festival which brings together Italy’s horticultural experts and the latest gardening trends. Ample parking and free shuttle bus from La Storta station. Admission €8; children under 12 free. Casali del Pino, Via Andreassi 30, La Storta, Via Cassia km 15, tel. 345/9356761, www. floracult.com. LA MORTELLA On the island of Ischia off the coast of Naples is an oasis of tropical and Mediterranean plants. The gardens were created in 1958 by Susana Walton, the wife of English composer Sir William Walton. La Mortella is divided into two areas: the valley garden and the hill garden. The valley, designed by celebrated English landscape architect Russell Page, is shady, luxuriant and tropical whilst the hill, designed by Lady Walton, is sunny and Mediterranean. The garden design takes advantage of the sea views and is enriched by fountains. Open until 31 October, on Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun from 09.0019.00. La Mortella also organises open-air concerts of classical music in its Greek Theatre which overlooks 18 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

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the sea. Via Francesco Calise 39, Forio d’Ischia (NA), tel. 081986220, www. lamortella.org. LANDRIANA The Primavera della Landriana, the annual garden fair and horticultural sale, takes place at the Landriana gardens south of Rome from 2022 April, from 10.00-19.00. The ten-hectare gardens were created in the 1950s by owner Marchesa Lavinia Taverna Gallarati Scotti with the help of Russell Page. Now considered the most important post-war garden in Italy, Landriana contains 32 secret spaces and walks including one planted entirely with Mutabilis roses. Driving from Rome, take Via Pontina or the coastal road to Ardea, or by train on the Rome-

Nettuno line to Campo di Carne. Via Campo di Carne 51, Tor S. Lorenzo, Ardea, tel. 0691014140, www. giardinidellalandriana.it. NINFA This romantic English-style garden spread over eight hectares was built by the Caetani family at the start of the 20th century on the ruins of the mediaeval town of Ninfa. The garden is open, without obligatory booking, from 31 March-4 November on the first Saturday and Sunday of the month, on Sunday in November. This year it is open every Sunday in April and May. However groups (minimum of 30 people) that book a guided tour can visit the gardens all year round. Ninfa is part of the natural monument of the same name

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established by the Lazio region in 2000. Fondazione Roffredo Caetani Onlus, Via della Fortezza 04010 Sermoneta (Ninfa), www. fondazionecaetani.org. ORTO BOTANICO This botanic garden is located in the heart of Trastevere, behind Palazzo Corsini and across from the Villa Farnesina on a 12 hectare sloping site filled with palms, yucca and terraces with gravel paths. Established in 1883 after the Corsini family donated it to the Italian government, it is now run by the University of Rome La Sapienza. The gardens host over 3,500 species of plants, including specially-cultivated species in danger of extinction in the wild, and feature a scent-and-touch garden for the visually impaired. Open every day except Sunday until 27 Oct 09.00-18.30. This year also open 8 April and 13 May. Largo Cristina di Sve-zia 24, Trastevere, tel. 0649917106, sweb01.dbv. uniroma1.it/orto. PONTIFICAL GARDENS OF CASTEL GANDOLFO The Barberini gardens at Castel Gandolfo are located in the Alban hills about 25 km south-east of the capital, and have spectacular views over Lake Albano. The 30-hectare papal gardens feature ancient Roman ruins dating back to Emperor Domitian as well as a square of holly oaks, paths of roses and aromatic herbs, and a magnolia garden. The 55-hectare site, which includes a 25-hectare Vatican farm, has acted as a papal retreat since the 17th century but in 2014 was opened to the public. The 1.5-hour guided tours

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of the Barberini gardens are held Mon-Sat at 08.30, 10.30 and 11.30. Tours can be booked by emailing visiteguidategruppi.musei@scv. va, full visiting information on the Vatican Museums website www. mv.vatican.va. ROSETO COMUNALE Rome’s municipal rose garden on the Aventine hill generally opens from 21 April until 17 June. There are two separate sections overlooking the Palatine hill and Circo Massimo: the upper garden with its collection of classic “old roses”, and the lower garden featuring the entries of the prestigious annual international rose competition known as the Premio Roma, which this year takes place on 19 May, and a collection of winning roses from previous years. The gardens will be closed on the day of the prize-giving but from the next day onwards the public can admire the winning specimens. The Roseto is home to over 1,000 varieties including a green-blossomed rose

from China. Daily 08.30-19.30. Via di Valle Murcia 6, tel. 065746810, rosetoromacapi-tale@comune. roma. it. VILLA D’ESTE Built for the Cardinal Ippolito D’Este around 1555, these complex renaissance water gardens in Tivoli are among the most famous in the world. Water from the nearby river Aniene is channeled under the town of Tivoli to feed the gardens’ vast range of spectacular fountains, including the celebrated organ fountain. Cascades, pools, water staircases, grottoes and nymphs are revealed at every turn. The villa has a bar and restaurant on the terrace overlooking the gardens and there is a bookshop. Open Tues-Sun 08.30 to 19.45, Mon 14.00-19.45, with last entry each day at 18.45. For full details see website. Piazza Trento 5, Tivoli, tel. 199766166, villadestetivoli@teleart.org.

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VATICAN MUSEUMS Viale del Vaticano, tel. 0669883860, www.museivaticani.va. Not only the Sistine Chapel but also the Egyptian and Etruscan collections and the Pinacoteca. Mon-Sat 09.00-18.00. Sun (and bank holidays) closed except last Sun of month (free entry, 08.30-12.30). All times refer to last entry. For group tours of the museums and Vatican gardens tel. 0669884667. For private tours (museum only) tel. 0669884947. Closed 26 December and 6 January, Easter Sunday and Monday. Advance booking online: www.biglietteriamusei.vatican.va.

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Via delle Botteghe Oscure 31, tel.0639967700, www.archeologia.beniculturali.it. Museum dedicated to the Middle Ages on the site of the ancient ruins of the Roman Theatre of Balbus. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian.

Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia

Piazza Villa Giulia 9, tel. 063226571, www.villagiulia.beniculturali.it. National museum of Etruscan civilisation. 08.3019.30. Mon closed. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna Viale delle Belle Arti 131, tel. 06322981, www.gnam.beniculturali.it. 08.30- 19.30. Mon closed.

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Via Guido Reni 6, tel. 063210181, www. fondazionemaxxi.it. National Museum of 21st-century art, designed by Zaha Hadid. Tues-Sun 11.00-19.00. Thurs and Sat 11.00-22.00. Mon closed.

Viale Enrico de Nicola 78, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali.it. Part of the protohistorical section of the Museo Nazionale Romano in the Baths of Diocletian plus the restored cloister by Michelangelo. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed.

Palazzo Corsini

Borghese Museum

Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale

Castel S. Angelo Museum

Palazzo Altemps

Piazzale Scipione Borghese (Villa Borghese), tel. 06328101, www.galleria.borghese.it. Sculptures by Bernini and Canova, paintings by Titian, Caravaggio, Raphael, Correggio. 09.00-19.30. Mon closed. Entry times at 09.00, 11.00, 13.00 15.00, 17.00. Guided tours in English and Italian. Lungotevere Castello 50, tel. 066819111, www.castelsantangelo.com. Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum used by the popes as a fortress, prison and palace. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed.

Colosseum, Roman forum and Palatine

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Colosseum: Piazza del Colosseo. Palatine: entrances at Piazza di S. Maria Nova 53 and Via di S. Gregorio 30. Roman Forum: entrances at Largo Romolo e Remo 5-6 and Piazza di S. Maria Nova 53, tel. 0639967700, www.colosseo-roma.it. 08.30-19.15. Single ticket gives entry to the Colosseum and the Palatine (including the Museo Palatino; last entry one hour before closing). Guided tours in English and Italian.

Via della Lungara, 10, tel. 0668802323, www.barberinicorsini.org. National collection of ancient art, begun by Rome’s Corsini family. 08.30- 19.30. Tues closed. Italy's museum of oriental art, formerly located on Via Merulana, is currently closed pending its reopening at Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini di Roma, Piazza Guglielmo Marconi 14 (EUR). For details see website, www.pigorini.beniculturali.it. Piazza S. Apollinare 46, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali.it. Ancient sculpture from the Museo Nazionale Romano, including the Ludovisi collection. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed.

Palazzo Barberini

Via delle Quattro Fontane 13, tel. 064824184, www.barberinicorsini.org. National collection of 13th- to 16th-century paintings. 08.30- 19.30. Mon closed.

Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

Largo di Villa Peretti 1, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali.it. Important Roman paintings, mosaics, sculpture,

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coins and antiquities from the Museo Nazionale Romano, including the Kircherian collection. 09.00- 19.45. Mon closed.

Villa Farnesina

Via della Lungara 230, tel. 0668027268, www.villafarnesina.it. A 16th-century Renaissance villa with important frescoes by Raphael. Mon-Sat 9.00-14.00 excluding holidays.

CITY MUSEUMS Centrale Montemartini

Via Ostiense 106, tel. 060608, www.centralemontemartini.org. Over 400 pieces of ancient sculpture from the Capitoline Museums are on show in a former power plant. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in English for groups if reserved in advance.

Capitoline Museums

Piazza del Campidoglio, tel. 060608, www.museicapitolini.org. The city’s collection of ancient sculpture in Palazzo Nuovo and Palazzo dei Conservatori, plus the Tabularium and the Pinacoteca. 09.00-20.00. Mon closed. Guided tours for groups in English and Italian on Sat and Sun.

Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna

Via Francesco Crispi 24, tel. 060608, www.museiincomuneroma.it. The municipal modern art collection. 10.00- 18.00. Mon closed.

MACRO

Via Nizza 138, tel. 060608, www.museomacro.it. The city’s collection of contemporary art, plus temporary exhibition space. 10.30-19.00. Mon closed. Also Mattatoio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, tel. 060608. Open for temporary exhibitions 14.00-20.00. Mon closed. www.museomacro.org.

Museo Canonica

Viale P. Canonica 2 (Villa Borghese), tel. 060608, www.museocanonica.it. The collection, private apartment and studio of the sculptor and musician Pietro Canonica who died in 1959. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian and English (book ten days in advance).

Museo Napoleonico

Piazza di Ponte Umberto 1, tel. 060608, www.museonapoleonico.it. Paintings, sculptures and jewellery related to Napoleon and the Bonaparte family. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian and English.

PRIVATE MUSEUMS Casa di Goethe

Via del Corso 18, tel. 0632650412, www.casadigoethe.it. Museum dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 10.0018.00. Mon closed.

Chiostro Del Bramante

Arco della Pace 5, tel. 0668809035, www.chiostrodelbramante.it. Bramante’s Renaissance building near Piazza Navona stages exhibitions by important Italian and international artists. Mon-Fri 10.00-20.00. Sat-Sun 10.00-21.00.

Doria Pamphilj Gallery

Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Via del Corso 305, tel. 066797323, www.doriapamphilj.it. Residence of the Doria Pamphilj family, it contains the family’s private art collection, which includes a portrait by Velasquez, a sculpture by Bernini, plus works by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto and Caravaggio. 09.00-19.00.

Galleria Colonna

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 166, tel. 0668806848, www.mdbr.it. A collection of mainly pre-Roman sculpture. 09.00- 19.00. Mon closed.

Palazzo Colonna, Via della Pilotta 17, tel. 066784350, www.galleriacolonna.it. Private collection of works by Veronese, Guido Reni, Pietro di Cortona and Annibale Caracci. Sat 09.00-13.00 only. Private group tours are available seven days a week on request. For wheelchair access contact the gallery to arrange alternative entrance.

Museo di Roma – Palazzo Braschi

Giorgio De Chirico House Museum

Museo Barracco

Via S. Pantaleo 10, tel. 060608, www.museodiroma.it. The city’s collection of paintings, etchings, photographs, furniture and clothes from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in English and Italian on prior booking tel. 0682059127.

Museo dei Fori Imperiali and Trajan’s Markets

Via IV Novembre 94, tel. 060608, www.mercatiditraiano.it. Museum dedicated to the forums of Caesar, Augustus, Nerva and Trajan and the Temple of Peace. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed.

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Piazza di Spagna 31, tel. 066796546, www.fondazionedechirico.org. Museum dedicated to the Metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico. Tues-Sat, first Sun of month, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00. Guided tours in English, advance booking.

Keats-Shelley House

Piazza di Spagna 26, tel. 066784235, www.keats-shelley-house.org. Museum dedicated to the lives of three English Romantic poets – John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Mon-Sat 10.00-13.00, 14.00-18.00. Guided tours available on advance booking.

artists. Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Corso V. Emanuele II 282-284, tel. 0668801038, www.giacomoguidi.it.

Il Ponte Contemporanea

Hosts exhibitions representing the international scene and contemporary artists of different generations. Via di Panico 55- 59, tel. 0668801351, www. ilpontecontemporanea.com.

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ART GALLERIES

La Nuova Pesa

Well-established gallery showing work by prominent Italian artists. Via del Corso 530, tel. 063610892, www. nuovapesa.it.

MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea 1/9 Unosunov

1/9 Unosunove focuses on emerging national and international contemporary artists and explores various media including paintings, sculpture and photography. Via degli Specchi 20, tel. 0697613696, www. unosunove.com.

A.A.M. Architettura

Arte Moderna Gallery housing numerous works of contemporary design, photography, drawings and architecture projects. Via dei Banchi Vecchi 61, tel. 0668307537, www. ffmaam.it.

Dorothy Circus Gallery

Prominent gallery specialising in international pop-surrealist art. Via dei Pettinari 76, tel. 0668805928, www.dorothycircusgallery.com.

Ex Elettrofonica

This architecturally unique contemporary art gallery promotes and supports the work of young international artists. Vicolo S. Onofrio 10-11, tel. 0664760163, www. exelettrofonica.com.

Federica Schiavo Gallery

Hosts large solo and group shows of well-known contemporary artists. Piazza di Montevecchio 16, tel. 0645432028, www.federicaschiavo. com. Fondazione Giuliani per l’Arte Contemporanea The Giuliani Foundation for Contemporary Art is a private non-profit foundation that produces three contemporary art exhibitions each year. Via Gustavo Bianchi 1, tel. 0657301091, www. fondazionegiuliani.org.

Fondazione Memmo

Contemporary art space that hosts established foreign artists for sitespecific exhibitions. Via Fontanella Borghese 56b, tel. 0668136598, www.fondazionememmo.it. 24 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

Fondazione Pastificio Cerere

This non-profit foundation develops and promotes educational projects and residencies for young artists and curators, as well as a programme of exhibitions, lectures, workshops and studio visits. Via degli Ausoni 7, tel. 0645422960, www.pastificiocerere. com.

Fondazione Volume!

The Volume Foundation exhibits works created specifically for the gallery with the goal of fusing art and landscape. Via di S. Francesco di Sales 86-88, tel. 06 6892431, www. fondazionevolume.com.

Franz Paludetto

Gallery in S. Lorenzo that promotes the work of Italian and international contemporary artists. Via degli Ausoni 18, www.franzpaludetto. com.

Frutta

This contemporary art gallery supports international and local artists in its unique space. Via Giovanni Pascoli 21, tel. 06 68210988, www.fruttagallery.com.

Gagosian Gallery

The Rome branch of this international contemporary art gallery hosts some of the biggest names in modern art. Via Francesco Crispi 16, tel. 0642086498, www.gagosian.com.

Galleria Frammenti D’Arte

Gallery promoting painting, design and photography by emerging and established Italian and international artists. Via Paola 23, tel. 069357144142, www.fdaproject. com.

Galleria Lorcan O’Neill

High-profile international artists regularly exhibit at this gallery located near Campo de’ Fiori. Vicolo Dè Catinari 3, tel. 0668892980, www. lorcanoneill.com.

Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch

This contemporary art space is dedicated to exhibiting works on paper. Via di Pallacorda 15, tel. 0668891936, www.galleriamlf.com.

Galleria PIOMONTI

Founded by gallerist Pio Monti, this gallery has promoted the work of major contemporary Italian artists since 1969. Piazza Mattei 18, tel. 0668210744, www.piomonti.com.

Galleria della Tartaruga

Well-established gallery that has promoted important Italian and foreign artists since 1975. Via Sistina 85/A, tel. 066788956, www. galleriadellatartaruga.com.

Galleria Il Segno

Prestigious gallery showing work by major Italia and international artists since 1957. Via Capo le Case 4, tel. 066791387, www.galleriailsegno. com.

Galleria Mucciaccia

Gallery near Piazza del Popolo promoting established contemporary artists and emerging talents. Largo Fontanella Borghese 89, tel. 0669923801, www. galleriamucciaccia.com. Galleria Valentina Moncada This gallery holds exhibitions of international artists who are active in the international scene today. Via Margutta 54, tel. 063207956, www. valentinamoncada.com.

Gallery devoted to exhibitions by prominent Italian artists. Via di Monserrato 30, www. majartecontemporanea.com.

Magazzino d’Arte Moderna

Contemporary art galley that focuses on young and emerging artists. Via dei Prefetti 17, tel. 066875951, www. magazzinoartemoderna.com.

Monitor

This contemporary art gallery offers an experimental space for a new generation of artists. Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, Via Sforza Cesarini 43 A, tel. 0639378024, www.monitoronline. org.

Monserrato Arte ‘900

This gallery in the Campo de’ Fiori area represents a range of contemporary Italian artists. Via di Monserrato 14, tel. 3482833034.

Montoro 12

Gallery promoting work by contemporary Italian and international artists. Via di Montoro 12, tel. 0668308500, www. m12gallery.com.

Nomas Foundation

Nomas Foundation promotes contemporary research in art and experimental exhibitions. Viale Somalia 33, tel. 0686398381, www. nomasfoundation.com.

Operativa Arte Contemporanea

A new space oriented towards younger artists. Via del Consolato 10, www.operativa-arte.com.

Philobiblon Gallery

The Rome branch of this international franchise hosts exhibitions in addition to dealing in antique books. Via Antonio Bertoloni 45, tel. 0645555970, www.philobiblon.org.

Pian de Giullari

Art studio-gallery in the house of Carlina and Andrea Bottai showing works by contemporary artists from Rome, Naples and Florence capable of transmitting empathy and emotions. Via dei Cappellari 49, tel. 3397254235, 3663988603, www. piandegiullari2.blogspot.com.

Plus Arte Puls

Cultural association and gallery showing work by important contemporary Italian and international artists. Viale Mazzini 1, tel. 3357010795, www.plusartepuls. com.

RvB ARTS

Rome-based gallery specialising in affordable contemporary art by young, emerging Italian artists. Via delle Zoccolette 28, tel. 3351633518, www.rvbarts.com.

Sala 1

This internationally known non-profit contemporary art gallery provides an experimental research centre for contemporary art, architecture, performance and music. Piazza di Porta S. Giovanni 10, tel. 067008691, www.salauno.com.

S.T. Foto libreria galleria

Gallery representing a diverse range of contemporary art photography. Via degli Ombrellari 25, tel. 0664760105, www.stsenzatitolo.it.

Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri

The gallery exhibits pieces by both Italian and international contemporary artists particularly minimalist, postmodern and abstract work. Piazza Dante 2, int. 7/A, tel. 0677591122, www.galleriasales.it.

T293

The Rome branch of this contemporary art gallery presents national and international artists and hosts multiple solo exhibitions. Via G. M. Crescimbeni 11, tel. 0688980475, www.t293.it.

The Gallery Apart

This contemporary art gallery supports young artists in their research and assists them in their projects to help them emerge into the international art world. Via Francesco Negri 43, tel. 0668809863, www.thegalleryapart.it.

Tralevolte

This contemporary art gallery focuses on the relationship between art and architecture and hosts many solo and group shows of Italian and international artists. Piazza di Porta S. Giovanni 10, tel. 0670491663, www. tralevolte.org.

Valentina Bonono

Located in a former convent, this gallery hosts both internationally recognised and emerging artists who create works specifically for the gallery space. Via del Portico d’Ottavia 13, tel. 066832766, www. galleriabonomo.com.

Wunderkammern

This gallery promotes innovative research of contemporary art. Via Gabrio Serbelloni 124, tel. 0645435662, www. wunderkammern.net.

Z20 Galleria Sara Zanin

Started by art historian Sara Zanin, Z2o Galleria offers a range of innovative national and international contem-porary artists. Via della Vetrina 21, tel. 0670452261, www. z2ogalleria.it.

Galleria Varsi

A dynamic gallery near Campo de’ Fiori, known for its stable of street artists. Via di S. Salvatore in Campo 51, tel. 0668309410, www. galleriavarsi.it. Giacomo Guidi Arte contemporanea This contemporary art gallery presents exhibitions from a diverse group of Italian and foreign 25 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

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EXHIBITIONS WORLD PRESS PHOTO 27 APRIL-27 MAY

Each year an independent jury at the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam selects images for this prestigious recognition of international photojournalism. The winners in each of the eight categories as well as the winner of Photo of the Year will be revealed at the awards ceremony during the World Press Photo Festival in Amsterdam on 12 April. The 2018 exhibition features 307 images by 42 award-winning photographers from 22 countries. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, tel. 0639967500, www.palazzoesposizioni.it.

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EXHIBITIONS CLASSICAL ROCK, POP, JAZZ OPERA Theatre SPORT 28 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

American Pop Surrealist Marion Peck shows her latest works at the Dorothy Circus Gallery. Described as “simultaneously sweet and absurd”, Peck’s world is peopled with dreamlike characters and creatures. Her painting style is informed by a knowledge of Italian masters’ techniques gained during her early years spent living in Italy following her education at the Temple University of Rome in the late 1980s. Via dei Pettinari 76, www.dorothycircusgallery.it.

ART IS MONEY – MONEY IS ART 7 april-26 may

Rosso20sette shows 60 works by 18 artists whose works have been created on dollar bills. The artists range from major international names including Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Banksy to leading figures in the Roman street scene such as Diamond, Lucamaleonte and Pax Paloscia. Galleria Rosso20sette, Via del Sudari0 39, www.rosso27.com.

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ROMA CITTà moderna 29 March-28 oct

Rome’s municipal gallery of modern art traces the evolution of art in the capital from the time of mayor Ernesto Nathan (19071913) up to 1968, a turbulent year of social and political strife in Europe. The exhibition comprises around 150 paintings, sculptures and prints from the city collection, many of which have either never been shown before or have not been seen for many years. Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale, Via Francesco Crispi 24, tel. 060608, www.galleriaartemodernaroma.it.

SHIO KUSAKA 28 March-26 May

The Gagosian presents new abstract works by Japanese artist Shio Kusaka who exhibits in Italy for the first time. Kusaka is known for her delicate ceramics whose

masterful finish is often offset with playful details and subject matter, from basketballs and fruit, to dinosaurs and raindrops. The Los Angeles-based artist presents a series of abstract ceramic vessels and pots, glazed in muted tones. Gagosian Gallery, Via Francesco Crispi 16, www.gagosian.com.

SANTISSIMI: REBIRTH 24 march-21 april

The White Noise Gallery in Rome’s S. Lorenzo district presents an exhibition by I Santissimi, a duo of artists described as “poets of the flesh.” The artists’ disturbing work involves creating impossible anatomies, including heads perched atop distorted hands or many-legged bodies, using silicone to recreate lifelike human sculptures. White Noise Gallery, Via dei Marsi 20/22, tel. 064466919, www. whitenoisegallery.it. 29 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

TERRY O’NEILL: ICONS 2 March-20 May

Art is Money - Money is Art at Rosso20sette. Pax Paloscia.

JONONE: NIENTE PUÒ FERMARMI 17 march-14 april

Wunderkammern present Niente può fermarmi, solo show by Parisbased artist JonOne, at Palazzo Velli in Trastevere. Originally from New York, JonOne is a key figure in the world of graffiti art and his works have been exhibited at the Cartier Foundation and Grand Palais. The artist’s style incorporates aspects of graffiti, abstract expressionism and calligraphy. Palazzo Velli Expo, Piazza di S. Egidio 10, www. palazzovelliexpo.it.

ETERNAL LITTLE GODDESS 17 march-15 april

Galleria Varsi presents a solo show by Dem, an eclectic Italian artist whose representation of architectural and symbolic imagery has its roots in the graffiti culture. For this exhibition Dem concentrates on the concept of the goddess and ancient female icons, mixed with natural elements. The show comprises works in ink and acrylic and a series of ceramic sculptures. Galleria Varsi, Via di Grotta Pinta 38, www. galleriavarsi.it.

ANGELO TITONEL: TRIBUTE TO DIANE ARBUS 16 March-12 May

The late American photographer Diane Arbus is honoured with an exhibition of paintings by celebrated Italian artist Angelo Titonel at MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea. Titonel’s 15 30 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

works, painted in a photographic “negative” style, recall the portraits of Arbus who was noted for her portrayals of marginalised people. MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea, Via di Monserrato 30, tel. 0668804621, www.majartecontemporanea.com.

CURIOSE RIFLESSIONI 7 March-10 June

Palazzo Barberini presents an exhibition dedicated to the alluring work of French mathematician, Minim friar and painter JeanFrançois Nicéron (1613-1646). On display is a selection of the artist’s anamorphic work whose “curious reflections” and distorted perspectives only become clear when viewed through certain special lenses, a technique en vogue in the 17th century. Palazzo Barberini, Via delle Quattro Fontane, www.barberinicorsini. org.

HEAC EST CIVITAS MEA 4 March-2 May

The Vittoriano hosts an exhibition of works by the graduates of Moscow’s I.S. Glazunov Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as part of Stagioni Russe, a year-long programme of cultural exchanges between Italy and Russia. The works on display demonstrate the skills of the young Russian painters who have assimilated 18th-century academic principles, based on the ancient and Renaissance European tradition. Vittoriano, Via di S. Pietro in Carcere, www. ilvittoriano.com.

Some 50 images of icons of the pop world are included in this retrospective dedicated to the award-winning London photographer Terry O’Neill. Taken over the past five decades, the black and white portraits feature celebrities ranging from David Bowie and Frank Sinatra to Elizabeth Taylor and Amy Winehouse. O’Neill rose to prominence in the 1960s and became known for his candid portraits of international political leaders, models, popstars and actors. Vittoriano, Via di S. Pietro in Carcere, wwww.ilvittoriano. com.

HUMAN+ 27 Feb-1 July

This cutting-edge exhibition features a range of installations exploring the future of our species. Raising the prospects of clones, hybrids, robotics and genetic engineering, the exhibition asks which enhancements we will choose to become better humans. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, tel. 0639967500, www.palazzoesposizioni.it.

LOOKING FORWARD: OLIVETTI: 110 ANNI DI IMMAGINAZIONE 21 Feb-1 May

The 110th anniversary of the founding of Olivetti is celebrated with an exhibition of more than 300 vintage posters and archive photographs. The exhibition traces the history of Italy’s premier producer of typewriters, computers, calculators, cash registers, printers and fax machines through its advertising campaigns, including photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Gianni Berengo Gardin. Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Viale delle Belle Arti 131, www. lagallerianazionale.com. 31 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

famous landmarks. Remaining motionless as a living sculpture, the Chinese artist incorporates elements of performance, painting and photography to “disappear” into the background. This exhibition features a series of images created by Bolin last year at the Colosseum and the Royal Palace of Caserta alongside 70 photographs taken over the last decade. Complesso del Vittoriano, Via di S. Pietro in Carcere (Piazza Venezia), www.ilvittoriano.com.

HIROSHIGE: VISIONI DAL GIAPPONE 1 March-29 July JonOne at Palazzo Velli. Detail of Burn Slow.

STILL SHOWING TURNER 22 March-26 Aug

The Chiostro del Bramate hosts an exhibition of works by the English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). Organised in collaboration with Tate Britain, this is the first Rome exhibition dedicated exclusively to the work of Turner who is best known for his expressive landscapes and turbulent seascapes, many of which are infused with literary or historical allusions. The show includes more than 90 works including sketches, studies, watercolours and a selection of oils. See cover this edition. Chiostro del Bramante, Arco della Pace 5, www.chiostrodelbramante.it.

LIU BOLIN: THE INVISIBLE MAN 2 March-1 July

Known as the “invisible man”, Liu Bolin has achieved international renown for camouflaging himself with paint to blend in with 32 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

Rome’s Museum of Zoology The Scuderie del Quirinale presents an exhibition dedicated to Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), one of the most influential Japanese artists of the mid-19th century. The show features about 230 works, displayed in seven themed sections, alongside a parallel programme of Japanese cultural events. Scuderie del Quirinale, Via Ventiquattro Maggio, www. scuderiequirinale.it.

CELIA HEMPTON: BREACH 20 Feb-28 April

The young London-based painter Celia Hempton presents two groups of new paintings in her second show at the Lorcan O’Neill Gallery: landscapes made at the summit of the active volcano on the southern Italian island of Stromboli and paintings based on live video streams of hacked surveillance cameras around the world. Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Vicolo dei Catinari, tel. 0668892980, www.lorcanoneill. com.

ELOGIO DELLA CARTA 15 Feb-6 May

The Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen group shows its newly acquired works by three contemporary artists Alfonso Filieri, Matteo Montani and Nelio Sonego, all of whose works have been inspired - in various ways -

by paper. Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, Via Pasquale Stranislao Mancini 20.

KLIMT EXPERIENCE 10 Feb-10 June

This interactive exhibition provides a multi-sensory experience into the paintings of Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt. Designed as an “immersive experience”, the show features virtual reality projections of Klimt’s best-loved works, including The Kiss, accompanied by a soundtrack and information about the ever-popular artist. Sala delle Donne, Complesso Monumentale di S. Giovanni Addolorata, Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano, www.klimtexperience. com.

CESARE TACCHI: UN RETROSPETTIVA 7 Feb-6 MAY

The Palazzo delle Esposizioni holds a retrospective dedicated to the work of important postwar Roman artist Cesare Tacchi (1940-2014), a little over three years after his death. Described in 1959 as “a solitary, silent and disciplined young man”, Tacchi was aligned with an art movement known as the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo whose members met at the Caffè Rosati in Piazza del Popolo or at La Tartaruga Gallery on nearby Via del Babuino. Tacchi’s distinctive works incorporated fabric and upholstery alongside silhouettes of friends or famous actors. The exhibition charts the evolution of Tacchi’s artistic career through more than 100 works. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, www.palazzoesposizioni.it.

MAGNUM MANIFESTO 7 Feb-3 June

The Ara Pacis celebrates the 70th anniversary of Magnum, the largest photojournalism agency in the world. The exhibition looks back on seven decades of pioneering reportage, featuring

archive images as well as more recent photographic reports. Highlights include Eve Arnold’s series on immigrant workers in the US during the 1950s, Paul Fusco’s coverage of Robert Kennedy’s “Funeral Train” in 1968, and the modern-day plight of migrants crossing the Mediterranean by Paolo Pellegrin. Ara Pacis, Lungotevere in Augusta, tel. 06820771, www. arapacis.it.

PINK FLOYD: THEIR MORTAL REMAINS 19 Jan-1 july

The first international retrospective dedicated to the influential and experimental music group Pink Floyd comes to MACRO following its showing at London’s V&A. Billed as a spectacular audiovisual journey, the show chronicles five decades of Pink Floyd’s music, design and staging, from the band’s beginnings in the 1960s to the present day. Running in chronological order, the exhibition is accompanied by the music and voices of the group’s past and present members. A highlight is the Performance Zone featuring a 2005 performance of Comfortably Numb and footage from the band’s legendary performance in Pompeii in 1971. MACRO, Via Nizza 138, www.museomacro.org. Haec est civitas mea at the Vittoriano. Evapatij Kolovrat nel quartier general di Batu Khan (detail) by I.A. Lysenkov.

CITAZIONI PRATICHE: FORNASETTI A PALAZZO ALTEMPS 16 Dec-6 May

Rome’s Palazzo Altemps celebrates its 20th anniversary by presenting an exhibition in collaboration with the Milan design studio Fornasetti. The installation involves more than 800 objects and designs from the Fornasetti archive, ranging from assemblage to ceramic cats, contrasting with the museum’s magnificent collection of ancient sculpture. Piazza S. Apollinare 46, tel. 0639967700.

PHOTO ARK: MERAVIGLIE DEL MONDO ANIMALE 8 Dec-22 April

For the last 12 years National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore has travelled to zoos all over the world, photographing 7,400 species held in captivity. Sartore intends to photograph the estimated 12,000 species living in the world’s zoos, as part of the Photo Ark project which he expects will take him another decade. This exhibition features highlights from Sartore’s archive, including critically endangered animals he has photographed “before it is too late.” Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale Pietro De Coubertin 30, www.auditorium.com.

GRAVITY: IMAGING THE UNIVERSE AFTER EINSTEIN 2 Dec-29 April

MAXXI honours the scientific legacy of Albert Einstein with an exhibition exploring the “interconnected key concepts of space-time, crises, confines.” The show coincides with the centenary of Einstein’s publication of a ground-breaking article which challenged existing models of

the cosmos and the universe, ultimately revolutionising modern -day concepts of time and space. The exhibition examines the connections between art and science, paying tribute to Einstein through installations by international artists. MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Via Guido Reni 4/a, www.maxxi.art.

HOME BEIRUT: SOUNDING THE NEIGHBORS 15 Nov-20 May

This exhibition examines Beirut from the perspective of creative resistance, artistic innovation and hope, through more than 100 works by artists, architects, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, researchers and activists. The exhibition also highlights the diverse ways in which conflict, memory and the future are expressed in the work of these 36 artists. Part of the MAXXI series Interactions across the Mediterranean, which explores the relationship between Europe and the Middle East. MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Via Guido Reni 4, tel. 0632810, www. maxxi.art.

MONET 19 OCT-3 JUNE

The Vittoriano hosts an exhibition dedicated to Monet, the father of Impressionism. The show comprises around 60 works from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, including landscapes, portraits and his celebrated garden series of water lilies. Complesso del Vittoriano - Ala Brasini di Roma, Via di S. Pietro in Carcere (Piazza Venezia), www. ilvittoriano.com. See other exhibitions on our website www.wantedinrome.com 33 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

out and replaced with a free-falling letter L. This play on words, of dubious taste, leaves the art viewer faced with Sul cesso, a vulgar Roman expression whose English equivalent would read “In The Bog”.

CONTEMPORARY CLUSTER

Gillo Dorfles (1910-2018)

ART NEWS GILLO DORFLES DIEs

The long and distinguished career of Gillo Dorfles ended with his death in Milan on 2 March at the age of 107. A modern-day Renaissance man, Dorfles was an art critic, painter, poet and philosopher whose work united art and science, architecture and design, sculpture and poetry. Born in 1910 in Trieste – then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – Dorfles played a founding role in Italy’s abstract Arte Concreta movement in the late 1940s. In 2015 Rome’s MACRO held a major retrospective in his honour. A sprightly Dorfles attended the opening and took clear delight in viewing eight decades of his art work which was hailed as “erotico, erratico, eretico” by fellow art critic Achille Bonito Oliva. Dorfles was still painting up until last year, saying: “Art is the only passion to which I have stayed true.”

ART IN ROME TOILETS

After a damning report earlier this year revealed there was only one public toilet functioning in all of Rome, the city council decided to revive seven bathrooms in the centre. However rather than open them discreetly, the city staged an inauguration at the Colosseum toilets, an event documented in an entertaining article by Helga Marsala in Italy’s Artribune. The city’s environment councillor Pinuccia Montanari published a video of the opening ceremony – rather a cramped affair – during which she tested the facilities, such as the taps. Bizarrely the city even went so far as to install art in the toilet, ostensibly to enrich the €1 visitor experience. Montanari hailed the lavatory’s “really original work of contemporary modern art” by Paolo Albani, the Tuscan writer, performer and visual poet. Albani’s conceptual piece features the word Successo with the first “C” rubbed

Controversial Roman gallerist Giacomo Guidi has made yet another new start with Contemporary Cluster, after opening and closing numerous Rome galleries in quick succession. Contemporary Cluster is spread out across the four storeys of Palazzo Cavallerini Lazzaroni, a 17th-century palace located behind Teatro Argentina and formerly the home of the Spazio Sette design store. True to form, Guidi’s new venture is far from conventional. The 35-year-old describes his space on Via Barbieri 7 as a “focus on the transversality of the contemporary, capable of connecting visual art, design, architecture, fashion design and beauty apothecary.” www. contemporarycluster.com.

MAXXI A[R]T WORK

Developed by MAXXI Museo delle Arti del XXI secolo, the MAXXI A[R]T WORK programme provides school students and teachers with education and experience in cultural communication. The journalism programme concentrates specifically on presentations, reviews and interviews relating to museum exhibitions in Rome and Lazio. The programme’s format fosters classroom activities which in turn are completed in collaboration with professionals, associations and cultural institutions. www.artwork.maxxi.art.

FORGOTTEN PROJECT

The second edition of the urban street art project Forgotten is due to continue in mid-April with a new work by Lucy McLauchlan, the second of four participating British street artists. At the time of going to press the details were not available for McLauchlan’s mural which follows the recently completed work by My Dog Sighs at the Nuovo Regina Margherita hospital in Trastevere. Running until May, the project underlines the value of Rome’s architectural heritage, bringing attention to buildings that risk being forgotten. www.forgottenproject.it.

NEW TREE TRUNKS FOR ANDREA GANDINI

Andrea Gandini, the 20-year-old Roman sculptor of tree trunks, has launched a new website listing his 56 works around Rome with a map of where to find them. The site also includes the section Segnalami un tronco in which residents can highlight a Roman tree trunk they would like to see transformed into a sculpture. Gandini will be showing his works at Via del Teatro Pace 3 from 6-8 April. www.andreagandini.art. Andy Devane 35 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

Yuri Temirkano conducts at S. Cecilia in April.

ACCADEMIA S. CECILIA YURI TEMIRKANOV 6-9 april

Memoria, Martiri e Missione Memory, Martyrs

and Mission

Aspetti della storia dell’Ospizio Inglese e del Venerabile Collegio Inglese, Roma: 1362–2018

Aspects of the history of the English Hospice and the Venerable English College, Rome: 1362–2018

Una mostra per celebrare il bicentenario della riapertura del Collegio nel 1818

An exhibition to mark the bicentenary of the re-opening of the College in 1818

16 APRILE – 11 MAGGIO 2018 16 APRIL – 11 MAY 2018 Dal lunedì al venerdì dalle ore 10.00 Monday – Friday, 10 am – 4 pm alle ore 16.00: orario continuato Open all day Ingresso gratuito: la mostra è aperta a tutti

Entrance free: all welcome

Venerabile Inglese • Via di Monserrato 45 • 00186 Roma 36 | April 2018 •Collegio Wanted in Rome

Yuri Temirkanov conducts the S. Cecilia orchestra and chorus playing music by Haydn, Verdi and Shostakovich’s symphony no 5, which was approved both politically and was overwhelmingly popular with the audience when it was first performed in 1937. The official party critics now consider that Shostakovich had been rehabilitated after his “disgrace” with Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and symphony no 4, which the composer “withdrew” before it could be premiered in 1936 and which was not performed until 1961, after Stalin’s death. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www. auditorium.com.

CLASSICAL ACCADEMIA FILARMONICA ASSOLI III 6 and 20 April

This third Assoli concert series is to encourage young soloists of the Imago Sonora, the Filarmonica’s resident contemporary music ensemble. There are six concerts which include some contemporary compositions being played for the first time in Rome, and some classical music. The soloist on 6 April is Alessandro Viale piano and on 20 April it is the turn of Fabio Cuozzo, percussion. Sala Casella, Via Flaminia 118, www. filarmonicaromana.org.

PROSPETTIVA DEBUSSY 21 Jan-22 April

Six concerts of Debussy’s chamber music in conjunction with the Accademia S. Cecilia mark the centenary of the composer’s death in March 1918. The

next in the series is on 8 April with Alberto Idà piano. Sala Casella, Via Flaminia 118, www. filarmonicaromana.org.

JAZZ AND ITS INSTRUMENTS 15 april

The double bass is the focus of this last concert in the jazz series, with music from Jimmy Blanto to Ron Carter played by Maurizio Giammarco. The series is introduced by jazz critic and writer Adriano Mazzoletti. Sala Casella, Via Flaminia 118, www. filarmonicaromana.org.

MAXIM VENGEROV 12 april

Violinist Maxim Vengerov plays music by Brahms, Ravel and Paganini, with Polina Osetinskaya on the piano. Russian violinist Vengerov plays the last of the Accademia Filarmonica’s concerto series for this season. Teatro Argentina, Largo Argentina. Sala Casella, Via Flaminia 118, www. filarmonicaromana.org.

YURI TEMIRKANOV 12-14 april

Yuri Temirkanov conducts the S. Cecilia orchestra and chorus playing music by RimskyKorsakov, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, with Nikolay Luganski piano. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.auditorium. com.

S. CECILIA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA MOZART 18 april

The S. Cecilia chamber orchestra conducted by Luigi Piovano and with Ingrid Jacoby piano performs Mozart’s symphony no 1 plus two Mozart piano concertos. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.auditorium.com.

MOZART ARIE DI CONCERTO 19-21 April

The S. Cecilia orchestra and chorus conducted by Nicola Luisotti plays music by Beethoven, Mozart and Prokofiev, with Sabine Devieilhe 37 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

ROMA TRE ORCHESTRA

Cuban classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco performs at the IUC on 21 April.

soprano. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.auditorium.com.

ROSSINI’S STABAT MATER 27-29 April

Myung-Whun Chung conducts S. Cecilia Orchestra and Chorus in Rossini’s Stabat Mater, with Eleonora Buratto soprano, Veronica Simeoni mezzosoprano, Paolo Fanale tenor and Roberto Tagliavini bass. The programme also includes Mozart’s symphony no 39. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.auditorium.com.

ISTITUZIONE UNIVERSITARIA DEI CONCERTI ALESSIO ALLEGRINI MEETS TETRAKTIS PERCUSSION 7 april

Alessio Allegrini, the first horn in the S. Cecilia orchestra, performs a varied programme with the Tetraktis Percussion Quartet. Some of the works are being premiered for the first time in Rome. Aula Magna, Università la Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, www.concertiiuc.it.

SIGNUM SAXOPHONE QUARTET 10 april

This saxophone quartet, which was formed in Germany, is now making a name for itself worldwide. The Rome concert is 38 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

a mix of baroque to contemporary music. The quartet interpretation of Bach is of particular interest. Aula Magna, Università la Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, www.concertiiuc.it.

ISTANTBUL: JORDI SAVALL 17 april

Jordi Savall plays early music from the Libro della Scienza della Musica by Dimitrie Cantemir, a 17th-century Moldavian, soldier, man of letters, philosopher, historian, composer and musicologist. Savall performs with his early music ensemble Hesperion XXI, which changed its name from Hesperion XX at the beginning of the 21st century. The ensemble specialises in 16th and 17th Spanish music and is noted for its improvisation. Aula Magna, Università la Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, www.concertiiuc.it.

MANUEL BARRUECO 21 April

Cuban classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco plays music by Milán, Bach, Sor and Albeniz. Barrueco’s latest recording of music by Fernando Sor was released in 2016. After a concert tour in the United States Barrueco is coming to Rome for this solo concert, followed by a master class at S. Cecilia on 22 April. Aula Magna, Università la Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, www.concertiiuc.it.

ORATORIO DEL GONFALONE

Concerts at the lovely Oratorio del Gonfalone just off Via Giulia take place on Thursday evenings. Via del Gonfalone 32a. See www. oratoriogonfalone.com for details.

Erlend Øye performs for Unplugged in Monti on 13 April.

Via Pietro de Coubertin 30, www. auditorium.com.

VIAGGIO IN INGHILTERRA

BJÖRK

6 april

13 june

The Roma Tre orchestra conducted by Dario Macellari plays music by Holst, Britten and Elgar with soloist Leon Morello cello. The concert coincides with Notte della Geografia all’ Università Tre di Roma. Aula Magna, Scuola Lettere Filosofia Lingue, Università Roma Tre, Via Ostiense 234, www.r30.org.

LA FORZA DEL CONTRAPPUNTO, DA BACH AI NOSTRI GIORNI 12 April

In conjunction with the Royal Norwegian embassy, the Roma Tre orchestra quartet and Ole Martin Huser-Olsen guitar plays music by Bach and D. Koch. Roma Tre Orchestra, Aula Magna, Scuola Lettere Filosofia Lingue, Università Roma Tre, Via Ostiense 234, www.r30.org.

IL PAESE DEGLI UOMINI INTEGRI 17 April

Fausto Sebastiani’s music set to the story Il Paese degli Uomini Integri by music critic Sandro Cappelletto (narrator) about politics in Burkina Faso during the three decades beginning in 1983 with the first president Thomas Sankara – sometimes called the Che Guevara of Africa – covering his assassination in 1987 and then the presidency of Blaise Compaore which lasted until 2014. The piece premiered last summer at the Accademia Filarmonica di Roma on the 30th anniversary of Sankara’s assassination. Roma Tre Orchestra with the Conservatorio di Latina. Roma Tre Orchestra, Teatro Palladium, Piazza Bartolomeo Romano 8, teatropalladium. uniroma3.it.

ROCK, POP, JAZz BOB DYLAN

ANGEL OLSEN

3-5 April

5 May

Bob Dylan will perform three concerts on 3, 4 and 5 April at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The concerts come three years after his last performance at the Baths of Caracalla. For ticket details see website. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Via Pietro de Coubertin, www.auditorium.com.

Machine head 12 april

This Californian heavy metal outfit performs at the Orion Club. Fronted by singer and guitarist Robb Flynn, the band is known for its thrash metal sound with songs such as Locust and Darkness Within. The group has sold over three million albums. Orion Club, Viale Kennedy 52, Ciampino, tel. 0689013645, www orionliveclub. com.

ERLEND ØYE 13 april

The Norwegian composer and musician performs an acoustic set for Unplugged in Monti at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. Øye is best known for being the founder of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience and the electro-pop band The Whitest Boy Alive. For concert details see www.unpluggedinmonti.com. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Via Pietro de Coubertin 30, www. auditorium.com.

Angel Olsen performs at the Auditorium Parco della Musica as part of the Church Sessions series of concerts promoted by Unplugged in Monti. The American singer-songwriter, known for hits such as Shut Up Kiss Me, was originally due to perform at Rome’s Chiesa Evangelica Metodista but due to high demand for tickets her concert was moved to a larger venue. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Via Pietro de Coubertin 30, www.auditorium.com.

ROMA SUMMER FEST 26 May-2 Aug

Tickets are on sale for concerts of the Roma Summer Fest, the new summer programme of live music in the outdoor Cavea venue at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The programme includes Arctic Monkeys (26 May), Patti Smith (10 June), Gigi Proietti (20 June), LP and Tom Walker (26 June), Luca Barbarossa (29 June), Simple Minds (3 July), Snarky Puppy (7 July), Hollywood Vampires (8 July), Alanis Morissette (9 July), Franz Ferdinand & Mogwai (10 July), Ringo Starr (11 July), Chick Corea (14 July), Stefano Bollani Quintet (16 July), James Blunt (17 July), Jethro Tull (19 July), Pat Metheny (20 July), Caetano Veloso (21 July), King Crimson (22 and 23 July) and closing with Sting and Shaggy (28 July). Auditorium Parco della Musica,

Björk will perform a concert on 13 June as part of the Just Musical Festival at Rome’s Baths of Caracalla, in collaboration with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The concert will be the only Italian date on the Utopia tour of the Icelandic singer-songwriter whose eclectic musical style is exemplified in hits such as Army of Me, it’s oh so quiet, and Venus As A Boy. For tickets see TicketOne website, www.ticketone.it.

ROCK IN ROMA 20 June-19 July

Tickets are on sale for Rock in Roma, a major summer festival dedicated to rock music. The festival is based at the Ippodromo delle Capannelle venue but there are several concerts taking place in other locations including Circo Massimo, Auditorium Parco della Musica and Ostia Antica. The 2018 line-up includes major rock, heavy metal and rap acts: The Killers (20 June), Jeff Beck (24 June), Megadeath (28 June), Macklemore (3 July), Coez (7 July), Hollywood Vampires (8 July), Cigarettes After Sex (10 July), Lo Stato Sociale (13 July), Roger Waters (14 July) and The Chemical Brothers (19 July). For full details including tickets see website, www.rockinroma.com. Rock in Roma, Via Appia Nuova 1245.

PEARL JAM 26 June

Pearl Jam perform in Rome’s Olympic Stadium this summer, as part of the band’s 14-date European tour. A key exponent of the Seattle grunge movement, Pearl Jam was one of the most successful alternative rock groups of the 1990s. For tickets see Pearl Jam website, www.pearljam. com. Stadio Olimpico, Viale dei Gladiatori. 39 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

La Scala presents a new version of Anna-Marie Holmes’ choreography of Le Corsaire.

Spinatelli are also new. The story is loosely based on Byron’s poem and although it may seem a bit implausible today there is always some exciting dancing. Teatro alla Scala, Piazza Filodrammatici 1, www.teatroallascala.org.

ROME TEATRO dell’opera MANON BY MASSENET

DANCE MILAN TEATRO ALLA SCALA MAHLER 10, PETITE MORT, BOLERO 10 March-7 April

La Scala’s ballet company performs three works: the international premiere of Mahler 10 (to the Adagio of Mahler’s unfinished 10th symphony) by the Canadian choreographer Aszure Barton; Petite Mort by Jiri Kylian (to music by Mozart) returns to La Scala; Maurice Bejart’s masterpiece Bolero will be danced by Roberto Bolle for the first time. Teatro alla Scala, Piazza Filodrammatici 1, www.teatroallascala.org.

LE CORSAIRE 20 April-17 May

A much-awaited production of this classic with choreography by the Canadian Anna-Marie Holmes (based on the Petipa and Sergeyev versions). Holmes first created this choreography for the Boston Ballet and then for the American Theatre Ballet in 1998 and has since reworked it several times (just as Petipa did). This version for La Scala is a new one. The sets and costumes by Luisa 40 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

25-31 May

Try to get tickets for the performances on 25, 27, 29 May when Eleonora Abbagnato (the director of the Teatro dell’Opera’s ballet school) Friedemann Vogel (principal dancer of the Stuttgart Ballet) and Benjamin Pech (principal dancer at the Paris Opera with Abbagnato until 2016 when he became the ballet master at Teatro dell’Opera) are performing the Kenneth Macmillan choreography. Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli 1, www.operaroma.it.

TEATRO OLIMPICO NOTTE TZIGANA 17-18 April

The Budapest Tzigana orchestra performs traditional Hungarian music and dance performed by the Zigana Clan. Part of the Festival Internazionale della Danza with the Accademia Filarmonica di Roma. Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, www. teatroolimpico.it.

PASTORA BAILA – PASTORA GALVAN 18-20 April

Pastora is part of the great Galvan flamenco family, daughter of Josè and sister of Israel. Here she and her musicians combine tradition and the avant-garde. Part of the Festival Internazionale della Danza with the Accademia

Filarmonica di Roma. Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, www.teatroolimpico. it.

SHINE ON! PINK FLOYD OPERA 20 April

The tribute band Animals Pink Floyd performs this combination of theatre, music and dance (performed by Momento Dance) to tell the story of the British group that changed the history of rock music in the 1960s and 1970s. Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, www. teatroolimpico.it.

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The best Italian hip hop teams compete to take part in the World Hip Hop dance competition in August in America. Preliminary performances take place in the afternoon to select the top 24 to compete for the final at 21.00. Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, www.teatroolimpico. it.

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DIRTY DANCING. THE MUSICAL 4-20 MAY

Fans of the original 1987 film can watch the return of the successful show directed by Federico Belloni and with the guidance of Eleanor Bergstein author of the original film. The dates at Teatro Olimpico are the last in the present Italian tour which started in Milan in February. Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, www. teatroolimpico.it.

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An intriguing combination of music, dance (tap and sand dance), movement and body percussion. Teatro Vascello, Via Giacinto Carini 78, teatrovascello. it.

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The eighth edition of Rendez-vous, the festival dedicated to new French cinema, takes place in Rome as well as Bologna, Florence, Naples, Milan, Palermo and Turin. The weeklong festival, whose programme ranges from blockbuster movies to independent and short films, showcases the best of contemporary French cinema. An initiative of the French embassy to Italy, the Rome segment of the festival is being held at the Nuovo Sacher, with parallel events at the Casa del Cinema and the Institut Français Centre Saint-Louis. The festival includes numerous special guests such as French director Arnaud Desplechin who will introduce a series of his films at the Nuovo Sacher from 9-10 April. All films will be shown in their original French

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version with Italian subtitles. For programme see Institut Français website, www.institutfrancais.it.

outdoor festival 14 april-12 May

Outdoor, the largest festival in Italy dedicated to urban culture, moves to the Mattatoio in Testaccio, after previous editions at the city’s Ex Dogana in S. Lorenzo and the former Guidi Reni barracks in Flaminio. “Heritage” is the theme of the 2018 edition – coinciding with European Year of Cultural Heritage – and the festival programme is organised into five main sections: art, music, television, conferences and market. From interactive art labyrinths to dance floors, the festival promises encounters with Italian artists and television personalities. For programme details see website, www.out-door.it.

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sport ROME MARATHON 8 april The 24th edition of the 42-km Maratona di Roma, which begins and ends at the Colosseum, takes place at 08.40 on Sunday 8 April. The time limit for crossing the finish line is seven hours, and anyone who fails to reach the halfway mark within three and a half hours will be required to give up. Those who last the distance however will be rewarded with a medal, a goody bag and a foil wrap to stay warm. In addition to the main

The 24th Maratona di Roma takes place on 8 April.

event there is the non-competitive “Stracittadina” 5-km fun run in the Circus Maximus area. Last year over 13,000 runners crossed the finish line, of whom 7,399 were Italian and 5,913 foreign. The winner was Ethiopian athlete Tola Shura Kitata, whose time of 2:07:27 was the second-fastest recorded in the event’s 23-year history. First place in the women’s group went to Ethiopian athlete Chota Rahma Tusa, who retained her 2016 title with a time of 2:27:23. For details including registration see marathon website, www.maratonadiroma.it.

Rome’s southern EUR suburb hosts the Formula E race, which begins and ends on Via Cristoforo Colombo, on 14 April. The 2.8km circuit will take in numerous EUR sites such as the Palazzo dei Congressi, the Salone delle Fontane, the Obelisco di Marconi and the Nuvola convention centre. The city’s mayor Virginia Raggi has said that the E-prix proves that “Rome is not a museum but a leader in innovation”. The electric-powered cars emit almost zero emissions and are powered by batteries charged by glycerine. The fully-powered car can run for just 25 minutes, meaning drivers must change vehicles roughly half way through the Formula E race which lasts about 50 minutes. However despite the car’s environmentally-friendly credentials, it is still capable of considerable speed – up to 225km per hour, or 0-100km in three seconds. www.fiaformulae.com. 43 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

A scene from Alexander Talevi’s production of Tosca. Photo Yasuko Kageyama.

opera MILAN TEATRO ALLA SCALA DON PASQUALE BY DONIZETTI 3 april-4 may

Riccardo Chailly conducts another Italian favourite in a new production by Davide Livermore. The comic opera, Don Pasquale, was Donizetti’s first work and was performed in Paris in 1843 and then at La Scala the following year. The role of Don Pasquale is sung by the Italian baritone Ambrogio Maestri, Norina by Rosa Feola and Ernesto by Edgardo Rocha. Turin-born Livermore is now one of the most sought-after Italian opera directors abroad and has been the sovrintende and artistic director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia since 2015. One of his favourite projects is to take opera out of the traditional opera theatres and take it to new street audiences, from the back of a lorry, but always at the same high standard. Teatro alla Scala, Via Filodrammatici 2, www. teatroallascala.org.

FRANCESCA DA RIMINI ZANDONAI 15 april-13 may

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Rimini, inspired by D’ Annunzio’s novel of the same name written in 1901, returns to La Scala in six decades. Zandonai’s opera, his most successful, was performed in Turin for the first time in 1914. This new La Scala production is conducted by Fabio Luisi and directed by David Pountney with Maria José Siri in the lead role. Pountney is a British theatre and opera director known for his productions of rarely performed or new works. Teatro alla Scala, Via Filodrammatici 2, www. teatroallascala.org.

ROME CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA PAGLIACCI 5-15 april

Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana was first performed at Teatro Costanzi in 1890 and has been part of the Teatro dell’ Opera repertoire ever since. This performance is a S. Carlo di Napoli production. Pagliacci by Leoncavallo, which premiered in Milan at Teatro Dal Verme in 1892, is a new Teatro dell’Opera di Roma production. Both are conducted by Carlo Rizzi and directed by Pippo Delbono who is best known for his theatre and his dance productions. His production of Cavalleria Rusticana was first performed in Naples in 2012. Teatro dell’Opera di Roma,

Piazza Beniamino Giglio 1, www. operaroma.it.

TOSCA BY PUCCINI 7 april-18 nov

Alessandro Talevi’s successful 2015 production of Puccini’s favourite runs on and off until November. South African director Talevi based his production on the original version of Tosca, working on the sketches for the first performance in Rome in 1900. Talevi’s version has been performed several times since, to the point that it has now almost become a classic of the Rome repertoire. It is conducted by Jordi Bernacer and Stefano Ranzani, with Virginia Tola and Monica Zanetti in the lead role, Stefano La Colla and Massimo Giordano as Cavaradossi and Fabian Veloz as Scarpia. Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Giglio 1, www.operaroma.it.

BILLY BUDD BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN 8-15 may

This co-production with the Madrid, Paris and Helsinki operas is directed by Deborah Warner, conducted by James Conlon. It was acclaimed as a “first class”, “brilliant” and “masterful” production by both British

and Italian critics when it was performed in Madrid last year. Two of the Madrid cast, Jacques Imbrailo as Billy Budd, and Toby Spence as Vere will also sing in Rome but the part of Claggart will be sung by John Relyea. The sets (Michael Levine) and the lighting (Jean Kelman) came in for special mention in Madrid. Opera lovers can look forward to another Deborah Warner production in Milan in June with Beethoven’s Fidelio, which opened the 20142015 season to much applause. Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Giglio 1, www. operaroma.it.

Pippo Delbono directs Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

OPERA NOTES Al Teatro dell’Opera di Roma arriva il dittico formato da Cavalleria Rusticana di Pietro Mascagni e Pagliacci di Ruggero Leoncavallo (5-15 April), per la direzione di Carlo Rizzi e la regia di Pippo Delbono, che allestisce per la prima volta il secondo melodramma, mentre il primo l’aveva già messo in scena con buon successo a Napoli nel 2012. Dopo anni in cui le due famosissime opere venivano rappresenta-te singolarmente o abbinate ognuna ad altri titoli, tornano adesso a ricostituire la coppia che formavano da lunga tradizione. Molti i punti in comune tra Cavalleria Rusticana e Pagliacci. La vicenda: un’infedeltà che finisce in tragedia, con l’uccisione di chi ha tradito. La struttura: due parti separate da un intermezzo orchestrale (bellissimo per entrambe). La brevità: durano poco più d’ora. E infine la musica: tutte e due le opere sono considerate emblemi del verismo musicale italiano per via d’un canto acceso e vibrate: un declamato melodico molto vicino al parlato, per la presenza di un’orchestra sempre turgida e rigogliosa e per il superamento delle convenzioni del melodramma ottocentesco, con un flusso sonoro continuo che ingloba i numeri chiusi d’un tempo (recitavi, arie, duetti e concertati) senza soluzione di continuità. Cavalleria rusticana ebbe la sua prima al Teatro dell’Opera di Roma il 17 maggio 1890 e Pagliacci al Teatro del Verme di Milano il 21 maggio 1892. In queste riproposizioni romane saranno protagonisti: Anita Rachvelishvili e Alfred Kim nel melodramma di Mascagni, tratto dalla novella omonima di Giovanni Verga, mentre per il dramma di Leoncavallo su libretto proprio canteranno Carmela Remigio, Fabio Sartori e Dionisios Sourbis. Il baritono Gevorg Hakobyan interpreterà sia il ruolo del marito tradito in Cavalleria rusticana e in Pagliacci sia quello del commediante che per vendetta rivela il tradimento della donna che lo ha respinto. www.operaroma.it. Al Teatro Malibran di Venezia va in scena Orlando Furioso di Antonio Vivaldi, tratto dal poema omonimo di Ludovico Ariosto. Uno spettacolo già visto e applaudito al Festival della Valle d’Itria a Martina Franca l’estate scorsa, che adesso viene ripreso nella città lagunare. La regia è di Fabio Ceresa, la dire-zione di Diego Fasolis e il canto spetta a Sonia Prina (Orlando), Lucia Cirillo (Alcina), Loriana Castellano (Bradamante) e Riccardo Novaro (Astolfo). Cambiano rispetto all’edizione estiva la coppia di innamorati, Angelica e Medoro, cantata da Francesca Aspromonte e Raffaele Pe e Ruggiero, l’amante di Bradamente sedotto da Alcina, che è sostenuto da Carlo Vistoli. Orlando Furioso di Antonio Vivaldi, che dispiega una lunga serie di arie dalle melodie distese e toccanti alternate ad altre virtuosistiche e tumultuose, vanta almeno tre edizioni diverse. Nel 1714 il “prete rosso”, nel teatro di cui era impresario: il Sant’Angelo di Venezia, fece rappresentare Orlando finto pazzo, che però fu un fiasco clamoroso. Per limitarne i danni Vivaldi presentò Orlando furioso di Giovanni Alberto Ristori con l’aggiunta di musiche proprie. Per riscattarsi infine nell’autunno del 1727, sempre al Teatro Sant’Angelo di Venezia, diede un Orlando furioso tutto suo che contiene molte arie delle opere precedenti, in un intreccio musicale in cui però è difficile districarsi. La bellezza di tali arie e il relativo successo sono dimostrate dal fatto che molte di esse Vivaldi le “ricicla” ne L’Atenaide, che diede a Fi-renze nel carnevale 1729. www.teatrolafenice.it. Paolo Di Nicola 45 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

Arte Moderna in Brasile at Rome’s Brazilian embassy. Palloncini detail by Alberto da Veiga Guignard.

Echoes with Francesca Ciocchetti (left) and Federica Rosellini (right) at Teatro India.

THEATRE ENGLISH THEATRE OF ROME 5-15 April

ACADEMIES BRAZILIAN EMBASSY 2 march-5 may

Arte moderna in Brasile – Collezione della Fondazione Edson Queiroz. An exhibition of more than 70 paintings and sculptures created by some of the most important Brazilian artists between 1920 and 1960. The works on display come from Brazil’s Fundação Edson Queiroz, which over the last 30 years has created a substantial collection of Brazilian art. Assembled by the late chancellor Airton Queiroz, the collection covers almost 400 years of artistic production, from religious images dating to the colonial period up to contemporary works. Admission to the exhibition is free, Tues-Sat 10.00-18.00. Embassy of Brazil, Palazzo Pamphilj, Piazza Navona 10, tel. 06683981, www.roma. itamaraty.gov.br.

CASA DI GOETHE 10 Feb-20 May

Canti di Colore (Songs of Colour) is an exhibition highlighting the art work of celebrated German composer Hans-Werner Henze (1926-2012), who lived for many decades in Italy, including in the Castelli Romani south of Rome. Although best known 46 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

as a composer, Henze was also a prolific visual artist behind closed doors. This exhibition presents his watercolours and sketches alongside photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings and personal objects. Casa di Goethe, Via del Corso 18, tel. 0632650412, www.casadigoethe.it.

FRENCH ACADEMY IN ROME 2 Feb-29 April

The French Academy at Villa Medici hosts an exhibition entitled Le numerose irregolarità (The numerous irregularities) featuring the work of Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé, who creates sculptures, drawings, and installations, and German artist Katharina Grosse, known for her brightlycoloured blend of painting and land art. Although their techniques and materials differ radically, the artists have collaborated to create an installation that interacts with the spaces and history of Villa Medici, including Grosse’s coloured branches from the recently felled pine trees planted by Ingres in the early 19th century. Viale della Trinità dei Monti 1, www. villamedici.it.

JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE 3-28 april

Guided tours of the institute’s gardens are open to small groups during the mornings and afternoons on Tues, Thurs, Fri, and on Sat mornings. The visits are free and bookings must be reserved in advance, tel. 0694844655. Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Via Antonio Gramsci 74, www.jfroma.it.

ILLUMINATING POETRY: PRERAPHAELITE & BEYOND

The English Theatre of Rome presents an all-female Englishlanguage version of Richard III, directed by Douglas Dean. Shows each night at 20.00 on 5-8 April and 12-15 April, with extra 17.00 show on 15 April. Teatro L’Arciliuto, Piazza di Montevecchio 5, www. rometheatre.com.

TEATRO INDIA 19-29 april

Teatro India stages an Italian adaptation of Henry Naylor’s Echoes: two monologues by two British women who live 175 years apart. One is a Victorian colonial pioneer who would go

on to build an empire, the other a bright, Islamist schoolgirl who was destined to build a caliphate. Both women are idealists, with strong religious faith, and both would travel to the east, to impose their ideals on unwilling people. Directed by Massimo Di Michele, with Francesca Ciocchetti and Federica Rosellini. In Italian. Teatro India, Lungotevere Vittorio Gassman, tel. 0687752210, www. teatrodiroma.net.

WONDERWALL ENTERTAINMENT 24-29 April

Wonderwall Entertainment presents Snake in the Grass by Alan Ayckbourn, in English. The story revolves around two sisters,

Annabel and Miriam, whose upand-down relationship is strained further when they are blackmailed by their father’s former nurse, Alice. Both a thriller and a black comedy, this Rome production is directed by Michael Fitzpatrick and stars Gabrielle Chiararo, Fabiana De Rose and Shelagh Stuchbery. 24-27 April 20.30. 2829 April 17.30. To book tickets contact wonderwallenter@gmail. com or tel. 3478248661. Teatro S. Genesio, Via Podgora 1 (Prati), www.teatrosangenesio.it.

ROME’S COMEDY cLUB 27-29 april

Rome’s Comedy Club is holding two shows – in English – at the Makai Surf and Tiki Bar in Ostiense/Piramide area. The April line-up includes club founder Marsha De Salvatore, Jose Salgado, Francesco De Carlo, Devo Sullivan Sinnott and Erik Bolner. The €15 entrance fee includes aperitivo, a beer or glass of wine. For the Friday show, doors open for drinks and aperitivo at 20.00, with the show starting at 21.30. On Sunday doors open at 18.00 and the show kicks off at 19.00. Bookings (by text only, no calls) via Whatsapp 339 / 7514140 or email: makairoma@gmail.com. Makai Surf and Tiki bar, Via dei Magazzini Generali, 4/a/b/c.

29 Jan-28 April

The Keats-Shelley House shows a selection of books and manuscripts which reveal how book illustration in the late 19th and early 20th century was influenced by mediaeval illumination. Curated by Giuseppe Albano and Dinah Roe, the exhibition displays items from the Keats-Shelley House collection, while other pieces are on loan from the National Library of Scotland, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the American Academy in Rome, and private collections. KeatsShelley House, Piazza di Spagna 26, www.keats-shelley-house.org.

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CHILDREN

ARTandSEEK organises an English-language workshop for children with activities linked to the Illuminating Poetry exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House at 15.30 on 14 April. The workshop is aimed at children aged six to 12, fluent in English. To reserve contact info@artandseekforkids. com, tel. 3315224440 or see website, www.artandseekforkids. com. 47 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

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The following is a list of the main musical associations in Rome but it is not a definitive list of all the music that is available in the city. There are also concerts in many of the churches and sometimes in the museums. Auditorium Conciliazione, Via della Conciliazione 4, www.auditoriumconciliazione.it Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin 30, www.auditorium.com Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, www.filarmonicaromana.org. The new season starts on 15 Oct Accademia S. Cecilia, www.santacecilia.it. All concerts at Auditorium Parco della Musica. The new season starts on 5 Oct Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti, Aula Magna, Università la Sapienza, www.concertiiuc.it Oratorio del Gonfalone, Via del Gonfalone 32a, www.oratoriogonfalone.com RomeConcerts, Methodist Church, Piazza Ponte S. Angelo, www.romeconcerts.it Roma Sinfonietta, Auditorium Ennio Morricone, Torvergata, www.romasinfonietta.com Roma Tre Orchestra, some concerts are at Teatro Palladium, Piazza Bartolomeo Romano 8, teatropalladium.uniroma3.it, while others are at the Aula Magna, Scuola Lettere Filosofia Lingue, Universita Roma Tre, Via Ostienze 234, www.r30.org There are often concerts, festivals and opera recitals in several churches in Rome. All Saints' Anglican Church, Via Babuino 153, www.allsaintsrome.org Ponte S. Angelo Methodist Church, Ponte S. Angelo, www.methodistchurchrome.com Oratorio del Caravita, Via della Caravita 7 St Paul's Within the Walls, Via Nazionale and the corner of Via Nazionale, www.stpaulsrome.it S. Agnese in Agone, Sagrestia del Borromini, Piazza Navona Palazzo Doria Pamphilj hosts a series called Opera Serenades by Night with Dinner throughout the year. There is a concert, a tour of the museum and dinner afterwards. Via del Corso 305, www.doriapamphilj.com

MUSIC THEATRE CINEMA VENUES

MUSIC THEATRE CINEMA DANCE OPERA

Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli 1, www.operaroma.it Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, www.teatroolimpico.it

Teatro Vascello, Via Giacinto Carini 78, www.teatrovascello.it

Alexanderplatz, Via Ostia 9, tel. 0683775604 www.alexanderplatzjazzclub.it

The following cinemas show movies in English or original language, and sometimes foreign film festivals. See Wanted in Rome website for weekly updates. Adriano, Piazza Cavour 22, tel. 0636767 Barberini

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Casa del Cinema, Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1, tel. 06423601, www.casadelcinema.it Cinema dei Piccoli, Viale della Pineta 15, tel. 068553485 Farnese Persol, Piazza Campo de’ Fiori 56, tel. 066864395, www.cinemafarnesepersol.com Greenwich, Via G. Bodoni 59, tel. 065745825 Intrastevere, Vicolo Moroni 3, tel. 065884230 Lux, Via Massaciuccoli 31, tel. 0686391361 Nuovo Olimpia, Via in Lucina 16/g, tel. 066861068 Nuovo Sacher, Largo Ascianghi 1, tel. 065818116 Odeon, Piazza Stefano Jacini 22, tel. 0686391361 Space Moderno, Piazza della Repubblica 44, tel. 06892111 Space Parco de’ Medici, Viale Salvatore Rebecchini 3-5, tel. 06892111

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Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli 1, www.operaroma.it

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Concert venues ranging from major pop and rock groups to jazz and acoustic gigs.

inema

Barberini, Piazza 0686391361

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Angelo Mai Altrove, Via delle Terme di Caracalla 55, www.angelomai.org Atlantico, Viale dell’Oceano Atlantico 271d, tel. 065915727, www.atlanticoroma.it

Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin, tel. 06892982, www.auditorium.com Casa del Jazz, Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, tel. 06704731, www.casajazz.it

Lanificio 159, Via di Pietralata 159, tel. 0641780081, www.lanificio159.com Live Alcazar, Via Cardinale Merry del Val 14, tel. 065810388, www.livealcazar.com Monk Club, Via Giuseppe Mirri 35, tel. 0664850987, www.monkroma.it PalaLottomatica, Piazzale dello Sport 1, tel. 06540901, www.palalottomatica.it Rock in Roma, Via Appia Nuova 1245, tel. 0654220870 www.rockinroma.com Teatro Quirinetta, Via Marco Minghetti 5, tel. 0669925616, www.quirinetta.com Unplugged in Monti, Blackmarket, Via Panisperna 101, www.unpluggedinmonti.com

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Teatro Argentina, Largo di Torre Argentina 52, tel. 06684000314, www.teatrodiroma.net

Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17, tel. 063265991, www.teatroolimpico.it

Teatro Belli, Piazza di S. Apollonia 11, tel. 065894875, www.teatrobelli.it

Teatro S. Genesio, Via Podgora 1, tel. 063223432, www.teatrosangenesio.it

Teatro Brancaccio, Via Merulana 244, tel. 0680687231 www.teatrobrancaccio.it

Teatro Sistina, Via Sistina 129, tel. 064200711, www.ilsistina.it

Teatro Ghione, Via delle Fornaci 37, tel. 066372294 www.teatroghione.it

Teatro Vascello, Via Giacinto Carini 78, tel 065898031 www.teatrovascello.it

Teatro India, Lungotevere Vittorio Gassman 1, tel. 06684000311, www.teatrodiroma.net

Teatro Vittoria, Piazza di S. Maria Liberatrice 10, tel. 065781960, www.teatrovittoria.it 49 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

WANTED junior inROME Art as a Voice for Women by Natasha Hughes, senior IB art student, at St Stephen’s School. “I believe in equality. And I believe there is no difference between a man and a woman. I even believe that a woman is more powerful than a man.” Malala Yousafzai. This quote and the book I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, inspired my current work as an artist and gave me a better understanding about the suffering of girls in Pakistan. So moved was I by their circumstances, I felt I could use my art to provide a voice for girls and women throughout the world, a voice that many cannot have. In the 21st century, it seems that neither the advances worldwide in so many disciplines, nor the continual struggle for equality, have been enough to quell the imbalance and inequity women in many cultures continue to experience. It is immoral that girls and women are compelled to live with men taking advantage of them, with men “mansplaining” them, with men dictating what they can and cannot do, be and achieve. Though we in the West may feel comfortable with saying these social constructs are limited to emerging nations, current events in the United States, Britain, Italy and elsewhere, reveal they are not. Fragile was my first piece dedicated to exploring the perception of women in society and the topic of equality. In a short film I produced for International Women’s Day, my hope was to draw attention to the need for ongoing awareness about some of the harsh realities women across the world face on a continual basis. Once a girl has been abused – and one in three girls will suffer abuse by the age of 18 – she experiences emotions such as isolation, shame, fear, sadness, guilt and confusion. She may even question herself and wonder if the abuse was her fault or why no one protected her. I feel it is crucial to shine a light on facts such as these and also underscore others, such as: Fragile by Natasha Hughes, aged 18.

• One in four women experience physical or sexual violence during pregnancy • Over 60 million girls worldwide are child brides • 603 million women live in countries where domestic violence is not yet considered a crime Through art, films, media and education, we can continue to keep a spotlight on global rights for girls and women. My film, which was featured prominently on the school’s website, Facebook and other social media channels, successfully influenced the school-wide campaign about women’s rights, of which I played an important part. Remaining with this theme, I began to experiment with different media, which allowed me to move on to using digital photography. I began to capture the emotions and expressions of female students digitally, to create a comparison between the female stereotype and the reality most women across the globe face. Then, using a still image from my short film, I decided to draw two pictures in pencil showing three different girls on each one. The girls were wrapped in tape marked ‘FRAGILE’ over their mouths and around their arms. I thought this portrayed the idea of young women who feel trapped and are prevented from speaking up for themselves and for their rights. CURRENT EXPLORATION In addition to digital photography, I am exploring black and white wet photography. Being intrigued by Jenny Holzer’s powerful use of photography and text, I photographed portraits of female students from school and then developed them into prints. I will add quotes on to the prints in different forms to show variety, mainly using quotes by Malala Yousafzai, as she is an inspiration for young girls around the world and her words are so powerful and relate to my chosen topic. American artist Kara Walker has also inspired my art. She has both touched upon similar ideas of abuse, violence, shame, guilt, fear and isolation, and explored the topics of slavery, conflict and violence Natasha Hughes

against women in-depth. Her motivation to portray such important topics is illuminating. Along my artistic journey, I came across a work by Picasso called The Kiss, which gave me the idea of creating my own artwork inspired by Picasso’s style. This specific painting, among others, evoked strong emotions and anger within me because his opinion and depiction of women was often vulgar and condescending. I am currently painting three large works in acrylic paint on canvas. Each piece is based stylistically on a different painting by Picasso but stays with the idea of men using their power and taking advantage of women. The male figure in each of my paintings is a depiction of the producer Harvey Weinstein, and the collection of all three works will be called “#METOO”, as they were inspired by the news of actresses finally having the strength and courage to speak out about being sexually assaulted by Weinstein. The question I raise in this collection of works is: WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD? There is so much more I want and hope to portray through my artwork and so much I want to explore and let everyone know. I feel there is a clear path for women’s rights in the future and I would hope that more pathways and media are created for observers to become participants. What matters most is an education for both men and women to make them more aware of current affairs, feel empowered to help those underrepresented, and find ways to be their own voice. Natasha is a senior IB art student at St Stephen’s and her IB teachers are Anita Guerra, Lucy Clink and Fiona Stewart. Natasha’s images will also be used as posters for the local women’s movement in Rome Natasha Hughes’ video may be viewed at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/sssrome/ videos/10155312692871062. St Stephen’s, Via Aventina 3, tel. 065750605, www.sssrome.it.

JUNIOR Wanted in Rome is accepting creative contributions from students in all international schools in Rome. Articles on topics related to either the student’s life in Rome or their school projects can be submitted by their class teachers. The work should be no more than 1,000 words and all contributions should contain the name, age and school of the student. We also accept illustrations. Any class teachers who would like to propose a project please contact editorial@wantedinrome.com.

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Cinecittà World This 25-hectare theme park dedicated to the magic of cinema features high-tech attractions, real and virtual roller coasters, aquatic shows such as Super Splash, giant elephant rides and attractions with cinematic special effects. Located about 10 km from EUR, south of Rome. Via di Castel Romano, S.S. 148 Pontina, www.cinecittaworld.it. Climbing Associazione Sportiva Climbing Side. Basic and competitive climbing courses for 6-18 year olds. Tues, Thurs. Via Cristoforo Colombo 1800 (Torrino/Mostacciano), tel. 3356525473. Explora The 2,000-sqm Children’s Museum organises creative workshops for small children in addition to holding regular animated lectures, games and meetings with authors of children’s books. Via Flaminia 80/86, tel. 063613776, www.mdbr.it. Go-karting Club Kartroma is a circuit with go-karts for children over 9 and two-seater karts for an adult and a child under 8. Closed Mon. For details see website. Via della Muratella (Ponte Galeria), tel. 0665004962, www.kartroma.it. Gymboree This children's centre caters to little people aged from 0-5 years, offering Play and Learn activities, music, art, baby play, school skills and even English theatre arts. Gymboree @ Chiostro del Bramante (Piazza Navona), Via Arco della Pace 5, www.gymbo.it.

ARTandSEEK English-language cultural workshops and visits to museums and exhibitions for children in Rome. For event details tel. 3315524440, email artandseekforkids@gmail.com, or see website, www.artandseekforkids.com. Bioparco Rome's Bioparco has over 1,000 animals and offers special activities for children and their families at weekends and during the summer. When little legs get tired, take a ride around the zoo on an electric train. Open daily. Viale del Giardino Zoologico 20 (Villa Borghese), tel. 063608211, www.bioparco.it. Bowling Silvestri This sports club has an 18-hole mini golf course, with good facilities for children aged 4 and over, adults and disabled children.

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There are also tennis courts, a table tennis room and a pizzeria. Via G. Zoega 6 (Monteverde/Bravetta), tel. 0666158206, www.bowlingsilvestri.com. Casa del Parco Eco-friendly workshops, in Italian, in which kids can learn about nature and how to care for the environment. Located in the Valle dei Casali nature park. Via del Casaletto 400, tel. 3475540409, www.valledeicasali.com. Casina di Raffaello Play centre in Villa Borghese offering a programme of animated lectures, creative workshops, cultural projects and educational activities for children from the age of three. Tues-Fri 14.30, Sat-Sun 11.00 and 17.00. Viale della Casina di Raffaello (Porta Pinciana), tel. 060608, www.casinadiraffaello.it.

Hortis Urbis Association providing hands-on horticultural workshops for children, usually in Italian but sometimes in English, in the Appia Antica park. Weekend activities include sowing seeds, cultivating plants and harvesting vegetables. Junior gardeners must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Via Appia Antica 42/50, www.hortusurbis.it. Il Nido Based in Testaccio, this association supports expectant mothers, parents, babies and small children. It holds regular educational and social events, many of them in English. Via Marmorata 169 (Testaccio), tel. 0657300707, www.associazioneilnido.it.

Luneur Located in the southern EUR suburb, Luneur is Italy’s oldest amusement park. Highlights include ferris wheel, roller coaster, carousel horses, bamboo tunnel, maze, giant swing and a Wizard of Oz-style farm. Aimed at children aged up to 12. Entry fee €2.50, payable in person or online. Via delle Tre Fontane 100, www.luneurpark.it. Rainbow Magicland The 38 attractions at Rome's biggest theme park are divided into three categories: brave, everyone, and kids. Highlights include down-hill rafting, a water roller coaster through Mayan-style pyramids, and the Shock launch coaster. Located in Valmonte, south-east of the capital. Via della Pace, 00038 Valmontone, www.rainbowmagicland.it. Time Elevator A virtual reality, multi-sensorial 5-D cinema experience with a motion-base platform, bringing the history of Rome to life in an accessible and fun way. The time-machine's commentary is available in six languages including English. Daily 11.00-19.30. €12 adults, €9 kids. Via dei SS. Apostoli 20, tel. 0669921823, www.time-elevator.it. Zoomarine This amusement and aquatic park outside Rome offers performances with dolphins, parrots and other animals for children of all ages. It is also possible to rent little play carts. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Via Casablanca 61, Torvaianica, Pomezia, tel. 0691534, www.zoomarine.it.

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Baccalà is cod which has been preserved by first salting and then drying so the crusty hunks of fish must be rehydrated and desalted by soaking them in cold water for at least 24 hours with regular rinsing. In Rome baccalà is traditionally eaten on a Friday when it will generally be served with ceci (chickpeas, which also need a good soak before cooking). The rinsing and cleaning is a bit of a fuss so many of the city’s delicatessens will sell ready-soaked fillets of baccalà on Thursdays and Friday; look out for them by the doorway, submerged in large tanks of water. The bright white fillets are often prepared either pan-fried or baked, while Rome’s takeaway shops and pizzerie will serve them battered and deep fried. This recipe blends the tradition of baccalà with the classic pasta recipe of aglio, olio e peperoncino (oil, garlic and chili) and mixes the cod with a hefty sprinkling of pecorino romano to thicken the sauce. Romans are usually horrified by the idea of pairing fish and cheese together but this recipe is a good way to convince them that it works perfectly. Pair the dish with a well-structured dry white wine which will stand up to the strong flavours of baccalà and pecorino. A good local choice from Lazio is the organic white Capolemole by Marco Carpineti.

Ingredients for 2 people 250g of desalted baccalà (about 1 large fillet) 180g fresh fettuccine 1 clove of garlic 1 fresh red chili

2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley Half a glass of white wine 2 handfuls of grated pecorino romano Extra virgin olive oil

The first thing to do is taste the baccalà, occasionally it is not completely desalted so if this is the case rinse it in cold running water for a few minutes to remove the excess salt. Chop the baccalà into small cubes and finely chop the parsley, chili and garlic. Heat a generous splash of olive oil in a non-stick pan and gently fry the garlic and chilli until soft, then add the parsley and baccalà. The baccalà will lose some liquid, once this has begun to dry out add the white wine and cook for a few more minutes until the alcohol has evaporated. Make sure there is still some liquid left in the pan. Meanwhile cook the pasta. A couple of minutes before the end of cooking time, drain, add to the frying pan and finish cooking in the sauce until al dente. Once the pasta is cooked turn off the heat and add the pecorino, stirring all the while, to thicken the sauce. Serve immediately.

Rome's reputation as an important street art capital continues to grow with new murals by important Italian and international street artists appearing all the time. Most of the works are located in the suburbs, often far from the centre. Here is where to find Rome’s main street art projects and murals. Esquilino Murals by Alice Pasquini, Gio Pistone, Nicola Alessandrini, Diamond. Casa dell'Architettura, Piazza Manfredo Fanti 47. Marconi The M.A.G.R. (Museo Abusivo Gestito dai Rom), a project by French street artist Seth is located in a former soap factory on Via Antonio Avogadro, opposite Ostiense's landmark Gasometro. For details see www.999contemporary.com. Ostiense Fronte Del Porto by Blu. Via del Porto Fluviale. Fish’n'Kids by Agostino Iacurci. Via del Porto Fluviale. Wall of Fame by JB Rock. Via dei Magazzini Generali. Shelley by Ozmo. Ostiense underpass, Via Ostiense. Pigneto Tributes to Pier Paolo Pasolini by Maupal, Mr. Klevra and Omino 71. Via Fanfulla da Lodi. 2501 mural on Via Fortebraccio. Blu Landscape by Sten & Lex. Via Francesco Baracca. Prati Anna Magnani portrait by Diavù. Nuovo Mercato Trionfale, Via Andrea Doria. Daniza the bear by ROA. Via Sabotino. Prenestino This former meat factory in the outskirts of Rome is now a street art museum as well as being home to some 200 squatters, many of them

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migrants. The Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz, or MAAM, is only open on Saturdays, and features the work of more than 300 artists including Edoardo Kobra, Gio Pistone, Sten&Lex and Diamond. See MAAM Facebook page for details. Via Prenestina 913. Primavalle The Roadkill by Fintan Magee. Via Cristoforo Numai. Theseus stabbing the Minotaur by Pixelpancho. Via Pietro Bembo. Quadraro Tunnel murals by Mr THOMS and Gio Pistone. Via Decio Mure. Nido di Vespe by Lucamaleonte. Via del Monte del Grano. Baby Hulk by Ron English. Via dei Pisoni 89. Rebibbia Murals by Blu. Via Ciciliano and Via Palombini (Casal dè Pazzi). Welcome to Rebibbia by Zerocalcare. Metro B station. S. Basilio SanBa features large-scale works on the façades of social-housing blocks in the disadvantaged north-east suburb of S. Basilio near Rebibbia. The regeneration project includes works by Italian artists Agostino Iacurci, Hitnes and Blu alongside Spain's Liqen. Via Maiolati, Via Osimo, Via Recanati, Via Arcevia, Via Treia. S. Giovanni Totti mural by Lucamaleonte. Via Apulia corner of Via Farsalo.

It’s a New Day by Alice Pasquini. Via Anton Ludovico. S. Lorenzo Alice Pasquini. Via dei Sabelli. Feminicide mural by Elisa Caracciolo. Via Dei Sardi. Borondo. Via dei Volsci 159. Mural by Agostino Iacurci on the Istituto Superiore di Vittorio Lattanzio, Via Aquilonia. S. Pietro Uma Cabra by Bordalo II. Stazione di S. Pietro, Clivo di Monte del Gallo. Testaccio Hunted Wolf by ROA. Via Galvani. #KindComments by Alice Pasquini, Via Volta, Testaccio market. Tor Pignattara Dulk. Via Antonio Tempesta. Etnik. Via Bartolomeo Perestrello 51. Coffee Break by Etam Cru. Via Ludovico Pavoni. Tom Sawyer by Jef Aerosol. Via Gabrio Serbelloni. Pasolini by Diavù. Former Cinema Impero, Via Acqua Bullicante. Hostia by Nicola Verlato. Via Galeazzo Alessi. Herakut. Via Capua 14. Agostino Iacurci. Via Muzio Oddi 6. Tor Marancia The Big City Life scheme features 14-m tall murals by 22 Italian and international street artists including Mr Klevra, Seth, Gaia and Jerico. The idea was to transform the area's blocks of flats into an open-air art museum. Via Tor Marancia. www.bigcity.life.it.

Clockwise from top left: S. Maria di Shanghai by Mr Klevra (Big City Life), Nido di Vespe by Lucamaleonte, El Devinir by Liqen, Fish'n'Kids by Agostino Iacurci, MAGR by Seth.

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Bookshop Cafes in Rome: five spots where you can work with wifi and a coffee When you’re in need of free wifi to get your work or studies done, we recommend visiting one of these bookshop cafes. In each one, open from morning until evening, you’ll find comfy sofas, smoothies, herbal teas and light lunches, as well as the latest independent book and magazine releases (and of course many busy editors and writers typing away). Here you can really focus without having to lock yourself away at home, in the library, or in the noisy bars near home, with the radio blaring adverts and cramped little tables. We have chosen our five favourites which are located in areas filled with young people, students and creatives.

GIUFÀ – S. LORENZO

The Giufà bookshop, located in S. Lorenzo, is a cosy and busy little place. On the many shelves that stretch from the floor to the ceiling you’ll find an array of independent publications including many comics and graphic novels. Here you can gradually segue from working to enjoying the aperitivo hour without leaving your table – there’s a delicious glass of organic wine (3-7 euros) on offer which is served with taralli and lupin beans and a slice of homemade quiche. Mon-Thurs 10.00-24.00, Fri-Sat 10.00-01.00. TUBA BAZAR – PIGNETO A bookshop with a focus on the female (and feminism), Tuba has recently celebrated its tenth birthday and, as usual, has organised many events dedicated to women, book launches and themed aperitivo evenings. Other than books, the teas, beers and wines are all moderately priced and you can enjoy them either inside the cafe or at the tables outside. There’s also an impressive collection of sex toys on display which are available to buy.

LAB 116 – S. LORENZO This bookshop in S. Lorenzo has just opened. It’s also a bistro and has both a study room and a creative space in which courses and events are held. The selection of books is still being gradually added to but the atmosphere and choice of music will tempt you in if you’re passing by. We recommend heading here for breakfast (you can enjoy croissants and smoothies which aren’t too pricey) but there’s also a delicious aperitivo on offer with wines and bites to eat which are sourced locally. CAFFÈ LETTERARIO – OSTIENSE A bookshop, library, cafe and co-working and event space, Caffè Letterario is an eclectic but relaxing place in the Ostiense-Piramide area, not far from Roma Tre University. Here you can tuck into brunch, enjoy a buffet style dinner (€12 including a drink) and listen to live music in the early evening. The only downside is that it’s not super cheap. LO YETI – PIGNETO Not far from the pedestrianised main thoroughfare in Pigneto, Lo Yeti is the perfect spot to find refuge with its low level lighting and comfy seating. We recommend kicking back here with a novel, a cup of tea or a glass of wine on a spring afternoon. You can tuck into many different snacks from their food menu, ranging from cold cuts (€8-13) to salads (€7) or panini (with meats or vegetarian and vegan fillings priced between €3-4). Their programme of talks, exhibitions and acoustic nights is worth following.

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MONTE SACRO - VIA DI VALLE CORTENO MONTE SACRO Via di Valle Corteno - In elegant building, on the 3rd floor, bright and quiet, large entrance, living room, 1 bedroom, bathroom, live in kitchen, closet, balcony - to be renovated - It is possible to create a second bedroom €260.000 negotiable.

CIRCONVALLAZIONE OSTIENSE Circonvallazine Ostiense, excellent condition, at the corner of Via Condeo, on the 2nd floor in an elegant building with two stairs, available, bright, 75 sqm, living room, two bedrooms, live in kitchen, balcony, little balcony overlooking the court, garret, €295.000. Fidia real estate tel. 0639736426 fidia@ fidiaimmobiliare.it. TUSCOLANA PIAZZA RAGUSA Piazza Ragusa - Nice apartment, in perfect conditions, fine finishes, semi-furnished, available, on the 3rd floor, living room with open kitchen, hall with built-in wardrobe, two bedrooms, (one with wardrobe, the other one with safe ans soundproof wall), bathroom with tub and gas boiler for the production of sanitary water, little balcony €320.000 Fidia real estata tel. 0639736426 fidia@fidiaimmobiiare.it. MANZONI AREA Garden apartment renting, six months minimum at €800 a month. Contact: dellascala4@gmail.com. VITINIA - RIOLO TERME VITINIA VIA RIOLO TERME Semi-furnished in the residentiale part of the area, 15’ from the center of EUR and 25’ from the sea, wonderful villa, on 3 levels, completely renovated, fine finishes, large living room with patio overlooking the country, dining room, terrace, four bedrooms, four bathrooms, live-in kitchen fully equipped with open air dining space. Beautiful tavern with fireplace completely indipendent, guest room, two bathrooms, kitchen, two storages, laundry and cellar. Rent €3.500 Fidia real estate tel. 0639723416 fidia@fidiaimmobiliare.it. PRATI Close to Piazza Cavour Prati, close to Piazza Cavour, fifth and last floor, 150 sqm, Finely restored, semi-furnished, entrance, living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms, live in kitchen, cellar, autonomous heating. Rent €3.500 - Condo fees €188

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NOMENTANO - TORLONIA NOMENTANO Torlonia- just 5’ by foot from the park - 10’ by foot from the metro stop Bologna - in wonderful location - small closed street - in period building - floor: mezzanino - perfect conditions - 80 sqm - entrance - living room - 2 bedrooms - live in kitchen - bathroom with shower - autonomous heating €450.000 Condo fees €60 P/M Fidia real estate tel. 0639723416 fidia@fidiaimmobiliare.it. TRASTEVERE IN THE HEART OF THE AREA Trastevere in the heart of the area, Vicolo del Cedro, close to the Gianicolo, on the 3rd loor of a period building without lift, furnished, nice last floor overlooking the roofs of the “old Rome”, bright and quiet, large living room, bedroom, bathroom with shower, kitchen, little terrace of exclusive use, closet/laundry, no accomodation activities. Rent €1.400 P/M Condo fees €88 P/M Fidia real estate tel. 0639723416 fidia@ fidiaimmobiliare.it. EUR GROTTA PERFETTA - VIA A. CECHOV Eur Grotta Perfetta, Via A. Cechov, walking distance from the park, few minutes by foot from the shopping centre, close to S. Lucia Foundation, in a compound with common garden, on the 3rd floor, excellent condition, 110 sqm, entrance, living room, four bedrooms, two bathrooms with shower just restored, furnished live-in kitchen, terrace, two balconies, parking space, cellar, referenced only. Rent €1.400 P/M Condo fees €88 P/M Fidia real estate tel. 0639723416 fidia@fidiaimmobiiare.it. TRIESTE/AFRICANO CLOSE TO VIA ASMARA Trieste/Africano close to Via Asmara, Via del Giuba, available, bright, on the 3rd floor of 4, in excellent condition, 145 sqm, semi-furnished, two entrances both with security door, living room, studio equipped with bookcases, two bedrooms, two bathrooms with shower, live-in kitchen, 15 sqm balcony, small balcony with veranda/laundry, cellar, outdoor parking space €800.000 Condo fees €130 P/M Fidia real estate tel. 0639723416 – fidia@fidiaimmobiiare.it.

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Property for sale out of town CHARMING AND COSY WOODEN COTTAGE FOR SALE Charming and cosy “baita” wooden cottage + 2 bedroom Cottage annex, at 20 miles driving distance from Rome, in the Parco di Vejo Natural Reserve. The property, located in an elevated position, is set in a unique and dreamy landscape. It is set on a 2.5 acre area with woodland, a large flat lawn (football field size) located in front of the main house, olive trees, an orchard, and a rich diversity of flowers, plants and trees. It is enriched by an eating area with a brick wood fired pizza oven, and a lit dancing floor to use in the warm summer nights by the moon. €660.000 Mail pierdavid@ tiscali.it.

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63 | April 2018 • Wanted in Rome

FEBRUARY 18 - MARCH 3 TEATRO COSTANZI CONDUCTOR

SPERANZA SCAPPUCCI DIRECTOR

GIORGIO BARBERIO CORSETTI

AOSR celebrates 70 Years of History

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If your child will be 3 or 4 years old by This year, AOSR celebrates 70 October 31st, 2018, and you are looking to years of history! Has the AOSR engage your child in a well-rounded community had a positive impact American international curriculum, AOSR has on your life? Please Join us from the Pre-Kindergarten program for you. April 13-15, 2018, for our 70th Anniversary Celebration events. Inspired by the well known Reggio-Emilia Help us celebrate our wonderful approach, we guide and encourage children history and community together. to enrich their knowledge through active April 13, 2018 exploration and inquiry. Aperitivo at AOSR at 7 pm April 14, 2018 See more details about our Dinner Gala at the Rome Cavalieri Pre-K program at Waldorf Astoria at 7 pm www.aosr.org/academics/pre-k April 15, 2018 Brunch at the Rose Garden Palace at 11:30 am To schedule a campus tour or apply now, ---visit https://www.aosr.org/aboutwww.aosr.org/admissions/ us/aosr-70th-anniversaryadmissions-process celebration SOIRÉE FRANÇAISE

ROBERTO ABBADO DIRECTOR

MASSIMO POPOLIZIO ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF THE TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA NEW PRODUCTION

FEBRUARY 1, 3 TEATRO COSTANZI ORCHESTRA, ÉTOILE, PRINCIPAL DANCERS, SOLOISTS AND CORPS DE BALLET OF THE TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA A TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA PRODUCTION

SUITE EN BLANC MUSIC BY

CONDUCTOR CHOREOGRAPHY REVIVED BY WITH

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ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF THE TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA NEW PRODUCTION IN COPRODUCTION WITH TEATRO PETRUZZELLI DI BARI

FEBRUARY 24 - MARCH 4 TEATRO COSTANZI C

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PIETRO RIZZO DIRECTOR

GIUSEPPE VERDI

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Ettore Festa, HaunagDesign - Illustrations by Gianluigi Toccafondo and David Downton

GIUSEPPE VERDI Apply Now For Our Pre-

FEBRUARY 2, 4 TEATRO COSTANZI

VINCENZO BELLINI

SOFIA COPPOLA

ÉDOUARD LALO EXCERPTS FROM “NAMOUNA” CARLO DONADIO SERGE LIFAR CLAUDE BESSY

ELEONORA ABBAGNATO

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ORCHESTRA, CHORUS AND CORPS DE BALLET OF THE TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA

JANUARY 28, FEBRUARY 3 (8:00 PM)

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A TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA PRODUCTION

THE PINK FLOYD ROLAND PETIT LUIGI BONINO

MUSIC BY (ON RECORDED BASIS) BALLET BY REVIVED BY

FEBRUARY 25 TEATRO NAZIONALE DIRECTOR

FABIO CHERSTICH SET, COSTUME AND VIDEO DESIGN

GIANLUIGI TOCCAFONDO “FABBRICA” YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM AND YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA operaroma.it

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