Events
Virgil’s Aeneid told and read by Vittorio Sermonti staged at the Capitol Museums from September 18th until October 19th. Aeneas returns to the place where one night, three thousand years ago, the guest of a poor king, he fell asleep, exhausted, on a sack filled with leaves.
The author and scholar Sermonti outlines the narrative arc of the Aeneid with a synthesis of poetic figures and historical emotions.
MACRO joins in the Notte Bianca 2007 with the project entitled “History’s visionary aspects”.
An original presentation on the importance of the female figure in epic poetry.
This event will consist in a dialogue between the sculptor Pietro Canonica’s Museum/Hoe and a number of contemporary artists coming from different creative environments (the worlds of music, the theatre and that of visual arts) who are provided with an opportunity to implement the idea of a museum as a historical location, moving with different aesthetics and techniques the intimate and lived-in interiors of Pietro Canonica’s museum/home also to the exterior.
The Passes of Poetry and Music intermingles.
The event entitled Rossellini Ballad-singer, presented by the Istituto MetaCultura and the Rossellini Foundation, mingles an exhibition for voice and music with screenings of texts, images and of 10 shorts by Rossellini.
For Rome’s fifth edition of the 'Notte Bianca' the Centrale Montemartini will be open all night long from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. with free admission.
For Rome’s fifth edition of the 'Notte Bianca' the Museo della Civiltà Romana will be open all night long from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. with free admissiom.
For Rome’s fifth edition of the 'Notte Bianca' the Capitoline Museums will be open all night long from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. with free admission.
Now in its fifth year, the White Night brings to the capital the cultures, sounds and traditions of the five continents, linked by the theme chosen for this year: “The World in a Night”.
A summer dedicated to the great classics of literature, theatre, music, and art, with out of hours openings and night time guided visits to the museums of the capital.
From the 1st to the 22nd March, every Thursday from 16.00 to 19.30, a series of seminars to complement the exhibition will be held by its curators, in dialogue with eminent guests, both Italian and international, from the academic, scientific and artistic worlds.
The exhibition "Roberto Rossellini. Humanistic Art and Science" is accompanied by a series of shorts dedicated to the stories of important members of the humanist tradition, narrated by Rossellini.
The event “Cineforum" is part of a week long fair on biological evolution: DARWINDAY @ROMA
The event “Research into primeval life in the cosmoconference Cristiano Batalli Cosmovici" is part of a week long fair on biological evolution: DARWINDAY @ROMA