White Night
The Capitoline Museums and the Montemartini Power Plant will be open with a series of events on the night of the 27th and the 28th of September 2003 as part of the 'Notte bianca a Roma' ("White Night in Rome"), organised as part of a twinning agreement with Paris and an understanding with Brussels.
The city of Rome for the 'Notte Bianca' ("White Night") of September 27th 2003, will be open all night with a full programme of social-awareness events, art, cinema, theatre, music, sport and shopping, as Paris and Brussels will be the following week.
The Capitoline Museums and the Montemartini powerplant will be participating in the event, planned and produced by the Rome City Council and the Rome Chamber of Commerce, staying open for visitors for the whole night, and orgainsing events in the museum.
Entrance to the museum and the events during the night is free.
Programme
CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS
Museum
Night time opening from 8pm on Saturday 27th September until 8am on Sunday 28th September 2003.
Concert in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori
'Arie napolitane' ("Neapolitan arias")
First show 1am; second show 2am.
The close relationship between popular song and comic opera in 18th century Naples is highlighted in new arrangements for violin, cello and piano of a few well-known pieces, directed by Maestro Roberto Mariano.
Nuccio Siano's voice offers an interpretation based on modern theatrical vocal techniques.
Raffaello Galibardi, violin
Roberto Marino, pianoforte
Nuccio Siano, voice
Cristiana Tortora, cello
Nuccio Siano & Akroaterion Ensemble, organisation
Performance art in the Tabularium
'Progetto di scrittura' ("Writing Projects") by Friedericke Straub
From 8pm until 8 am
Friedericke Straub's performance will take place in the Tabularium and, through a creative process, aims to make visible and livable Latin and Italian writings and readings, reproducing the capital letters of monumental Roman inscriptions on long white canvases.
Exhibition at Palazzo Caffarelli
'C'era una volta Napoli. ...' - "Once Upon a time there was Naples..."
Open at night from 8pm on Saturday September 27th until 8am on Sunday September 28th 2003.
Tasting on Terrazza Caffarelli
From 8pm until 2am.
Tasting of a classic of Italian gastronomy - prosciutto di San Daniele, organised by the Consorzio del prosciutto di San Daniele with the contribution of the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture.
"Money box" for the collection of donations for projects for the homeless, given the imminent arrival of winter, organised by the Department of Social Services of the Rome City Council.
MONTEMARTINI POWERPLANT
Via Ostiense 106
Museum
Night time opening from 8pm on Saturday 27th September until 6am on Sunday 28th September 2003.
Show in the museum
'Parole, polvere e vapore'. Concerto scenico dall'instabilità ("Words, dust and steam. A scenic concert on instability.")
From 9pm until 12.30am
Theatre meets music which meets theatre which meets music...
And from this arises a theatrical/musical concert/show made up of songs: of love, of death, of flight and of adventure. Unexpected guests may knock at the door, to tell their tales and have others tell theirs.
Roberto Latini from the "Fortebraccioteatro" company is on the stage with "Acustimantico", a group of highly-praised contemporary musicians, winners of the Premio della Critica and the Premio per la Musica at the Recanati Festival, a festival for original songs in the space between literary narrative and hints of Mediterranean musics.
"Words, dust and steam" is an experiment in theatrical form, carried out through a dynamic mise-en scène which goes over and above the concepts of plot, in order to re-found them, in a gallery of feelings, living words, careful hands and serious play.
Roberto Latini, Raffaella Misiti, voice
Stefano Scatozza, guitar and music
Marcello Duranti, soprano and baritone sax
Paolo Graziani, double bass
Massimiliano Natale, percussion
Gianluca Misiti, keyboards, assistant director
Danilo Selvaggi, words
