Autumn in Veneto? Juliet’s B-day in Verona

” O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”. Who doesn’t know this lines? And who doesn’t wish once in his or her life bring his or her lover to see Verona, the city of the tragedy and the love of Romeo and Juliet?

You can have a beautiful occasion this September to go with your beloved and  party for Juliet’s Birthday!!!!

Juliet, the most famous  beautiful 14- in a half year-old girl, the symbol of perfection and innocence, is going to be celebrated her b-day as every year in Verona.
The city’s parties are on September 16th 2011 for honouring  the birthday of its most  famous heroine.

But why this date?  In spite of the word of  Shakespeare that put the Juliet birth on “Lammas Eve at night” (August 1), so Juliet’s birthday is July 31, the actual date is based on the “novella” by Luigi Da Porto (1531), the first writer who told the story of Romeo and Juliet.

The story of the two most famous and unfortunate young lovers who had lived at the beginning of the 14th century and belonged to two rival families, the Capulets and the Montagues reached the sublime artistic expression in Shakespeare´s “Romeo and Juliet” (1596).

After you have joined this event,  you may  go on  julietclub you can also partecipate to a very lovely  award called the “Cara Giulietta” (“Dear Juliet”) usually awarded on Valentine´s Day. It goes  to the most compelling letters received during the previous year. the prize has been organisedover the years  by  The Club di Giulietta, a Verona-based organization that answers the thousands of letters addressed each year to Shakespeare´s Juliet. Since the 1930s, letters addressed to Juliet keep arriving in Verona. As of 2010, more than 5,000 letters are received annually, three quarters of which are from women.

The day will be full of love, with parades, dances, and street entertainment.

 

MITO SettembreMusica: International Music festival in Turin and Milan

 

Do you want a different vision of two of the most interesting Italian cities like Milan and Turin?

Just book a flight for September and join MITO SettembreMusica, the international music festival that in 4 years has hosted great annual showcases of musical events.

Milan and Turin are at heart of “new forms, functions and rules for a modern urban project” as we read in the festival programme.
The fifth edition of the MITO SettembreMusica lasts 3 weeks (3-22 September 2011).
According to  Francesco Micheli, president of MITO SettembreMusica, the celebration for the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Republic “have never run so deep” and “events like MITO SettembreMusica really bring Italy together in the spirit of unity.”
You will meet great Italian composers such as Salvatore Sciarrino, Fabio Vacchi, Fabio Nieder, Ivan Fedele, Francesco Antonioni and Matteo Franceschini.
From the world scene, this year’s festival edition also presents brand-new works by Harrison Birtwistle (UK), Pascal Dusapin (France), Michael Daugherty (USA), Toshio Hosokawa (Japan), Guo Wenjing (China), Louis Andriessen (Netherlands) and Arvo Pärt (Estonia).
Maestro Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra will be involved in  From Russia With Love series, that is four superb concerts of sublime compositions by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.
The celebration of Italy’s 150 years features the Italian folk music and dialects, but also Tahiti, the art of Beken and “a full afternoon and evening of world-class artists featuring Lokua Kanza (Congo), Boubacar Traoré (Mali) and the Orchestra National de Barbes, with musicians from Algeria, France and Morocco”.
You will find great names of symphonic music, fine line-up of young pianists performing a cycle of Franz Liszt compositions, for six concerts in both Milan and Turino, but also sacred and Baroque music and the incredible sounds of the contemporary music.
Great electronic music in the programme, with crossover and contaminations of various genres:  Christian Fennesz will bring his complex and refined music to Turino! And not only him!
But also a lot of jazz: in particular, in the Milan’s Breaks in Jazz you will apprecciate young piano master Alessandro Lanzoni, together with jazz legends such as Art Blakey, Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley, Valery Ponomarev.
Furthermore, a tribute to Miles Davis with Enrico Rava, Stefano Bollani, John Scofield and Dave Douglas in both  cities.
Please, check the programme and don’t miss it!!
For all info:
Milano: tel. 02.88464725
Torino: tel. 011.4424787