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luglio 2018

Night opening of the Ancient Theatre

Monday 16th, Tuesday 17th, Wednesday 25th, Monday 30th – July 2018

Till 11.00pm

Ticket: € 10,00

 

 

The ancient site will be open till 11.00 pm and the new lighting will show you the theatre as you’ve never seen it before!

CLICK HERE to watch the FB video realised by the Naxos Archaelogical Park

 

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Ron

Lucio! Tour

Ancient Theatre, Thursday July 12th 2018 @ 9.30pm

Ron, stage name of Rosalino Cellamare (born 1953), is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician.
Born in Dorno, province of Pavia, he debuted under his true name at the 1970 edition of the Sanremo Festival, together with Nada. In the following years he distinguished as songwriter for Lucio Dalla and others. After a period as actor, he returned collaborating with Dalla and De Gregori in their Banana Republic tour of 1979, and issuing the LPs Una città per cantare (1980) and Anima (1982). These were followed by Joe Temerario (1984) and Il mondo avrà una grande anima (1988). Una città per cantare is an Italian cover of The Road, song Danny O’Keefe; Italian lyrics are written by Lucio Dalla. In 1996 he won the Sanremo festival with “Vorrei incontrarti fra cent’anni”, sung in duo with Tosca.

The Album “Lucio!” is dedicated to Lucio Dalla (1943-2012) greatly loved Italian singer and Ron’s friend.

TICKETS on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 60,00
Gallery: € 60,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 50,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 40,00

 

More on Ron:

ron.it
Ron Mix on toutube

 

 

RigolettoRigoletto

Sesto Senso Opera Festival

Ancient Theatre July 11 and 15 2018 @ 9.30 pm

 

Wednesday 11 July >> tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Sunday 15 July >> tickets on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Parterre: € SOLD OUT
Gallery: € 85,00
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 60,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 35,00

Simona-Molinari-1Simona Molinari & Friends

Ancient Theatre, Sunday 8th of July 2018 @ 9.30pm

 

Simona Molinari (born 1983) is an Italian jazz music singer and song writer.

Watch her on youtube: Mix – Simona Molinari

 

TICKETS on boxol.it and ticketone.it
Stalls (Parterre): € 37,00 – under 25: € 31,00
Gallery: € 27,00 – under 25: € 23,50
Upper circle (numbered seats): € 21,50 – under 25: € 19,50

Orchestra Gioviale -7.06.18Orchestra Mandolinistica Gioviale

Church of Santa Caterina, Saturday 7 July 2018 @ 9.00pm

Free Entrance

On the occasion of San Pancrazio, patron saint of Taormina, the new born Orchestra Mandolinistica Gioviale will perform in the Church of Santa Caterina (in piazza Vittorio Emanuele).

Director: Maria Intelisano
Tenor: M.Giuseppe Gilistad
Mandolin soloist: Alessandro Russo
Guitar soloist: M.Domenico Galì

First mandoloncello: Irene Cacciatore
First mandolins: Aldo Filistad, Simone Cacciatore, Debora Privitera, Claudia Filistad
Second mandolins: Agnese Cacopardo, Debora Intilisano, Francesca Previti, Gaetano Famà, Dorothea Kraiss,
Mandola: Chiara Previti
Double Bass: Davide Rosano

More info: www.mandolinistica gioviale.comwww.facebook.com/mandolinisticagioviale

 Orchestra Mandolinistica Gioviale_

 

 

 

 

 

 

time of piritTime of Spirit

by Tony Nicotra, Italian Quantum Artist

Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, July 1/31 2018

Free entrance
Opening hours: from 10.00am to midnight
Opening ceremony on Friday 6th July @ 8.00pm

 

The words of the artist

My painting technique resembles an interactive game, whereby I attempt to merge with the universal energies, and communicate with the spiritual forces of nature and the divine, evoking a response that can be visibly experienced. I believe that every human being and living thing in the universe, is imbued with an energetic force, which can perceive its own existence as being in constant communion (at one) with all. This concept has best been explained by the famous and enigmatic philosopher and painter Gustavo Rol, who describes humankind as being in possession of a spiritual intelligence, which (by means of natural laws still unknown to science), can with its vibrational emotional form interact, and enter into communion, with the energies that constitute the existence of reality. Masaru Emoto supported this view, as a result of his findings during his exploration of how water, (including all visible and invisible elements of existence), can perceive human actions, thoughts, and feelings, demonstrated by his now famous ice photography, where water subjected to an emotional state was then frozen and photographed. Quantum physics can offer a scientific explanation for this hypothesis, based on the discovery that the observer can influence the outcome of scientific experiments dealing with subatomic particles of matter. That is, the behaviour of sub atomic particles interacting with each other and consequently the behaviour of matter itself, is subject to the emotional state of the human observer, whose influence upon such interaction can be scientifically measured. To this end, my artistic creations endeavour to demonstrate within themselves, the communication between my conscience, the subject to which the art work is dedicated to, and the influences of the immense universal energies that permeates my surroundings, which obey the laws of quantum physics still not yet fully understood. More specifically, to achieve the above, I employ as my artistic medium the vibrational characteristics of light at various frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. This vibrational characteristic of light can36356729_2044044678940308_411319118038302720_o interact freely with, and respond to, electromagnetic and vibrational quantum force fields, to cause subtle or dramatic changes in frequencies of visible and invisible colour. Such is the nature of this medium, that it enables the art work to appear to constantly change itself in time, depending on the emotional dialogue with the observer. Currently special materials exist that enable the completed work to be visualised in both the visual spectrum of electromagnetic radiation as well as in the infrared spectrum, revealing as previously mentioned a new world of alternative colour expressions, that evoke a kaleidoscope of personal emotional reactions when visualised. Therefore this medium is ideal in demonstrating the delicate interactions between the universal energies, and my conscious thoughts on the subject matter to which I dedicate my artistic talents. Consequently the aim of my artistic endeavour has at its core, the desire to elucidate the existence of an entire alternative universe within our simple existence, which can be revealed through the manipulation of the vibrational frequency of light that illuminates my paintings. The specific purpose of this aim is to liberate the observer from a perception of reality that appears static and immutable, rendering humankind blind and ignorant to it’s true nature, namely, of beings with profound ability to affect change according to its desires. It is my ultimate desire to assist humanity to awaken to the truth of its Divine magical abilities of sentiment, of perception, of freedom, and of it’s incredible power as it recognises and reveals itself to be the ultimate truth, of beings as Love Realised.


Biography

Tony was born in Caracas Venezuela on 17 August 1971. As a child Tony exhibited an insatiable curiosity for the world that surrounded him, and passionately expressed his inquisitiveness through drawing and painting, thus demonstrating from an early age, a unique and prodigious artistic talent. After finishing his Fine Arts studies, where by his talents were developed and refined, and with increasing recognition of his artistic skills, he was appropriated into the discipline of restorative art. During this period he won critical acclaim amongst his peers, for successfully restoring numerous important and prestigious Italian works of art and monuments including, The Arena of Verona, The Cathedral of Catania, The Royal Palace of Venaria in Turin as well as the Italian Embassy in Berlin, to name but a few. Yet despite all these accomplishments, and still driven by his insatiable and ardent desire to fathom the truth and raison d’être of the existence of life, of humanity, and its relationship with its delicate environs, Tony elected to temporarily suspend his illustrious career, to commence a long period of introspective soul searching. He devoted himself exclusively to the search of inner wisdom through the pursuit of knowledge, with a view of liberating the soul within. During this 36514937_2045797095431733_7387555924799389696_oendeavour, he became an avid scholar of various metaphysical and spiritual disciplines, and, despite severe financial constraints and hardships, found himself compelled to pursue a personal and arduous pilgrimage, by walking The Route of Santiago di Compostela, better known as the pilgrimage of St James Path, ending in Santiago Spain. During this journey he became inspired to study quantum physics, and coupled with the knowledge previously gained, he finally found the answers to his deepest questions. Renewed by this personal experience, his quest is to now share his new found understanding and wisdom, through the communicative medium of artistic works, literary prose, and poetry. To this end, Tony has currently devoted his artistic ability, to the pursuit of rendering tangible and visible, the enigmatic invisible energy fields that constitute the universe and life within it. His aim is to awaken in all humanity, the awareness and wonder, of the interrelatedness of all that exists, through the interactive dance of fundamental energy forms that constitute both living and non living things. This knowledge is rarely acknowledged, nor experienced by the uninitiated majority. Thus, Tony’s mission as an artist, is to utilize his personal wisdom, his faith and his new found perception of self as a singular, liberated and enlightened being, to demonstrate the existence of life as a divine source of permeating energy, constantly pulsating through dynamic and cyclic interactions of differentiation and synthesis, with the ultimate goal of expressing the oneness of existence.

(source: text and pictures taken by the Facebook page of the artist)


More info

tonynicotra.it
facebook.com/tonynicotra.it
designernicotra@tiscali.it

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Nastri D’Argento
73rd Silver Ribbons Award Ceremony

Ancient Theatre, June 30 2018 @ 8.30pm

The Nastro d’Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a movie award assigned each year, since 1946, for cinematic performances and production by the Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics. The Nastro d’argento is the oldest movie award in Europe, and the second oldest in the world (only the Academy Awards are older). The awards are given during a fashion gala night held at the Taormina Greek Theatre.

Tickets on boxol.it
Stalls (parterre): € 20,00
Gallery: € 15,00
Upper circle (non-numbered seats): € 10,00

2018 contestants

Best film
A Ciambra, regia di Jonas Carpignano
Chiamami col tuo nome, regia di Luca Guadagnino
Dogman, regia di Matteo Garrone
Lazzaro felice, regia di Alice Rohrwacher
Loro, regia di Paolo Sorrentino

Best Director
Paolo Franchi – Dove non ho mai abitato
Matteo Garrone – Dogman
Luca Guadagnino – Chiamami col tuo nome
Gabriele Muccino – A casa tutti bene
Susanna Nicchiarelli – Nico, 1988
Ferzan Özpetek – Napoli velata
Paolo Sorrentino – Loro

Best New Director
Valerio Attanasio – Il tuttofare
Donato Carrisi – La ragazza nella nebbia
Damiano e Fabio D’Innocenzo – La terra dell’abbastanza
Annarita Zambrano – Dopo la guerra
Dario Albertini – Manuel

Best Comedy
Ammore e malavita dei Manetti Bros.
Benedetta follia di Carlo Verdone
Brutti e cattivi di Cosimo Gomez
Come un gatto in tangenziale di Riccardo Milani
Metti la nonna in freezer di Giancarlo Fontana e Giuseppe G. Stasi
Smetto quando voglio – Ad honorem di Sydney Sibilia

Best Producer
Archimede, Rai Cinema: Matteo Garrone e Paolo Del Brocco – Dogman
Indigo Film: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori e Viola Prestieri – Loro e Il ragazzo invisibile – Seconda generazione
Lotus Production, Leone Film Group, Rai Cinema: Marco Belardi – A casa tutti bene e Hotel Gagarin
Lotus Production, Medusa Film: Giampaolo Letta – The Place
Madeleine, Rai Cinema: Carlo Macchitella e Manetti Bros. – Ammore e malavita
Pepito Produzioni, Rai Cinema: Agostino Saccà, Maria Grazia Saccà e Giuseppe Saccà – La terra dell’abbastanza
Pepito Produzioni, Achab Film, Gran Torino Productions: Agostino Saccà, Maria Grazia Saccà e Giuseppe Saccà – Dove non ho mai abitato
Vivo Film, Rai Cinema: Marta Donzelli e Gregorio Paonessa – Nico, 1988
Vivo Film, Colorado Film, Rai Cinema: Marta Donzelli e Gregorio Paonessa – Figlia mia

Best Subject
Laura Bispuri e Francesca Manieri – Figlia mia
Alessandro Aronadio, Renato Sannio, Edoardo Leo – Io c’è
Vincenzo Marra – L’equilibrio
Ciro Formisano – L’esodo
Marco Pettenello e Andrea Segre – L’ordine delle cose
Luciano Ligabue – Made in Italy
Andrea Cedrola, Stefano Grasso e Sebastiano Riso – Una famiglia

Best Script
Gabriele Muccino e Paolo Costella con la collaborazione di Sabrina Impacciatore – A casa tutti bene
Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti, Massimo Gaudioso – Dogman
Leonardo Di Costanzo, Maurizio Braucci e Bruno Oliviero – L’intrusa
Paolo Sorrentino e Umberto Contarello – Loro
Susanna Nicchiarelli – Nico, 1988

Best Actor
Giuseppe Battiston – Finché c’è prosecco c’è speranza e Dopo la guerra
Alessio Boni – La ragazza nella nebbia e Respiri
Marcello Fonte e Edoardo Pesce – Dogman
Valerio Mastandrea – The Place
Toni Servillo – Loro

Best Actress
Valeria Golino e Alba Rohrwacher – Figlia mia
Lucia Mascino – Amori che non sanno stare al mondo
Giovanna Mezzogiorno – Napoli velata
Luisa Ranieri – Veleno
Elena Sofia Ricci – Loro

Best Supporting Actor
Peppe Barra – Napoli velata
Stefano Fresi – Nove lune e mezza e Smetto quando voglio – Ad honorem
Vinicio Marchioni – Il contagio e The Place
Riccardo Scamarcio – Loro
Thomas Trabacchi – Amori che non sanno stare al mondo e Nico 1988

Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Asti – Nome di donna
Nicoletta Braschi – Lazzaro felice
Anna Foglietta – Il contagio e Il premio
Sabrina Ferilli – The Place
Kasia Smutniak – Loro

Best Actor in a Comedy
Antonio Albanese – Come un gatto in tangenziale
Carlo Buccirosso e Giampaolo Morelli – Ammore e malavita
Sergio Castellitto – Il tuttofare
Edoardo Leo – Smetto quando voglio – Ad honorem e Io c’è
Marco Giallini – Io sono Tempesta
Massimo Popolizio – Sono tornato
Carlo Verdone – Benedetta follia

Best Actress in a Comedy
Sonia Bergamasco – Come un gatto in tangenziale
Barbara Bouchet – Metti la nonna in freezer
Paola Cortellesi – Come un gatto in tangenziale
Claudia Gerini e Serena Rossi – Ammore e malavita
Miriam Leone – Metti la nonna in freezer
Ilenia Pastorelli – Benedetta follia
Sara Serraiocco – Brutti e cattivi

Best Cinematography
Gian Filippo Corticelli – Napoli velata
Francesca Amitrano – Ammore e malavita
Marco Bassano – Made in Italy
Luca Bigazzi – Loro e Ella & John – The Leisure Seeker
Vladan Radovic – Figlia mia e Smetto quando voglio – Ad honorem

Best Scenography
Dimitri Capuani – Dogman
Giorgio Barullo – Dove non ho mai abitato
Emita Frigato – Lazzaro felice
Ivana Gargiulo – Napoli velata
Rita Rabassini – Il ragazzo invisibile – Seconda generazione

Best Costumes
Nicoletta Taranta – Agadah e A Ciambra[2]
Massimo Cantini Parrini – Dogman e La terra dell’abbastanza
Alessandro Lai – Napoli velata
Carlo Poggioli – Loro
Daniela Salernitano – Ammore e malavita

Best Editing
Walter Fasano – Chiamami col tuo nome (ex aequo)
Marco Spoletini – Dogman (ex aequo)
Claudio Di Mauro – A casa tutti bene
Giogio’ Franchini – Made in Italy e Riccardo va all’inferno
Cristiano Travaglioli – Loro

Best live-recorded sound
Maricetta Lombardo – Dogman e L’intrusa
Lavinia Burcheri – Ammore e malavita
Stefano Campus – Figlia mia
Fabio Conca – Napoli velata
Adriano Di Lorenzo – Nico, 1988

Best Soundtrack
Catalano – Napoli velata
Antonio Fresa e Luigi Scialdone – Gatta Cenerentola
Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo – Nico, 1988
Luciano Ligabue – Made in Italy
Lele Marchitelli – Loro
Nicola Piovani – A casa tutti bene
Pivio e Aldo De Scalzi – Ammore e malavita

Best Original Song
Amori che non sanno stare al mondo – Amori che non sanno stare al mondo
Arrivano i prof – Arrivano i prof
Bang bang – Ammore e malavita
Durango Blues – Benedetta follia
Fidati di me – Riccardo va all’inferno
Ho cambiato i piani – Nove lune e mezza
Proof – Il premio
Sconnessi – Sconnessi
The Place – The Place
Tiemp’e veleno – Veleno

Best casting director
Francesco Vedovati – Dogman
Nastro speciale
Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, per la regia di Una questione privata

Best Non-European Film 
Vittorio Storaro per la fotografia del film La ruota delle meraviglie – Wonder Wheel (Wonder Wheel), regia di Woody Allen
Paolo Virzì per la regia di Ella & John – The Leisure Seeker (The Leisure Seeker)

Nastro ArgentoVivo cinema&ragazzi
Gabriele Salvatores per Il ragazzo invisibile – Seconda generazione[3]

Nastro d’argento to the career
Gigi Proietti
Nastro d’argento speciale
Al cast di A casa tutti bene, regia di Gabriele Muccino

 

 

 

 

sicilyGeografie Sentimentali

Sentimental Geographies

Exhibition of antique books and fine old historical printed maps, curated by Maria Teresa Rodríguez and Roberta Scorranese.

Palazzo Ciampoli, from June 24 to July 8 2018

 

The history of Sicily and of the Mediterranean area through its historical maps.

This is a story of men, islands, tales. It is a short novel about the Mediterranean, a story that winds through the historical maps of Sicily, preserved in the Collection of prints of the Regional Library of Messina. A story that goes from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, sometimes sepia coloured, sometimes colorful, more or less imbued with fantasy. There are maps made for sailors, with well in evidence references for the docking. And there are those that, for example, Vincenzo Maria Coronelli did for the scholars, who (in the late seventeenth century) no longer liked a faithful representation of the Earth, because they were used to assigning to each place a myth, a symbol, a cultural reference. There are real cities and ideal cities, as in the map of 1680, signed by the Flemish Frederick de Wit, which takes up a representation of the previous century: in a box at the top, appears the city of Messina with walls and arsenals, which did not exist at the time, but which mirrored the image they wanted to to transmit. And then there are the men, those who walked around the island to trace its shape and coordinates, like Filippo Cluverio, a German geographer who lived only 42 years but who left us a legacy of historical geography. It is the novel of Sicily and the Mediterranean in about thirty precious maps, each with a story and a voice.

Equipment and Technical Direction by Francesca Cannavò

Graphics by Tina Berenato

(source: taobuk.it)

stefano bollaniStefano Bollani

with the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania

Ancient Theatre, Saturday 23rd June  @ 8.30pm

 

Stefano Bollani, composer,pianist, TV host and writer will perform during the opening ceremony of the Taormina Book Festival >> See the event

During the evening Bollani will receive the Taobuk Career Award.

Free Entrance

Stefano Bollani website

Stefano Bollani on youtube

 

More info: taobuk.it – info@taobuk.it

aperture notturne

 

Night opening of the Ancient Theatre of Taormina

June 20, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 2018

Entrance: €10,00

 

The ancient site will be open till 11.00 pm and the new lighting will show you the theatre as you’ve never seen it before!

 

CLICK HERE to watch the FB video realised by the Naxos Archaelogical Park