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1.
When:
25th of March 2009
Where:
Pisa, Miracles square
Event:
Pisan New Year
Description:
Celebration
with historical procession
2.
When:
29th of
March 2009
Where:
Firenze
Event:
Florentine
New Year
Description:
In Florence
the beginning of the civil year was “ab incarnatione”, i.e. on
the day of Jesus Christ birth.
3.
When:
6th and 7th
of March 2009
Where:
Teatro del Giglio, Lucca
Event:
“Robin
Hood”, the musical.
4.
When:
27th of March 2009
Where:
Teatro Goldoni, Livorno
Event:
Ballet on Haendel music
5.
When:
26th
and 27th of March 2009
Where:
Teatro Verdi, Pisa
Event:
Opera with texts by Bertolt Brecht
6.
When:
From the 13th
of March 2009 to the 30th of August 2009
Where:
Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
Event:
Galileo Galilei Exhibition
7.
When:
7th of March 2009
Where:
Forte dei Marmi, Pontedera, Pisa
Event:
Antique market
8.
When:
8th of March 2009
Where:
Vicopisano
Event:
Collecting market
9.
When:
8th of March 2009
Where:
Barga & Marina di Pietrasanta
Event:
Handcraft & Antique market
10.
When:
14th of March 2009
Where:
Lucca
Event:
Antique market
11.
When:
15th of March 2009
Where:
Boccaccia Square, Certaldo
Event:
Handcraft and Antique market
12.
When:
6th of March 2009
Where:
Cecina
Event:
Chocolate fair
13.
When:
14th-15th
of March 2009; 21st-22nd of March 2009; 28th-29th of March 2009.
Where:
Lucca
Event:
Antique
camellias exhibition, 20th edition
14.
When:
21st of March 2009
Where:
Empoli
Event:
Comics exhibition
15.
When:
20th of March 2009
Where:
Certaldo
Event:
Marzuolo
truffle fair
16.
When:
22nd of March 2009
Where:
Marina di Pietrasanta
Event:
Versilia wine art Festival
17.
When:
5th
of March 2009, 9pm
Where:
Teatro
Verdi, Pisa
Event:
“I Concerti della Normale”
Description:
Veronika
Eberie (violin) and Oliver Schnyder (piano) playing Mozart,
Schubert, Janacek and Strauss.
18.
When:
23rd of March 2009, 9pm
Where:
Teatro Verdi, Pisa
Event:
“I Concerti della Normale”
Description:
Sergio Tiempo (piano) playing Liszt, Chopin and Ravel.
19.
When:
26th of March 2009, 8.30 pm
Where:
Teatro Verdi, Pisa
Event:
Opera “Weill”
Description:
Orchestra for Tuscan Lyric
20.
When:
6th of March 2009, 8.30pm
Where:
Townhall Theatre, Florence
Event:
“Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”
Description:
Classical music concert: Denève and Anderszewski playing. He
will be presenting a varied programme which will include
Stravinsky’s Concerto in
E flat major, commissioned in 1937 by Robert Woods
Bliss to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the building of
Dumbarton Oaks, his splendid residence in Georgetown, near
Washington; the Suite for
orchestra op. 80 which Fauré took in 1900 from his
stage music for the play
Pelléas et Mélisande by Maeterlinck, and
Suite n. 2 taken
in 1934 from the ballet
Bacchus et Ariane by Roussel. The Polish pianist
Piotr Anderszewski, one of the finest up-and-coming talents on
the international scene, will be performing the
Concerto in D major K. 451,
composed by Mozart in 1784 while he was living in Vienna.
21.
When:
8th of March 2009, 4.30 pm
Where:
Townhall Theatre, Florence
Event:
“Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”
Description:
Classical music concert: Denève and Anderszewski playing (see
above).
22.
When:
13th of March 2009, 8.30pm
Where:
Townhall Theatre, Florence
Event:
“Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”
Description:
Classical music concert: R. Abbado playing. Highly acclaimed by
Florentine audiences as both a symphonic and opera conductor
(his successes include
Attila and I
Lombardi alla prima crociata by Verdi,
Il barbiere di Siviglia
by Rossini and, most recently, during the last Festival, the
Italian première of Henze’s
Phaedra), this
time Roberto Abbado will be conducting the only movement which
has reached us in its complete form, the
Adagio, from
Mahler’s Tenth Symphony;
the Symphony in E flat
major K. 543 written by Mozart in Vienna in 1788,
and the magnificent Missa
in angustiis in D minor composed by Haydn in 1798
and also known as "Nelsonmesse"
in honour of the legendary English admiral and of his victory
over Napoleon on the Nile.
23.
When:
15th of March 2009, 4.30pm
Where:
Townhall Theatre, Florence
Event:
“Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”
Description:
Classical music concert: R. Abbado playing. Highly acclaimed by
Florentine audiences as both a symphonic and opera conductor
(his successes include
Attila and I
Lombardi alla prima crociata by Verdi,
Il barbiere di Siviglia
by Rossini and, most recently, during the last Festival, the
Italian première of Henze’s
Phaedra), this
time Roberto Abbado will be conducting the only movement which
has reached us in its complete form, the
Adagio, from
Mahler’s Tenth Symphony;
the Symphony in E flat
major K. 543 written by Mozart in Vienna in 1788,
and the magnificent Missa
in angustiis in D minor composed by Haydn in 1798
and also known as "Nelsonmesse"
in honour of the legendary English admiral and of his victory
over Napoleon on the Nile.
24.
When:
20th of March 2009, 8.30pm
Where:
Townhall Theatre, Florence
Event:
“Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”
Description:
Classical music concert: Carydis and Steinbacher playing. Born
in Athens in 1974, the conductor Constantinos Carydis is a
rising star on the music scene who has already been engaged to
perform in the future in a number of major European orchestras.
For his début in Florence, he has chosen the Symphonic Poem
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
by Dukas, composed in 1897 and inspired by the ballad
Der Zauberlehrling
by Goethe, and the two Suites taken from the ballet
Daphnis et Chloé
begun by Ravel in 1909 on a commission from Sergei Diaghilev for
the Ballets Russes, the famous dance company which he had just
founded and which this year celebrates its hundredth
anniversary. The ballet was performed on 8th June 1912 at the
Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, choreographed by Michel Fokine.
The German violinist Arabella Steinbacher will be playing
Prokofiev’s Second
Concerto in G minor op. 63
on the priceless 1716 Booth Stradivarius owned
by the Nippon Music Foundation.
25.
When:
22nd of March 2009, 4.30pm
Where:
Townhall Theatre, Florence
Event:
“Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”
Description:
Classical music concert: Carydis and Steinbacher playing (see
above).
26.
When:
31st of March 2009, 8.30pm
Where:
Townhall Theatre, Florence
Event:
“Maggio Musicale Fiorentino”
Description:
Classical music concert: Mehta playing. Immediately before
setting off for the tour which will take him to Oviedo and Abu
Dhabi, Zubin Mehta will close the Season with a performance of
the monumental Symphony
n. 2 "The Resurrection”, which Mahler began in 1888
but did not complete until 1894, as a homage to the great German
orchestra conductor Hans von Bülow. The solo soprano and
contralto parts and the parts for the chorus are taken from the
collection Des Knaben
Wunderhorn (The
Youth’s Magic Horn) and from the poem
Die Auferstehung
(The Resurrection)
by Klopstock.
The performance will feature the soprano Barbara Frittoli and
the contralto Marjana Lipovšek.
27.
When:
Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this month @ 7pm
Where:
Church of San Giovanni, Lucca
Event:
“Festival Puccini”
Description:
Special concerts, Puccini and Mozart (always with different
performers and programmes)
28.
When:
Every Friday of the month @ 7 pm
Where:
Church of San Giovanni, Lucca
Event:
“Festival Puccini”
Description:
Mozart and Puccini: arias and duets from Le Nozze di Figaro,
Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca.
29.
When:
Every Saturday of the month @ 7pm
Where:
Church of San Giovanni, Lucca
Event:
“Festival Puccini”
Description:
A night at the opera: arias and duets from the Italian operatic
repertoire ( Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Donizetti, Mascagni.
30.
When:
Every Sunday of the month @ 7pm
Where:
Church of San Giovanni, Lucca
Event:
“Festival Puccini”
Description:
Puccini and the Neapolitan traditional songs.
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