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Nov 19, 2008 events & offerings
Associazione Culturale Musica Venezia
is proud to present a:
Renaissance Concert Celebrating 500 Years of Fondaco dei Tedeschi
Thursday, November 20
Musica Venezia proudly presents a ITALIAN & GERMAN RENAISSANCE CONCERT on Thursday, November 20, celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Venice’s German cultural and commercial center.
The original “fondaco”, or warehouse building, was used as a commercial center, a palace, and the restricted living quarters of German merchants from the 13th century through the Napoleonic and Austrian rules. During that time, Venice fostered the Renaissance and became a city where the business of the world was transacted, and the German merchants played an important role. As savvy traders, they had their own fleet of ships laden with wine and oil lining the Grand Canal to fill the “fondaco” with their wares, and aided greatly in building a flourishing economy to sustain cultural endeavours. Currently, the building houses the Venice headquarters of the “Poste Italiane.â€
The concert is a tribute to the history and heritage of Germans in Venice, and the independence represented by this true Italian Renaissance landmark. The performance will feature beautiful pieces by Italian, German and Flemish Renaissance composers before 1550 including Jacob Obrecht, Andrea Gabrieli, Hans Judenkuenig, Jacob Obrecht, Adrian Willaert, and Marco Cara. The instrumental ensemble includes a talented specialist in early keyboard music, Marija Jovanovic on spinet, accomplished artist Pier Paolo Ciurlia on lute, and flautist, Carolina Putica performing preferred selections.
The concert will be at 6 p.m. at the Chiesa Luterana at Campo SS. Apostoli, and it is free and open to the public.
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Concert location: Chiesa Luterana at Campo SS. Apostoli
Concert time: 6 pm / 18:00
Tickets: Free admission, open to the public
Information: 041.528.1631
Detailed information:
Tags: music concerts, venice
Venite numerosi! (Come one, come all.)
Oct 28, 2008 events & offerings, vita venexiàn
WHAT: Inaugural concert featuring the Pergolesi Stabat Mater
WHEN: 7p, Friday, 31 Oct
WHERE: Chiesa degli Artigianelli
(Santa Maria della Visitazione), alle Zattere
WHO: Sara Bardino, Cristina Bertoldo,
a Fenice chamber orchestra, female-voice choir (I’ll be nestled among the soprani), all directed by Marco Paladin.
ENTRANCE: Gratis
Una Nuova Via Crucis for the Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione (or Chiesa degli Artigianelli), is a exhibition of contemporary sacred art. The exhibition is being held from Oct 31st ’til Nov 15th, but its opening is being heralded with a conference at 16.00, and an inauguration of the Via Crucis, 16 canvases donated by the Associazione Centro dell’arte, at 18.00.
At 7:00 pm, there will be a concert of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater along with the Rossini Quis est Homo (just for contrast).
The intimate, Rennaissance church (which has quite an involved history, but is the precursor to its neighbor, the opulent Gesuati), makes an ideal setting to experience this extraordinarily evocative work. You can also take the time to review the exhibition, explore the cloisters within, which are also connected to the Artigianelli religious cultural and conference center and lodging.
The music program lasts about an hour, and if you’ve never heard the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, I can only recommend that you prendere l’occasione…seize this opportunity.
Ci vediamo lì, allora?
Directions:
The church is located directly in front of the Zattere vaporetto stop. You can also reach it from the Accademia Bridge, just head straight for the Zattere. The entrance to the Artigianelli Cultural Center will be on the right (you can reach the church from inside) before you reach the Gesuati church, otherwise turn right at the Zattere and you’ll find the church just ahead on the right.
For more information about the event, location, and concert, call 041 522 4077.
Tags: music concerts
If you’re here, and you can, GO.
Oct 20, 2008 events & offerings
I won’t even bother attempting some schmaltzy, paltry pseudo review, all I’ll say is that I had the good fortune to attend una prova generale of Nabucco at the Fenice. And even with enough students attending to give the theatre the definite air of a high school assembly, and the director having to pause to tell the kids to please settle down or they’d have to call the whole thing off, the performance from start to finish was riveting, strepetosa, simply beyond words.
Even viewing the opera from the rafters, should that be the only ticket you can get your hands on, would still be well worth attending. I infortunately have no ticket-acquisition secrets, but you might consider showing up a hour before a matinee, for example, to see if any seats have been released.
But go. If you have the chance, go. Here’s the official Fenice website.
“Quarantine” is a Venetian word? Sì.
Jul 25, 2008 Instructions for Use, events & offerings
It’s from quarantena, the period of 40 days that cargo and merchandise arriving from faraway lands was sequestered on the island of Lazaretto Nuovo. All sorts of treatments were applied to the goods held in storage there in the hopes of extinguishing whatever bestie might be lurking that could potentially carry the dreaded bubonic plague to the city. Venice was decimated by two major plagues barely fifty years apart (1576 and 1630), a factor which certainly contributed in no small part to the Republic’s eventual demise.
Hands on Venice: Making Mosaics
May 29, 2008 events & offerings
I get a such kick out of folks who come looking for “secret Venice” in the day-and-a-half they have planned for their visit here. Almost every tour company in town offers something along that line, as it is in such demand; unfortunately, few participants realize that the millions of travelers passing through each year all request to see Secret Venice, and as a result, there is little of it left — there is instead only what one has allotted time to see. That doesn’t preclude, of course, each of those millions being astounded one-by-one at the legendary late-night view from atop the Ponte Accademia, for example. A place doesn’t have to be a secret to far piassèr.
Tags: mosaics
See Sara sing. Sing Sara, sing.
May 27, 2008 events & offerings
Sara Bardino, Daniel de Vicante, Floriana Fornelli, Julie Parsons, and Fausto di Benedetto are presenting a bis of a private concert they gave earlier this year. It’s free to the public as long as seats hold out (call the telephone numbers below to reserve).
The concert features some extraordinary selections by Richard Strauss, and includes 19th c. classic, romantic and post-romantic leider and other works, from Der Rosenkavalier to Ariadne auf Naxos to an assortment of chamber music.
The concert will be held in the Palazzo Abrizzi, the seat of the Italian-German Cultural Association, this Friday, May 30th, at 8:30 p.m. (ring the ACIT bell).
Ready, set, row! Vogalonga 2008.
May 9, 2008 events & offerings, viva la voga
The Vogalonga is this Sunday, May 11th, 2008. Keep an eye out, we’ll be four (likely worn-out by the time you’d spot us) women in white skirts and a totally tricked-out sandolo. We’ll be one of about 1,500+ boats, if past years’ enrollments are any indication…there are over 50 folks from our remiera alone. There’ll be oared-powered boats of every size-and-shape, with the non-Venetian boats easily out-numbering the locals. The best part: no motorized traffic of any kind from the early a.m. ’til almost 3p. Venezia di una volta…
The course is 32 km, just under 20 miles. I never thought I’d be in any sort of marathon…but I can’t resist. Please keep your fingers crossed for sun and not-too-much wind (we’ve already calculated the tide will be rising as we head back from Burano. No rest for the weary). If we make it to Murano though, we’ll be set.
p.s. There’s a great representation of the route, along with a wonderful historical recount and more info on vogalonga.it (there’s an English version, don’t worry). There’s also a great animated, arial youtube presentation posted by user vongalongavenezia…look for the hi-res version on youtube itself.
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Alza remi!
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Tags: venice, viva la voga, vogare
Vogo e ti Defendo: April 25
Apr 18, 2008 events & offerings, viva la voga
We’re all familiar with the stupenda, increasingly-popular Vogalonga, the “race” (held this year on May 11) in which any and every type of oar-powered boat may participate. (I’ll be in caorlina with five other women, in the requisite white attire traditional for any regata). This upcoming Friday, April 25th however, the weekend of the Festa della Libertà , the Festa di San Marco, and the Festa del Boccolo, there’ll be an added event: Vogo e Ti Defendo: I’ll row, and defend you.
Organized by the rowing clubs of the city and lagoon, this civic demonstration and mini marathon is reserved only for the Voga all Veneta, and is designed to highlight the increasing threat and continuing damage that the augmentation of motor traffic (from taxis to transports to high-powered outboards to monster cruise ships) has on existence on not only the delicate lagoon environment, but on the practice of one of the most historic and uniquely Venetian activities ancora vissuto today, the Voga alla Veneta.
Tags: veneta, viva la voga
