LIVIO MINAFRA

Livio Minafra, a young composer and pianist, Top Jazz prize winner in 2005, 2008 and 2011, will perform on November 30 at the Beniamino Joppolo theatre in Patti and on December 1 at Palazzolo Acreide's town library. His fresh and sincere music creates a strong and complex atmosphere.

GLI ULTIMI GATTOPARDI

One hundred works by nine exceptionally virtuous authors. These are the protagonists of "Gli ultimi Gattopardi", the exhibition curated by Francesco Gallo Mazzeo, which will be inaugurated at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday October 20  in Messina, Palazzo della Cultura, viale Boccetta 373.
DANIELE SCHMIEDT

An overall exhibition to celebrate an all-round artist. A visual documentation of a life spent among colours, canvas and paint-brushes, “Daniele Schmiedt, un artista siciliano nel Novecento”, curated by Anna Maria Ruta inaugurated on Friday November 16 at 7:00 p.m., in the Sala Borsa, on the premises of Messina's Chamber of Commerce.
VILLA BELMONTE ARTS

Villa Belmonte reopens in Palermo. A conference space for the “Circuito” has been created thanks to the efforts of the Regional Tourism Department, through Palermo's Tourist Service, and the Economy and Infrastructures Departments. The building (taken care of by the “Dipartimento Regionale Azienda Foreste Demaniali”) will undergo renovation in 2013.
RENAUD GARCIA-FONS

French double bass virtuoso Renaud Garcia-Fons will perform on December 7 at the S. Cicero town theatre in Cefalù (Pa); on Dec. 8 he'll perform at the San Vito auditorium in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Me) and on Dec. 9 at the “Centro Zo di Culture Contemporanee” in Catania. With his instrument, Garcia-Fons succeeds in creating the whole scale of sounds obtainable using the bow and plucking the strings.
DULCE PONTES

Two concerts in Sicily for portuguese singer Dulce Pontes: she will perform on November 24 at the Maugeri Theatre in Acireale and at the Politeama Theatre in Palermo on November 25th. She will always be remebered in the history of music for having relaunched the fado -the genre brought under the limelight by Amalia Rodrigues- and for entriguing Ennio Morricone who called her to interpret his most known theme songs.
Events Calendar
  • December 07, 2012 09:00 PM
    Circuito del Mito : three concerts in Sicily for double bass player Renaud Garcia-Fons. On Dec. 7 in Cefalù, on Dec. 8 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and on DEC. 9 in Catania

    Experienced critics have described him as «the most astonishing double bass player in the world» and even as «the Paganini of double bass». He prefers introducing himself by using simply his name and surname: Renaud Garcia-Fons. The French artist will be the protagonist of three concerts in Sicily: on December 7 at the “Cicero” town theatre on via Spinuzza, in Cefalù,  on December 8 at the “San Vito” auditorium in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and on December 9 at the “Centro Zo di culture contemporanee”, in Catania, via Asia 6.

    Born in 1962, Garcia Fons is a musician who clearly uses his unquestionable virtuosity not as a mere show, but by putting it to use in a musical expression and a coherent speech, though rich in several geographical and cultural origins.

    The sponsor of this event is the Sicilian Region, through the Tourism and Sport Departement.

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    THE THEATRES WITHIN THE “CIRCUITO DEL MITO”

    The theatres housing the “Circuito del Mito” events exude history as true icons of Sicily.

    Among them, in the regional capital, the Politeama, in the namesake square, established in 1867 by Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda as a “people’s theatre”, because of its strong social value. Its distinctive feature is the huge horseshoe-shaped hall. Nowadays, this theatre is the home  of the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana).

    The Sangiorgi Theatre, opened in 1900 in via Antonino di Sangiuliano in Catania, is another privileged stage where to attend the musical rendezvous. Born as an open-air space, it became a closed space a few years later, becoming one of the most importat theatres in which companies from all over Italy perform.

    Among the other prestigious stages present in the “Circuito del Mito”, there’s Cefalù’s town theatre, named after local violinist  Salvatore Cicero, which became a world-famous film set when Tornatore shot there some scenes of his “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”.

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    “Daniele Schmiedt, un artista siciliano del Novecento”

    A visual documentation of a life spent among colours, canvas and paint-brushes, “Daniele Schmiedt, un artista siciliano nel Novecento” is the exhibition inaugurated on November 16 on the premises of Messina’s Chamber of Commerce and that will be open until January 6, 2013.