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Opera, concerts + more: 2025 season announced at Maggio …
Sep 6, 2024 · 27 concerts make up the music season at Teatro del Maggio, starting on January 3, 4 + 5 with family-friendly Fantasia Live in Concert based on two Walt Disney films that sees cartoons projected onto a screen while music is performed by the resident orchestra. The long concert season moves in parallel with the opera performances, bringing important names such as Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti ...
Michelin star restaurants in Florence for 2025 | The Florentine
Nov 7, 2024 · Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura * “Florence’s cosmopolitan credentials receive a boost with Karime Lopez and Takahiko Kondo’s cuisine, served in this modern, lively restaurant that bears the name of theatrical chef Massimo Bottura.The cuisine overseen by these excellent cooks demonstrates an openness to the rest of the world, with influences and reinterpretations of dishes from other ...
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael at the Royal Academy of Arts in …
Nov 13, 2024 · The exhibition opens with Michelangelo’s only marble sculpture in the UK, his celebrated Taddei Tondo, c. 1504-05 (Royal Academy of Arts, London), which is shown alongside related preparatory drawings.The Taddei Tondo was created in a defining moment of the Italian Renaissance:the febrile atmosphere of Republican Florence, when Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael brieflycrossed paths ...
December at Teatro Niccolini | The Florentine
Nov 26, 2024 · Just before that, on December 6 and 7, I will bring one of my own characters to life at il Niccolini in English with Italian supertitles. Bringing my newest creation Rachmaninoff and the Tsar to the stage in Florence for its European premiere is meaningful since I have already given premieres in Los Angeles, San Diego and Houston and, in the new year, I will continue with San Francisco, Orange ...
The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline | The Florentine
The process of Italian unification was the result of nearly 60 years of events, daring action and revolutionary ideas. Here is a timeline of the key moments leading to and sealing Italy’s unification.
Siena: The Rise of Painting exhibition at The Met in New York
Oct 31, 2024 · “Siena was an epicenter of artistic innovation and ambition in the 14th and 15th century. Its impact on the development of European art and on the development of painting cannot be emphasized enough,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French director and chief executive officer.“This monumental exhibition will bring together the most important group of early Sienese paintings ...
Forchettiere Awards 2024: The best restaurants in Florence and …
Jan 16, 2024 · Best restaurant in Florence: Cibrèo Ristorante Best fine dining restaurant in Florence: Architettura del Cibo Best hotel restaurant in Florence: Il Palagio, Four Seasons Best traditional trattoria in Florence: Antico Ristoro di Cambi Best international restaurant in Florence: Sevi Best pizzeria in Florence: Il Vecchio e il Mare Best cocktail bar …
Keeping time: The Baroni Clock | The Florentine
Jan 2, 2025 · An early project from 1933 shows the outside of the fabbricato viaggiatori with a regular analog clock. The 25-year-old Nello Baroni, the member of Gruppo Toscano most interested in design and engineering, is credited with the clock that actually ended up there, inspired by recent revolutions in watchmaking, such as Josef Pallweber’s 1883 jump-hour pocket watch, which told the time through ...
Italian Renaissance Masters on display at Buckingham Palace
Oct 31, 2024 · This autumn, the exhibition Drawing the Italian Renaissance at The King’s Gallery in London has brought together the widest range of drawings from this revolutionary artistic period ever to be shown in the United Kingdom. Exploring the diversity and accomplishment of drawing across Italy between 1450 and 1600, the exhibition will feature around 160 works by over 80 artists including Leonardo ...