From April to July Florence is a venue for the oldest and the most important festival in Europe called Florence May Music Festival.
This festival of opera and symphonic music has been welcomed in Italy since 1933. Its founders were conductors Vittorio Gui and Alessandro Pavolini.
For the opening ceremony of the first season was chosen Giuseppe Verdi opera Nabucco which was staged extremely rarely. In such a way Gui designated purpose of the festival that is to revive the forgotten or little-known works of talented composers and attract world's attention to modern opera. The energetic and decisive conductor captured the best representatives of music elite with his idea and managed to realize his dream.
All major presentations of the festival are hosted by the Teatro Communale, the Teatro Piccolo and the historic Teatro della Pergola. However, in 1993 festival’s head and honorary conductor Zubin Mehta established a new tradition – he conducted an open air concert in the Piazza della Signoria. So he demonstrated to the whole world his solidarity to the victims of the terrorist attack in the Uffizi Gallery. Since then open-air concerts are repeated annually.
Each year the organizers invest in their offspring so much effort and ingenuity that it has become one of the greatest sights of Florence. In the current 2014 this marathon of music and dance in Italy is scheduled to run until July 21.
In Italy, in the seaside town of Fano, an unexploded shell of the Second World War was found, which made the local authorities to evacuate more than 20,000 people.
The action will be lasting not only on the water but also in the air. The ceremony of opening will be organized on the 28-th of January twice, at 6 pm with the repetition at 8 pm at the channel Cannaregio.
Since 20-th of September in Kyiv the exclusive exhibition starts in the course of which there will be objects of mass-market art, mean presswork on the paper or metal from the printing form.
Classic works created by the famous British artist and children writer Quentin Blake as well as pictures painted by English rock-musician Erik Clapton, the composer of electronic music Brian Eno, and Scottish actor Peter Capaldi are put for the sales on the 7-th of December. The organizers of the stated event are planning to collect money for the further functioning of London gallery.
UNESCO has recognized as the heritage the songs performed by Cossacks within the territory where Dnepropetrovsk region is situated now. It is reported at the web-site of the international organization.
Madonna della Salute in Venice in Italy (Festa della Madonna della Salute) is the holiday of Virgin Mary della Salute is conducted in the commemoration about liberation from plague of 1630-1631.
The earthquakes that have happened recently in the central part of Italy were felt even at the distance of the hundred kilometers in Rome. The experts warn that the monuments of eld hardly could endure new fluctuations of the crust of earth.
The wine fountain, or ‘fontana del vino’ situated in the city Caldaridi Ortona in Abruzzo along the popular travel route ‘The way of saint Thomas’ (Cammino di San Tommaso).
By Italian calendar, the autumn has started quite recently, however, Italians have already mulled over the warmth and comfort of Christmas holidays with a vengeance.
Mark David Chapman who was 35 years ago convicted because of the murder of the leader of ‘The Beatles’ band John Lennon was not able to convince the profile commission in his deserving the early parole.
New mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino reported about their intentions to promote vegetarianism and vegan diets as the preferential directions of activity of its administration.
