November 2024

Italy

Music

Roma Jazz Festival – Rome
(Throughout November 2024)
A cornerstone of Rome’s cultural calendar, this jazz festival features performances by top international and Italian jazz artists across multiple venues.
 Roma Jazz Festival Official Website

JAZZMI – Milan
(October 17 – 13 November 2024)
Continuing from October, JAZZMI brings an eclectic mix of jazz performances to various venues around Milan, showcasing both global stars and local talents.
JAZZMI Official Website

Milano Musica Festival – Milan
(October 5 – November 15, 2024)
Dedicated to contemporary classical music, this festival features performances by international orchestras and soloists in various prestigious venues across Milan.
Milano Musica Official Website

Opera

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma – Rome

Performance: Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi
Dates: November 27 – December 7, 2024
Verdi’s powerful opera about politics and betrayal opens the 2024-2025 season at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Official Website

Ravenna Festival – Ravenna

Opera Trilogy: Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria by Monteverdi, Dido and Aeneas by Purcell
Dates: November 15-18, 2024
A unique staging of baroque operas, this trilogy is one of the highlights of the Ravenna Festival’s autumn program.
Ravenna Festival Official Website

Teatro San Carlo – Naples

Performance: Carmen by Georges Bizet
Dates: October 25 – November 3, 2024
This iconic opera will be staged at the historic Teatro San Carlo, one of the world’s oldest and most famous opera houses.

Teatro San Carlo Official Website

Teatro alla Scala – Milan

Performance: Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Dates: November 12-30, 2024
One of Puccini’s most famous operas, Tosca will be performed at the iconic Teatro alla Scala.
Teatro alla Scala Official Website

Teatro alla Scala – Milan

Performance: Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dates: November 15-30, 2024
A classic opera that tells the story of the notorious libertine Don Giovanni, brought to life by a stellar cast and production team.
Teatro alla Scala Official Website

Theater and Dance

Teatro alla Scala – Milan
Performance: William Forsythe Evening / The Blake Works
Dates: November 11-29, 2024
This ballet performance at La Scala features works by the renowned choreographer William Forsythe, blending classical ballet with contemporary elements.
Teatro alla Scala Official Website

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma – Rome
Performance: Carmen
Dates: November 14-22, 2024
This ballet adaptation of Carmen, set to the music of Georges Bizet and others, brings the famous story to life through dance.
Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Official Website

Teatro La Fenice – Venice
Performance: Le Noces / Petrouchka
Dates: November 23 – December 1, 2024
This double bill features two ballets with music by Igor Stravinsky, showcasing the rich tradition of ballet at Teatro La Fenice.
Teatro La Fenice Official Website

Teatro Massimo – Palermo
Performance: The Nutcracker
Dates: November 29 – December 6, 2024
The classic holiday ballet The Nutcracker is performed at Teatro Massimo, offering a festive experience for audiences of all ages.
Teatro Massimo Official Website

Teatro Regio Torino – Turin
Performance: The Sleeping Beauty
Dates: November 15-21, 2024
This timeless ballet by Tchaikovsky is presented at Teatro Regio Torino, featuring elaborate choreography and beautiful sets.
Teatro Regio Torino Official Website

Museums, Art & Festivals

Venezia Biennale Arte 2024 – Venezia
(April 20-November 24)
The international Exhibition is on display in the Central Pavilion at Giardini and at the Arsenale, divided into two distinct sections: Nucleo Contemporaneo and Nucleo Storico. The Exhibition also includes 86 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city centre of Venice. Four countries participate for the first time at the Biennale Arte: Republic of Benin, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Timor Leste, and United Republic of Tanzania.
www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024

Penelope – Parco Archeologico – Rome
(Sept 19 – Juan. 12, 2025)
The Colosseum Archaeological Park promotes the exhibition Penelope , curated by Alessandra Sarchi and Claudio Franzoni, organized by Electa.
Opened in the spaces of the Farnese Aviaries and the Temple of Romulus , the exhibition – through approximately fifty works  – retraces the myth and fortune of the figure of Penelope which has come down to us, from the remote age in which the Homeric poems date back, through two equally powerful traditions: the literary one and the one linked to visual representation. Her character has spanned the millennia and populated our imagination, linking it to a normative ideal of a woman , faithful to her husband Ulysses and wise guardian of her palace-home in Ithaca, obedient even to her son Telemachus, who was just twenty years old.  But what makes her fascinating are her determination, her resistance and her ability to dream.
www.colosseo.it/evento/penelope/

Botero at Palazzo Bonaparte, Rome
(September 17, 2024 – January 19, 2025)
On the occasion of the Jubilee, from 17 September 2024 to 19 January 2025, Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome will host a major exhibition dedicated to the recently deceased Colombian artist Fernando Botero .With paintings, watercolours, sculptures and some unpublished works , the exhibition at Palazzo Bonaparte, entirely dedicated to Botero, is the most complete ever exhibited in the capital. Through medium and large-sized works with three-dimensional effects and often bright colours to represent the sumptuous roundness of the artist’s feminine universe, it is anything but synonymous with sensuality or naive  aesthetics ; what Bolero represents is not reality in itself, but covered in a patina of hyper-realist ambiguity.

Antonio Ligabue , Bologna – Palazzo Pallavicini (October 3rd -February 28 , 2025 ) and Palazzo Albergati ( September 21 , 2024 – March 30 , 2025)
From October 3, 2024, to February 28, 2025, the rooms of Palazzo Pallavicini will host, for the first time ever in Bologna, an exhibition dedicated to Antonio Ligabue, a great Italian Expressionist painter (Zurich, December 18, 1899 – Gualtieri, May 27, 1965).
The exhibition, divided into 7 rooms of Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna, will depict the life, psyche, and troubled history of this fascinating artist through over 120 works (including 81 paintings, 14 sculptures, 17 drawings, and 15 prints).
On display, in a retrospective of his career, are some of his most beautiful masterpieces, including 12 self-portraits and 7 tigers with gaping jaws, as well as agile leopards, raptors hunting prey or fighting for survival, and powerful lions: a true, raw, and violent jungle. www.palazzopallavicini.com

From September 21, 2024, Palazzo Albergati will host for the first time in Bologna the most important exhibition ever held on Antonio Ligabue (Zurich Dec.12th -Gualtiero May 17th) one of the most popular and exciting Italian artists of the 20th century.
The exhibition will feature 100 works and an unpublished album of drawings, which will guide visitors to discover a man with a tormented life and marginalized by society, but always in search of social redemption both as an individual and as an artist.
Www.palazzoalbergati.com

Helen Frankenthaler -Palazzo Strozzi -Florence (Sept 27, 2024 through Jan 26, 2025 )
Palazzo Strozzi presents Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules, a major exhibition dedicated to one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. Together with a wide selection of works produced between 1953 and 2002 from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and on loan from important museums and private collections, the exhibition will allow us to discover the artist’s connections, influences and friendships.

PICASSO LO STRANIERO Palazzo Reale -Milano ( Sept. 20 – Feb.2 , 2024)
Palazzo Reale presents one of the greatest artists of all time from an unusual point of view, through artistic, political and current affairs themes.

The Legacy of Women – Florence
22-24 November 2024.
The contribution of women to the human progress.
The Legacy of Women festival’s goal is clear: to give light to the role played, over the centuries, by women scientists, artists, writers, and pioneers of all areas of knowledge, but not always recognized on a par with male colleagues.
The festival is not just giving voice to the women of the past, but it is the arena where women express their point of view also tracing solutions for the future through the leading role that women have had and will have in human progress on all kinds of knowledge.
Website

Guercino. L’era Ludovisi, Roma
31 October 2024-26 Jan. 2025
The Scuderie del Quirinale present “Guercino. The Ludovisi Era in Rome”, a new major exhibition, from 31 October 2024 to 26 January 2025, curated by Raffaella Morselli and Caterina Volpi (Sapienza, University of Rome). A project founded on the authority of a rigorous scientific system, organized by the Scuderie del Quirinale in collaboration with the National Roman Museum, the Uffizi Galleries and the Capitoline Museums and which, thanks to the support of the most prestigious museums in the world, qualifies as an undertaking of vast international scope.
With 122 works from 68 national and international museums and collections, the exhibition offers a compelling reconstruction of the Roman cultural and political scene of the time, or rather the relationship between art and power, through the privileged lens of the patronage partnership that linked Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino, and the Bolognese Ludovisi dynasty, during the brief but crucial pontificate of Pope Gregory XV (1621-1623), born Alessandro Ludovisi; a pontificate whose fourth centenary celebrations have just concluded. In parallel, the very important affirmation of the powerful Cardinal nephew, Ludovico Ludovisi, in the decisive role that Scipione Borghese had under Paul V is highlighted.
At the heart of this splendor, the art of the young Guercino stands out on display, the artist favored by Pope Ludovisi and summoned by him to Rome as soon as he ascended to the papal throne. An art made of explosions of color, dizzying compositional dynamism, suggestive light effects; an innovative, theatrical and engaging figurative formula, capable of captivating the observer, leading him into a world populated by gods and saints, both courtly and very human at the same time.
Website

Work Boats Marineria Museum – Cesenatico , Emilia Romagna
The only floating museum in Italy dedicated to traditional work boats.
If you are passionate about sailing and the sea, you must visit the Maritime Museum in Cesenatico. It is located in the oldest and most characteristic part of the famous canal port of Cesenatico, which is also the main historical monument of the city. In fact, it follows Leonardo da Vinci‘s lines, called in 1502 to suggest improvements to the pre-existing landing place.
Website

Food and Wine

Fiera Internazionale del Tartufo Bianco d’Alba – Alba, Piedmont
(Weekends in November 2024)
The most prestigious white truffle festival in the world, featuring truffle hunts, markets, and gourmet events.
Fiera Internazionale del Tartufo Bianco d’Alba Official Website

Crastatone Festival – Piancastagnaio, Tuscany
(November 1-5, 2024)
This festival celebrates the chestnut harvest with roasted chestnuts, local crafts, and traditional Tuscan dishes in Piancastagnaio.
Italy by Events

Sagra del Cinghiale – Suvereto, Tuscany
(November 2024)
This wild boar festival offers tastings of various dishes made from wild boar, along with local wines and other regional specialties.
Italy by Events

Baccanale Wine Festival – Imola, Emilia-Romagna
(November 4-19, 2024)
This food and wine festival celebrates the region’s culinary traditions with a focus on local wines and gourmet products, including tastings, markets, and cooking demonstrations.
Baccanale Festival Official Website

Sherbeth, Handmade Ice Cream Festival – Palermo
8-11 November, 2024.
Ice cream Masters on stage for ice cream lovers
Palermo hosts Sherbeth, the International Handmade Ice Cream Festival with Ice Cream Masters from all over the world. During Sherbeth, Palermo turns into an Ice-Cream Village. It is like an open-air laboratory where Ice Cream Masters allow participants to taste wonderful ice creams made with high-quality ingredients.The Festival also offers the possibility to discover the secrets of ice cream production through workshops, meetings and food shows.Entertainment both for children and adults.
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