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Italia Malta 2006

ITALIAMALTA 2006 - June 25 - July 2
realised by Euro-Mediterraneo Culture dei Mari

June 26 - 27, 9 am - 2 pm
Malta, Rabat, Wignacourt Museum
St. Paul�s cult in Christian Churches
Mons. John Azzopardi, curator of the Wignacourt Museum
G. Filippi: St. Paul�s grave: history, tradition, archaeology
P. Guillaumier: The rise of the Pauline tradition in the early Church
G. Baroffio: Vas electionis: notes on St. Paul�s cult in Latin liturgy
G. di Giovanni-Centelles: Mediterranean elements of St. Paul�s iconography
O. Meinardus: The Cult of St Paul in the Eastern Orthodox Churches
A. Blond: Pauline Cult and the Counter-Reformation
P. Serracino Inglott: Three Sidelights on a Paradox: The Cult of St Paul in Post-Reformation English Culture

The cult of St. Paul and the Maltese tradition
M. Buhagiar: St. Paul's shipwreck in Malta and the diffusion of Christianity in Europe, C. Pellegrin, St Paul's Shipwreck
and Early Christianity in Malta
S. Fiorini H. R.C. Vella: New 12th Century Evidence for the Pauline tradition and the Re-Christianization of the Maltese Islands
J. Azzopardi: Juan Benegas de Cordoba: the hermit who transferred St. Paul's Grotto to the Gerosolimitan Order 
T. Freller: St Paul's Grotto, Malta and its antidotic earth in the awareness of Early Modern Europe
W. L. Zammit: Grand Master Aloph de Wignacourt's Foundation for St Paul's Grotto.

June 27, Malta, Collegiate Church of St. Paul (formerly San Paolo Fuori le Mura) - 8 pm
June 28, Gozo, Victoria, Collegiate Church of St. Paul - 7.30 pm
St. Paul's journey towards martyrdom
The shipwreck in Malta
Sacred performance in Maltese and Italian on excerpts from the Acts of the Apostles, from texts by St. Augustine, St. John Chrisostome, St. Ambrose and A. Salas. R. Fabris
Reciters: The shipwreck's tale: C. Coleiro;
The mystic thought: C. Poggioni;
Gregorian voices for mystic thought: Ensemble Stirps Jesse;
The sound of sea and tempest: P. Pasqualin percussion
Conceived by Italo G�mez; text and direction Piera Rossi

June 27, Malta, La Valletta, University of Malta - 11 am
The Library of Mediterranean
Opening of the collection of Italian, English,
Arabic books by the National Committee Sport and
Culture for Peace constituted in 2004 by the Italian Ministry
of Culture on the occasion of Athens Olympic Games.
The Library of Mediterranean is a joint project
with the University of Malta-Department for
Maltese Studies, Italian Culture Institute of Malta and
Link Campus-University of Malta of Rome

In collaboration with the Italian National Committee "Luigi Boccherini" constituted on the occasion of the bicentenary of the composer's death 
June 26 - 29, Malta: SIXE Stage 
June 29, Malta, La Valletta, Italian Culture Institute - 7.30 pm
June 30, Gozo, Victoria International Arts Festival - 8 pm
Luigi Boccherini: chamber music
Quintetto "La Nina" op.18 n.1 - G 283
Sestetto op.23 n.6 - G 459 
Divertimento op.16 n.1 - G 461
Ensemble Sixe - Suono Italiano per l'Europa
Daniela Cammarano, Massimiliano Canneto, Federica Vignoni violins
Alessandro Sanguineti, Leonardo Sesenna cellos
Federico Serafin, Domenica Pugliese violas
Giulio Francesconi, flute

July 1, Gozo, Xaghra, Ggantija's Temple - 8 pm
Cleopatra and Eurydice
Myths and Mediterranean characters
"Cl�op�tre" by H. Berlioz with virtual orchestra, electronic transcription of sound. 
Sonia Dorigo, mezzo-soprano, Matteo Pennese sound engeneer; Michele Fedrigotti, conductor
Performance conceived by Italo Gomez; Produced by Federazione CEMAT, under the direction of Peppino Di Giugno, in the context of "Opera High-tech"
Eurydice - Isadora Dance performance on the music of "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Gluck and choreographies by Isadora Duncan reconstructed by Lori Belilove-Compagnia Lori Belilove & Company-New York
P. Pasqualin, percussion

July 2, Gozo, Ramla Bay, Calypso's Cave - 6 pm
Calypso
Concert of sounds, words and images on the myth of Ulysses
Excerpts from: "Odyssey" by Homer; "L'ultimo viaggio" by G.Pascoli; "L'Inferno" by Dante; "L'eroe senza compagno"
by G. D'Annunzio; "Ulysses" by J. Joyce; "Odysseus" by R. Graves; "La menzogna di Ulisse" by J. Giono;
"Poems" by G. Seferis; "Odyssey" by G. Kazantzakis; "Pisan cantos" by E. Pound; "Il disprezzo" by A. Moravia
"Poems" by C. Kavafis
Voices: Ulysses: C. Poggioni; Calypsos, A. Monetti
Processed music extracted from: "Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria" by C. Monteverdi; "Sinking of the Titanic" by G. Bryars;
"Ulysses" by L. Dallapiccola; reflections on water from Greek sculpture iconography
conceived by the dancer L. Belilove
the sounds of sea: P. Pasqualin, percussion