2004 - "Sport and Culture for Peace"

Sport e Cultura : Episodio Toscana

Volterra, 200430th June - 3rd July

On the occasion of the Olympic Games of Athens, under the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, many towns with Greek roots in Italy and all over the Mediterranean (Siracusa, Lecce, Locri, Crotone, Sibari, Metaponto, Taranto, Alexandria, Larnaka, Piraeus, Chalkis, Athens) have been associated within a project which will end up in Athens during the Olympic Games.
In Volterra, from 30th June to 3rd July 2004, a programme of music, theatre, cinema and sport events celebrates another civilisation, Etruria, confronting important events for the history of two very important Mediterranean cultures.
Thursday 1st July
Cinema Centrale, 06,00 p.m. and 09,00 p.m.Film
�Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa�
turned in Volterra
(Italia 1965) 100' Directed by Luchino Visconti

Friday 2nd July
Persio Flacco Theatre, 09.00 p.m.
A proposito di noi etruschi
Una 'satura' del Teatro Arsenale
By Marina Spreafico
With Ruggero Cara and Marina Spreafico
Chiara Donato costumes

A proposito di noi romani
Cleopatra
Lyric cantata �Mort de Cl�opatre� by Hector Berlioz, with a virtual orchestra, electronic sound through software
Scientific direction Giuseppe Di Giugno
Productin CEMAT Federation

Saturday 3rd July
Piazza San Giovanni, 06.30 p.m.
Meeting of the Moresque Rabab and the Viola da Gamba in the Renaissance.
Ecovanavoce Ensemble, Roma.

Persio Flacco Theatre, 09.00 p.m.
Apollo and Daphnae
Theatrical version of the lyric cantata by Haendel
SIXE -Suono Italiano per l'Europa Orchestra
Gareth Hancock, conductor

Shinead Campbell Dafne
Ivo Hrakovec Apollo