BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//L'Aquila Capitale italiana della Cultura 2026 - ECPv6.15.14//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/ X-WR-CALDESC:Events for L'Aquila Capitale italiana della Cultura 2026 REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260212T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260212T183000 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20260204T160514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T160514Z UID:6714-1770921000-1770921000@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:itARTS Festival: Back to L'Aquila - "Women in Opera: A Blessing and a Curse" DESCRIPTION:A journey through the emotional world of women as explored in opera\, from the Baroque to Verismo. The performance interweaves iconic arias with projections of works by great Italian female painters\, offering a powerful reflection on the image of women in art. \nMusic by: Monteverdi\, Cavalli\, Scarlatti\, Cimarosa\, Rossini\, Verdi\, Puccini\, arranged by Massimiliano Caporale\nStage Director: Stefano Vizioli\nSet & Costume Design: Attilio Carota\, Milena Ignatova\, Francesca Rinella Conductor: Luciano Siani Singers: Giulia Pierucci\, Giorgia Rastelli\, Lisa Brandolini\, Taeri Kim\, Li Wenke\, Yang Yuxin\, Tonino Crisciotti\, Seong Hyun Park Musicians: Raffaele Appolloni\, Linda Cerullo\, Lorenzo Gianfelice\, Piergiuseppe Lofrumento\, Agnese Pacelli\, Emanuele Pio Piga\, Kateryna Varetska URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/itarts-festival-back-to-laquila-women-in-opera-a-blessing-and-a-curse/ LOCATION:Theater of the Academy of Fine Arts\, 6b Leonardo da Vinci Street\, L'Aquila CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Donne-allOpera_DSC08723-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="%E2%80%9CA. Casella%E2%80%9D Conservatory of Music":MAILTO:direttore@consaq.it END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260208T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20251126T092436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251126T092436Z UID:6386-1770577200-1770584400@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:Free Flight: A Thousand Blue Bubbles DESCRIPTION:A clandestine same-sex love story that began in Palermo in the 1960s and continues—running parallel to a so-called “normal” life—for thirty years: this is the theme of “Le mille bolle blu\,” a monologue written by journalist Salvatore Rizzo\, performed and directed by Filippo Luna. “Le mille bolle blu” debuted at the Nuovo Montevergini theater in the Sicilian capital and\, after a series of successful performances\, was staged at various public and private theaters across several Italian regions (from Lombardy to Veneto to Umbria) and at various festivals (from the Orestiadi in Gibellina to Taormina Arte). For his performance in this monologue\, the lead actor\, Filippo Luna\, received the 2010 National Association of Theater Critics Award for achieving “a perfect blend of stage presence and acting that captures both emotion and disillusionment.” “Le mille bolle blu” tells the story of Nardino and Manuele—the former a barber in the suburbs\, the latter a lawyer: they meet as very young men in the barbershop where Nardino works as an apprentice under his father’s watchful eye and Manuele is the son of a wealthy client. It is the early 1960s—precisely the period when Mina’s hit “Le mille bolle blu” was all the rage. Destined for predetermined social and family roles (those of irreproachable husbands and caring fathers)\, the two carry on a thirty-year relationship of love and passion that is fueled in part by the secrecy in which it is lived—a secrecy that is both its lifeblood and its torment. Manuele’s death from illness becomes the pretext for Nardino—unable to openly mourn the man he loved or to cry out his grief to the world—to retrace certain moments from those thirty years\, amid nostalgia and bitterness\, anger and tenderness. An altar of memories that affirms the universality of that feeling beyond all barriers and preconceptions. “Le mille bolle blu” is adapted from the short story of the same name by Salvatore Rizzo himself\, originally published in the volume “Muore lentamente chi evita una passione – Diverse storie diverse” (Pietro Vittorietti Editore)\, which collects ten stories of male homosexuality\, all drawn from real life and set in Sicily from the 1920s to the present day. \nNutrimenti Terrestri Messina\nDirected by Maurizio Puglisi\nArtistic Director: Manuele Morgese URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/free-flight-a-thousand-blue-bubbles/ LOCATION:Zeta Cinema and Theater\, Via Rodolfo Volpe\, General Partnership\, L'Aquila\, Monticchio\, AQ\, 67100\, Italy CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/filippo-luna.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Teatro Zeta Aps - Ets":MAILTO:teatrozeta@hotmail.it END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260208T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260208T170000 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20260109T114527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T114527Z UID:6597-1770570000-1770570000@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:Growing Up in the Theater: The Moral of the Story! DESCRIPTION:Fairy tales are the best way to depict oppression. The wolf is the quintessential villain—an archetype of evil—and in the original fairy tales\, he wins and devours the poor\, innocent victim\, who is sometimes a little lamb\, sometimes a little piglet\, and sometimes a little girl who has lost her way. Poor Little Red Riding Hood\, in fact\, did not originally escape the wolf’s belly. In short\, it’s not true that villains always lose—unfortunately\, we see this every day—and only a cultural shift can help us change course. \n\nBrucaliffo Production\nDirected by Antonello Santarelli URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/growing-up-in-the-theater-the-moral-of-the-story/ LOCATION:Theater of the Academy of Fine Arts\, 6b Leonardo da Vinci Street\, L'Aquila CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/morale-della-favola.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Regional Theater Company%3A Teatro Stabile D'Abruzzo":MAILTO:tsa@teatrostabile.abruzzo.it END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260206T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20260109T105707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T105707Z UID:6590-1770411600-1770411600@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:L'Aquila Theater Season: Othello DESCRIPTION:Giorgio Pasotti reflects on the timeless ability of Shakespeare’s plays to resonate with younger generations: works that\, despite belonging to another century\, continue to offer moral lessons and to portray—in a direct manner\, free from technological filters—the pain\, the bewilderment\, and the denied dignity of lives that are not respected.\n\nProduced by Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo\, Marche Teatro\, and Stefano Francioni Produzioni\, in collaboration with Teatro Maria Caniglia\nDirected by Giorgio Pasotti URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/laquila-theater-season-othello/ LOCATION:Foyer of the “V. Antonellini” Municipal Theater\, Theater Square\, L'Aquila\, AQ\, 67100\, Italy CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/OTELLO.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Regional Theater Company%3A Teatro Stabile D'Abruzzo":MAILTO:tsa@teatrostabile.abruzzo.it END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260206T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260206T173000 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20260109T105227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T105227Z UID:6607-1770399000-1770399000@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:L'Aquila Theater Season: Othello DESCRIPTION:Giorgio Pasotti reflects on the timeless ability of Shakespeare’s plays to resonate with younger generations: works that\, despite belonging to another century\, continue to offer moral lessons and to portray—in a direct manner\, free from technological filters—the pain\, the bewilderment\, and the denied dignity of lives that are not respected.\n\nProduced by Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo\, Marche Teatro\, and Stefano Francioni Produzioni\, in collaboration with Teatro Maria Caniglia\nDirected by Giorgio Pasotti URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/laquila-theater-season-othello-3/ LOCATION:Foyer of the “V. Antonellini” Municipal Theater\, Theater Square\, L'Aquila\, AQ\, 67100\, Italy CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/OTELLO.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Regional Theater Company%3A Teatro Stabile D'Abruzzo":MAILTO:tsa@teatrostabile.abruzzo.it END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260205T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260205T210000 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20260109T104705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T104705Z UID:6604-1770325200-1770325200@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:L'Aquila Theater Season: Othello DESCRIPTION:Giorgio Pasotti reflects on the timeless ability of Shakespeare’s plays to resonate with younger generations: works that\, despite belonging to another century\, continue to offer moral lessons and to portray—in a direct manner\, free from technological filters—the pain\, the bewilderment\, and the denied dignity of lives that are not respected.\n\nProduced by Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo\, Marche Teatro\, and Stefano Francioni Produzioni\, in collaboration with Teatro Maria Caniglia\nDirected by Giorgio Pasotti URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/laquila-theater-season-othello-2/ LOCATION:Foyer of the “V. Antonellini” Municipal Theater\, Theater Square\, L'Aquila\, AQ\, 67100\, Italy CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/OTELLO.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Regional Theater Company%3A Teatro Stabile D'Abruzzo":MAILTO:tsa@teatrostabile.abruzzo.it END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260203T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260203T193000 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20260109T102317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T102317Z UID:6599-1770147000-1770147000@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:Stand-up comedy: "All It Takes Is a Touch of Lipstick" DESCRIPTION:Are you ready to discover how a smudge of lipstick can turn troubles and worries into pure comedy?\nBarbara Foria returns to the theater with her down-to-earth humor. A show that explores the life of a “3.0” woman in her fifties. The Neapolitan actress reflects on the challenges and contradictions of aging\, seeing the world through a new lens thanks to lipstick\, a symbol of power and freedom. \n\nProduced by Stefano Francioni Productions URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/stand-up-comedy-all-it-takes-is-a-touch-of-lipstick/ LOCATION:Park Auditorium – Renzo Piano\, Avenue of the Gold Medals\, L'Aquila\, AQ\, 67100\, Italy CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/barbara-foria.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Regional Theater Company%3A Teatro Stabile D'Abruzzo":MAILTO:tsa@teatrostabile.abruzzo.it END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260201T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260201T210000 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20251125T121142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251125T121142Z UID:5976-1769974200-1769979600@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:Free Flight: Boxeur DESCRIPTION:*Boxeur* is a play about a boxing match—the most important and highly anticipated boxing match of the postwar era. The year is 1946. Paris. The crowd gathers curiously around the ring\, everyone waiting for the two challengers to enter: Eugenio Smit Lorenzoni and Victor Young Perez. Eugenio Lorenzoni is a young man from Trentino—from Cles—who emigrated to France to escape hunger and the advance of the fascist regime. In Paris\, he works in a factory and takes up boxing\, eventually competing for the French title. Victor Young Perez is Tunisian and becomes the world flyweight champion at just 20 years old. But the careers of these two young athletes were cut short by the outbreak of the war and the Nazi regime. *Boxeur* is a show about boxing\, courage\, and resistance to fascism and Nazism. But above all\, *Boxeur* is a show about never giving up\, because the impossible isn’t forever. *Boxeur* is a story of victory and courage—an ironic and poetic show\, as light and profound as life itself: never entirely the same\, never entirely one color. \n\nTeatroE in Vallizzano\nDirected by Maura Pettorruso\nArtistic Director: Manuele Morgese URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/free-flight-boxeur/ LOCATION:Zeta Cinema and Theater\, Via Rodolfo Volpe\, General Partnership\, L'Aquila\, Monticchio\, AQ\, 67100\, Italy CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/boxeur.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Teatro Zeta Aps - Ets":MAILTO:teatrozeta@hotmail.it END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260131 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260201 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20251210T121444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251210T121444Z UID:7045-1769817600-1769903999@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:Everything Unnecessary Yet Essential: “You Write the Show” DESCRIPTION:Workshops and performances in theatrical improvisation; starting with outlines provided by the audience or the instructors\, participants will create theatrical scenes in a variety of acting styles. URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/everything-unnecessary-yet-essential-you-write-the-show/ LOCATION:Makeshift space\, 24 Fontesecco Street\, L'Aquila CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/lo-spettacolo-lo-scrivi-tu.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260127T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260127T230000 DTSTAMP:20260824T062354 CREATED:20260123T171219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260123T171219Z UID:6685-1769547600-1769554800@laquila2026.it SUMMARY:Chronicles of the Holocaust DESCRIPTION:By Giuseppe Manfridi\nFeaturing Manuele Morgese\, Andrea Di Pilla\, and Riccardo Campana\nDirected by Livio Galassi\nA co-production of Teatrozeta of L’Aquila and the Fondazione Teatro della Toscana\nThis is a polyphonic performance\, a “recited song” featuring multiple voices and characters\, written by the well-known Roman author Giuseppe Manfridi\, in which Manuele Morgese takes on the roles of various characters—witnesses and narrators—of the terrible and dramatic events related to the Holocaust\, during World War II. The actor’s voice\, through the dark\, haunting nursery rhymes\, blends with the music of the trumpet and piano in Livio Galassi’s direction. The performance\, presented as a “short reading\,” premiered on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019 in Auschwitz. URL:https://laquila2026.it/en/evento/chronicles-of-the-holocaust/ LOCATION:Rossellini Space\, Via della Vasca Navale\, Rome\, Italy CATEGORIES:Theater ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://laquila2026.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/nuova_TEATRO_CRONACHE-DALLA-SHOAH.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR