Weekend in Rome: 10 events not to be missed on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th January

Mid-January weekend, Christmas decorations stored in the attic and everyone – young and old – back to routine. Resuming everyday life, with the fast pace of Roman life, we know, is not easy and, therefore, we all deserve a weekend of relaxation, culture and fun. We need it, because the holidays already seem too far away and the next bridges too.

So what to do on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th January? After closing the shutters of villages and Christmas markets, the capital restarts from culture, exhibitions and theater with a weekend that offers many stories to discover. Here are the events selected by RomaToday for the next weekend:

Stefano Fresi, Toni Fornari and Emanuela Fresi in “Cetra una volta”

Do you know the Zither Quartet?” if you ask a 20-year-old, he’ll shake his head with a sorry emoticon. But just hum “In the old farm …” that he with the bright eyes of those who return to childhood will answer “ia … ia … ò!”. Stefano Fresi, Toni Fornari and Emanuela Fresi bring “Cetra una volta” to the Ambra Jovinelli Theater, a show that retraces the magic of the Cetra, which is part of everyone’s life. Their musical legacy needs no recognition; it’s just there. A journey between past and present, between melancholy and laughter, in the magical wake of a quartet that has become a legend. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]

Real Bodies Leonardo’s Anatomy Exhibition

“Real Bodies Leonardo’s Anatomy Exhibition” is the exhibition-homage to the genius and his immense intellectual curiosity, which opened in Rome last December 26th. Visiting it you can admire the works that reproduce the anatomical studies that Leonardo da Vinci carried out on the basis of his personal experience in the field of autopsy practices: thus The famous Vitruvian Man and an incredible Embryological Study take shape revealing the very high level of anatomical knowledge and the extreme precision in drawing that Leonardo achieved. Walking through the sections of the exhibition, the viewer will be able to get to know and get to the heart of the studies that the great Florentine genius carried out and which were the backbone of his scientific and artistic production. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]

The largest Lego brick exhibition in Europe

The largest Lego exhibition in Europe has arrived on the first floor of the Leonardo shopping center in Fiumicino. Over 2,000 m2 of space and 100 spectacular models. The exhibition covers 1500 square meters. You will be able to admire many unique constructions, life-size figures, large buildings. From the world’s largest Lego Titanic to the Colosseum 188 meters long, 156 meters wide, with a circumference of 524 meters and a height of 48.5 meters. There will be superheroes, the village of the Smurfs, the space villages, Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece, alien cities and much more. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]

@Piuttosto_than in “I did the Classic”

Sunday 15 January at 21 Pierluca Mariti, aka @Piuttosto_che, arrives at the Brancaccio Theater in Rome, after a triumphant summer tour that saw him engaged in 21 dates, all sold out from north to south, staging his show ” I did the Classic”: a reading that combines comic monologues with moments of improvisation, some didactic forays and fleeting emotional passages. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]

Witches Market

The Witches Market returns with its first appointment of 2023, to the City of the Other Economy. The appointment is Sunday 15 January in the meadows of the Ex Slaughterhouse. Lots of themed exhibitors in a dedicated esoteric and craft market area in the square of the City of the Other Economy. A completely free day to discover objects and ideas of all kinds, both from an artisanal and esoteric point of view, crystals, natural incense, handmade wands, talismans, orgonites, energy pentaspheres, clothing, accessories, books, tarot cards, magic manuals and the most curious and interesting you can imagine. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]

The World of Banksy

The closing date had already been extended to the end of January, but the great success of the exhibition still extends its opening until late spring. “The World of Banksy – The Immersive Experience” at Roma Tiburtina will in fact be open until 28 May 2023 and the upcoming weekend could be the right opportunity to visit it. The itinerary presents over 90 works, including 30 life-size murals created by young international street artists who tell the world of the mysterious British artist, famous for tackling political issues and social denunciation with irony. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]

Van Gogh, the great exhibition in Rome

If you haven’t already done so, on the weekend, it’s worth going to visit the great exhibition dedicated to Van Gogh at Palazzo Bonaparte. The exhibition in Rome, through 50 works from the prestigious Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo – which houses one of the greatest collections of Van Gogh’s works – and many biographical testimonies, reconstructs his human and artistic story, to celebrate his universal greatness . An exhibition itinerary with a chronological leitmotif and which refers to the periods and places where the painter lived: from the Dutch one, to his stay in Paris, to that in Arles, up to St. Remy and Auvers-Sur-Oise, where he put an end to the his troubled life. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]

Casanova opera pop, the Musical by Red Canzian

After the resounding success and many sold outs in the short preview tour, the musical by Red Canzian “Casanova opera pop” returns to the stage from December 2022. The musical theater blockbuster set in 18th century Venice and dedicated to one of the most famous Italian characters in the world, Giacomo Casanova, brings 21 performers on stage, 2 hours of music and 35 songs sung live, 120 costumes, 30 scene changes, immersive scenography and innovative stylistic choices. Among the stages of the 2023 tour, the debut in Rome at the Brancaccio Theater is also planned, from 10 to 22 January 2023. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]

All round nut

Gabriele Pellegrini, aka Dado, returns to theaters throughout Italy with a new show: “Dado all round”. The show will be in Rome, from 11 to 29 January 2023, at the Teatro Tirso De Molina, from Wednesday to Sunday. Dado’s new show will be a great showcase of comic emotions, which between monologues, songs and a great variety of characters, will exploit the language of stand-up comedy and song-theatre to delight his audience and, at the same time, question themselves on the small and big questions of daily life, especially that of the Romans. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]

Martufello at the Teatro Golden

The show “Cocktail x 3” with Maurizio Martufello, Miriam Mesturino and Luca Negroni arrives at the Golden Theater from 11 to 22 January. Thus the 2023 season starts again at the theater in via Taranto. “Cocktail x 3” is an entertaining show that exposes some couple dynamics and, based on the concepts of fidelity, love, betrayal, manages to skillfully mix the movements of the characters making the comedy enjoyable and intelligent. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]