2011 in Rimini Starts With Bizet’s Carmen - 2010 is about to end, and Rimini proposes, as every year, to start the New Year with an opera: 2011 will start with Bizet’s Carmen, on the 1st January at 5.30 pm and on the 3rd January at 8.30 pm at the Auditorium Palacongressi.
The first
step is to choose a place to stay: a hotel in Rimini, a 3 star hotel, a hotel
with swimming pool, a place where you’ll be able to finish your 2010 and enter
in 2011 in the best possible way; then you can taste the good Romagna’s cuisine,
choosing among the numerous eating houses to try the traditional recipes of the
area.
If you
choose to spend a romantic New Year’s Eve, you will find many restaurants where
you’ll be able to book a table for a dinner for two: a restaurant with garden,
maybe, to make the atmosphere even more suggestive.
Once the
New Year started, Rimini proposes to begin the first day of 2011 with one of
the most renowned and beloved operas: Bizet’s Carmen. It’s the masterpiece of
the French composer; its première was on the 3rd March 1875 at the
Paris Opéra Comique.
The famous
story of Carmen, set in Seville, has been chosen to start 2011: its arias, like
the renowned Habanera, will give a start to the New Year with the energy
transmitted by Bizet’s opera, among its singing voices and the ballets with a
Spanish taste.
The tickets
can be bought starting from the 2nd December 2010, and prices go
from 25 to 50 euros; you can buy them in the historical centre of Rimini, in
Piazza Cavour, 31, at the URP office, everyday Sunday included from 9 am to
12.30 and from 4 pm to 7.30 pm, but on Thursday from 5.30 pm to 8 pm. To get
the tickets if you live out of the province you can stop them for a day and pay
with a bank transfer to Atto Primo Associazione Rimini inMusica.
The plot is
set in a place where desperation, poverty and betrayal rule, and Carmen is a
beautiful gypsy, lively and passionate, who lives following instinct and
feelings, challenging rules and fate. The scene is set in Andalusia, in
Seville, a land normally associated to liveliness and colour, which actually do
not lack, but here they are veiled by a social disease which brings a feeling
of sadness: the joy you see here and there in Carmen is the joy you live in the
slums, where you can do nothing but trying to cover desperation faking a smile,
hoping to get some relief.
In this
opera we can find important issues, which, sadly, can be considered living
matters also nowadays: there are still places in which criminality rules, where
desperation is the most common feeling and is masked with a sad happiness. But
besides this there’s the hope to change and to improve, to let people know
others realities and to go on, creating neighbourhoods, cities, countries in
which laughs are real and are not intended to hide tears.
The biggest
wish we can make in this specific historical moment is to smile again, after
having chased away those who impede it: many wishes for a 2011 full of joy,
true smiles, pride and dignity!
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