mittelfest2024

mittelfest 2024

19-28 July

Now, if appearances are deceiving, it is also true that they are not always maliciously deceiving – unless that is the intention of the manipulator. If the sea is calm, it is also true that under that grey-blue film lies the chaotic dynamics of the abyss. If the sky is clear, it is also true that beyond the blue, in the darkness of the galaxies, some star explodes or implodes, adding vortex to vortex in harmonic disorders spanning billions of years. And cosmic disorders flashed before the keen eyes of those who, a century ago, in the heart of a central Europe torn to shreds by the Great War, sensed and sought out two ideas both portentous and full of fertile disquiet, those ideas that – says Carlo Rovelli – “humanity, I believe, has not yet digested”: relativity and quantum mechanics. It was a group of young people, full of desire and fervour, of different passions and mutual hatreds, who unveiled two shattering visions, between the overturning of established orders and new laws of a universe in chaos: there were the Viennese Pauli and the Bavarian Heisenberg, who were taught in Copenhagen by Niels Bohr, the Hungarian and outsider János Neumann, who later became John von Neumann, who fathered the computer science of our implacable computers and algorithms. There was the other Viennese Schrödinger, whose life was bombastic and dense, but above all the stateless Einstein, whose relativity had opened the door to a nature that follows ‘probabilities’ and changes depending on who ‘observes’ it. In short, the cosmos now seemed to be guided by a fearsome god playing dice: isn’t it then worth acting like Dr Spoiler and getting on the bicycle?

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Yet, the chaos of that bizarre universe, which emerged a hundred years ago, has set the pace for our age, of hyper-fast trains, of relentless automatons and satellite technologies, of magnetic resonance imaging and drones – whether they carry Christmas parcels or bombs we do not know. Yet, the chaos of that bizarre universe, which emerged a hundred years ago, reverberates in the feelings of this age, in the wide-eyed gaze at lights that alone twirl in the dark, in the rapture of those who cry out their discomfort at the incessant novelties and impositions, in the weary bewilderment of the relentless travellers, free and otherwise, in the excitement of those who turn every trick into a new possibility.
What to do in the face of this bewilderment: try to put everything back in line by following the icy rules of times past and future algorithms, or let oneself go on an adventure with the demure ferocity of sex in one’s twenties, riding what comes, in goodness and horror? Take shelter within one’s own walls, watching from a screen what happens outside and hoping not to end up there, or throw oneself as a protagonist in the centre of the frame? Or perhaps, like a tightrope walker, attempt to navigate the world, wobbling along one’s own slender path, suspended precariously towards the goal, amidst conflicts, illusions, races, hopes and other sumptuous disorders? The die is not cast.

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Friday 19/07
18:30
Corte Tenente Brosadola
Exhibition

Ordini e disordini

Galleria Spazio Cortequattro

“The exhibition Ordini e Disordini (Orders and Disorders), dedicated to Giuseppe Zigaina (1924-2015) and Emilio Vedova (1919-2006), is the result ...
19:30
Ridotto del Teatro Ristori
Evento

Premio Adelaide Ristori 2024

Soroptimist International d’Italia – Club di Cividale del Friuli

Over two hundred years ago, on 29 January 1822, Cividale del Friuli saw the birth of one of the most important women ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Music

Happy concert

Igudesman&Joo/FVG Orchestra

70 minutes
Happy concert:For refunds please read the instructions HERE Welcome to the ‘disorders’ of Mittelfest 2024. Mozart, Strauss, maybe the Beatles, ...
Saturday 20/07
16:30
20:00
Departure from Piazza San Francesco
Dance

Cosmorama

Nicola Galli

50 minutes
Can one dance the landscape? COSMORAMA is a universe of gestures that open up to the audience in a journey ...
17:30
Chapiteau al Parco della Lesa
Circus

Uno spettacolo

Circo all’inCirca

50 minutes
A journey through shapes, colours and rhythms, in which only one rule applies: get involved in the game. The very ...
18:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
If the world runs so fast that escape the eye and leaves those passing by lost, what to do? Take ...
19:00
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Theater

Twisted World

Ucci Ucci

60 minutes
In 2014, twenty-two-year-old Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured fourteen. Before committing suicide, he released his manifesto, “My Twisted World”, ...
21:00
Teatro Ristori
Theater

Negotiating peace

Jeton Neziraj

90 minutes
After The Handke Project, Jeton Neziraj returns to Mittelfest with a biting, satirical comedy about peace negotiations. From Northern Ireland ...
Sunday 21/07
09:00
Parco della Lesa
Theater

Loutkoviště  (Pupazzi)

Waxwing Theatre

free duration
Loutkoviště (Puppets) is a fantastic and surprising ‘puppet playground’ open to all ages. It magically appears in Parco della ...
10:00
Chapiteau al Parco della Lesa
Workshop

Un ordinato disordine

Circo all’inCirca

120 minutes
In the colourful circus bandwagon, disorder and discipline intermingle. It is precisely the constant tension between order and chaos that ...
12:00
Il Curtîl di Firmine
Kaffee

Kaffee
Theatre&history

Negotiating peace

Jeton Neziraj and the company of Negotiating peace meet the audience. Renowned Kosovar playwright Jeton Neziraj returns to Mittelfest with ...
16:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Pelagos

Katerina Papadopoulou & Aegean Arc

80 minutes
A musical journey through the melodies of the Aegean sea. From Cyclades to Dodecanese, from Crete to Cyprus, from Peloponnese ...
16:30
20:00
Departure from Piazza San Francesco
Dance

Cosmorama

Nicola Galli

50 minutes
Can one dance the landscape? COSMORAMA is a universe of gestures that open up to the audience in a journey ...
17:30
Teatro Ristori
Circus

Danger

Compagnia Due

70 minutes
A clown show for everyone, made of humour and without words. An avalanche of dangers engulfs two modern jesters, who ...
19:00
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Dance

Home

Bai Li Wiegmans

22 minutes
A film and a dance solo, two artistic languages meet to trace the extraordinary journey of a Chinese adoptee. Bai ...
21:30
19:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
Theater

Le tue parole
Pierluigi, Scluse e il cîl

Giuseppe Battiston/Piero Sidoti/Pierluigi Cappello

75 minutes
A lyric poet and prose writer, Pierluigi Cappello’s work has crossed the verse forms of his mother tongues, Friulian ...
Monday 22/07
17:00
Chapiteau al Parco della Lesa
Workshop

Un ordinato disordine

Circo all’inCirca

120 minutes
In the colourful circus bandwagon, disorder and discipline intermingle. It is precisely the constant tension between order and chaos that ...
19:30
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Music

Marquis Noir

Marquis Noir

60 minutes
A concert combining music, circus and theatre, video mapping, choreography and fashion design. Energy and calm, harmony and disorder, passion ...
21:30
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Talk radio

Alessio Boni/Valter Sivilotti

90 minutes
Moved to Chiesa San Francesco Between 1945 and 1947 Gorizia lived a short but intense musical period in the name of jazz. ...
22:00
Il Curtîl di Firmine
Mittelimmagine

An anarchist life

Ivan Bormann & Fabio Toich

52 minutes
Worker, soldier, militant, prisoner, conspirator, bomber, exile. This and much more was Umberto Tommasini (1896-1980), an anarchist blacksmith who crossed ...
Tuesday 23/07
16:00
Il Curtîl di Firmine
Kaffee

Kaffee
Music&sacred

Antennae by Aleksandra Vrebalov

Aleksandra Vrebalov talks with Daniela Terranova (Conservatorio Tartini of Trieste) and the audience. Antennae is a mystical concert for Byzantine ...
18:00
Chapiteau al Parco della Lesa
Music

Balkalar

Balkalar Ensemble

60 minutes
Imagine a tapestry woven with Balkan rhythms and melodies, the warp made of traditional Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian songs, ...
19:30
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Antennae / Liturgia

Aleksandra Vrebalov/Conservatorio Giuseppe Tartini di Trieste

65 minutes
Antennae, by renowned Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov, arrives in its Italian premiere performance: a mystical concert inspired by the 15th-century ...
21:30
Teatro Ristori
Dance

Full moon

Josef Nadj

60 minutes 
The full moon, the end and beginning of its cycle that becomes rhythmic structure, danced time, and then jazz, with ...
22:00
Il Curtîl di Firmine
Mittelimmagine

Babylon sisters

Gigi Roccati

85 minutes
A contemporary fairy tale that to the rhythm of music celebrates the strength and beauty of multiculturalism. Kamla recently moved ...
Wednesday 24/07
09:30
Sala San Francesco
Supported by

Friuli Venezia Giulia and Czech Republic. A future to share in the heart of Europe Since 2021, Associazione Mitteleuropa has been ...
17:00
Chapiteau al Parco della Lesa
Workshop

Un ordinato disordine

Circo all’inCirca

120 minutes
In the colourful circus bandwagon, disorder and discipline intermingle. It is precisely the constant tension between order and chaos that ...
19:30
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Gianni Schicchi

Conservatorio Jacopo Tomadini di Udine 

60 minutes 
Forged wills, rascality, unscrupolous greed and fraudulent cunning: a story as old as time that Giacomo Puccini transforms into a ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Music

Brasses for the masses

Džambo Aguševi Orchestra

75 minutes
An irrepressible dancing whirlwind blows in from the Balkans. A brass and percussion revelry that is rooted in the Gypsy ...
22:00
Il Curtîl di Firmine
Mittelimmagine

E tu slegalo!

Maurizio Sciarra

67 minutes
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Franco Basaglia’s birth, his direct pupils and the generations immediately following tell us ...
Thursday 25/07
17:00
Chapiteau al Parco della Lesa
Workshop

Un ordinato disordine

Circo all’inCirca

120 minutes
In the colourful circus bandwagon, disorder and discipline intermingle. It is precisely the constant tension between order and chaos that ...
18:00
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Music

Kernfusion

Kernfusion Quartett

60 minutes
A musical nuclear fusion, a source of disruptive energy that spreads across the audience: this is Kernfusion. Burning unison lines, ...
19:30
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Romantico disordine

Imago Sloveniae/Alexander Gadjiev

60 minutes
Young pianists from all corners of the world, led in a masterclass by multiple award-winning pianist Alexander Gadjiev, an artist-in-residence ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Theater

Senza confini
Ebrei e zingari

Moni Ovadia

100 minutes
The Jews and the People of “Men” have shared the same fate of persecution for centuries. Peoples in every way, ...
Friday 26/07
12:00
Il Curtîl di Firmine
Kaffee

Kaffee
Travelling Theatre 

Senza confini by Moni Ovadia

Moni Ovadia meets the audience. Moni Ovadia returns to Mittelfest with Senza confini (Beyond the borders), his “small but passionate ...
16:00
18:00
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Theater

La tana

Franz Kafka/Teatrino Giullare

50 minutes
The characters of The Burrow huddle there: they observe our world from their shelters. Entering their meanders, inside the Church ...
19:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Nutshell

Sinfonia Varsovia Wind Quintet

60 minutes
Supported by

The Wind Quintet of the famous Sinfonia Varsovia brings to Mittelfest a programme combining works by Polish composers and some ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Dance

Fortuna

Piergiorgio Milano

45 minutes
The sea is a soul unfolding without borders. From waves come giants, from fish come mermaids, from uncertain transparencies come ...
Saturday 27/07
10:30
17:00
Departure to Borgo di Ponte
Theater

Zlotogrod

Jacopo Giacomoni/Collettivo L’Amalgama/Circo all’inCirca

60 minutes
What if Cividale were not an Italian town close to Slovenia, but a town of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the ...
12:00
Il Curtîl di Firmine
Kaffee

Kaffee
Masks&artifices

Teatrino Giullare and Matteo Spiazzi

Teatrino Giullare and Matteo Spiazzi meet the audience. The director Matteo Spiazzi and the historic company Teatrino Giullare are two ...
16:00
18:00
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Theater

La tana

Franz Kafka/Teatrino Giullare

50 minutes
The characters of The Burrow huddle there: they observe our world from their shelters. Entering their meanders, inside the Church ...
17:30
Chapiteau al Parco della Lesa
Music

In viaggio con Bazylek

Bazylek/Sinfonia Varsovia Wind Quintet

50 minutes
Supported by

Bazylek is a funny dragon, the protagonist of many Warsaw legends. As a child, it is always very curious about ...
19:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Quartetto per la fine del tempo

Messiaen Pritchin/Bulfone/Grimm/Rucli

50 minutes
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, […] saying: “There should be time no longer: But in the ...
21:30
Teatro Ristori
Music

Voci vicine 2.0

Fabio Cifariello Ciardi/Luciana Coluccello

80 minutes
The journalist-narrator, the instrumental ensemble and the disordered multitude of voices and faces that tell, denounce, and shout out the ...
Sunday 28/07
10:30
Museo Archeologico Nazionale Cividale
Music

DiVerdiamoci!

Pizz’n’Zip

50 minutes
Milan, 1841. Giuseppe Verdi is so sad and contemplates retiring from the stage. Two modern-day musicians, the Pizz’n’Zipp, decide ...
10:30
17:00
Departure to Borgo di Ponte
Theater

Zlotogrod

Jacopo Giacomoni/Collettivo L’Amalgama/Circo all’inCirca

60 minutes
What if Cividale were not an Italian town close to Slovenia, but a town of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the ...
12:00
Il Curtîl di Firmine
Kaffee

Kaffee
Zlotogrod circus&theater

Jacopo Giacomoni, Circo all’inCirca e Compagnia L’Amalgama

Jacopo Giacomoni, Circo all’inCirca and Collettivo l’Amalgama meet the audience. For one hour Cividale turns into Zlotogrod, a ...
15:00
Museo Archeologico Nazionale Cividale
Workshop

Una nota al Museo

Pizz’n’Zipp

An interactive music workshop for children aged 5+ immersed in history! The violinist Puña travels through time and accidentally ends ...
16:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Mindbowing

The ThreeX

80 minutes
Two violins and a grand piano? Pay attention: three classical musicians turn every expectation upside down, bursting into a whirlwind ...
17:30
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Theater

La Cripta dei Cappuccini
acoustic version

Joseph Roth

85 minutes
After the theatrical adaptation, the first part of the trilogy Inabili alla morte/Nezmožni umreti (Unfit for death), the ...
19:15
Teatro Ristori
Theater

Paradiž
A bitter comedy

Matteo Spiazzi

70 minutes
A retirement home in a small Slovenian town, the stories of its residents intertwine. Isolation, loneliness, illness, regrets: life is ...
21:30
Teatro Palamostre di Udine
Music

Margherita Vicario
Gloria!

Orchestra La Corelli

70 minutes
A singer-songwriter, actress, podcast author and debut director with the highly acclaimed Gloria!, Margherita Vicario sings by bending the seduction ...
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