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Coming to Italy and not attending the opera is like not eating pizza or not taking a photo of yourself preteniding to lean on the Pisa Tower. If you are visiting Rome you will have the oportunity to attend a world class representation of one of the most famous operas in the world.

For over a century La Bohème has attracted audiences of theaters around the world. The story brought to the stage by Puccini is one of those who can speak to different eras and generations. La Boheme tells the illusions, dreams and hopes of youth who come into collision with the harsh realities of life: a universal theme today. The magnificent direction by Franco Zeffirelli brings the opera to life on the stage of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, one of the most beautiful and magical venues for opera. A must-see event for all lovers of the genre.

Music by Giacomo Puccini Opera in four acts

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Director James Conlon and directed by Franco Zeffirelli Scene Costumes Piero Tosi choirmaster Roberto Gabbiani Interpreters Rodolfo Ramón Vargas / Stefano Secco Schaunard Vito Priante Hibla Gerzmava Mimì / Marcello Franco Maria Jose Siri Vassallo / Marco Luca Salsi Hills Spotti / Giovanni Battista Parodi Musetta Patrizia Ciofi / Ellie Dehn

Premiere Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 20:30 (session A)

Replicas:

Friday, June 17 at 20.30 (out abb.)

Saturday, June 18 at 18.00 (session D)

Sunday, June 19 17.00 (out abb.)

Tuesday, June 21 20.30 (session B)

Wednesday, June 22 at 20.30 (out abb.)

Thursday, June 23 at 20.30 (session C)

Friday, June 24 at 20.30 (out abb.)

Saturday, June 25 18.00 (out abb.)

Sunday , June 26 at 17.00 (session E)

Hotel Des Artistes and Yes Hotel are located only a few minutes walking from opera theater,so make a reservation with us to enjoy all the magic of the Eternal City!

Our Blogger: Vanda

Vinicio Capossela has earned a special place in the Italian musical scene for his idyosincratic mix of Italian folk music and literary references. Next May the singer will offer a concert in Rome to perform some of the songs from his new album, inspired by the sea.

This event will end the first part of the tour that Capossela will resume next summer, with new shows inspired by the sea (as the myth wants). “Marinai,Profeti e Balene” (Sailors, Prophets and Whales) is Capossela’s new album, edited three years after his previous work “Da solo”. The new album, inspired by the sea, is full of sounds, stories and characters, typical of Capossela; it includes songs taken from important literary works like Melville’s “Moby Dick”, Louis Ferdinand Céline “minore”, or Coleridge’s “Ballad of the old Mariner”; furthermore, Capossella often references the “omeric” classic mythology re-visiting the “Golia”, Aedo, the Syrens of Ulisses and the “Nostos”(a feeling seamen get when they are travelling).

Caposssela is an artistic, curious, and playful man; his performances are a mix of music, theater and literature. He recorded voice and piano for this album in Creta Island, Berlin , Milan and in the “Aragonese” Castle on Ischia Island because, he says, “it’s a place of asceticism and there, you can always hear the sound of the sea”. Capossela defines “Marinai,Profeti e Balene” as “Marina Commedia”, “a metaphoric album about the great questions of mankind”.

From Hotel des Artistes or Yes Hotel is very easy to reach the Auditorium Conciliazione! Give us a ring (+39 064454365) or drop us a line (info@hoteldesartistes.com) to get our best offer for accomodation and enjoy the good music in Rome!

Our blogger: Ferdinando

-The hugely popular rock band Negramaro is ready to hit the Italian sadiums with the themes from their new album “Casa 69″.

A few weeks before the release of  “Casa 69″, the new album debuted atop the sales charts, legendary Italian rock band Negramaro announce that they are ready to go live on stage and play their new songs in front of their many fans.
Since their debut in 2003 Negramaro have emerged to public attention thanks to their incendiary live shows, not surprisingly they have been the first Italian band to perform at the San Siro stadium, the legendary temple of football (and rock). We are confident that sooner or later will want to replicate the experience.

The Negramaro casa 69 tour has yet to start and promises to be already a great success, the band is gearing up to perform in major stadiums in Italy, the return of the band live is awaited, so that you add a third date in the capital , the three Negramaro Roman dates will take place at the Palalottomatica arena on March 10, 11 and 12. “Casa 69″, the fifth studio album of the group debuted a top the sales charts and remains stable in the top five best sellers of the week.

Our Blogger: Jona

The Cranberries are to be again on the main stage of  international live tours : Rome will welcome them at the Ippodromo delle Capannelle as part of the event Rock in Roma for a huge concert on 5th July 2010 singing their greatest hits and some new songs too !
The band is an Irish pop-rock group born in 1990s.
Noel and Mike Hogan, two brothers from Limerick , formed the band with drummer Fergal Patrick Lawler in 1990. Dolores O’Riordan won the audition to become the vocalist singing  the song “Linger”.
The band was originally called The Cranberry Saw Us, a pun that makes the verse to “Cranberry Sauce”.
Their demo sold well locally, so they recorded new songs and signed to major label Island Records. Their first piece was a flop. But then, with the advent of Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can not We? the group’s success grew unabated. The second single, Linger, immediately became a big hit in Britain and the United States . The single Dreams then followed the success of the first songs and shortly after the group became one of the most famous and later used by television (advertising, television, etc.).
In 1994, O’Riordan married Don Burton, the band’s manager. O’Riordan status caused tensions within the group during the recording of No Need to Argue, a new success that includes the famous Zombie (violence in Northern Ireland ) and Ode to My Family. The success of this album is a contributory factor which subsequently grew many British bands like Oasis, Radiohead, Blur and Placebo.

After a period of separation that lasted seven years in which team members have dedicated themselves to their individual projects, Dolores O’Riordan, Noel Hogan, Fergal Lawler Mike Hogan have decided to return to perform together and plan the future of the group planning a tour and announcing going back into the studio soon to record new songs.

More about the Cranberries in Rome

Further reading on Music in Rome

And for your stay in Rome, book a good and central hotel in Rome not far from the Rome Cappannelle.

Blogger : Rhodora

One of the events more expected this summer in Rome is the concert of a talented and sensual English singer: her name is Florence Welch, playing with her band, “the machine”, she’s already been defined as heiress of Kate Bush, Siouxsie e Pj Harvey and very soon she has became the pop diva more appreciated and cuddled on the English stage , climbing the charts of half the world and conquering the Italian radios too with the single  You’ve got the love.

After staying at the very first position on the English charts and winning the  Brit Awards with the album  Lungs, there are rumors about a  collaboration of her with Thom York , the singer of Radiohead.

HThe band’s debut album is a very original work that doesn’t betray the best English tradition, being able anyway to  go beyond the definition of independent rock . This album was made inside a debunked synagogue with the help of  two among the most sought-after producers   : James Ford (already working for Klaxons and Arctic Monkeys) and Paul Epworth (Bloc Party).

When Florence was very young at school she was a “peculiar character”  who used to read Poe and Jack The Ripper, to listen to the Velvet Underground and make gothic drawings  ( so that her mates used to define her as “macabre” ) : a teenager’s past a little bit dark transformed into an absolutely bright present; Florence says “ I love singing, I love dancing, I love playing the drums. The fact that someone pays me for doing it, well is just incredible”.

Florence has also been chosen by the Blur to open their concert in London and Manchester in June 2009. The band’s Roman concert will take place at the Auditorium Parco Della Musica, located only a short bus trip away from Yes Hotel and Hotel Des Artistes.

Our blogger: Raul

The first of may concert is already a tradition in Rome. Every year on this day some of the most famous singers and rock bands in Italy are summoned to the square of Saint John in the Lateran to play to an enthusiastic crowd.

The event, originally planned as a celebration of the workers’ day, is so popular that many people come from towns all over Italy to enjoy a day of music and sight-seeing in the Eternal City. If you want to get a taste of good Italian music and some of the fun that comes with an open-air event like this one, this is your best bet.

This year the featured artist will be Vinicio Capossela, a cult singer well-known in Italy for his strange looks and his re-imagination of Italian folklore. Another interesting names in the cast are Paolo Nutini and Irene Grandi and Carmen Consoli, two great musicians and songwriters. By the way, this year the host of the concert will be a woman for the first time, almosT a hommage to the growing urgence of Italian women to create and participate in all aspects of life.

To get to Saint John’s sqare from Yes Hotel or Hotel Des Artistes: all you have to do is take the red subway line from the Termini station and then get off at San Giovanni. Since some hours before the concert the station is closed, due to the great affluence of attendants you might need to get off one station before, at Manzoni, and then get walking to Saint John’s.

Our Blogger: Rhodora

-Rhodora introduces you to Malika who will be performing soon in Rome; we hope she surprises you as se has surprised us all in Italy.

Malika Ayane was born in Milan in 1984 to a Moroccan father and an Italian mother.

In 2006 Ferdinand Arnò decides to use her voice for Time Thief, music composed by himself  for the DTC advertising campaign, which begins in a symbiotic partnership, which in 2007 brings to Soul Waver, soundtrack to Saab’s advertising. Another television spot where we can find one of her songs is that of Barilla in 2009, whith its instrumental rendition of  I giardini dei salici.

The first single from the album is Feeling Better, that becomes a hit radio and allows Malika to  gain recognition all over the country.
In 2007, the singer meets Caterina Caselli that immediately sees in her an artist with an original style:  fresh and spicy.

Malika began working on his first recording project, released in the autumn of 2008 and is titled Malika Ayane. The first single from the album, Feeling Better, becomes immediatly a radio hit.

On 2009  Malika partecipates to the Sanremo Festival with Come Foglie (As tree leaves , lyrics and music by Giuliano Sangiorgi one the greatest Italian signers and part of the band Negaramaro) produced and arranged by Ferdinand Arnò.

On wesnesday 28^th april 2010 at 9.00 p.m, Malika Ayane will meet her fans to treat them with her special brand of pop-soul on a concert at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, one of the finest music venues in Rome .

The auditorium is located only minutes away (with a bus) from Hotel Des Artistes and Yes Hotel, the choice for all those trying to live Rome to its fullest!

Our Blogger: Jona

Whitney is back and on her way to Rome

We all know the extraordinary voice of this American singer who has been active for  25 years now. To the delight of her many fans through her official website, has been officially confirmed the dates of the new tour of the legendary American singer, and we discover that, Whitney Houston will return to Italy after 11 years. The star of rhythm and blues will perform in Forum di Assago in Milan on 3 May 2010. After Milan, she will make a stop in the capital. The Palalottomatica Arena in Rome, the venue of many relevant concerts, will host this great concert on May 4, 2010 at 21.00, and the singer will propose to her affectionate audience a selection of her greatest hits and, of course, the songs from her latest album I Look To You already topped the charts world. “This is my first tour since the days of My Love is Your Love and I am very excited to perform in front of my loyal fans after all this time. I’m preparing a great show and I can not wait to sing the songs of my latest album “These are the words of Whitney Houston. After 25 years of career now, and making a come back after troubled years, Whitney Houston became an artist of great depth, a diva, a legend. One of the most successful female artists of all time, which has sold over 140 million albums worldwide and received 411 awards … and after so long, she is finally back in Italy.

Here at Yes Hotel and Hotel Des Artistes, we will be more than happpy to have you as our guest and to show you the many marvels Rome has to show you.

Ticket prices: Parterre EUR 120.00 Grandstand Central 1 ° ring EUR 130.00 Grandstand Central 2nd ring EUR 110.00 1st and 2nd ring Lateral EUR 85.00 3rd Ring Central Euro 65.00 3rd Ring Side EUR 50.00