The whole family can enjoy different musical genres from classical opera to the sounds of world, a marionette show of one of the world’s best-loved fairy tales Sleeping Beauty, and a theatrical experience in which dancers, performers and the public participate in amazing group games.

 

Italian Conservatory Orchestra

Opera Extravaganza
14 December 2021

6:30pm

Dubai Millenium Amphitheatre

Opera is the form of music that best represents our Country’s cultural identity, which has been made world-famous by the unforgettable arias composed by our greatest opera writers. Through the “Opera Extravaganza” concert, the young musicians of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale dei Conservatori Italiani pay homage to this great heritage by performing some of the best-known arias drawn from Italy’s wide opera repertory, with a programme that goes from Gioacchino Rossini to Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini and Giacomo Puccini.

 

Mila Trani

16, 17 and 19 December 2021

7pm – 8:30pm

Italy Pavilion

Mila Trani is an Italian singer and composer, who in her transversal path has encountered different musical genres, from jazz to the sounds of world music, has experimented with new technologies applied to the voice, and has intervened as a performer in various artistic projects. Her interest in world music gives rise to her latest project, a quintet that offers a repertoire of world music and original songs sung in 10 different languages.

 

Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla & Figli

Sleeping Beauty

18 – 19 December 2021

2:30 pm – 4:10 pm

5:30 pm – 7:10 pm

Dubai Exhibition Centre DEC Hall 2A South

Sleeping Beauty, one of the world’s best-loved fairy tales, takes shape through the nimble hands of the marionette masters of the Carlo Colla e Figli Company. The show to be presented at Expo Dubai is rooted in the socio-cultural connotations of the original story, and in the meanings handed down by relying on courtier codes, talking animals, terrible curses, fairy godmothers, and a young and naive sleeping beauty in the middle of a forest. The marionette show combines Perrault’s fabled storytelling and the libretto and music score of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, and is bound to fascinate adults and children alike.

 

Teatro di Piazza e d’Occasione

The House of Panda

18 – 19 December 2021

2:30 pm – 4:10 pm

5:30 pm – 7:10 pm

Dubai Exhibition Centre DEC Hall 2A South

Water, wood, fire, earth, and metal are the five Elements of Nature that, according to the Taoist tradition, generate life in a harmonious transformation process and are ideally harboured in the imaginative setting of the Casa del Panda, a light & sound performance where fireworks and kites interplay in bamboo forests, and the relationship between dance and image is explored as a new form of expression. Thanks to the use of big-screen projections and interactive technologies, the Prato-based TOP Company, which created this children’s show, offers a theatrical experience in which dancers, performers and the public participate in amazing group games in “sensitive” environments beyond time and space.