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The Musical Afternoons in Casanatense are back, in collaboration with the association ‘Presto con fuoco’; Nine events featuring great music, from October 2025 to June 2026. Concert programme: Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 4.15 p.m.: Duo Sineforma Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 4.15 p.m.: Almas Accordion Trio Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 4.15 p.m.: Christmas Concert, Francesco Mannelli Choir Tuesday, 13 January 2026, 4.15 p.m.: Sing to me, O Moon! Tuesday, 10 February 2026, 4.15 p.m.: Immortal Harmonies Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 4.15 p.m.: Shakespeare's Friends Tuesday, 14 April 2026, 4.15 p.m.: Liebeslied Tuesday, 12 May 2026, 4.15 p.m.: Quasi per gioco - Piano solo Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 4.15 p.m.: Popular echoes in classical music Free admission with a suggested donation.

The world is experiencing new tensions and conflicts.What role can Europe play in this scenario? And how much does it really affect our lives? At the Casanatense Library, a meeting to try to understand what it means today to talk about Europe, beyond treaties and institutions. A dialogue with Prof. Sabino Cassese, one of Italy's most authoritative jurists, to reflect on Europe's role in the global crisis. Hosted by Vicsia Portel. wednesday, 18 March 20264.15 p.m.Casanatense LibraryVia di Sant'Ignazio 52, Rome Free admission with reservationb-casa.promozione@cultura.gov.it

Opening and vernissage of the exhibition ‘Encounters - Travel Stories’ by Mario Panizza Thursday 19 March, 5 p.m.; free admission. From 19 March to 30 April 2026, the Casanatense Library will have the honour of hosting ‘Encounters - Travel Stories’, an exhibition of paintings by Mario Panizza; An architect, retired professor of Architectural and Urban Composition, and Rector of Roma Tre University from June 2013 to June 2017, he has been painting for over 60 years. He has held numerous solo exhibitions over the years, all in institutional venues (Goethe Institut, Brazilian Embassy, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Lumsa University, Curtin University in Perth, Australia, Institute of Roman Studies, Foreign Ministry Club), on specific themes: 'Industrial Archaeology', “Manhole Covers”, “Shadows”, “Reflections” and “Hidden Figures”. For about two years, he has been dedicating himself to Encounters, a completely new theme, as he had rarely painted people before. The canvases, almost all 100X100 cm, are in black and white, acrylic on cotton. The subjects, always figurative, belong to the “Precisionism” style.

Almost 100 years after the composition of the Serenade, Op. 46, by Alfredo Casella, a leading Italian composer of the 20th century, the chamber ensemble “Tiber Ensemble” offers listeners the refined compositional mastery of this composer, who remains little known to the general public even today. The ensemble is holding an open dress rehearsal in anticipation of the upcoming concerts the group will perform in Rome and the surrounding area, with the aim of celebrating the great Italian masters who have made the Italian tradition famous throughout the world; proof of this is the fact that the Serenade presented here won Casella first prize in a major composition competition in Philadelphia, tied with another great musical genius, the Hungarian Bela Bartok. The various movements of the Serenade are all forms dear to the Italian musical tradition