The playbill for the 2024 opera season celebrates the centenary of Giacomo Puccini's death with the first performance on the programme, Turandot, the composer's last masterpiece inspired by Gasparo Gozzi's oriental fairy tale in the staging imagined by Giuseppe Frigeni, who signs the direction, scenes, lights and choreography.
The show is conducted by Marco Guidarini on the podium of the Orchestra dell'Emilia-Romagna Arturo Toscanini, with the Lyric Choir of Modena and the Municipal Theatre of Piacenza.
The director has imagined a Turandot where 'it is the music that dictates the direction. And opera is not theatre with music, but music that becomes theatre, imposing its own dramatic rhythms and dimensions'.
For the director, Turandot, more than a love story, is 'the rise of the social ambition of the arrogant Calaf, revealing macho cynicism'.
On stage in the main roles France Dariz (Turandot), Mikheil Sheshaberidze (Calaf), Jaquelina Livieri (Liù), Fabio Previati (Ping), Saverio Pugliese (Pang), Matteo Mezzaro (Pong), Giacomo Prestia (Timur), Raffaele Feo (Altoum).

That of ‘fogheraccia’ is a very ancient custom, a propitiatory rite for an abundant harvest, which is linked to the Roman calendar, according to which the year began in March, dedicated to Mars, god of agriculture, as well as of war .
In Romagna they are traditionally called Focheracce or Fugarine di San Giuseppe, because they are held on the occasion of the feast of St. Joseph and of all fathers.
The biggest bonfire in Rimini is on the free beach in Marina Centro, near the canal port area. Here from the afternoon a market of various kinds animates the promenade with colorful stalls (from around 5 pm). Turning on of the fogheraccia at about 9 pm.

Italo Calvino spoke of a 'Masina zone' in Fellini's cinema, referring to that dimension of the Rimini director's imagination that most recalls the circus and its figures. Of those figures, Masina was the most inspired and gifted interpreter: she possessed their lightness, vitality, grace and candour.
With La strada, in 1957, Fellini won the first of his five Oscars and at only 37 years of age he entered the Olympus of the greats of cinema, but it was Giulietta Masina with her interpretation of Gelsomina who conquered and moved audiences all over the world.
Charlie Chaplin recognised her affinity with his Tramp, and among the spectators in those distant 1950s was a young Argentinean named Mario Bergoglio who, decades later and having become Pope in the meantime, would remember that character whose gaze "knows how to capture in winter what is already spring".
Only one year goes by and Fellini wins his second Oscar with Le notti di Cabiria. Again Giulietta Masina as the protagonist, perhaps in the role she most loved and in which she perhaps most recognised herself. To her, whom Fellini often portrays in The Book of Dreams with the features of a fairy, the Fellini Museum dedicates a photographic exhibition.
Seventy years after La strada and just a few weeks after the thirtieth anniversary of her death, from Thursday 22 February till Monday 1 April, 34 photos from the Penzo and Reporters Associati / Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna archives is on show on the second and third floors of the Palazzo del Fulgor. These 34 photos come from the sets of the seven Fellini films in which Masina starred: in addition to the two films already mentioned, there are also Luci del varietà, Lo sceicco bianco, Il bidone, Giulietta degli spiriti and Ginger and Fred.

For four days Food Trucks from all over the country offer their best specialities in a festive atmosphere.
Quality street food is offered by cars, carts, vans, bicycles, caravans, motorbikes and trailers, equipped with hotplates, ovens, fryers, kettles and grills. Everything is accompanied by craft beers, natural wines, fruit and vegetable juices and refreshing cocktails.

A precious opportunity to discover a sport that combines spectacle, fair play, competitive spirit and friendship. 5 tournaments: from the Under14 and Uder19 to the competitive Slam, up to the tournaments open to all.On the 20 fields set up for the occasion on the beaches of Rimini, 1000 games will be played involving 150 teams from all over the world.
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IBE Intermobility and Bus Expo will be from 19th to 21st November 2024 at the Rimini Exhibition Centre.
IBE Intermobility and Bus Expo is the event dedicated to the present and future of intermobility.
A special meeting place for the supply and demand of collective and shared mobility, institutions and stakeholders, with an international scope: IBE includes not only the vehicle industry but also the new players needed to develop and design a system, such as transport infrastructure, energy infrastructure, technology, digitisation, telecommunications, energy companies and PPP (public private partnership) projects.
IBE’s mission, identified by the name: inter-mobility – integrated and interconnected mobility – is to become the place in which innovative transport systems talk to each other to simplify travel and customers’ lives, to be the catalyst for change in the new mobility market and the point of contact between the leisure tourism sector and local public transport, in line with the objectives of the National Resilience and Recovery Plan (NRRP) for the energy transition.

The World Skate Games Italy 2024 will be held from the 6th to to the 22nd September, with an estimated participation of over 12,000 people including athletes, coaches, and delegations from 100 countries worldwide and an expected presence in Italy of tens of thousands of fans from the four corners of the globe. 
The figure skating world championships are held in Rimini at the exhibition centre.
The universal language of skating wheels will gather athletes from 12 different sports within a single event. The spotlights will be on the urban disciplines born in the streets of the world, such as skateboarding, roller freestyle, and scootering; the adrenaline-pumping and high-speed sports like speed skating, skate-cross, downhill, and slalom; the exciting team sports like rink hockey, inline hockey, and roller derby; and the harmony, elegance and exquisite technique of artistic skating.

Every year on the Sunday before Easter, in the center of Rimini, the Fiera di Primavera takes place. It is a non-food trade fair with an entire sector for the sale of plants and flowers.

Throughout the Easter weekend, Rimini beach will be invaded by the ‘flying saucers’ of Paganello, the World Cup of Beach Ultimate, the sport of Frisbee played on sand.
It is a huge frisbee event where the best athletes in this entertaining sport arrive from all over the world. Frisbee players will be gathering in a whirl of choreography, tricks and breathtaking movements.
Paganello is not only a sport event but it is also an opportunity to meet people from around the world. 
Friday 29th March, Welcome Party on the beach from 8.00pm. Closing ceremony on Monday 1st April, from 6.00pm.
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The Notte Rosa is back, dressing pink the whole of Romagna for three days. 
The 'New Year's Eve' of the summer, the great celebration of the Riviera, reaches its nineteenth edition. The entire coastline, with its beating heart in Rimini, will be coloured pink from dusk to dawn in an explosion of lights, sounds and images, a widespread event with music, dance, shows and magical scenery. And as usual, on Friday night at midnight, the fireworks display will color the sea and sky simultaneously all over the Riviera. 
The claim of this edition is "Weekend Dance", which will transform Romagna into the largest dance floor in Italy. It will be a Pink Night in the sign of dance in its thousand forms and meanings: from folk rhythms to sports dance, from country to ballroom dancing, from disco dance to hip hop, from rock to indie hop, passing through the world of clubbing and discos. Among the initiatives: the story of the Romagna dance district that was so popular in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s, exhibitions on the history of dance on the Riviera, on DJs, and on the future of music.  A step-by-step dance journey that begins with one of the symbols of Romagna in the world: the great tradition of ballroom dancing, a true soundtrack of Romagna, an enduring myth that unites generations far away in time. In the year tha celebrates the 70th anniversary of 'Romagna Mia', a pillar in the history of Italian and Romagna music, an emblem of the combination of music and dance, live erformances and flash mobs, the Pink Night will focus on the celebration of Liscio, the ballroom dancing, its protagonists and its orchestras.