6th – 16th February 2010
Also this year a great Renaissance style Garden will be set up in St. Mark’s Square, during the Carnival of Venice 2010. The same garden where the most relevant performances will take place: it will be crossed by a long catwalk where Ferruccio Soleri will present his performance as an extraordinary Arlecchino; where Bianca Brandolini d’Adda, the angel of this year will land; where the masks for the Best Carnival Costume Contest and the most well-known Drag Queens
From 6th to 16th February 2010
The official programme of Carnival Sensation 2010 has been presented in Venice. Also this year, for the last time, it is based on Marco Balich’s and Venezia Marketing Eventi’s arrangement. It will be a moderate and high-quality Carnival, like the one of last year.
The great opening party will take place in St. Mark’s Square on 6th February 2010: in early afternoon for children with clowns, people who will make up
12th -13th February 2010
More than 900.000 visitors are about to reach Venice for Carnival Sensation 2010. In addition to amusement in the squares and campi of the town several parties will be given in exclusive locations. Besides the one previously mentioned, that is the ‘Cavalchina Gran Ball’ we cannot forget the
6th February 2010
Ferruccio Soleri with ‘Harlequin servant of two masters’ will mark the opening of the 2010 Venetian Carnival on the night of 6th February in St. Mark’s Square. After Nobel Prize Dario Fo, who opened the edition of last year, another great artist will start the ten days of fancy dresses, shows, colours and music. The show he will performed in the most famous square in the world will be an adaptation created by his cooperation with the film director Stefano De Luca and realized just for the Venice
13th February 2010
La Fenice Theatre
Also this year La Fenice Theatre will host, during the Carnival of Venice 2010, precisely next Saturday 13th February, the Cavalchina Ball Party: it dates back to the XVIII and XIX centuries and it has been successfully renewed since 2007 as it is considered the Venice Carnival top event by lots of people. Organized in order to support La Fenice Theatre, the Cavalchina is a charming and striking private party to which an international public,
23rd February 2009
The second Carnival Sensation is, with no doubts, a record Carnival: 200.000 guests at the main weekend of the celebrations. And totally with 800.000 arrivals since the beginning of the kermesse Marco Balich can heave a deserved sigh of relief: he had even staked his job on the success of the Venetian festival. The great soirée of celebrations was the one of Saturday. Many young people gathered together at the Pescheria in order to drink and dance till late at night: just at 7.00 in the morning the crowd dispersed. For the lovers of glamour the society appointments weren’t missing. In fact, two Parties took place till late at night: the Dance of Cavalchina, organized on Saturday night by La Fenice Theatre and the Dance of the Doge at Palazzo Pisani Moretta.
For the party at the Theatre which, for that occasion, after eliminating the seats in the front stalls, became a huge Dance Hall, there was a return to the first edition, with the surprising entrance of a white horse, among
In the end, notwithstanding a hard choice by the panel of judges, given the incredible quantity of wonderful masks, more then 70, the judges, directed by the Oscar award Gabriella Pescucci, have decided to give the Prize for the best mask to a group of eight Germans disguised on the theme ‘China in Marco Polo’s days’.
Among fancy dresses representing hot-air balloons, paintings by De Chirico, packs of cards, Inca, traditional Russian dresses, a mask related to La Fenice Theatre and the unfailing Cinderella, in the end the extraordinary fancy dresses and hairstyles with Chinese temples and red lanterns have won.
Two special mentions have been awarded also to a woman disguised as a painting by De Chirico as well
The flight of the Angel
One of the best-loved Carnival events, with a new, surprising star-guest: Margherita Missoni. This event will be accompanied, according to tradition, by the Doge and Dogaressa’s historical parade.
Sunday 15th February h. 12.00 a.m. St. Mark’s Square
The Festa delle Marie
Like in the 2008 edition, the not-to-be-missed Festa delle Marie will be held on Sunday, on the day dedicated to traditional Carnival celebrations. As usual the parade will leave from San Pietro di Castello until it reaches St.Mark’s Square. The prize for the winning Maria will be given on Tuesday 24th February.
Sunday 15th February, h. 3.00 p.m., arrival at St. Mark’s Square.
DRAG QUEEN BEAUTY PAGEANT
The real Carnival spirit and all the fun and irony of fancy dress is once again among the main attractions of Sensation 2009 by means of the Beauty Pageant for Drag Queens that passes over the Italian borders becoming a European-reaching celebration.
Friday 20th February h.9.00 p.m. St.Mark’s Square
14th – 24th February 2009
Campo St. Stefano
Also this year on the occasion of Carnival Sensation 2009, in Campo St. Stefano there will be the ‘Market of masks and Venetian fancy dresses’ , which has now achieved its 25th edition. The masks on display will be all handmade without the aid of machines. Anybody will have the opportunity to buy a beautiful handmade mask, in order to wear it at once for Carnival or at some parties in some Palaces or to take it home and use it as ornaments to be admired by their own friends. The ancient craft of the Venetian mask makers was rediscovered at the end of the Seventies by some people fond of such form of art, who have resumed and proposed again the ancient techniques for producing papier-mâché masks.
As far the origin of masks is concerned you have to know that Venetian
14-24 february, 2009
Beside the most well-known events Carnival Sensation 2009 is waiting for you also with lots of artists scattered all over the town and on the islands too.
NASODORARMONICO.
In the Smell District, during the whole Carnival period, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the performance of a strange nose dancing and making fun of everybody while going around the district. It is a homage to Futurism, in the centenary of the birth of such Movement and it is offered by the Futurist humorist Maurizio Linetti with his Nasodorarmonico – pantomime. The Nose, instead of smelling let people smell lots of greedy and charming fragrances offered by OIKOS.
SAURUS, FANFARE LE SNOB, SENSATION TANGO, HELIOSPHERE
In St.Mark’s Square beside the Saurus, namely huge dinosaurs that will walk among the masks to entertain adults and children, there will be, starting from the opening, the show offered by the French group Fanfare le Snob which reminds us of the famous rotating dervisci.
On the 16th, 17th and 18th February: Sensation Tango. The most renowned and sensual dance in the
