Eduardo De Crescenzo, Essenze Jazz at Teatro Brancaccio, November 13, 2026

Eduardo De Crescenzo brings Essenze Jazz to Teatro Brancaccio on Friday, November 13, 2026 at 21:00, at Via Merulana 244 (00185 Rome), in the Esquilino neighborhood. You get there on metro line A, Vittorio Emanuele stop, on metro line B, Cavour stop, or on buses 16, 75, 714, 717 and C3, which stop on Via Merulana by the theater. The prices published by the theater, at full rate, range from 37 euros (I Balconata B) to 69 euros (Poltronissima Gold), with the Poltronissima at 57 euros, the Poltrona at 51 and the I Balconata A at 46. Tickets are sold at the box office on Via Merulana, open Tuesday to Saturday from 16:00 to 19:00, and on the authorized ticketing platform listed on the official Teatro Brancaccio website.

On stage, alongside De Crescenzo's voice and accordion, there are five musicians from the Italian jazz scene: Enzo Pietropaoli on double bass, Marcello Di Leonardo on drums, Julian Oliver Mazzariello on piano, Daniele Scannapieco on saxophones and Susanna Krasznai on cello. The repertoire is the songs the public has known for 40 years, from Ancora to E la musica va, reinterpreted in a jazz and blues key. It's a concert for those who loved those songs on the radio and for those who want to hear what they become when the song form opens up to improvisation.

Essenze Jazz at Brancaccio: date, time and prices

Eduardo De Crescenzo's Essenze Jazz is scheduled at Teatro Brancaccio for one night only, Friday, November 13, 2026, starting at 21:00, according to the official concert page on the theater's website, where the title appears in the Concerti section of the 2026-2027 season.

Prices by section

The price list published by Brancaccio for this evening has five sections at full rate: Poltronissima Gold 69 euros, Poltronissima 57 euros, Poltrona 51 euros, I Balconata A 46 euros, I Balconata B 37 euros. The theater's booking system also lists other tiers, like the Poltronissima Gold Vip and the second balcony, which have no price listed for this concert: actual availability is shown by the sales system at the time of purchase.

The box office

The Teatro Brancaccio box office is at Via Merulana 244 and is open to the public Tuesday to Saturday from 16:00 to 19:00. On Sunday it opens only during show hours, if there's a performance, and on Monday it's closed. For a Friday night concert, anyone who wants to choose their seat in person therefore has the preceding Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, plus the afternoon of the concert itself.

Advance sales and support

From the concert page on the theater's website you can reach the authorized ticketing platform. The theater also offers an online support service for purchases. The rules warn that tickets bought through unauthorized channels may not give access to the hall: it's always best to start from the official website.

What Essenze Jazz is

Essenze Jazz is the project in which Eduardo De Crescenzo reinterprets his own songs in a jazz key: the theater presents it as the format that expresses his entire artistic journey, almost a musical biography running through the repertoire and experiments of a lifetime.

A concert between singer-songwriter music, blues and the Mediterranean

The official presentation describes a concert built on the meeting between writing and improvisation, between singer-songwriter music and blues, between jazz and Mediterranean influences. The underlying idea is to free the song form: verses and choruses stay, but they become the base on which voice and instruments invent. Rigor, talent and feeling, the theater writes, intertwine in a constant creative exchange between De Crescenzo and the musicians who accompany him on stage.

The line that explains the project

When he first presented the project, in 2012, at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, De Crescenzo explained it like this, according to the Brancaccio page: “I'm looking for a sound that can represent me today”. It's a simple line, and it explains well why a successful singer, with a catalog of beloved songs, decides at 60 to take them apart and put them back together in front of the audience.

Where the title comes from

The title isn't new for those who follow the artist. Essenze Jazz is also the name of the album released on November 12, 2013 on the EmArcy-Universal label, which gathered in a jazz key the songs from the key stages of his career, plus a new song, Non tardare. On May 29, 2026 that record came back in a new form: Essenze Jazz 2026, a double vinyl on the BMG label. The Brancaccio concert therefore comes a few months after the reissue.

The songs on the setlist: from Ancora to Naviganti

The official concert page gives nine classic songs as the outline of the evening: Ancora, L'odore del mare, E la musica va, Dove, Il racconto della sera, C'è il sole, La vita è un'altra, Naviganti and Sarà così.

Ancora, the 1981 song

Ancora is the song De Crescenzo brought to the Sanremo Festival in 1981, with music by Claudio Mattone and lyrics by Franco Migliacci. That year he won the best performer award from the quality jury chaired by Sergio Leone. It's the title almost everyone associates with his name, and in Essenze Jazz it becomes the point where you measure the distance between the 1981 version and today's.

L'odore del mare and E la musica va

L'odore del mare is the 1987 Sanremo song, with music by De Crescenzo himself and Maurizio Fabrizio and lyrics by Guido Morra. E la musica va is the 1991 one, with lyrics by Franco Del Prete: a song that also had an English version, The Beat Goes On, performed by Phil Manzanera, and that was sold in France and Britain. These are the two songs where De Crescenzo the songwriter takes the place of De Crescenzo the performer.

La vita è un'altra and Naviganti

La vita è un'altra is the title of the 2002 album, his return to recording after six years of silence. Naviganti is one of the singles released that year. C'è il sole comes from the 1989 album. The theater notes that these songs, already soaked in a heavily blues-inflected singing style, are not distorted by the new setting: the intensity of the performances remains, while the jazz forms serve to “play the voice”.

The musicians on stage with De Crescenzo

The lineup announced by Teatro Brancaccio for Essenze Jazz includes five musicians: Enzo Pietropaoli on double bass, Marcello Di Leonardo on drums, Julian Oliver Mazzariello on piano, Daniele Scannapieco on saxophones and Susanna Krasznai on cello.

Julian Oliver Mazzariello, the piano

The pianist Julian Oliver Mazzariello is the musician De Crescenzo has worked with most closely in recent years: it was with him that he built Avvenne a Napoli, the project devoted to classic Neapolitan song, released as an album on May 26, 2022 with 20 traditional songs. Finding him in the Essenze Jazz lineup means that the dialogue between voice and piano, at Brancaccio, rests on years of shared work.

Double bass, drums and saxophones

Enzo Pietropaoli on double bass and Marcello Di Leonardo on drums form the rhythm section, the part that in a concert of this kind decides how much room is left for improvisation. Daniele Scannapieco on saxophones is the second melodic voice of the evening, the one that answers the singing and the accordion. The presentation speaks of inventions and virtuoso flights of voice and accordion that find answers in the free composition of the musicians: it's in these exchanges that the concert comes alive.

Susanna Krasznai's cello

The cello is not a usual instrument in a jazz lineup, and Susanna Krasznai's presence is the most interesting detail of the ensemble. It adds a chamber music color, closer to the classical training De Crescenzo received as a child, and links jazz to the Mediterranean influences the presentation mentions.

Who Eduardo De Crescenzo is: the biography

Eduardo De Crescenzo is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician, born in Naples on February 8, 1951, in the Vasto district. Voice and accordion are his instruments. His career spans 1960s beat, the Sanremo Festival, singer-songwriter music, Mediterranean music and jazz.

Childhood and the accordion

A grandson of Vincenzo De Crescenzo, he received his first accordion as a gift at three. At five he made his stage debut and began classical studies with the teacher and conductor Giuseppe Bavota. As a teenager he played in a beat group, Eduardino e i Casanova, whose members all came from Ponte di Casanova, in the Vasto district: with them he recorded his first single in 1967, Hai detto no!. He then enrolled in law school, which he left after eight exams.

The Ricordi and Sanremo years

At the end of the 1970s he signed with Dischi Ricordi. Among his first works was a reworking of Vittorio Monti's Czardas, a 19th-century Hungarian-style composition, which in 1978 became La solitudine. In 1980 his collaboration with Franco Migliacci and Claudio Mattone began, leading to Ancora and Sanremo 1981. He would return to the festival four more times: in 1985 with a song by Claudio Mattone and Daniele Pace, in 1987 with L'odore del mare, in 1989 with Come mi vuoi, written with Mariella Nava and later also recorded by Mina, in 1991 with E la musica va.

Neapolitan, film, collaborations

His early output alternates Italian and Neapolitan: his third LP, from 1983, is sung entirely in Neapolitan. In 1984 he recorded Casualità for the soundtrack of Francesco Laudadio's film Fatto su misura and sang Taptitò in Luciano De Crescenzo's Così parlò Bellavista. In 1986 he performed In fondo al mare on Toquinho's album Storie di una storia sola, and in 1992 he played accordion for Peppino di Capri.

Cante jondo, Danza Danza and success abroad

From Nudi, in 1987, De Crescenzo signs his own songs as author or co-author and looks for new crossovers. The turning point came with two albums: Cante jondo in 1991 and Danza Danza in 1993, which includes Zingaro, a song composed in 1991 and dedicated to the flamenco cantaor Camarón de la Isla. With these records came international success too. In 1995 came Live, taken from a benefit concert at Auditorium Rai in Naples, with the new song Cielo su cielo.

The 2000s and social commitment

In 2002 he returned with La vita è un'altra, after over six years without new records, and set off on a theater tour that opened at Palapartenope in Naples on April 10, 2003, with guests Maria Pia De Vito, Teresa De Sio and Mireille Mathieu. In 2004 he sang at the Manhattan Center in New York for Columbus Day. In 2006 he released Le mani, taken from a concert at Naples central station: on December 27, 2006, the project led to the opening of a Help Center in the station, a listening service for people in difficulty.

The 2012 return and Avvenne a Napoli

After a long absence from the stage, in spring 2012 he went back on tour with the preview of Essenze Jazz, with arrangements by Stefano Sabatini. The tour went on for years, until February 28, 2020, when it was suspended because of Covid restrictions after six consecutive seasons. On June 12, 2021 he presented Avvenne a Napoli, a tribute to Neapolitan song of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which became an album in 2022 and a tour of Italian theaters from 2023. In 2026 he returns to Essenze Jazz with the double vinyl and with concerts like the one at Brancaccio.

Eduardo De Crescenzo's discography

Eduardo De Crescenzo's discography includes 14 albums between studio and live, from his first, Ancora, in 1981 to Essenze Jazz 2026, plus many compilations released by his record labels.

The studio albums

Ancora (1981), Amico che voli (1982), De Crescenzo (1983), Dove c'è il mare (1985), Nudi (1987), C'è il sole (1989), Cante jondo (1991), Danza Danza (1993), La vita è un'altra (2002), Le mani (2006), Essenze Jazz (2013), Avvenne a Napoli (2022) and Essenze Jazz 2026, on double vinyl. The live album is Live, from 1995.

Where to start before the concert

The advice is to listen to two records in sequence: first a compilation of the 1980s hits, with Ancora and L'odore del mare in their original versions, then Essenze Jazz. Comparing the two versions of the same song is the key to the evening, and arriving at Brancaccio with the originals in your ears makes the work done on the arrangements obvious.

A curious fact about Eduardo De Crescenzo, Essenze Jazz at Teatro Brancaccio, November 13, 2026

The most surprising curious fact concerns the first stage of his life, and it leads to Rome. According to his biography, Eduardo De Crescenzo made his debut at five at Teatro Argentina in Rome: a Neapolitan boy with an accordion on the stage of the theater on Largo Argentina, in the mid-1950s. 70 years later, the November 13 concert brings him back to a Roman theater a few kilometers from there, with the same instrument.

The second curious fact lies in the origin of La solitudine, the 1978 song that starts his story at Ricordi. It wasn't born from an original melody, but from a reworking of Vittorio Monti's Czardas, a 19th-century violin piece every music student knows. It's an idea that anticipates Essenze Jazz by over 30 years: take a known form and transform it with your own voice.

The third concerns Rome and the recent history of the project. When Essenze Jazz started in 2012, one of the main dates was Rome, on May 4. The following year the second part of the tour began in Rome, at Teatro Sistina, on March 21, 2013. The city is therefore one of the places where the project was tested from the start, and Brancaccio adds to that story. Then there's one last detail: in 1981, the jury that named him best performer at Sanremo was chaired by Sergio Leone, the Roman director of the spaghetti westerns.

Teatro Brancaccio, the concert hall

Teatro Brancaccio, at Via Merulana 244, is one of the largest halls in Rome: since 1937 it has had two foyers, a large orchestra level and two balcony tiers, for about 2,000 seats at the time. Today it's home to the production center Viola Produzioni and hosts musicals, drama, dance and concerts.

Orchestra and balconies

The orchestra is divided into the Poltronissima and Poltrona sections, with A and B tiers and the Gold tier that appears in the booking system. Above are the first balcony, also divided into A and B, and the second balcony. The balconies are not served by elevators: you get there on foot.

A music hall

Brancaccio was born as a variety and entertainment theater, hosted the Rome Opera for 15 years, and today alternates big musicals and concerts. For a jazz concert with six musicians the hall is large, but the orchestra and balcony layout keeps a direct relationship with the stage. In our view it's the right size for an artist who seeks both the intimacy of jazz and the broad audience of popular song.

Brancaccino and the complex

The main hall is part of a larger complex, which includes Brancaccino, a theater of about 100 seats devoted to contemporary playwriting and children's theater, a training area and a terrace on Via Merulana. For the venue's full page there's the one devoted to Teatro Brancaccio.

Something nobody tells you about Eduardo De Crescenzo, Essenze Jazz at Teatro Brancaccio, November 13, 2026

What almost nobody tells you is that Brancaccio's rules ask spectators to arrive at least an hour before the start. For the 21:00 concert that means being on Via Merulana at 20:00. It's not a formality: the hall is large, there are visual checks of bags and backpacks and the cloakroom, where umbrellas must also be left. In mid-November, with rain possible, the cloakroom line can be long.

The rules are strict about latecomers too: entry to the hall after the show has started is not allowed, and latecomers wait in the foyer until the first suitable moment. At a concert with no intermission, the theater may let latecomers in at its discretion, but without guaranteeing their assigned seat. At a jazz concert, where the first pieces set the mood of the evening, missing the start means missing the key to it.

A second little-known thing: bulky backpacks over 17 liters aren't allowed in the hall without staff authorization. Anyone coming from work with a laptop backpack risks the cloakroom and the line on the way out. Third: tickets are issued in the holder's name, linked to a personal registration, and can't be freely transferred without the theater's agreement. Anyone buying for other people needs to know this before getting to the entrance.

My tip for visiting Eduardo De Crescenzo, Essenze Jazz at Teatro Brancaccio, November 13, 2026

The tip is to choose your seat based on what you want to hear. If you're going for De Crescenzo's voice, and want to see his face and his hands on the accordion, you should be in the orchestra, in the Poltronissima at 57 euros or the Poltronissima Gold at 69. If you're going for the overall sound, to hear how double bass, piano, sax and cello answer the singing, you can go up to the first balcony: tier A costs 46 euros and tier B 37, and from above the balance of the ensemble comes across better.

The second tip concerns preparation. Listen to the original versions of Ancora, L'odore del mare and E la musica va in the days before the concert. Essenze Jazz lives on departures from the original, and anyone who knows the starting melody recognizes the variations and improvisations.

The third concerns the evening. The concert is on a Friday: the advice is to eat early in Esquilino or Monti, get to Via Merulana around 20:00 as the rules ask, and leave your coat and umbrella in the cloakroom. After the concert, Piazza Vittorio and metro line A are a few minutes' walk away. One last practical detail: the box office is closed on Monday, so anyone who wants to buy in person has to plan between Tuesday and Friday.

How to get to Teatro Brancaccio

Teatro Brancaccio is at Via Merulana 244, in the Esquilino neighborhood, less than a kilometer from Termini station and a few steps from the Vittorio Emanuele stop on metro line A. It's among the easiest Roman theaters to reach by public transportation.

By metro

The nearest stop is Vittorio Emanuele, on metro line A: you come out onto Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II and reach Via Merulana in a few minutes. The alternative is the Cavour stop on metro line B, with a longer walk. From Termini, where the two lines cross, you can also walk to the theater, passing by Santa Maria Maggiore.

By bus

The theater lists three surface stops. On Via Merulana, at the Merulana/Brancaccio and Merulana/Mecenate stops, lines 16, 75, 714, 717 and C3 run. At the Labicana/Merulana stop lines 3, 53, 75, 85, 87, 186, 571, 810, C3 and the night line N10 run, the last one useful for getting home after the concert.

By taxi

The taxi stands listed by the theater are on Largo Brancaccio, at Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II number 113, at Via Principe Amedeo 138, at Via Giolitti 6 and on Via Venosta. When a full house lets out, the Largo Brancaccio stand empties fast: it's best to walk toward Piazza Vittorio or book by phone.

By car

The theater lists no partner parking and parking in Esquilino on a Friday night is hard. Anyone coming from outside Rome would do better to leave the car near a metro line A or B station and continue by metro. For transit times it's best to check the Atac journey planner before going out.

Another well-known fact, yet not often mentioned

It's well known that Eduardo De Crescenzo is the voice of Ancora and one of the most recognizable names in Neapolitan singer-songwriter music. It's less often remembered that his career, since the 1990s, has had an international reach: with Cante jondo and Danza Danza came success abroad, E la musica va was also released in France and Britain in an English version, and in 2004 the singer-songwriter gave a concert in New York, at the Manhattan Center, for the Italian community in the United States. Cante jondo is the name of the deep song of Andalusia, and Zingaro is dedicated to Camarón de la Isla: the Mediterranean of his music also looks to Spain.

The second little-mentioned fact concerns his social commitment. In 1994 he sang in Scampia on May 1. In 1995 he gave a benefit concert at Auditorium Rai in Naples that became his first live album. In 2006 the Le mani project led to the opening of a Help Center in Naples central station, a listening and guidance service for homeless people. The De Crescenzo of Sanremo and the one of stations and outskirts are the same person.

The third fact concerns Brancaccio. Everyone in Rome knows it's the musicals theater. Fewer remember that from 1985 to 2000 it was the home of the Fondazione dell'Opera di Roma. The stage De Crescenzo sings on carried opera for 15 years: a theater used to voices.

The right photo to take at Eduardo De Crescenzo, Essenze Jazz at Teatro Brancaccio, November 13, 2026

No photos during the concert: Brancaccio's rules forbid photographing and filming the show, even with a phone, and ask you to switch phones off before the start. The right photo, then, is taken before and after.

The first is the theater's facade on Via Merulana, in the evening, with the name of the concert lit up. The advice is to cross the street and shoot from the opposite sidewalk with a wide lens, so you get the front of the theater and a stretch of Via Merulana, one of the longest and straightest streets in the center. In mid-November, with standard time, it's already dark at 18:00: the hour before the concert, with the audience arriving, is the best moment.

The second is the hall seen from the first balcony, before the lights go down, with the stage set for six musicians: the piano, the double bass resting, the drums, the chair for the cello and, in the center, the place for the accordion. It's the image that tells Essenze Jazz better than any close-up, because it shows the ensemble. No flash, and put the phone back in your pocket as soon as the lights dim.

Around Brancaccio: Esquilino, Monti and Via Merulana

Teatro Brancaccio is on Via Merulana, between the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, in the Esquilino neighborhood: if you arrive an hour or two early you have around you one of the most history-packed areas of the city.

Two basilicas and an ancient auditorium

Via Merulana runs between Santa Maria Maggiore and St. John Lateran. Along the same street are Palazzo Merulana and, a little further on, the Auditorium of Maecenas, the Roman-era hall named after the patron of Horace and Virgil: an ancient auditorium a few steps from a modern concert.

Piazza Vittorio and Porta Alchemica

To the north, past the metro stop, is Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II with the Porta Alchemica, one of the most photographed curiosities of Esquilino. The neighborhood is the most multiethnic in Rome, and the Nuovo Mercato Esquilino mirrors it, but it's a daytime market.

The Monti district

To the west you go down into the Monti district, with its streets sloping toward the Forums. If you want to discover it before the concert there's the page on Rione Monti. In November the advice is to take the walk in the afternoon: at 17:00 there's still a sliver of light, after the concert the monuments are closed.

Some important events that happened here in history

The history of Teatro Brancaccio begins in January 1916, when the hall opened under the name Teatro Morgana. It was built against the embankment of the gardens of the Field-Brancaccio palace, the noble family that takes its name from Isabella Field, who married Prince Brancaccio. The link with the nearby Palazzo Brancaccio is physical even before it's a matter of name.

The decisive step came in 1937: the hall opened in the configuration known today, with two foyers, a large orchestra level and two balconies for about 2,000 seats, and took the name Teatro Brancaccio. In 1985 it became the home of the Fondazione dell'Opera di Roma, which stayed until 2000. Then the City of Rome took over and entrusted its direction to Gigi Proietti until 2007, followed by Maurizio Costanzo's management until 2010 and that of Stage Entertainment Italia until 2012. Since September 2012 the artistic director has been Alessandro Longobardi.

The recent years are those of its transformation into a cultural hub: Brancaccino, the training area, the terrace on Via Merulana, the acting and musical theater academies.

For De Crescenzo, 2012 was a parallel year: while in September Brancaccio changed management, on September 15, at the Museo nazionale ferroviario di Pietrarsa, he closed the first run of Essenze Jazz concerts. 14 years later, the project and the theater meet.

Who has passed through Eduardo De Crescenzo, Essenze Jazz at Teatro Brancaccio, November 13, 2026

Some of the biggest names in entertainment have passed across the Brancaccio stage. The theater recalls several: Totò, Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi and Gigi Proietti among actors, Fabrizio De André, Louis Armstrong and Jimi Hendrix among musicians. For a jazz concert, Armstrong's name is the most meaningful precedent: jazz has already had a home in this hall.

Over the years the Essenze Jazz project has passed through important stages, which the theater's presentation lists: Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Casa del Jazz in Rome, the Ravello Festival, Umbria Jazz, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Arena Flegrea. In 2013 the Ravello Festival concert was held at the Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, the Umbria Jazz one at Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia.

De Crescenzo's career has seen musicians and writers of weight: Claudio Mattone, Franco Migliacci, Daniele Pace, Guido Morra, Maurizio Fabrizio, Mariella Nava, Franco Del Prete, Eugenio Bennato, Sergio Cirillo as co-writers, Mina, who recorded Come mi vuoi, Phil Manzanera, who performed the English version of E la musica va, Toquinho and Peppino di Capri in collaborations, Maria Pia De Vito, Teresa De Sio and Mireille Mathieu as guests on the 2003 tour.

On the evening of November 13 Enzo Pietropaoli, Marcello Di Leonardo, Julian Oliver Mazzariello, Daniele Scannapieco and Susanna Krasznai also pass through Brancaccio: five musicians who make the concert an ensemble work, rather than a soloist's performance with backing.

Brancaccio's house rules: what to know

Teatro Brancaccio's rules apply to every evening, De Crescenzo's concert included: arrive at least an hour early, no entry after the show has started, no photos or filming, no food in the hall.

Bags, umbrellas and cloakroom

The theater has a cloakroom, a bar and merchandise sales. Umbrellas don't go into the hall and must be left at the cloakroom. Not allowed: plastic bottles over half a liter, glass containers, motorcycle helmets, professional cameras, tripods and selfie sticks. Food and drinks may only be consumed at the bar.

Seats and dress

You may only sit in your assigned seat: for safety reasons moving is not allowed, not even to empty seats. On dress the theater asks for clothing suited to the decorum of the hall, without a real dress code: for a Friday night concert neat clothing is enough.

Teatro Brancaccio accessibility

Teatro Brancaccio states that it has no architectural barriers for access to the orchestra level: there's a ramp, an area for wheelchairs and an accessible restroom on the ground floor, reached from the foyer.

Wheelchairs and reduced mobility

For evenings organized by the management, the theater provides, while they last, orchestra seats for wheelchair users and people with walking difficulties. The balconies can't be reached in a wheelchair, because there are no elevators. The seats are booked by writing to the box office with the appropriate form and the required documentation. An ordinary ticket bought through other channels doesn't guarantee access.

Visual and hearing disabilities

For spectators with visual and hearing disabilities the theater reserves, on request, orchestra seats while they last. Anyone with a service dog can ask the box office to enter the hall with the animal.

With young people

The rules state that children under 14 may enter only with an adult. Essenze Jazz is an evening concert for an adult audience, but for a young person studying an instrument, especially the accordion or the piano, it can be a live lesson in how a song is transformed.

Where to eat before the concert

Around Brancaccio there are three options: the neighborhood bars and places on Via Merulana, good for a quick meal, multiethnic Esquilino around Piazza Vittorio, with cuisines from many countries and low prices, and the Monti district, a quarter of an hour's walk away, with trattorias, osterias and wine bars.

Before or after

With the start at 21:00 and arrival required at 20:00, dinner needs to be moved up to 19:00. If you prefer to eat after, Monti has the best choice for a relaxed table, but on a Friday night it's best to book: when the theater lets out, a whole hall is looking for a table in the same blocks.

Mid-November in Rome, the season of theater concerts

In mid-November Rome enters the theater season: the summer series ended long ago, the halls are full and the calendar of indoor concerts is packed. On the same Brancaccio program, in the following days, other music events are expected, like Michele Bravi on November 20, and the month after Mario Biondi, another name that links popular song and jazz.

Mid-November weather alternates mild days and rain. For the theater there are two practical consequences: umbrellas end up at the cloakroom, so a folding model or a raincoat is better, and with standard time darkness comes early, so anyone who wants to pair the concert with a walk between Santa Maria Maggiore and Monti should do it in the early afternoon.

FAQ about Essenze Jazz at Brancaccio

When does Eduardo De Crescenzo sing at Teatro Brancaccio?

Eduardo De Crescenzo brings Essenze Jazz to Teatro Brancaccio in Rome on Friday, November 13, 2026, starting at 21:00. It's a single date, in the Concerti section of the 2026-2027 season of the theater at Via Merulana 244. The rules ask you to arrive an hour early.

How much are tickets for Eduardo De Crescenzo at Brancaccio?

Tickets for Essenze Jazz at Teatro Brancaccio cost, at full rate, 69 euros in Poltronissima Gold, 57 in Poltronissima, 51 in Poltrona, 46 in I Balconata A and 37 in I Balconata B. They're sold at the box office on Via Merulana and on the authorized platform listed on the theater's website.

Who plays with Eduardo De Crescenzo in Essenze Jazz?

In Essenze Jazz at Brancaccio Eduardo De Crescenzo, voice and accordion, is joined by Enzo Pietropaoli on double bass, Marcello Di Leonardo on drums, Julian Oliver Mazzariello on piano, Daniele Scannapieco on saxophones and Susanna Krasznai on cello, according to the lineup published by the theater.

Which songs does De Crescenzo sing in Essenze Jazz?

The official Essenze Jazz page gives Eduardo De Crescenzo's classic songs as the outline: Ancora, L'odore del mare, E la musica va, Dove, Il racconto della sera, C'è il sole, La vita è un'altra, Naviganti and Sarà così, reinterpreted in a jazz and blues key with plenty of room for improvisation.

How do you get to Teatro Brancaccio by metro?

Teatro Brancaccio can be reached on metro line A, Vittorio Emanuele stop, a few minutes' walk away, or on metro line B, Cavour stop. Buses 16, 75, 714, 717 and C3 also stop on Via Merulana. For getting home at night there's the N10 line at the Labicana/Merulana stop.

What is Eduardo De Crescenzo's Essenze Jazz?

Essenze Jazz is the project in which Eduardo De Crescenzo reinterprets his own repertoire in a jazz key, first presented in 2012 at Teatro San Carlo in Naples. In 2013 it became an album on the EmArcy-Universal label, reissued in 2026 as a double vinyl by BMG.

Is Teatro Brancaccio wheelchair accessible?

Teatro Brancaccio states barrier-free access to the orchestra level, with a ramp, a wheelchair area and an accessible restroom on the ground floor. The balconies are not accessible. Reserved seats are booked by writing to the box office with the form and documentation the theater requires.

Final advice on Eduardo De Crescenzo, Essenze Jazz

Essenze Jazz at Brancaccio is an evening for two audiences that rarely meet: those who loved Ancora and L'odore del mare in the 1980s and those who frequent Rome's jazz clubs. The advice is to arrive prepared, with the original versions of the songs in your ears, choose the orchestra if you're going for the voice and the first balcony if you're going for the ensemble, and respect the time in the rules: on Via Merulana at 20:00, coat and umbrella at the cloakroom, phone off. In our view the value of the evening lies in the ensemble: six musicians treating popular songs as chamber material, in a hall that has already hosted Armstrong.

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