Roberto Colella in concert at Monk, November 19, 2026

Roberto Colella, Neapolitan singer-songwriter and for 12 years the voice of the band La Maschera, plays in Rome on Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 21:00 at Monk, at Via Giuseppe Mirri 35 (00159 Rome), in the Casal Bertone neighborhood, less than a kilometer from Tiburtina station. It's the Rome stop of his first solo club tour, devoted to the album Ce Sta Sempe Na Via, released on May 7, 2026, and shortlisted among the five finalists of the Targhe Tenco 2026 for best dialect album. You can reach Monk on metro B or with the FL1, FL2 and FL3 regional trains to Tiburtina, or with buses 163, 409 and 545 indicated by the club. Admission is paid: prices are published on Monk's official website, in the tickets section, which leads to the presale circuit authorized by the organizers.

Roberto Colella at Monk at a glance

Roberto Colella brings to Monk in Rome, on Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 21:00, the club tour of Ce Sta Sempe Na Via, his first solo album of new songs, with a band on stage.

Date and time

A single Rome date, Thursday, November 19, 2026, starting at 21:00. That's the time given in Monk's official program, which lists the event in the Teatro hall, indoors.

Tickets

Monk lists paid admission and points to its own tickets section, connected to the authorized presale circuit. The tour press release also mentions a single page with presales for all dates.

The tour

The Ce Sta Sempe Na Via club tour hits five cities: on November 7 Locomotiv Club in Bologna, on the 11th Off Topic in Turin, on the 12th Santeria in Milan, on the 19th Monk in Rome and on December 3 Duel Club in Naples. It's Colella's first solo club tour, after the summer concerts.

Who's on stage

The press release announces a band of musicians on stage with Colella. The names haven't been published. The show promises rhythm, irony and truth: people sing, dance and laugh.

Ce Sta Sempe Na Via: the album of the tour

Ce Sta Sempe Na Via, released on May 7, 2026, on Full Heads with distribution by Audioglobe and Believe, is Roberto Colella's first solo album of new songs, preceded by the single La casa sull'albero.

The title

The title in Neapolitan means there's always a way. Colella explained it at the album presentation as the possibility of overcoming loneliness and hardship.

The themes

The tour press release describes a sincere work, dense with images and reflections, that tries to analyze anxieties and fears to turn them into new stimuli. The narrative heart is rebirth: from individual loneliness to the collective loneliness of a people left to fend for itself, from the passion that isolates to the one that sparks new visions.

The sound

The album alternates acoustic ballads and more energetic tracks. The arrangements pair acoustic instruments with contemporary sounds, with a string quartet, a woodwind quartet and musicians from different backgrounds.

The Targhe Tenco

Ce Sta Sempe Na Via made the five-album shortlist of the Targhe Tenco 2026 for best dialect album. It's the same category in which, in 2017, ParcoSofia, La Maschera's second record, was among the finalists: for Colella a return, this time under his own name.

What to expect from the concert at Monk

The live show of Ce Sta Sempe Na Via alternates energetic, explosive moments with intimate atmospheres, with the songs from the new record alongside the repertoire the audience knows from the La Maschera days.

The songs that get people dancing

The press release mentions two titles: Ali, Bomaye! and Sotto chi tene core, the song that gave its title to La Maschera's third album. These are the moments when, according to the presentation, the audience is swept up in a collective wave.

The intimate passages

Alongside these, the more intimate passages of Colella's songbook, where the words are central and the audience sings together as a single voice. If you know La Maschera's songs, you know how much the crowd's chorus is part of their concerts.

The feel of the piazzas in a club

The stated idea of the tour is to bring into a club the festive air of summer concerts in Italian piazzas. The intimate size of a hall like Monk's, according to the artist, is perfect for this record.

Roberto Colella: biography

Roberto Colella, born in Villaricca on February 27, 1991, is a songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist: he plays voice, guitar, keyboards, flutes, saxophone and chalumeau.

The northern outskirts of Naples

Colella grew up in the northern outskirts of Naples. His mother was from Scampia. He came to the guitar thanks to a friend who, noticing he was left-handed, reversed the strings on the instrument for him. He started writing lyrics and music in Neapolitan early on.

The first songs

At the end of 2012 he wrote Il ballo del potere, his first song. He then wrote Pullecenella, inspired by the Pulcinella mask, which on June 14, 2013, he presented at the Agorà Jazz Festival in Giugliano with Vincenzo Capasso, Eliano Del Peschio, Marco Salvatore and Alessandro Morlando.

The video at Pignasecca

The director Vincenzo Caiazzo offered the band a music video. The Pullecenella video, shot at Pignasecca, reached 100,000 views and was shown for three months in the stations of the Naples metro. Colella, who was studying languages at university, already had a ticket to Prague for his Erasmus: the success changed his plans.

Isolamente and the radio

During the first lockdown of 2020 he devised and hosted Radiolella, a live program for four Sundays on Radio CRC. On December 21, 2020, he released Isolamente, his first solo album, in 400 copies that sold out as soon as it was announced: 11 reworkings of songs from the Neapolitan and Sardinian traditions and of international classics, entirely arranged, played and sung by him, with songs by Pino Mauro, Nino D'Angelo, Andrea Parodi and The Sound of Silence.

Writer

In 2022 he published the short story Napoli, 1943, devoted to the Neapolitan resistance during the war, at the same time as La Maschera's third album.

The La Maschera years

La Maschera, a Neapolitan band founded in 2013 with Roberto Colella as frontman and main composer, released three albums, won the Premio Andrea Parodi and played in Europe, Canada and South Korea, until its breakup in 2025.

The three albums

The first record is 'O vicolo 'e ll'allerìa, from 2014, which immediately did well in Italy and abroad. In 2017 came ParcoSofia, a finalist at the Targhe Tenco for best dialect album. In 2022 Sotto chi tene core came out, a concept album of nine songs about social and emotional redemption, followed by three national tours with over 80 dates and many sellouts.

The Premio Andrea Parodi and the festivals

La Maschera won the Premio Andrea Parodi, the most prestigious Italian award for world music, and took part in festivals like Sziget, Seoul Music Week, Home Festival, Folkest and Giffoni Music Concept, as well as WOMEX in Seville. Their tours reached Portugal, Spain, Canada and South Korea.

Vitorino Salomé

In 2019 the band met Vitorino Salomé, a symbol of Portuguese folk music, a guest on December 19 at the concert at Casa della Musica in Naples. With him they recorded Se mai fossi, an adaptation of one of his songs, released in January 2020.

Piazza del Plebiscito and the theater

On August 15, 2023, Colella performed in Piazza del Plebiscito with a brand-new show and a surprise appearance by Lello Arena, in the R-estate a Napoli series. In December he presented Ci inventeremo qualcosa for four nights at Teatro Cilea in Naples, with Michele Maione on percussion and the Ondanueve String Quartet. Then came Canzoni nude e racconti di Resistenza, 10 theater dates as a duo with Maione.

The Terminatour

In summer 2025 Colella broke up the band, which said goodbye to its audience with the Terminatour, 10 dates across Italy to celebrate 12 years of music. In May 2026 he began his solo path with the new record.

The Ce Sta Sempe Na Via club tour, city by city

This autumn the Ce Sta Sempe Na Via club tour hits five Italian clubs, from Locomotiv in Bologna to Duel Club in Naples, with Rome as the next-to-last stop.

Bologna, Turin, Milan

The tour starts on November 7 at Locomotiv Club in Bologna, stops on the 11th at Off Topic in Turin and on the 12th at Santeria in Milan. Three northern cities in one week, for an artist who has built his audience well beyond Naples.

Rome

After a week's break the tour reaches Monk on November 19: it's the only date in Central Italy.

The closing in Naples

On December 3 the tour closes at home, at Duel Club in Naples. For the Roman audience with roots in Campania, the Monk date is a chance to see him without going down to Naples.

A curious fact about Roberto Colella in concert at Monk, November 19, 2026

The best curious fact in Roberto Colella's biography is the ticket to Prague. In 2013 he was a languages student ready to leave for his Erasmus, with the flight already bought. Then the Pullecenella video, shot at Pignasecca on a shoestring, reached 100,000 views and ended up for three months on the screens of the Naples metro stations. The trip was canceled, and La Maschera was born. It's one of those stories in which a song really changes the life of the person who wrote it.

The second curious fact concerns his hands. Colella is left-handed, and he played his first guitar with the strings reversed by a friend who had noticed. From there to becoming a multi-instrumentalist, able to move from guitar to saxophone, from flutes to chalumeau, the step was long but consistent.

Third curious fact: on his first solo record, Isolamente, from 2020, among the Neapolitan and Sardinian classics there's also The Sound of Silence. A song about silence, chosen in the middle of a lockdown, on a record of which only 400 copies exist: it's the gesture of a musician who sees folk song as a language without borders.

Monk, the cultural club in Casal Bertone

Monk is at the end of Via Giuseppe Mirri, at number 35, less than a kilometer from Tiburtina station. It has been active since 2014 and takes its name from the jazz pianist Thelonious Sphere Monk.

Two farmhouses in a park

Monk is made up of two farmhouses, totaling 500 square meters, and two outdoor areas inside a one-hectare park. The club presents itself as a small rural world in a densely populated neighborhood.

A space that does many things

Monk hosts big and small concerts, theater shows, workshops, book launches, festivals, markets and family activities, with a bar and a kitchen. In summer the club's life is in the park. In November concerts take place in the Teatro hall.

Barrier-free

Monk states that its spaces are free of architectural barriers and open to all ages: an important practical detail if you get around in a wheelchair or with a stroller.

Something nobody tells you about Roberto Colella in concert at Monk, November 19, 2026

What's rarely said is that for anyone who has followed Colella for years this is an evening of transition, not just an album launch. Until summer 2025 his name was tied to a band, La Maschera, with which he had built an audience over 12 years. The Terminatour closed that story. The Ce Sta Sempe Na Via club tour is the first where the name on the ticket is his alone. The press release presents it as Roberto Colella's first Italian club tour: if you were at Monk for La Maschera, you'll find beloved songs, like Sotto chi tene core, inside a new story.

The second thing concerns the language. Colella sings in Neapolitan, and the record was recognized precisely as a dialect album. If you don't know Neapolitan, don't be discouraged: La Maschera's music has toured Portugal, Spain, Canada and South Korea, in front of audiences who didn't understand a word, and the language of rhythm and melody always did the rest.

And a third thing: Thursday night. A weeknight concert at 21:00, in a club with a kitchen, lets you eat on site and get home at a reasonable hour. If you work on Friday, it's a concrete advantage.

How to get to Monk for Roberto Colella

You can reach Monk on metro B or with the FL1, FL2 and FL3 regional trains to Tiburtina station, less than a kilometer away, or with buses 163, 409 and 545 indicated by the official website.

By metro and train

From Tiburtina station you reach Via Giuseppe Mirri on foot in about 10 minutes. From Termini, metro B takes you to Tiburtina in a few minutes. On Thursday evening, check the time of the last run on the ATAC website before going out.

By bus

Lines 163, 409 and 545 serve the Monk area. For the exact route from your starting point, the most reliable tool is the ATAC journey planner, checked on the day itself.

By car and taxi

Casal Bertone is outside the limited traffic zone of the center. Street parking is possible, but it depends on the evening. For the trip back late at night, a taxi is still the most convenient choice.

My advice for attending Roberto Colella in concert at Monk, November 19, 2026

My advice is to arrive at Monk at least an hour early, eat something from the club's kitchen and take your spot in the hall calmly. Colella's concert is made for singing together, and the best moments come when the whole room joins in on the choruses: standing in the middle of the crowd, and not at the back by the bar, makes the difference.

The second piece of advice is to listen to Ce Sta Sempe Na Via in the days before. If you know La Maschera's songs, you already have half the repertoire in your head. The new songs, shortlisted for the Targhe Tenco, deserve to reach the concert already familiar, so you can sing them and not just listen.

Third piece of advice: respect the intimate moments. The live show alternates explosions and intimate passages where the words are at the center. In a hall like Monk's the murmur at the bar can be heard all the way to the stage: lowering your voice in those minutes is the best way to enjoy the loudest ones too.

Last piece of advice: buy your ticket early on the Monk website. A single Rome date, in a club-sized hall, with a loyal audience: evenings like this fill up.

Another well-known fact, yet rarely mentioned

It's well known that Naples has a unique musical tradition, and that Neapolitan song is one of the great folk repertoires of the world. It's mentioned less that song in Neapolitan today also travels through musicians born in the city's outskirts, who mix it with folk and world music and take it onto the stages of international festivals. La Maschera, in our opinion, was one of the most successful names of this season, from WOMEX in Seville to Seoul Music Week.

Another well-known and little-remembered fact is how much the Premio Andrea Parodi, won by La Maschera, is linked to a musician Colella later reinterpreted. Andrea Parodi, after whom the award is named, is among the artists of the songs reworked on Isolamente, the 2020 record that brings together the Neapolitan and Sardinian traditions. The link between Naples and Sardinia, in Colella's music, is no accident.

Finally, about Monk: a club named after a jazz pianist hosts in the same week a Neapolitan singer-songwriter, the Italian alternative rock of Marlene Kuntz and the English post-rock of Henge. In our opinion it's the variety of the program that makes Monk one of the most interesting places in the city.

Casal Bertone and the area around Monk

Casal Bertone is a neighborhood in the eastern part of Rome, between the Tiburtina railway, Via Prenestina and Portonaccio. Monk presents itself as born right between Casalbertone and Portonaccio.

A neighborhood between the tracks

The railway shapes the identity of the area: a working-class, dense neighborhood, grown between the tracks of Tiburtina station and the consular roads, where spaces like Monk have brought a new audience.

Verano and San Lorenzo

A little further west, beyond the railway, are the Verano Cemetery and the basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura. The San Lorenzo neighborhood, with its student and evening life, is a few minutes away by bus or taxi.

Villa Torlonia

To the north, along Via Nomentana, is Villa Torlonia: if you arrive in Rome in the afternoon, it's the closest visit before the concert.

How to plan the Roberto Colella evening at Monk

At Monk the evening of Thursday, November 19, is easy to plan: you arrive, eat, have a drink and go into the Teatro hall for the 21:00 concert.

When to arrive

For a concert with a loyal audience, arrive at least an hour early, around 20:00, to have dinner, pick up your ticket if needed and take your spot in the hall without rushing.

The club's hours

Monk publishes its opening hours week by week on its website. For the opening of the kitchen and bar on the day of the concert, the reference is the official website.

Getting back

A concert that starts at 21:00 on a Thursday ends late in the evening. If you're going back on metro B from Tiburtina, check the last run before going in. Otherwise, a taxi from Via Mirri to the center is the simplest choice.

Coming from out of town

If you come to Rome by train for the concert, Tiburtina station, also served by the FL1, FL2 and FL3 regional trains, is less than a kilometer from Monk: a rare convenience for a club.

Where to eat at Monk and nearby

Monk has its own kitchen with food trucks, and the most practical solution is to eat there before the concert.

Monk's kitchen

The menu published by the club includes burgers, supplì, falafel, parmigiana and other dishes, with vegan and gluten-free options. If you have severe allergies, tell the staff.

Nearby

If you'd rather have a sit-down dinner, you'll find neighborhood trattorias and pizzerias between Casal Bertone and Portonaccio, and a much wider choice in San Lorenzo, a few minutes away.

A pizza to stay on theme

For a concert of Neapolitan song, a pizza before or after is the most fitting choice: San Lorenzo has something for every taste.

The right photo to take at Roberto Colella in concert at Monk, November 19, 2026

The right photo at a Roberto Colella concert isn't a close-up of the singer: it's the room singing. The moment comes on the best-known choruses, Sotto chi tene core or the songs from the new record, when the audience raises their arms and sings along with the band. Stand to the side, a few meters back, and frame the lit stage together with the audience's heads backlit: it's the image of an evening built for singing in chorus.

No flash: in clubs it flattens the lights and disturbs those playing and those listening. In the intimate passages, the phone stays in your pocket: those are the moments when the words matter most, and a lit screen can be seen from the stage. A video of a few seconds of a chorus sung by the room is worth more than dozens of blurry photos.

A second photo is taken before the concert, outside: Monk's park with the two farmhouses lit on a November evening, at the end of Via Mirri. It's the image of the place, a little countryside among the Tiburtina tracks.

The third, if you collect memories, is the official image of the concert on Monk's program: Colella photographed by Robbie McIntosh, with the name of the tour.

Accessibility, children and practical information

Monk states that its spaces are free of architectural barriers and publishes a page on accessibility, with the rules for children and minors and services for deaf people.

With children

Admission is free for children up to 12 years old, accompanied by an adult with a valid ticket, one child per adult. A folk song concert, with rhythm and choruses, is suitable for younger audiences too.

Minors

Minors can attend events only with a parent or an adult relative, who signs a delegation form with the details of their ID.

Vibrating vests for deaf people

For some events marked in the program, Monk provides Woojer Vest 3 vibrating vests, which let you feel the music on your body. To find out if the service is planned for this concert, the contact is info@monkroma.it.

Some important events that happened here in history

Monk's history as a cultural space begins in 2014, when the two farmhouses on Via Giuseppe Mirri and the park around them became a place open to the city, with concerts, theater shows, workshops, book launches and family activities. From the start the club has stressed its openness to all ages and the absence of architectural barriers.

Over the years Monk has broadened its program, and today its autumn calendar includes historic international rock bands, Italian singer-songwriters, jazz, electronica and comedy. In summer the club lives in the park, in winter it moves to the Teatro hall. More recently it has introduced accessibility services for deaf people, with vibrating vests for some concerts.

The neighborhood that hosts it is an outskirt grown up along the railway, next to the Tiburtina rail yard and station. The club's name carries another story, that of jazz, through the pianist it's named after.

The story of the artist playing here on November 19 has its own dates: June 14, 2013, the first performance of the future La Maschera in Giugliano, 2014 the first album, 2017 ParcoSofia, 2022 Sotto chi tene core, August 15, 2023, the concert in Piazza del Plebiscito, summer 2025 the breakup, May 7, 2026, the first solo record of new songs.

Who has passed through Roberto Colella in concert at Monk, November 19, 2026

Monk doesn't publish a complete archive of the concerts it has hosted since 2014, but the autumn 2026 program gives a clear idea of the level of the artists who come through here. In the weeks around Colella's concert, the announced acts include The Fleshtones with their show for 50 years of career, corto.alto, the Brazilians Azymüth, Mark Guiliana and, two nights earlier, on November 17, Marlene Kuntz playing Il vile. In December come Modena City Ramblers, another name in Italian folk.

On November 19 Roberto Colella comes through, with a band of musicians whose names the tour hasn't published. And with him, ideally, come all the people who have crossed his path: Vincenzo Capasso, Eliano Del Peschio, Marco Salvatore and Alessandro Morlando from the first lineup, the director Vincenzo Caiazzo of the video at Pignasecca, Vitorino Salomé, who brought the sound of Portugal to Naples, Lello Arena, surprise guest at the Plebiscito, Michele Maione and the Ondanueve String Quartet from Teatro Cilea.

And through the songs of Isolamente come Pino Mauro, Nino D'Angelo and Andrea Parodi: Neapolitan and Sardinian song, brought together in the voice of a young man from Villaricca.

Mid-November in Rome: the time of the concert

In mid-November Rome enters the full season of indoor concerts, with cool and often rainy evenings.

The weather

November evenings can be damp: a waterproof jacket is useful for the walk from Tiburtina to Via Mirri.

A week of music at Monk

Between November 17 and 21 Monk hosts three concerts in five days: if you follow the scene, you can build a week of live music at the same club.

Frequently asked questions about Roberto Colella in Rome

When does Roberto Colella play in Rome?

Roberto Colella plays in Rome on Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 21:00 at Monk, at Via Giuseppe Mirri 35, in the Casal Bertone neighborhood. It's the Rome stop of the Ce Sta Sempe Na Via club tour, which also visits Bologna, Turin, Milan and Naples.

Who is Roberto Colella?

Roberto Colella is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Villaricca in 1991, for 12 years frontman and main composer of the Neapolitan band La Maschera. After the breakup in 2025 he released Ce Sta Sempe Na Via, his first solo album of new songs.

What is Ce Sta Sempe Na Via?

Ce Sta Sempe Na Via is Roberto Colella's first solo album of new songs, released on May 7, 2026, on Full Heads. The title means there's always a way. The record was shortlisted among the five finalists of the Targhe Tenco 2026 for best dialect album.

Will La Maschera's songs be played at the concert?

At Roberto Colella's concert at Monk, La Maschera's repertoire is announced alongside the new songs: the tour press release mentions Sotto chi tene core, title of the band's third album, together with Ali, Bomaye!. The full setlist hasn't been published.

How do you buy tickets for Roberto Colella at Monk?

Tickets for Roberto Colella at Monk are sold in the tickets section of Monk's official website, connected to the authorized presale circuit, where you'll also find the prices. The tour press release also points to a single page with presales for all dates.

How do you get to Monk by public transportation?

You can reach Monk on metro B or with the FL1, FL2 and FL3 trains to Tiburtina station, less than a kilometer away, and from there on foot in about 10 minutes. The club also lists buses 163, 409 and 545.

Can you bring a child to the concert?

At Monk admission is free for children up to 12 years old accompanied by an adult with a ticket, one per adult. Minors can enter only with a parent or an adult relative who signs a delegation form.

Final advice on Roberto Colella at Monk

A singer-songwriter who gave up his Erasmus for a song, built in 12 years a band loved across half the world, broke it up and now starts again on his own with a record recognized by the Targa Tenco: the November 19 concert is the first Rome chapter of a new story. Our advice is to buy your ticket early, have dinner at Monk, listen to the record before going out and stand in the middle of the room, where people sing.

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