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Articles Published on 09/04/2008
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Opera Review. La Fanciulla del West (by John Fort)
La Fanciulla del West, first sung at New York’s Met in December 1910 in a star-studded production, Destinn as Minnie, Caruso as Dick Johnson and Toscanini as conductor, is a rollicking plot of life in the Far West during the Gold Rush, which gives Puccini full scope to display all his enormous sk...
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Articles Published on 02/04/2008
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POLITICS: Italian elections: a difficult call (by James Walston)
In Rome there is a strong feel of approaching elections; there are posters covering the special election hoardings, so thickly plastered that they peel off under their own weight. There are lively speakers or lively music trying to grab voters’ attention, and huge mobile posters park at crossroad...
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FOREIGN COMMUNITY: Romanians in the hinterland of Rome (by Laura Clarke)
Constanta Dinca-Iordache has lived in Monterotondo for almost four years and she has never been to Rome. The only place she is familiar with is Tiburtina station, having passed through the transport hub on her way to and from Romania. “Of course I want to see the city but I have work to do here,”...
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MUSIC: Rolling with the Stoners in Rome (by Marco Zoppas)
“What can a poor boy do in sleepy London town?” sings Mick Jagger in The Rolling Stones hit “Street Fighting Man”. Change “London” to “Rome” and if you suffer from boredom a possible answer to that dilemma is to go and watch The Stoners, one of the best Rolling Stones tribute bands currently perf...
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Around the foreign cultural academies and institutes in Rome (by Michael Monkhouse)
The Japanese Cultural Institute together with the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo participates in this year’s edition of the FotoGrafia international photography festival from 4 April to 17 May with an exhibition on change and transformation in Japan from the 1960s to the present. The phot...
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Articles Published on 19/03/2008
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New museums in old premises (by Mary Wilsey)
Just over ten million tourists visit Rome each year, and spend on average 2.57 days in the city*. At a guess this is just long enough to see the Vatican museums and St Peter’s, the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, the best of baroque Rome and one of the great state art collections such as Galleria ...
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Gearing up for the elections (by James Walston)
So Italy is going to the polls again, this time on 13-14 April, almost two years to the day after the last elections, and three years before the normal end of the mandate. Everyone agreed that the electoral law passed by the centre-right government before the 2006 elections was an invitation to i...
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