Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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Live music returns to the Circus Maximus this summer as Rome opera festival moves back to Baths of Caracalla. Rome's Circus Maximus is to host several major rock concerts this summer as Italy sees a return of large-scal...
This year's Notte dei Musei attracted 10,000 more visitors than in 2019. Rome's museums saw a boom in the number of visitors for the 2022 edition of Notte dei Musei which returned to the Italian capital on Saturday nigh...
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Visitor falls on 17th-century canvas in Galleria Borghese. Rome museum experts on Thursday were assessing the damage caused to a painting by Baroque master Guido Reni after a visitor to Galleria Borghese fell against th...
Visitor numbers to many museums in Italy return to pre-covid levels. Italy's state museums and archaeological sites welcomed a surge of visitors for the Free Museum Sunday on 1 May, with many venues seeing a return to p...
Italy's Free Museum Sunday takes place on Labour Day. Italy will open its state museums and archaeological sites for free on 1 May in the second edition of a monthly event which resumed in April for the first time in mo...
Municipal museums mark Natale di Roma with free entry. Rome celebrates its 2,775th birthday by opening city-run museums for free on Thursday 21 April 2022. The free opening is part of the city's cultural programme of...
Italy mourns fearless photographer who documented Mafia crimes for decades. Letizia Battaglia, the legendary Italian photographer best known for her shocking images of Mafia murders and arrests in Sicily, died in her na...
Mattarella attends inauguration ceremony to launch Procida as Italy's new culture capital. Italian president Sergio Mattarella visited Procida on Saturday to inaugurate the tiny island in the Gulf of Naples as Italy's C...
Uffizi tops the list with 1.7 million ticket sales last year. The Uffizi in Florence was the most popular cultural site in Italy in 2021, coming ahead of the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums for the first time, accordi...
Archaeological complex has been closed for more than two years due to Italy's covid restrictions. The Case Romane del Celio is an underground archaeological site comprising 20 rooms on various levels under the church of...
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Italy welcomes back Domenica al Museo after two years. State and city-run museums in Rome will open their doors to tourists and residents for free on Sunday 3 April, for the first time in more than two years. The pop...
Popular event has not taken place in Italy since February 2020. Italy will resume its free opening of state museums and archaeological sites on the first Sunday of the month, starting on 3 April, the culture ministry ha...
Pesaro beat nine other candidates to scoop the prestigious title. The Italian seaside city of Pesaro has been proclaimed as the country's Capital of Culture 2024, the culture ministry announced on Wendesday. Pesaro b...
Municipal museums in Rome are free this Sunday. Rome's city-run museums are open for free to all visitors - residents and tourists - on Sunday 6 March. In addition to municipal museums there is free access to the arc...
The Keats-Shelley House in Rome marks the 200th anniversary of the drowning of Percy Bysshe Shelley with a series of events. The three months that Percy and Mary Shelley and Mary's half sister Claire Clairmont spent in...
Leonardo da Vinci is in the news in Italy over the 'Gioconda' painting in Rome's parliament. Italy's newspapers on Thursday were full of a story about the "discovery" of a Mona Lisa, a replica of the world-renowned mast...
Tornatore's tribute to Morricone hits Italian cinemas. A new movie dedicated to the much-loved Italian composer Ennio Morricone goes on general release in cinemas around Italy on 17 February. Ennio: The Maestro is th...
Keats-Shelley House hosts outdoor screening of Shelley in Rome on Saturday evening. Rome's Keats-Shelley House will host a free public screening of the short film Shelley in Rome on the façade of the museum building at...
New space for major art shows reopens in centre of Rome. There is good news for Rome's art scene with the reopening of Palazzo Bonaparte, an important exhibition space in the city centre, with several big shows lined up...
Mixed reaction to Rome pyramid's use in advertising campaign. The use of Rome's ancient Pyramid of Cestius to promote the release of Kenneth Branagh's new movie Death on the Nile has sparked debate on social media in It...
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