Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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The Teatro dellOpera in Rome the second most prestigious opera house in Italy after La Scala in Milan has just staged a miracle never before performed in its 124-year history. However, its superintendent and chief-cond...
Sabina is a beautiful country retreat within easy reach of Rome  Just ten years ago there was nothing here, says Luciana Pancera. She points to the rolling green countryside stretching out as far as the eye can s...
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It may be autumn but the colours of Italian politics are strong and dramatic. The seasonal appointment to pass the budget has drawn into relief all the divisions in the government coalition and has even threatened to bri...
Though there are a great many masterpieces and surprises in this exhibition, it is a hotchpotch because it is a theme show. Theme shows are notoriously dangerous, because more often than not the works are gathered and sq...
Musicians from all over the world will be in Rome between 9-17 December for the fourth edition of the International Festival of Young Musicians. The festival is organised by the Rome-based association Musicaeuropa with f...
A famous round painting of the Adoration of the Christ child, which has puzzled art historians for more than a century, has been restored and put back on display at the Borghese Gallery in Rome. At the end of the 18th c...
On Sun 5 Dec the Rome city refuse disposal department, AMA, in collaboration with TG3 Lazio, the regional television news of RAI 3, is offering free disposal of any large items of rubbish, to the residents of the odd-num...
Trenitalia has announced that it is to dedicate one high-speed train every day to Milan, and back, at the special price of 9 each way. The new service is not a temporary offer and will be included in the trenitalia timet...
All Italian public sector workers are to strike all day on 30 Nov. Government offices, schools, banks, post offices and airports are expected to close and demonstrations are planned in 70 different towns and cities all o...
Magistrates in Rome are investigating irregularities regarding fines issued by assistant traffic police in the city. The complaints include fines being given to the same car in two different areas of the city at the same...
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The company that runs Rome's buses and trams, ATAC, has announced that it will improve its Sunday services to get passengers to places of culture and entertainment more easily.The alterations will come into effect from...
An evening of undiluted pleasure and stimulation. Although the famous partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan, brought together by the impresario Richard DOyly Carte and extremely profitable for all three, finally came apar...
Consumers worldwide are invited to stop shopping for 24 hours on 26 Nov. "Buy nothing day" is promoted by Canadians who claim that excessive consumption is doing irreparable damage to the environment. The group is again...
They call them "unaccompanied foreign minors" and they estimate that there at least 8,000 of them in Italy. They are children who arrive illegally from outside the European Union without parents or anyone who is legally...
Oscar Wildes dramatic study in necrophilia and general perversion, Salom, was originally written in French, a language the author regarded as more suitable for so shocking a subject. It came out in 1893, to be published...
The MTV European Music Awards will take place at a live concert to be held at Tor di Valle in Rome on 18 Nov. The ceremony, which will be broadcast all over the world to an audience of more than a billion people, is attr...
In line with a European Union directive to all member states, the Italian government has created a national office against racial discrimination. The office has a contact centre, with a free phone number, which will begi...
Italy and Greece are at the bottom of the list of European Union countries when it comes to palliative care to alleviate pain for people suffering from terminal and chronic illnesses and for post-operation conditions in...
If the majority in the Italian chamber of deputies has its way Rome will not receive the extra capital funding that it has requested, to pay for special projects such as improvements to the public transport infrastructur...
Italy is clamping down on absenteeism from work, as has been demonstrated recently by the case of three women teachers from a school near to Naples. Every year for seven consecutive years from 1991-1997, the three went t...
Popular wisdom has it that taxi drivers in Rome are dubious, unreliable characters with an eye for quick money. The service has never been popular with residents or tourists of the eternal city, who claim that drivers ov...
l Rome Collects is an exhibition of contemporary Italian art at the American Academy in Rome that investigates art collecting in the city over the past 25 years. Significant works from the collections of various individu...
In ancient Rome there were 11 public baths, but as many as 951 were in private hands. In their publicity some of the private ones stressed their elegance and respectability, implying, a pool of modern experts has conclud...
The story is easy to tell. The prime minister had a loyal, but sometimes prickly, supporter of his government. He wanted to reward him for his services in a suitable but not too elevated place. He decided to move him out...
Its recent 40th birthday went largely unnoticed and uncelebrated. Yet the Autostrada del Sole is the longest motorway in Italy, hosts an average of over 58,000 vehicles a day along its 803.5 km, and has a lovely, almost...
Popular wisdom has it that taxi drivers in Rome are dubious, unreliable characters with an eye for quick money. The service has never been popular with residents or tourists of the eternal city, who claim that drivers ov...
Forget about the Colosseum and Trajans markets, get yourself into one of the citys many archives to unearth the hidden historical secrets of Rome on paper. From the wealthy noble family to the local bar in Campo de Fior...
After a legal battle, lasting for ten years, the customers seem to have won a case against Italian banks over the payment of interest. Until the year 2000, all Italian banks calculated interest on accounts in credit on...
The last day of the Islamic fast of Ramadan in Italy, will be on Saturday 13 Nov. The festival Eid al-Fitr, literally meaning "Festival of Breaking the Fast", marks the end of Ramadan. Prayers will be held at the Rome...
On Sunday 14 November All Saints Anglican Church in Via del Babuino 153/b is holding an inter-faith Remembrance Day ceremony at 11.00. info tel. 06036001881 On the same day there will be a Mass of remembrance organised...
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