8-21 Sept 2003. This event includes a series of comparisons between Italian and German contemporary dance, plus a work by the Swiss choreographer Yan Marussic and one by Toula Limnaios of Greece. There is also a conferen...
30 Sept and 1 Oct 2003. The opera season at Pisa also opens with La Traviata, which then moves on to Lucca (8-9 Oct) and Livorno (15-16 Oct). The production is an English interpretation by Jonathan Webb (conductor) and L...
Proof might be at hand that the ancient Roman emperor Caligula was every bit as megalomaniacal as anecdotes about his reign suggest.
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a vast palace which they believe was buil...
Rome's city council has launched another campaign to free the city's streets and parks of dog excrement and litter. The recently created office for urban decorum is working with the city's environmental agency, AMA, to s...
If you're in desperate need of a cultural fix after a long summer at the beach, try visiting one of Rome's many foreign academies, which offer a wide range of concerts, conferences and exhibitions that attract artists an...
A memorial stone inscribed with the names of some 600 victims of the Mafia since the end of the second world war will be placed at the entrance of Villa Osio in Viale di Porta Ardeatina, Romes mayor Walter Veltroni has a...
23 Sept-9 Oct. 2003. A collection of Italian aereonautical posters from 1910 to 1943 from the Massimo and Sonia Cirulli Archive in New York, plus graphic work by Mario Sironi and Bruno Munari.
20 Sept-30 Nov. 2003 Romes richest festival, organised by the French Academy and the city council, runs for longer than usual this year. The 350 artists from 15 different countries who are participating in the avant-gard...
As part of the park's centenary celebrations there are free fitness lessons at Villa Borghese every Sunday morning. There are qualified instructors for stretching, low-impact aerobics, walking, self defence and more. Les...
A plan to build floating homes for artists and students along the banks of the river Tiber has been given an 85 per cent approval rating in an online referendum launched by the city council. The project envisages a serie...
As part of its 2003 centenary programme, the Keats-Shelley House is holding a three-day literary festival in collaboration with the British School at Rome.
The festival focuses on the relationships between Romanticism...