21 June-31 Aug 2003. One of the most breathtaking settings for opera in the world. This years festival, in its 81st edition, includes Turandot, Carmen, Aida, Nabucco and Rigoletto as well as a La Traviata Gala with Angel...
20 May-20 July. This is a careful survey of one of the pioneers of the Piazza del Popolo school (Schifano, Angeli, Lombardo, Mambor and so on) that began to develop in Rome in the 1960s. At the end of his short career (1...
1 July 2003. International chamber Ensemble. Concert by the Ensemble di clarinetti Ivan Muller. Music by Bach, Mozart, Rossini, Weill, Mancini, Gershwin (21.30).
A bus full of lawyers will be making its way around the outskirts of Rome over the next month as part of an experiment to provide legal assistance on an itinerant basis. The lawyers of the Foro di Roma will give advice f...
Look out for strange nocturnal events in the gardens of Via Sannio, S. Giovanni 23 June-1 July, when a gathering of witches promises mystery and entertainment. Organised by the cultural association "Il Naufragarmedolce"...
Italians are among the unhappiest people in the world, according to a survey of 40 countries conducted by the research institute Censis, with 26.4 percent dissatisfied with the quality of their lives compared with a glob...
19 June-31 July 2003. The ensembles summer season features symphonic and chamber music concerts, recitals and opera, as well as some operetta and musicals in the enchanting courtyard of the church of S. Ivo alla Sapienza...
This year Italian golf celebrates the venerable old age of 100. The sport was officially launched in Italy when Romes Acquasanta Golf Club situated between the ancient and new Appian ways and a stones throw from the tom...
Tivoli, Ostia Antica and Rome. 28 June-3 Aug 2003. An ambitious programme of opera, dance and music that unfolds in the magnificent setting of Villa Adriana in Tivoli, the beautiful Roman theatre at Ostia Antica and Rome...
Richard Alford, the director of the British Council in Italy, has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queens Birthday Honours List. Alford has been director of the British Council...
The dream of Vittorio Bocca is to make artichokes fly. Bocca is the chairman of CAR, short for Centro Agroalimentare di Roma, the enormous, brand-new wholesale fruit, vegetable and fish market that opened last November i...
The spotlight on Italian politics is widening to take in the whole of the European stage. Next month, Italy picks up the rotating European Union presidency, so all of a sudden what goes on here is not just of national in...