17-25 May 2003. Conducted by Bruno Campanella, directed by Donato Renzetti, with Mariella Devia, Vincenzo La Scola and Michele Pertusi.
The theme of this opera of 1843 is the Risorgimento which also inspired Verdis Nabu...
Aspiring heartthrobs are needed to appear in the 2004 calendar "I Belli di Roma". Photographer Loretta Mariani is looking for 12 good-looking male Romans aged 20-40 who fancy being models for a day, purely for the pleasu...
15-25 May 2003. Conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, directed by Andreas Homoki, with Alexander Teliga, Anne Wilkens and Martina Serafin. This comic opera, first performed in 1866, is the most popular of all Czech operas and...
14-23 May 2003. Conducted by Gabriele Ferro, directed by Eimuntas Nekrosius, with Lucio Gallo, Anna Shafajinskaia, Roberto Scandiuzzi and Walter Fraccaro.
28 May 2003: art restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon talks about Leonardo da Vincis painting of the last supper in Cenacolo: storia, condizione, restauro (18.30).
Rome-Milan, city centre to city centre, in only three hours? Comfortable, brand new regional trains which run on time? Smart new stations with deluxe facilities? If all that sounds like a commuters mirage, think again. A...
Of course no-one is going to sell the Colosseum, says Stefano Lenzi of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Italia, one of the organisers of the campaign to protect Italys cultural and environmental assets from recent le...
They will be laughing every Friday during May when The Gin Game, a play by D. L. Coburn, is staged. Trailed as a bitter-sweet comedy, it centres on a buffoonish and sarcastic clash between two quarrelsome guests at a res...
Cycling fans will be hoping for a hard-fought, scandal-free Giro dItalia to help lift the sport out of its drug-inspired doldrums when the epic road race sets off on 10 May.
The Giro, which follows a different route eac...
The Italian constitution prohibits the countrys involvement in war, and in March the president of the Italian republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, made it very clear that Italy could not send troops to fight in Iraq. However,...
13-30 May. Conducted by Riccardo Muti, directed by Cesare Lievi, with Leo Nucci, Aquiles Machado and Dimitra Theodossiou.
This work, which premiered in Rome in 1844, centres on the tragic figure of the Doge Francesco F...
8-15 May 2003. In this exhibition organised by Studiaperti & Artisti associati, 15 artists display work on the theme "La tentazione di esistere", the title of a work by E. M. Cioran.
Marymount International School is seeking a full time Athletic Director to provide for leadership and coordination among the various sports activities and to facilitate programs th...