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Ever noticed the green parakeets flying around Rome and wondered what they were and how they came to be living in the city?
Rome actually has two distinct species: the rose-ringed parakeet (above), a tropical Afro-Asi...
24-26 May. Jakub Hrůša will conduct the S. Cecilia orchestra and chorus playing Brahms symphony no 1 and Dvořák's concerto for cello played by the popular young French cellist Edgar Moreau. It was the last solo concerto...
Santa Cecilia celebrates Haydn with a concert on 23 May.
In the lead-up to the 300th anniversary of Haydn's birth the Joseph Haydn Foundation is organising and financing the recording of all the composer's 107 symphoni...
8 May-22 July. Palazzo Cipolla presents an exhibition of about 400 watercolours of Sicily by Fabrice Moireau, the celebrated French watercolourist who undertook a "grand tour" of the Italian island.
Moireau recorded vie...
Opera, ballet and concerts under the stars at the Baths of CaracallaRome's annual outdoor opera festival at the Baths of Caracalla also includes several ballet performances and concerts, on summer evenings from 13 June u...
17 May-30 June. MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea presents Thàlassa | Ouranòs, an exhibition of ten diptychs by the Rome-based painter Georgina Spengler. Created with oil and charcoal on wood, the works take their starting poi...
Castel Giuliano gardens north of Rome contain more than 1,000 roses.
The 2018 Festa delle Rose at the gardens of Castel Giuliano at Palazzo Patrizi takes place on 12-13 May from 10.00-19.00.
Located about 7 km from Bra...
Rome cinemas showing movies in their original English language versions from 3-9 May.
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HEREA traumatised war veteran with a penchant for violence tracks down missing girls for a living. Directed by...
3-6 May. The seventh edition of Rome’s Nordic Film Fest has Storia e storie as its theme and takes place as usual at the Casa del Cinema in Villa Borghese.
The Eternal Road / Ikitie (Finland)The festival promotes the f...
4 May-30 June. The Keats-Shelley House presents Spirit of Place, an exhibition by London artist Louisa Albani, to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Albani has created a collect...
4 May-11 Nov. Fondazione Memmo presents _Ruine, the first solo show in Rome of German artist Kerstin Brätsch, and _KOVO, the exhibition of the collective KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers), curated by Francesco Stocc...
James Walston Memorial Lecture at AUR on 3 May 2018.
The American University of Rome honours the memory of its late professor, James Walston, with The Rise (and Fall) of Demagogues, a lecture by AUR visiting professor D...
Canadian Club of Rome offers backstage talk with Elizabeth Shepherd and Michael Occhipinti at Auditorium Parco della Musica.
3 May. Two of Canada's most celebrated and original jazz artists - singer/pianist Elizabeth Sh...
Wanted in Rome's day-by-day guide to the best events and things to do in Rome throughout the month of May.
1 May. Celebrate Primo Maggio with the free concertone at Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano.2 May. Be amazed at the...
3-8 May. The 11th edition of the capital's Spanish Film Festival takes place at the Cinema Farnese Persol in Campo de' Fiori. The week-long event features a mixture of classic and contemporary Spanish-language cinema fro...
Big-name acts scheduled for Rome's annual concertone on 1 May.
Rome marks Labour Day - a national public holiday in Italy - with a large, free May Day concert in Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano on Tuesday 1 May from 15.0...
Traditional Afghan cuisine at the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center.25 May. The Joel Nafuma Refugee Center (JNRC) at the American Episcopal Church of Rome, St Paul’s Within the Walls, is holding a fundraising Afghan dinner on F...
4-20 May. Fans of the original 1987 film can watch the return of the successful show directed by Federico Belloni and with the guidance of Eleanor Bergstein author of the original film. The dates at Teatro Olimpico are t...
14 May. This production of Panni's oratorio based on the text of the book of Revelation in the Bible, was first performed at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in 2009.
Panni conducts the band of Italian army,...
10-12 May. S. Ceclia's musical director conducts Marler's symphony no 9, the composer's last completed work, which was written between 1908 and 1909.
There are numerous interpretations of this symphony, as a herald o...
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