Soloists in 18th-century costume from the Accademia d'Opera Italiana perform famous opera arias (3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 26, 30 and 31 Dec 2003 and 1, 3, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30 Jan 2004), and La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi...
I Concerti della Libraria Altieri al Gies. Chamber music concert by the Trio Degas with Francesco Negrini clarinet, Luca Baccelli cello, Matteo Sarti piano. Music by Brahms, Beethoven, Schumann (21.00).
5 Dec 2003-21 March 2004. Entitled "Villa Borghese: its origins, the arts, the city in the 18th and 19th centuries", this exhibition in Villa Borghese's newly restored Villa Poniatowski (which is open to the public for t...
A new train service starting mid-December will connect the suburban stations of Milano Rogoredo to Roma Tiburtina in three hours fifty five minutes. The trains will still begin and end their journeys at Milano Centrale a...
13-14 Dec 2003. The polyphonic choir of the Italian Centre for Ancient Music and the Baroque orchestra of the Associazione Musicale Romana perform music by Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Kuhnau, Johann Michael Bach, and G.F....
11 Dec 2003. Ballerina and choreographer Susanna Linke, one of the most high-profile members and teachers of Germany's Tanztheater company, talks about her artistic path and most recent choreographic experiences in an op...
An experimental Italian AIDS vaccine will soon be tested on humans. Virologist Barbara Ensoli and her team have been developing the vaccine at the Rome-based Italian Health Institute (ISS) since 1996. After testing the d...
Schaubhne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin. 19-20 Dec 2003. In Davant, choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Ferrara is gaining a reputation for its high-quality dance season and cycles dedicated to contemporary dance. Prima Vi...
One in four Italian motorists does not wear a seatbelt while at the wheel. The figure comes from EURES, the Italian Institute for Economic and Social Research, which has published the results of a survey of 72,000 Italia...
24 Oct-31 Jan 2004. Marcel Duchamp, with incomparable French wit, destroyed the age-old conventions of western art with one masterful stroke: he planted a moustache in the middle of the face of that most cherished icon o...
Football has long been known as the beautiful game, but in these days of tycoon chairmen, global merchandising and badly-behaved, millionaire players, its beauty can seem little more than skin deep. To a group of young i...
Bookstore chain Feltrinelli is undergoing a period of expansion and renovation in Rome, with the second wing of the megastore at Largo di Torre Argentina due to open in early Dec. After the relocation of most of its 70,0...