The bodies of the 19 Italians killed by a bomb attack in Nassiriya in the south of Iraq, which were flown back to Rome on Saturday evening, will lie in state in the Victor Emmanuel Monument, the last resting place of the...
30 Nov 2003: Contemporary music event by Musicateatro-ensemble with Catharina Kroegher soprano, Carlo Riccioli baritone, Michele Pisicchio actor (21.00).
New health ministry figures show the summer's fierce heatwave took a much higher toll among Italy's elderly than previously reported, with 7,659 more deaths among the over-65s during the period 16 July-31 August than the...
17 Nov 2003. As part of a festival entitled "Musiche per il XXI Secolo", a concert of contemporary music commissioned by the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and played in public for the first time will be performed by soloi...
A new state-of-the-art planetarium is being installed in Romes southern EUR district. The attraction is scheduled to open in mid-January in the vast high-ceilinged Museo della Civilt Romana complex. The planetarium will...
An intercultural calendar for 2004, marking religious and lay festivities celebrated by different cultures, has just been released by Roman publishing house Sinnos. Along with Christmas on 25 December, it will tell you t...
28 Nov-6 Dec 2003. Directed by Marga Nativo and Keith Ferrone, the festival opens with a work by the Finnish choreographer Jyrki Karttunen entitled Keiju-Fairy, in which ancient Nordic fairy tales and modern technology m...
24 Nov-12 Dec 2003. After a successful showing at the Lelia Mordoch Gallery in Paris, this Belgian-born, Rome-based artist presents new work. Lomr, who is steadily gaining attention in European art circles, is currently...
The Professional Women's Association meeting on 19 Nov will feature a mini Christmas market, with handmade crafts such as costume jewellery, blankets, glass beads and children's clothing.
The Professional Womens Association meets on Wed 19 Nov for a lecture entitled The FAQs about Italian law by Italian lawyer Antonella Tanico. The evening starts with networking time at 19.00, followed by the lecture at 1...
27 Nov-22 Feb 2004. Photographs, objets d'art, paintings and hundreds of manuscripts make up this exhibition dedicated to the writer Alberto Moravia and to his relationship with his beloved city: Rome.
For an end to the judgement of God by Antonin Artaud and Kissing God Goodbye by June Jordan. 27-29 Nov 2003. Directed by Peter Sellars. Both texts express the hope for a better world, but Sellars casts a shadow on an inh...
28 Nov 2003-29 Feb 2004. Andrea Del Sartos Madonna Botti, painted in Florence around 1528-30, had been lost for centuries when it was recognised by a Del Sarto scholar in 2001. It is still in its original magnificent woo...
Dec: Ennio Morricone conducts the Roma Sinfonietta orchestra and choir, with Dulce Pontes voice, Susanna Rigacci soprano, Gilda Butt piano, Antonio Salvatore violin, Fausto Anzelmo viola. Music by Morricone (21.30). Repe...