1-29 Oct 2003. Now in its fourth edition, Musica XXI is a showcase of contemporary music, allowing young artists to present their work alongside more established composers and performers. Events include concerts, recital...
22 Sept. Eva Cantarella, professor of ancient Roman and Greek law at Universit degli Studi di Milano, gives a PWS lecture entitled "Women in ancient Rome" (18.45).
If you've ever fancied having a swim at a sports centre at midnight, eating prosciutto in the grounds of Castel S. Angelo at 02.00, visiting the Borghese Museum at 04.00 and listening to jazz on the Pincio at dawn, 27 Se...
20 Sept. Bank-owned historic buildings all over Italy are opening their doors to visitors for one day. In Rome, venues include: Palazzo Altieri, Piazza del Ges 49 (ABI and Banca Finnat); the general headquarters of BNL,...
24 Sept 2003. Fiona MacCarthy gives an illustrated talk on Byron, entitled Lord Byron and the Romantic Imagination, with an emphasis on his early years in Italy (18.00). In collaboration with the Keats-Shelley Memorial H...
I want big things to do and vast spaces and for common people to see them and say oh! only oh!. For the renowned 19th-century British pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones that large space, here in Rome, di...
American University of Rome. 1 Oct. 2003. Seminar entitled Where is the "Road Map" leading? with Nemer Hammad, Palestinian Authority representative in Rome, journalist Rula Jebreal, and AUR faculty member Lina Mahmoud (...
There comes a time in every Germans life when he has to choose between a BMW and a Mercedes. For me it was the same with Athens and Rome, says Joachim Blher, who took over as director of the German Academy at Villa Massi...
The political season had hardly started before the knives were out and the fighting began. It started with a bang when the leader of the Democratici di Sinistra (DS), Piero Fassino, accused the prime ministers office of...
Some are now indignantly calling it linguistic imperialism. Circle with a pen in an Italian newspaper the films with English titles being screened in Rome. The page will burst into a violent rash. In one week this month,...
A select and privileged audience sat entranced as the magical notes of a venerable Amati violin, dated 1566 and therefore one of the first violins ever created, soared through a room in Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome. In th...
22 Sept 2003. Lecture entitled Why Mendelssohn and Rome? by Albrecht Riethmller of the Freie Universitat Berlin, about the music in the film Lge dor by Luis Buuel and Salvador Dal (18.00).
29 Sept-9 Nov 2003. This festival brings together a range of theatrical productions recently performed at arts festivals across Europe. Some are in original language with Italian subtitles. From the Festival Thatre dEt d...
1 Oct. 2003. Conducted by Jonathan Webb, directed by Lindsay Kemp. The Pisa public may remember Kemp for his 1998 staging of Iris by Mascagni, when in a particularly striking finale the disembodied spirit of Iris rose to...
1 Oct-31 Dec. 2003. An exhibition for children which presents a series of basic structures and offers children the chance to learn how they work through interactive games.
27 Sept-7 Oct. 2003. Conducted by Claudio Ferro, directed by Paul Curan, with Sonia Ganassi. An opera that looks like a conventional opera buffa, but contains many shades of darkness. Cinderella and her prince are the mo...
21 Sept 2003. This is the best-selling author Bariccos own reworking of the Iliad for todays audience; shortening it, modernising the language, and selecting those parts that will appeal most to the public. The event beg...