26 Sept-16 Nov 2003. This exhibition about the beginnings of photography in Italy presents a selection of important daguerreotypes by some of the first Italian and foreign photographers to work in the country. A daguerre...
26 and 28 Sept 2003. Directed by Michele Mirabella, with Chiara Taigi.
The Teatro di Jesi in the Marche is as usual staging a rarely-performed opera by one of the regions early 19th-century composers. This year the choi...
A four-hour public transport strike to be held from 10.00 on Fri 12 Sept will affect buses, trams and metros in Rome and coaches that connect the city with surrounding areas. Vehicles that have already begun their journe...
26 Sept-30 Nov 2003. The British artist shows his large wall paintings in Italy for the first time. His show inaugurates a series entitled Special Guest in the new wing of the Galleria dArte Moderna e Contemporanea.
26 Sept 2003-6 Jan 2004. Over 100 works by De Chirico, Savino, Carr, De Pisis, Morandi and others shed light on the art movement founded by De Chiricos group in 1917.
6-30 Oct 2003. Tosca will be performed at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan. It will be a remake of the 1997 staging by Luca Ronconi, using scenery by Margherita Palli: skewed perspectives composed of domes and column...
27 Sept-2 Oct 2003. This avant-garde dance festival alternates live performances with video projections. The event starts with a work by Eugenio De Mello called Saleug@, followed by Monica Farns H2O and then Alessandra S...
11 Sept-5 Oct 2003. A show of contemporary art by Alicia Cittadini and Eduardo Lucio Contissa organised in collaboration with the Argentinian embassy. Cittadina lives and works in both Italy and Argentina, where she was...
2-28 Sept 2003. A delightful festival in its second year in Rome, held in the wake of the increasingly successful trend to marry circus, theatre and dance. The Italian Compagnia Anomalie presents Bascule, by Vincenti Gom...
20 Sept 2003. The festival starts with a bang at the French Academy, with the Athestis Chorus conducted by Filippo Maria Bressan, the Krakow Klezmer Band, the diva of Romani music Vera Bila, and the ensemble Primavera Sa...
8-21 Sept 2003. This event includes a series of comparisons between Italian and German contemporary dance, plus a work by the Swiss choreographer Yan Marussic and one by Toula Limnaios of Greece. There is also a conferen...
30 Sept and 1 Oct 2003. The opera season at Pisa also opens with La Traviata, which then moves on to Lucca (8-9 Oct) and Livorno (15-16 Oct). The production is an English interpretation by Jonathan Webb (conductor) and L...
Proof might be at hand that the ancient Roman emperor Caligula was every bit as megalomaniacal as anecdotes about his reign suggest.
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a vast palace which they believe was buil...