8-22 Aug 2003. This year the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro wont be presenting revivals of lost scores but rather work from previous festivals, so the novelty will be in the staging rather than in the music. The progra...
25 June-11 Sept 2003. Two stages near the picturesque Fontana dellAcqua Paola on the Gianicolo hill host music, theatre, cabaret and dance events, including readings of horror stories, womens theatre and international mu...
10-30 July 2003. This is the tenth edition of a drama festival that takes place in the splendid gardens of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. The programme is extremely varied, with Shakespearean productions alternating w...
18 July-23 Aug 2003. The damp but romantic setting beside the lake near Puccinis house comes alive with a host of favourites: La Bohme, Madama Butterfly, Turandot and Manon Lescaut. Although singers complain that the hum...
19 July-13 Aug 2003. The biggest names in opera come to the mediaeval town of Macerata in the Marche region year after year to perform in one of the most unusual and challenging settings in the world: the oval, colonnade...
3-31 Aug 2003. A programme of mainly chamber music, with a good selection of often neglected composers and contemporary work. Among the well-known musicians and ensembles to look out for are the Quartetto Michelangelo (2...
24 July-3 Aug 2003. Dance and opera are the stars at the Baths of Caracalla this year, with only one symphonic concert by the orchestra and choir of the Teatro dellOpera: Beethovens IXth Symphony conducted by Gianluigi G...
9-16 Sept 2003. The aim of this new festival directed by Andrea Vettoretti is to bring the art of guitar playing to the public and promote its beauty. Each concert is a tribute to a particular style or musician, includin...
25 June-14 Sept. Sculptures, installations and photographs from the last ten years by the British-born artist of Nigerian descent in his first Italian show.
4 June-31 Aug 2003. Usually artists start as painters and then become photographers or filmmakers. In Beninatis case it is the other way round. From a movie maker and assistant he progressed to a new technique of paintin...
11 June-14 Sept 2003. The life and work of the Norwegian artist Hendrik Andersen are at the centre of this exhibition, which also contains work by many 19th-century artists who spent time in Rome, including Henry James a...
8 July 2003-31 Dec 2003. Everyday objects from the tombs of slaves and freedmen provide an insight into life in Imperial Rome between the first and the third century AD. The necropolis of 600 graves between Via Anagnina...
5 June-30 Sept 2003. This English conceptualist amuses himself with the crudeness of public labels and of dumb phrases left on lavatory walls. Sentences like I hate you because you make me hate you (sic) are printed in b...
It should have swollen eyes, if you prod it the flesh should be as compact as a hardened muscle, and it should have a tang of the sea about it. When cooked but not too much it should be just as firm, and its freshness...