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Over 50 events are programmed this year under the theme South. The inaugural and closing events are centre on Neapolitan culture, with a special tribute to Eduardo De Filippo to open the festival on 21 June and a conc...
For the Caracalle Festival. 27-28 JUNE. The Toyko Ballet performs three choreographies by Maurice Bejart, Septes danses Grecques (to music by Mikis Theodorakis), Don Giovanni (music by Chopin to a Mozart theme) and Le sa...
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Spoleto Festival. 11-12 JULY. The Paul Taylor Dance Company is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. On 11 July the company performs Airs, American Dreamer, Piazzolla Caldera. On 12 July it is the turn of Mercuric...
One of the liveliest and most popular festivals of the summer. Organisers of the three-month event describe it as a "free state, with borders but without limits" and say it is "open to everyone except homphobes." T...
Come enjoy great food and wine, make new friends amongst an international and friendly crowd and at the end watch the Italy v England World Cup match in the picturesque setting of Tiber river. If you're not lucky enough...
Moved by Wonder John Cabot University and its department of English language and literature celebrate the life and work of American writer Flannery O’Connor with a two-day symposium from 13-14 June. O’C...
The Rome Savoyards and Plays in Rome present The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco and Death Knocks by Woody Allen. The double bill of comic one-act plays is performed in English and directed by Sandra Provost. 10...
Verona's very reliable and safe opera season is always a safe favourite among visitors to Italy. This year the big attraction is Placido Domingo singing Verdi on 17 July. The operas are Ballo in Maschera (seven perfor...
Zurich artist Annette Amberg stages Una Questione Privata at the Swiss Institute of Rome. The exhibition is part of the Openings Out to Reality cycle which was launched at the Institute two years ago. The project asks...
Curated by French Academy director Éric de Chassey, the group exhibition La pittura o come sbarazzarsene (Painting or how to get rid of it) comprises works by four artists of different nationalities: Fabio Mauri f...
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The Museo di Roma in Trastevere hosts an exhibition of photographs by Gabriele Stabile documenting the journey of freshly-arrived refugees in the US, from their first night at the airport motel to the difficult process o...
The Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome presents its traditional Sommerfest on 13 June, from 20.30. The annual summer party features an exhibition of large-scale drawings by Lavinia Lanner; a medley of jazz, gypsy and Yid...
Eutropia is a multi-ethnic music festival providing world music and culture, and this year its programme is linked to teams playing in the World Cup. Organisers say they are keeping the ticket prices to a minimum, and...
ALESSANDRA FERRI. Chéri. 9 -11 JUNE. Alessandra Ferri, one of Italy's top dancers and now in her 50s, with Argentinian Herman Cornejo principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre in an adaption of Colette's Ch&...
26 June. Festival Internazionale della Danza. By the young Italian choreographer Ashai Lombardo Arop with the Etno-Contemporary Dance Company in her new work Hieros Gamos with music by Michele Maione, commissioned by the...
From 10-16 June, cinema buffs in Rome can enjoy a selection of 20 films screened recently at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in France. The 18th edition of the Le Vie del Cinema da Cannes a Roma is held in four Roman ci...
Concerti del Tempieto This tenacious musical festival offers a piano recital almost every night in the suggestive ruins of Teatro Marcello on the edges of the Ghetto. There is also a cycle of popular Italian popular m...
The courtyard of S. Ivo alla Sapienza (just across Corso Rinascimento from Piazza Navona) is another favourite site for summer-time concert-goers. There are 15 concerts this year grouped into four themes, The Fabulous 60...
The Ravenna festival, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, should be high up on your list of festivals this year for the sheer choice and quality of its programme. Since its foundation by Riccardo Muti in 1990 i...
Villa Aperta returns with the Electro Pop Rock Festival in the French Academy Villa Medici gardens. The festival consists of four concerts with musicians and international bands representing the most innovative trends of...
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