ROME - The summer season of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma 2020 ended August 13 with an extraordinary finale.
This summer the long-awaited appointment moved to the archaeological scenario of the Circus Maximus with a program as always characterized by an offer of excellence, starting with the new production of Rigoletto under the conduction of Daniele Gatti and the direction of Damiano Michieletto.
FLORENCE – The Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli gardens will be opened especially for the Ferragosto holiday on Saturday.
The hours for visiting the Uffizi Gallery will be 09:00-18:30, for the Boboli Gardens, 08:45-18:30 and from 08:30-13:30 for Palazzo Pitti. For those who arrive at Palazzo Pitti before 9:25 the ticket will be half-price. The former Medici palace will be open again all day until 6:30 from September 1 to accommodate for the influx in visitors over the Summer months.
ROME –Community of Sant’Egidio, the Roman Catholic movement, will be holding events for the Ferragosto holiday in Rome and across Italy on Saturday from 12 at the soup kitchen at 10 via Dandolo.
They will be holding lunches, watermelon feasts and meetings between volunteers and the elderly, homeless, immigrants and also Italian families who are struggling as a result of the pandemic.
ROME – Two of the five MPs who took a 600 euros bonus meant for the self-employed disadvantaged by the Coronavirus pandemic have been suspended by their party, the League.
The announcement from the party’s leader, Riccardo Molinari, came on the day in which it was announced that all five MPs, whose names had up until this point been protected by privacy rules, would be revealed on Friday. The MPs, Andrea Dara and Elena Murelli, are described as loyalists to the League’s former leader Matteo Salvini by Il fatto quotidiano.
BRESCIA – Four million bees have died over the course of two days in a stretch of land between Brescia and Cremona in the Northern region of Lombardy, reports Il fatto quotidiano.
Described by the Federation of Italian Farmers of the Brescia province as a “catastrophe,” the cause of the bees’ deaths is still unknown. The 130 families of bees that have perished were found in the villages of Villagana, Bompensiero, Vilachiara and Acqualunga in Brescia and Azzanello and Genivolta in Cremona.
LISBON – Atalanta, debutants in the Champions League, led by a goal to nil heading into the final stages, but PSG’s superstars turned the tide with two goals in the last five minutes to win 2-1 on Wednesday night.
Paris-Saint Germain, one of the wealthiest clubs in the world, whose star player Neymar reportedly earns as much as the entire Atalanta squad, looked to be heading out of Europe at the quarter-final stage once more.
BEIRUT – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley announced today that the organization will be giving a significant aid package to Lebanon.
Beasley stated the WFP will be bringing 17,500 metric tons of wheat flour and a three-month supply of wheat into Lebanon to help replenish the country’s food reserves as part of a rapid logistics operation that will also involve setting up warehouses and mobile grain storage units.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has highlighted the necessity for compassion and fraternity in the light of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Francis began his speech on Wednesday noting how the global pandemic “has emphasised how vulnerable and interconnected we all are.” The pontiff went on to identify a pathology brought to light by the coronavirus describing the “distorted vision of people, a view that ignores their dignity and related character. Sometimes we look at others as objects to use and throw away.”
ROME – Fear and anger have been provoked after three public transport buses caught fire on the same day in Rome, reports Il fatto quotidiano.
Late on Monday morning a vehicle that had been in service for more than 15 years went up in flames on viale Regina Margherita. A few hours later in the afternoon two more buses suffered the same fate, one in Piazza Sisto V with five passengers on board. Luckily, the moment the smoke was noticed the driver ushered the people off the bus. The third incident took place in viale Pretoriano.
