Rome

First Impressions of Rome

Piazza Navona / Trevi Fountain / Piazza di Spagna / Piazza del Popolo

Ponte Sant' Angelo / Castel Sant'Angelo

Forum of Augustus / Forum of Trajan / Roman Forum / Circus Maximus

Colosseum / Arch of Constantine

Hadrian's Villa

St Peter's Square

St. Peter's Square

Rome by night

Traffic

Appian Way / City Walls / Baths of Caracalla

Castel Gandolfo / Capitol / Sunset over Rome

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Date of Production: 2009-06-08

Playing Time: 00:57:18

Catalogue Number: 2.110504

UPC: 0747313550456

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The Places

Scenes are shown of the glory that was Rome in monuments of the great empire that ruled Europe and the Near East in its heyday. There are also glimpses of St. Peter's and of the modern city.

The Music

The music included here is all associated in one way or another with Rome and its traditions. It ranges from the overture to Mozart's Roman opera La clemenza di Tito to Wagner's Tannhauser, whose hero seeks pardon for his sins in the Eternal City, from Puccini's opera Tosca, set in Rome dominated by a corrupt chief of police, to Berlioz's evocation of the city in the age of Benvenuto Cellini, his Roman Carnival Overture.