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Current Calls
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Digitale Sammlung
Our digital collection continues to grow
Since mid-May 2026, the Archivio Massimo collection has been available on our platform; it is one of the most important private collections of Italian opera music from the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Link: https://dlib.dhi-roma.it
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Project Dance/Music digital
Project Dance/Music digital
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Musik in der europäischen Missionierung Hispanoamerikas
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Our library is also there for you in summer!
Mondays to Fridays 9–19
Air-conditioned reading rooms, free parking, views of our garden
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Digitised opera scores from the holdings of roman princely families
The project was mentioned on the occasion of the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2017.
Database PARTITURA research: As things stand, for legal reasons, the digitised material from the Archivio Pamphilj can only be consulted within the Music Library of the DHI. In-depth commentaries on the collections, their manuscripts and copyists can also be viewed remotely.
The Massimo library is available on our Digital Collections platform.
Internships at the DHI Rome
Every year, the German Historical Institute in Rome awards several six-week internships to students of history, music history and Digital Humanities mainly of higher semesters, whose studies are focused on the field of German-Italian relations or Italian history.
The application deadline for the period from January to June 2027 is 31 August 2026.
Applications are accepted exclusively in our ...
Domenico Cimarosa, Le trame deluse (1786)
Domenico Cimarosa's musical comedy "Le trame deluse", first performed in Naples in 1786, enjoyed great success throughout Europe and was translated into numerous languages. No less a figure than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe adapted the opera in order to stage it at Weimar. Rossini regarded it as more significant than "Il matrimonio segreto", Cimarosa's most famous work. Set in 18th-century Naples, the ...
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