Tosca to be staged at Kiev’s National Opera Theatre until May
The National Opera of Ukraine will be the stage of Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera, with performances continuing until May. The initiative, which forms part of a long-standing cooperation between the Italian Embassy in Ukraine, the Italian Cultural Institute in Kiev, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the National Opera of Ukraine, celebrates the 60th […]
Read moreGermany – Books, “The Cyclops” by Paolo Rumiz presented in Germany
The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Munich hosts the presentation of “Il ciclope” (“The Cyclops”) by Paolo Rumiz. The book will be presented by the author at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 21 April, at the Italian Cultural Institute on Hermann-Schmid-Straße 8. The chat will be moderated by Andrea Bachstein, a journalist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one […]
Read moreConference “Migration and Development”
On Monday, 10 April 2017, the Farnesina hosts the Conference “Migrations and Development”, organised by the Italian Development Cooperation Agency, and to be opened by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mario Giro. The main theme of the event and the primary objective of Italian Development Cooperation is uprooting poverty, reducing inequalities, […]
Read moreParis – Nicolò Degiorgis’s ‘Eurotunnel’ to open on 10 April
The exhibition ‘Eurotunnel’ will open in Paris on 10 April. The concept of the exhibition was developed in February, during photographer Nicolò Degiorgis’s artist-in-residence stay at the Italian Cultural Institute in the French capital. The artist conceives the Eurotunnel as a space that is at the same time material and symbolic and that serves to […]
Read moreThe G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting opens today in Lucca
Concomitantly to the G7 Meeting, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, has called an extraordinary meeting on Syria at 8 a.m. on Tuesday at Lucca’s Ducal Palace, extended to the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar.
Read moreNational Diplomatic Basketball team challenges ASD Gualdo Mia Basket
On Saturday, 8 April, at 3:30 p.m., the National Diplomatic Basketball Team (Nazionale Diplomatici di Basket) will challenge the “ASD Gualdo Mia Basket team ” at the Palazzetto dello Sport “Carlo Angelo Luzi” , in Gualdo Tadino. It will be a friendly match whose proceeds will be donated to purchase sports gear for the municipal gymnasium […]
Read moreThe Pleasure of Reading in Italian: Great Literature at the Embassy in Brasilia
Thursdays are dedicated to the “pleasure of reading in Italian” at the Italian Embassy in Brasilia. Our embassy is holding a series of readings of a number of Italy’s most important authors of contemporary literature. The series began on 13 March with Elena Ferrante’s “L’Amica geniale”. It continues on 27 April with Niccolò Ammaniti’s “Io […]
Read moreStarting from girls. Women’s Forum on inequality and sustainable growth
As part of Italy’s Presidency of the G7, on 7 and 8 April the Farnesina is hosting the International Dialogue Forum, “Starting from girls. Women’s Forum on inequality and sustainable growth,” organized in partnership with WE-Women Empower the World, the Aspen Initiative for Europe, and Valore D. “Strengthening the rights and abilities of young women […]
Read moreItalian Economic Diplomacy 6 April: latest news from around the world
EU grants Slovakia nearly a billion euros to modernise its railway system The European Union will fund Slovakian railways projects up to a billion euros by 2020. The funds are designed mostly to finance 21 projects regarding train modernisation and the revamping of 250 kilometres of rails, the building of terminals, parking lots and hubs […]
Read morePortugal – Italian Film Festival opens in Lisbon
The very idea of cinema evokes art, emotions and feelings of wonder. But it also conjures up the sparkling image of a festival. “The Italian Film Festival,” Portugal’s most important event dedicated to Italian cinema, will run from April 6 to the 13 in Lisbon, marking its 10th edition. Organized by the ‘Il Sorpasso’ Association […]
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