Brazil – Rio de Janeiro hosts concert by Venetian duo Gerbasi and Celeghin
The Italian Cultural Institute in Rio will host a Venetian concert by mezzosoprano Francesca Gerbasi and pianist and organist Silvio Celeghin at 12:30 p.m. on 20 April. The programme will include music by Antonio Buzzolla, Charles Gounod, Reynaldo Hahn, Guido Bianchini, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Alfredo Casella and Gioachino Rossini.
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China is about to launch ‘Healthy Shanghai 2030’ – a plan of action to promote the health of its citizens Healthy Shanghai 2030 is a plan of action seeking to promote community health in the city of Shanghai for the next 13 years. The programme aims to make Shanghai a ‘healthy’ city by the year 2030, ensuring that 80 […]
Read moreNew York: Claudio Magris talks about ‘Blameless’ with two special guests
Claudio Magris, a most revered Italian writer, will engage in conversation with colleagues Jamaica Kincaid and Norman Mane on 19 April at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. The occasion will be the presentation of his latest searing novel, ‘Blameless‘, published by Yale University Press. The novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war […]
Read moreTunis – Artemis Danza Company to stage ‘Traviata’ to mark the reopening of the Municipal Theatre
The Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis will present ‘Traviata,’ a performance by contemporary dance company Artemis Danza, to mark the reopening of the Municipal Theatre in the Tunisian capital. The event, to take place on 27 April from 8:00-9:00 p.m., stages the first chapter of a project the company has dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi, with […]
Read moreWashington – The Italian Coast Guard participates in Sea Air Space Exposition
The General Commandant of the Harbour Master and Coast Guard, Admiral Vincenzo Melone, headed an Italian delegation to Washington last week to participate in the Sea-Air-Space Exposition 2017, organized by the Navy League. He also attended a bilateral meeting with the U.S. Coast Guard. Besides Admiral Melone, the Italian delegation included Rear Admiral Nicola Carlone, Chief of […]
Read moreBuenos Aires – Nanni Moretti attends the BAFICI Independent Film Festival
“I believe in people. But I do not believe in the majority of people…” This is a famous quote by Nanni Moretti from his movie ‘Caro diario’ (‘Dear Diary’), which will be screened at the BAFICI independent film festival, on Thursday, 20 April ( at 5:10 p.m at Theatre 4, Village Recoleta). The Festival will run from 19 to 30 […]
Read moreBelarus – a documentary and photo exhibition narrates 25 years of diplomatic relations between Italy and Belarus and their past and contemporary cultural relations
The Belarusian National Library opened , on 12 April, in Minsk, the documentary and photo exhibition on the “Past and Contemporary Cultural Relations between Italy and Belarus”. It is an initiative of the Italian Embassy in Minsk, in collaboration with the National Library and the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art. The event looks back […]
Read moreBudapest – Easter Concert with a Baroque wooden pipe organ
The Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest is celebrating Easter with a classical music concert by Maria Grazia Amoruso, accompanied by the Musica Sonora Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Péter Illényi. The works of Joseph Haydn will be played on a special wooden pipe organ, which was traditional in the Baroque era. Built by Giorgio Questa, it is a […]
Read moreCopenhagen – Cinema, history and mystery: Italian Cultural Institute screens a film on Ettore Majorana
“There are some truly extraordinary geniuses, like Galileo and Newton: Majorana is one of them”, said Enrico Fermi about Ettore Majorana, Italy’s greatest twentieth century physicist, the brightest of the ‘Via Panisperna boys’. His disappearence in March 1938, while on a ferry travelling from Palermo to Naples, is one of the biggest Italian mysteries of the last hundred […]
Read moreMoscow – Agreement between Italian and Russian research institutes renewed
The Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) have renewed their framework agreement for scientific cooperation. The agreement was signed by INFN President, Fernando Ferroni, and JINR Director, Victor A. Matveev, in the presence of Italian President, Sergio Mattarella. The signing ceremony was attended by Cesare Maria Ragaglini, the Italian Ambassador in […]
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