IIC: three appointments with the Festival Verdi Home streaming
Three new appointments with the great opera for the Festival Verdi Home Streaming are scheduled from Saturday 25th April to May 2nd on www.teatroregioparma.it. The initiative came from the cooperation between the Teatro Regio and the Italian Institutes of Culture abroad, and presents to the public, free of charge and in full hd, titles taken […]
Read moreBrasilia and Rome celebrate foundation anniversary
The oldest city in the world and the last born, if you can say so, celebrate the anniversary of their birth on the same day. On April 21st, in fact, Rome and Brasilia celebrate their foundation. The Brazilian capital is 60 years old this year. It is still very young but is already part of […]
Read moreIIC Madrid: the affinity between Italy and Spain, a video project
The Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid launches an audio-visual project on its social networks. Well-known Italian authors, artists and intellectuals reflect on the similarities between Italian and Spanish culture, taking as a starting point the global isolation we have been in for several weeks. The project is made up of a series of videos, collected […]
Read moreSão Paulo: Covid-19, rereading together the plague of Manzoni
A rereading of the pages on the plague of “I Promessi Sposi” (The Betrothed), never so tragically topical. This is the initiative of the Italian Cultural Institute of São Paulo, which has organized a virtual reading group on the Zoom application. The appointment is for the morning of Friday starting from April 24, always at […]
Read moreTirana: initiative to donate blood at the Embassy
Yesterday the Italian Embassy in Tirana organized a blood donation day, in agreement with the Albanian Ministry of Health and the Municipality of Tirana, which was also attended by President Ilir Meta and the Mayor of Tirana Erion Veliaj. An initiative of closeness to the population appreciated by President Meta who thanked Ambassador Fabrizio Bucci […]
Read moreStockholm: the days of quarantine, a jazz diary
JazzHome”: Jazz doesn’t go into quarantine. Il diario di una musista jazz nei giorni di isolamento in Italia” (The diary of a jazz musician in the days of isolation in Italy) is the new project addressed to quarantined artists of the Italian Cultural Institute of Stockholm: a serial story by Cecilia Sanchietti, Italian composer, drummer […]
Read moreJapan: Italy’s commitment to scientific-technological partnership
Italy aims at the growth of the scientific-technological partnership with Japan. Today, on the occasion of the third Italian Research Day in the World, the Italian Embassy in Tokyo wants to pay tribute to the Italian researchers, more than 160 in Japan, active in scientific-technological sectors. Numbers in continuous growth that have recently promoted the […]
Read moreCyprus: fairy tales and tales of the Italian tradition
The Italian Embassy in Nicosia, adhering to the #WeAreItaly initiative, proposes two events to share fairy tales and tales of Italian folk tradition at home and celebrate together the centenary of Gianni Rodari’s birth. In collaboration with the Fairytale Museum of Nicosia, the Embassy offers a streaming reading of fairy tales from the works of […]
Read moreBrazil: a virtual visit to the exhibition on Fellini
The lockdown decided for Coronavirus emergency does not halt the tribute to Federico Fellini in progress in Sao Paulo for the 100th anniversary of his birth. In the Brazilian city, the Italian Institute of Culture has arranged a virtual visit to the exhibition, “The centenary – Fellini in the world”, realized in collaboration with the […]
Read moreYangon: Notes beyond fear, art and beauty go online
“Notes beyond fear / Notes beyond fear” is the initiative launched by the Italian Embassy in Yangon to continue to promote the values of art and beauty at the basis of our common identity, in the only way that is now possible: online. Musicians, composers, actors and singers who have already performed in Myanmar in […]
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