Italian Language Week: Italian and the Opera in Tashkent
Music, and especially opera music, was the key theme chosen by the Italian Embassy in Uzbekistan for the initiatives organised for the Italian Language Week in the World. The central event was the lecture in Tashkent on “Italian on Stage” by Maestro Daniele Agiman, professor of orchestral conducting at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In […]
Read moreThe Year of Leonardo da Vinci: Medieval music in Bratislava
The music of the Middle Ages is the protagonist of a concert organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Bratislava for the year dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, on the 500th anniversary of his death. The “Arco Antiqua Ensemble” will accompany viewers tomorrow in the Church of the Capuchins on a musical journey through the whole […]
Read moreItaly – Spain book forum, focus on the ‘Craft of Writing’
The fourth Italy-Spain book forum will be held tomorrow in Madrid to promote the development of publishing projects and cooperation between the Italian and the Spanish publishing industries. The Italian Cultural Institute organised the event in association with the Italian Trade Agency (ICE), Monteverdelegge and the Associazione Forum del Libro as part of a cycle of […]
Read moreLeonardo da Vinci is the guest star in Algiers
The “Leonardo Opera Omnia” exhibition by RAI COM made its first stop in the North Africa-Middle East area in Algiers, in the prestigious venue of the “Palais de la Culture Moufdi Zakaria”, the seat of the Ministry of Culture. Hundreds of visitors had the opportunity to admire 17 high-definition life-size reproductions of the masterpieces of […]
Read moreThe Italian Language Week in the World: Boccaccio’s Decameron in Yangon
To celebrate the Italian Language Week in the World, the Italian Embassy in Yangon staged a theatre performance based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron to honour the theme of this year’s edition “Italian on Stage” and to pay tribute to the father of Italian literature in prose. The re-adaptation of Boccaccio’s masterpiece in a modern key […]
Read moreAfghanistan: Nangarhar: an Italian oil mill has been delivered
Oil production has started at the Nangarhar Valley Agriculture Corporation in Jalalabad, which since August 26 has an oil mill donated by Italian Cooperation. Besides the assembly and testing of the equipment that was transported to Afghanistan by the Italian Ministry of Defense, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation has provided training sessions for the […]
Read moreLimelights on the Italian language at Rome’s Teatro Palladium
The Italian language goes on stage today at Rome’s Teatro Palladium, an event organised within the framework of the “19th Week of the Italian Language in the World”, an initiative promoted every year by the Farnesina. Roma Tre University has organised a focus on language, art and poetry with the participation of Italian and foreign […]
Read moreLisbon: ‘A window on the the Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection’
Over the next two months, it will be possible to admire 15 works from the Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection at the Museu Nacional dos Coches of Lisbon. The exhibition, ‘A window on the the Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection. 15 Works’, curated by Angela Tecce and organised by the Italian Cultural Institute under the patronage of […]
Read moreTokyo: the campaign kicks off to promote Italy through the Manga
Italy in Japan is also promoted through the Manga. It will be Lucius, the main character in Mari Yamazaki’s “Thermae Romae” cartoon strip, to guide the public across the Italian territory, historic cities, culture, food and the music scene, with a special focus on Japanese readers and especially the younger generations. The Italian Embassy in […]
Read moreDi Stefano at the meeting of the Steering Committee of the WestMED Initiative
The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, attended the Rabat meeting of the Steering Committee of the WestMED Initiative for the Sustainable Development of a Blue Economy in the Western Mediterranean. Di Stefano emphasised the growing relevance of commercial traffic in Mediterranean ports, making it necessary to continuously increase their efficiency and […]
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