Verdi’s Trovatore opens in Tirana to celebrate the EU Week
The Embassy of Italy in Tirana, in conjunction with the Albanian National Opera and Ballet, staged ‘Il Trovatore’, Giuseppe Verdi’s drama in four acts and the second opera of his so-called ‘trilogia popolare’. The production celebrates the 2019 EU Week and promotes the opera as a distinctive feature of Italian culture. “Wherever politics builds borders, […]
Read morePlaywriting contest “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand”
The production of the short story entitled “Eresia catara” staged by the Istituto Comprensivo Statale Italiano in Barcelona won the first prize for higher Secondary Schools in the “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand” playwriting contest. The closing event of the contest took place in Agrigento on 7-10 May and was promoted by the Regional School Board of Sicily, […]
Read moreLeonardo: 5 concerts in Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Bahia Blanca, a city south of the vast province of Buenos Aires, kicked off a cycle of concerts to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with a concert entitled ‘Amanecer desde Toscana’ (‘Dawn in Tuscany’). With this cycle, which is entitled ‘Leonardo da Vinci, the Genius of the Universal Italy’, the […]
Read moreItaly among the key international players in the Space industry
Within the context of Italian participation in the Satellite 2019 Exhibit in Washington, the President of the Italian Space Agency, Giorgio Saccoccia, spoke at the conference organised by the Italian Embassy to present the governance framework of the Italian space industry. The conference, which was inaugurated by the Italian Ambassador to the United States, Armando […]
Read moreMiami: ‘Fare cinema’ opens at the Coral Gables
The second edition of ‘Fare Cinema’, the Italian Film Festival that will tour 100 cities in the world, was organised by the Italian Consulate General in Miami and held at the Coral Gables. The rich programme of the 2019 edition closed yesterday with great public acclaim, having attracted more than 700 spectators. This year’s edition was […]
Read moreRio De Janeiro: Italian Businesses meet the President of the National Development Bank
At the invitation of Italian Ambassador Antonio Bernardini, the President of the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), Joaquim Levy was at the Consulate General of Italy in Rio de Janeiro where he met the main Italian companies already operating in Brazil or willing to invest in this market. President Levy illustrated the […]
Read moreSao Paulo: ‘A caminho do interior’ project kicks off
The ‘A caminho do interior’ project for the Italian community in the State of Sao Paulo, scheduling concerts, exhibitions and other artistic and cultural activities, kicked off with a series of concerts by Mafalda Minnozzi. The project was promoted by the Italian Consulate General in Sao Paulo to satisfy the request of the Italian community […]
Read moreTirana: winds up the film festival dedicated Bernardo Bertolucci
The film festival dedicated Bernardo Bertolucci by the Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana wound up with the screening of the ‘Little Buddha’, the story of a Tibetan monk who goes to Seattle to visit an American child in which the spiritual guide Lama Dorje is presumed to have reincarnated. The tribute to the recently deceased […]
Read moreExhibition on the Life and Works of Leonardo Da Vinci opens in Sofia
An educational and informative exhibition on the life and works of the Italian artist and all-round genius Leonardo Da Vinci, has opened in Sofia thanks to the support of the Italian Embassy in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in the capital city. The show comprises 14 colour panels accompanied by short texts in Italian and […]
Read moreSeoul: ‘Star of Italy’ conferred upon soprano Sumi Jo
Korean soprano Sumi Jo, one of the most renowned and widely acclaimed opera singers in the world, received the medal of the Order of the Star of Italy (OSI), pursuant to the decision of the President of the Republic Mattarella. The Star was conferred upon the artist by Ambassador Federico Failla at a ceremony held […]
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