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14 January 2016

Foreign Minister Gentiloni meets Luis Almagro, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States

Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, met with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, at the Foreign Ministry’s headquarters in Rome today. During the meeting, Mr Gentiloni and Mr Almagro exchanged opinions on major regional matters, particularly the recent elections in Venezuela, and updated information […]

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14 January 2016

Incontro del Ministro Gentiloni con il Segretario Generale dell’Organizzazione degli Stati Americani Luis Almagro

Il Ministro degli Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale Paolo Gentiloni ha ricevuto oggi alla Farnesina il Segretario Generale dell’Organizzazione degli Stati Americani (OSA) Luis Almagro. L’incontro è stato un’occasione per uno scambio di valutazioni aggiornate sui principali dossier regionali, in particolare sulle recenti elezioni in Venezuela, e per fare il punto sul sostegno italiano all’Organizzazione. […]

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14 January 2016

New York – Robert Gallo receives Leonardo da Vinci Prize

The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee (IHCC) has conferred the 2015 Leonardo da Vinci Award on Robert Gallo, an Italo-American and an internationally renowned researcher in the field of immunology. The Director of the Institute of Human Virology and Professor of Medicine at the Maryland School of Medicine, Dr Gallo played a key role in […]

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8 January 2016

Montreal – Design, the modernity of Bruno Munari showcased in Canada

The exhibition “Bruno Munari, Pioneer of Modernity, 1928–1945” will be running in Montreal from March 10 to April 17 and will be partly hosted at Québec University and partly in the Artexte Gallery. The show is organised in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal. With works by Bruno Munari (1907-1998), a pioneer of […]

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8 January 2016

San Francisco – Italian musicologist to hold four events in January

Four events with musicologist and composer Luciano Chessa will be held between January 21 and 27 in San Francisco. Luciano Chessa is one of the most interesting and creative minds in the world of music in the Bay Area. Currently professor of composition at the San Francisco Conservatory, Chessa works as a composer, musician, musicologist […]

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8 January 2016

Toronto – Italian opera from Tosca to Othello on screen in Canadian capital

Italian opera will brighten up the Canadian winter in Toronto with three events at the Alliance Francaise theatre organised by the Italian Cultural Institute. The evenings will be dedicated to some of Italy’s most iconic composers and their works. The programme will begin on Tuesday, January 19 with the screening of the second act of […]

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7 January 2016

Minister Gentiloni: “Great pride for the appointment of Maestro Noseda as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington”

“The choice of Maestro Gianandrea Noseda as Music Director of the prestigious National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington makes us very proud and confirms the excellence of Italy’s school of orchestration and of Italian musicians. I offer  my heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to Maestro Noseda. […]

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30 December 2015

San Francisco – In search of “492 Great Things about Being Italian”

San Francisco’s Italian Cultural Institute will host a special event on Wednesday 20 January dedicated to Made in Italy and Italian creativity, culture and genius. The event is to be hosted by Boze Hadleigh, author of more than 15 books – among them“Celebrity Feuds!” and “Hollywood and Whine” – and hundreds of magazine and newspaper […]

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28 December 2015

New York – Silent movies: Dante’s “Inferno” in the Big Apple

“L’inferno”, a silent film from the early 20th century by Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan, produced by Milano Films, is the first full-length film in the history of Italian cinema. It was restored in 2011. The film will be shown, with a new musical score performed live by saxophonist and composer Marco […]

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24 December 2015

Toronto – Three evenings of Italian opera greats

Toronto will enjoy a season of Italian opera greats in 2016, with three evenings organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and hosted by the theatre of the Alliance Française. The initiative begins on Tuesday 19 January with an evening dedicated to Maria Callas that includes a screening of Act 2 of Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, […]

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23 December 2015

Washington – Cultural assets in seismic zones: the INGV does the “maximum” in the USA

Doing the “maximum” to safeguard cultural assets in seismic zones. That is the goal of the PON01-02710 project, known as “Massimo”, which the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) presented recently at the Italian Embassy and the World Bank in Washington. Participants at the workshops included representatives of the INGV, the Italian National Agency […]

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15 December 2015

Washington – Art, in search of 20th century Italy with “Le onde”

“Le Onde: Waves of Italian Influence (1914–1971)”, running through 3 January at Washington’s Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, features the works of seminal 20th century Italian artists such as Lucio Fontana, Giacomo Balla and Giovanni Anselmo. The exhibition has been made possible with the support of the Embassy of Italy and Italian Cultural Institute […]

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