The Head of Hades, a work of exceptional artistic value that had been looted from the area of Enna, Sicily, during the late 1970s and illegally exported to the United States, where it was sold to the Getty Museum in 1985 for 500,000 dollars, will be returned to Italy. The return was made possible thanks […]
Read moreThe “Meet the New Italians of New York” project is holding its first meeting of 2016. The project is sponsored by the Italian Consulate General in the city and aims to attract the new generation of Italians, encouraging their participation in the activities of the Italian economic system. In recent days, young Italian researchers and […]
Read moreCultural cooperation between Italy and the United States of America is growing. The governments of Italy and the United States have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding imposing import restrictions on pre–Classical, Classical, and Imperial Roman archaeological artifacts from Italy. Coming in effect on Jan. 19, 2001, Italy and the U.S. extended the MOU for the […]
Read moreLos Angeles, the “City of the Angels”, hosts the first edition of the Taormina Film Festival (TTF) on Jan. 20 and 21, featuring Italian and Sicilian independent films. This event was made possible by an agreement between the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Trade Commission (ICE). […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreFour 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 […]
Read moreItalian 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 […]
Read more“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. […]
Read moreSan 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 […]
Read more“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 […]
Read moreToronto 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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