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28 April 2022

Italian gastronomy takes center stage in the Greek edition of MasterChef

Italian cuisine took center stage on Greek television: the Italian Ambassador to Greece, Patrizia Falcinelli, was a guest star and judge at the instalment of the Greek edition of MasterChef dedicated to Italian gastronomy that was aired yesterday. The trials faced by the contestants offered a valuable opportunity to remind the Greek public of the […]

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27 April 2022

Project “Speak Italian” kicks off in Yangon

In order to promote a more widespread knowledge of Italian language and culture, the Italian Embassy in Yangon has entrusted the Dante Alighieri Committee of Hong Kong with the organisation of Italian courses, held remotely, for students living in Myanmar. The video promoting the initiative shows young Italian students as they pronounce the letters of […]

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26 April 2022

​Brussels: the woods, wood and violin-making

The Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels has organised, as part of the event “Ai margini del bosco” (On the edge of the woods), a meeting – scheduled for 28 April – with luthier Bruno Stefanini, who has been crafting musical instruments since 1989, after graduating as Master Luthier at the Scuola di Liuteria Artistica in […]

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21 April 2022

Belgrade: “Fantasia italiana” piano concert

The Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade and the Madlenianum Opera and Theatre present the “Fantasia italiana” concert featuring pianist Cristiana Pegoraro and conductor Lorenzo Porzio. The two Italian performers, along with the Madlenianum Theatre orchestra, will play famous movements, overtures and intermezzos by famous Italian composers in new arrangements for piano and orchestra. Cristiana Pegoraro […]

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21 April 2022

Athens: Falcone and Borsellino 30 years later

The Italian Cultural Institute in Athens wishes to commemorate Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino 30 years after that summer that changed the history of Italy for ever. On 17 May, the theatrical performance by Claudio Fava ‘l’Ultima Estate. Falcone e Borsellino 30 anni dopo’ (The last summer. Falcone and Borsellino 30 years later) will debut, […]

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21 April 2022

Tokyo: sounds and images of a disappearing community

The Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, in association with the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice presents “L’isola” (the island) the last images, sounds and sparks of a disappearing community; the project by Anush Hamzehian and Vittorio Mortarotti is set in the Yonaguni island, a small piece of land far from everything and battered by […]

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20 April 2022

Osaka hosts exhibition on Amedeo Modigliani​

An exhibition on Leghorn-born painter Amedeo Modigliani has inaugurated the new venue of the Art Museum of Nakanoshima (Osaka), one of Japan’s most important ones. The event, sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Osaka, took place on 9 April. The exhibition will be open to the general public until 18 July 2022. The exhibition […]

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20 April 2022

​Exhibition “Gladiators: heroes of the Colosseum” inaugurated in Alicante​

The exhibition “Gladiators: heroes of the Colosseum” was inaugurated recently at the Archaeological Museum of Alicante; the inauguration was attended by Italy’s Ambassador to Spain, Mr Riccardo Guariglia. “This exhibition – Ambassador Guariglia said – is by all means a new, important step in further strengthening bilateral relations between Italy and Spain, giving due value […]

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19 April 2022

“NY loves Lucy” – Donizetti score on display

Gaetano Donizetti’s hand-written score of “Lucia di Lammermoor” will be on display at the NY Loves Lucy exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York from 22 April to 21 May 2022. This is the first time this precious and rarely exhibited manuscript has been lent abroad. Consisting of 181 sheets bound in a […]

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19 April 2022

“Eyes on Tomorrow” photography show in Addis Ababa

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Addis Ababa organized the Ethiopian stop of the “Eyes on Tomorrow” photographic show, the only edition to be held in sub-Saharan Africa and the largest hosted abroad, with nine artists and nine open-air installations. The exhibition is hosted in the extremely beautiful gardens of Addis Ababa’s Zoma Museum since […]

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19 April 2022

Amsterdam, Conference on Sicily in the Byzantine period​

The Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam will host a conference next 22 April (7:30 PM) organized by the Werkgroep Italië Studies (WIS) titled “Un’isola multiculturale – L’archaeologia in Sicilia durante I periodi Bizantini, Islamici e Normanni” (“A Multicultural Island – Archaeology in Sicily in the Byzantine, Islamic and Norman Periods”). The lecturer will be Joanita […]

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15 April 2022

“Welcome Venice” to be screened online in Ireland​

The screening of the film “Welcome Venice”, directed by Andrea Segre, will take place – following the initiative of the Italian Cultural Institute of Dublin – on Monday 18 April. The film will be shown in Italian, with English subtitles. “Welcome Venice” is about two men, Pietro and Alvise, heirs of a family of fishermen […]

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