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9 April 2019

Ankara: ‘Bach is in the Air’ with Ramin Bahrami and Danilo Rea

The Ankara Piano Festival closed with a greatly acclaimed concert by the exceptional Ramin Bahrami and Danilo Rea piano duo: ‘Bach is in the Air’, which was organised by the Italian Embassy in partnership with Altus Arts & Culture. The duo presented Ramin Bahrami’s extraordinary performances of Bach combined with Danilo Rea’s original jazz improvisations. […]

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Diplomatic Network

8 April 2019

Australian stop for the Sanremo World Tour

On Saturday, a full house at the Sydney Capitol Recital Hall greeted the third stop of the Sanremo Giovani World Tour. Einar, Federica Abbate, Deschema, La Rua and Nyvinne presented their repertories and some new arrangements of the biggest Italian hits before more than 1,200 people. The Australian stop of the tour – organised with […]

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Diplomatic Network

8 April 2019

Tirana: Italian universities present their academic courses to Albanian youths

Forty Italian Universities, 5 Fine Arts Academies and 3 Music Conservatories went to Tirana to present their institutions to young Albanians interested in studying in Italy. The event, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute with the support of the Embassy, was aimed at presenting the range of academic courses offered in Italy and also at […]

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Diplomatic Network

5 April 2019

Yerevan: “The Form of Colour” exhibition at the National Gallery

An exhibition destined to leave a mark: “The Form of Colour, from Tintoretto to Canaletto”, opening today in Yerevan, is an extraordinary itinerary spanning across three centuries, from the Renaissance to the Rococo, through 55 works that arrived at the National Gallery of Ancient Art of Trieste from Armenia. It is the fruit of a […]

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Diplomatic Network

3 April 2019

Elias Nardi Quartet performs in Bratislava

​The Elias Nardi Quartet performed at the Kapucìnsky Kostol in Bratislava. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in the Slovak capital, the concert featured the rich Mediterranean music world where elements of ethnic, jazz and classical music combine. The Elias Nardi Quartet is the meeting of four talents and their instruments:The oud (an Arab lute, […]

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Diplomatic Network

3 April 2019

Paris: exhibition on Carlo Levi, painter and writer

The Italian Cultural Institute in Paris hosts an interesting exhibition on Carlo Levi and his work as painter and writer between the French capital and Matera. The artist was not only the author of the famous book Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (“Christ Stopped at Eboli”), or an anti-Fascist intellectual whom Sartre and Beauvoir would always […]

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Diplomatic Network

3 April 2019

Argentina: photographic exhibition on Bartali, Righteous among Nations

The Italian Consulate General in Argentina, together with the B’nai B’rith Jewish association, organised a photographic exhibition on Gino Bartali entitled ”Righteous among Nations, cycling champions and Humankind” at Bahia Blanca. The exhibition is hosted in the historic building of the ‘Bolsa de Comercio di Bahia Blanca’, and is part of the initiatives launched by […]

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Diplomatic Network

2 April 2019

Buenos Aires: 2019 season of Italian music, dance and theatre

The 2019 edition of ITALIAXXI, the project aimed at relaunching Italy’s cultural programmes in Buenos Aires and in Argentina, has just kicked off. Presented by Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Manzo, the billboard of events combining tradition with innovation is dense with music, dance, theatre and opera performances. After the success of the first edition in 2018 (13 […]

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Events

2 April 2019

Opening of “Italiani d’Europa” photo exhibition

Today the photographic exhibition “Gli Italiani d’Europa” will open at the presence of Undersecretary Ricardo Merlo and of the Director General for Italians Abroad, Luigi Maria Vignali. The exhibition is a multimedia project curated by the Akronos Association and co-organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and National Geographic Italia. The pictures […]

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Diplomatic Network

1 April 2019

Tunisia: First stop of the “Sanremo giovani tour”

Great success yesterday in Tunis for the first stop of the “Sanremo giovani world tour”. Einar, Nyvinne, La Rua, Deschema, and Mahmood – winner of the 69th edition of the Saremo Festival – entertained the audience of Le Pavillon in Gammarth, in the Tunisian capital. The tour now continues to Tokyo, where the group will […]

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Diplomatic Network

1 April 2019

Sweden: The Primavera Italiana Festival dedicated to Matera

This year, the ‘Primavera Italiana’ Festival in Visby was dedicated to Matera, European Capital of Culture 2019, and was opened by Italian Ambassador Mario Cospito. Organised for the first time in 2017, the biannual Festival is dedicated to an Italian city or region which is made known to the public through a dense programme of […]

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Diplomatic Network

28 March 2019

The ‘Italian Opera Embraces Africa’ lands in Pretoria

​Pretoria hosts the exhibition entitled “Italian Opera Embraces Africa”, which showcases original sketches and costumes from the historical archives of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, including works by Visconti, Zeffirelli and De Chirico. The event, which opened today at the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History in Pretoria featuring a performance by the Tshwane University opera […]

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