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14 December 2018

Concert in Bethlehem

Italy, Cultures, the Mediterranean in the Church of Saint Catherine in Bethlehem A concert in the Church of Saint Catherine in Bethlehem was the closing event of the ‘Italy, Cultures, the Mediterranean’ 2018 programme organised by the Italian Consulate General in Jerusalem. The performance featured the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Maestro Paolo Olmi with […]

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13 December 2018

The tragedy of Dido and Aeneas is evoked in a dance show in Tunis

The transmigration of peoples, integration and social inclusion through dialogue between the different cultures of the Mediterranean are key elements of the dance show entitled “Dido and Aeneas” by Oplas / Centro Regionale della DanzaUmbria. Staged at the Cité de la Culture in Tunis, the show was made possible thanks to the cooperation between the […]

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11 December 2018

Italian cinema to be screened in Prague at the MittelCinemaFest

The next edition of the MittelCinemaFest, the Mitteleuropean Italian contemporary cinema festival, will be hosted in Prague from 28 November to 4 December 2019. The announcement was made at the close of this year’s edition, which was held in the cities of Budapest, Bratislava, Prague, Brno and Ostrava. The Festival is fruit of the cooperation […]

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11 December 2018

‘Rigoletto’ in La Paz closes season organised by the Italian Embassy

The Municipal Theatre “Alberto Saavedra Perez” of La Paz hosted a splendid edition of Verdi’s “Rigoletto”, staged by the soloists of the Colon Theatre, accompanied by the Bolivian Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Maestro Andres Fernandez. The show was the closing event of the cultural season organized by the Italian Embassy. The role of Rigoletto […]

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11 December 2018

Meeting of the representatives of the Italian community in Brazil

Last 6 December, the Italian Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro hosted the annual meeting of the representatives of the Italian community in Brazil. The debate focused on the services offered to the community, the activities of the consular network and the cooperation between the network and elected bodies. The meeting was structured into three […]

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6 December 2018

The Tuscan Architectural Award exhibition in Tirana

Winning projects of the Tuscan Architectural Award are being shown at an exhibition hosted by the Romanian Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy, in association with the Italian Cultural Institute. The exhibition can be visited from 5 to 30 December. Its aim is to stimulate debate on contemporary architecture and give a picture of the regional […]

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6 December 2018

The exhibition ‘Bernini and the Roman Baroque’ opens in Yerevan

Yerevan plays host to an exhibition entitled ‘Bernini and the Roman Baroque. Masterpieces from Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia’, which showcases 55 works of art of prominent artists of the Roman Baroque.  The exhibition, which opened today and is due to run until 18 February, 2019, is included among the events of the European Year of […]

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Events

30 November 2018

The Farnesina hosts an exhibition on Italy’s foreign policy

The statement marking the entrance of Italy in World War I and the original of the Alliance Agreement with Germany signed in 1939 are some of the documents displayed in an exhibition hosted at the Farnesina to illustrate the milestones in the history of Italy’s foreign policy. The exhibition not only displays documents but also […]

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29 November 2018

The San Carlo Orchestra in Montreal

Naples’s Teatro San Carlo and its Orchestra, with Conductor Maurizio Agostini, held a concert in Montreal, at the Maison Symphonique, one of the world’s most prestigious temples of music. The programme included the performance of some of the most famous arias of the Italian music tradition and a special homage to Gioachino Rossini, whose 150th anniversary of his […]

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29 November 2018

The Art of dry-stone walling inscribed in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO

The UNESCO Convention Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage has inscribed “The art of dry-stone walling” in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The transnational candidacy was presented by Italy together with Cyprus, Croatia, France, Greece, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. The unanimous decision by the 24 States that […]

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26 November 2018

Brasilia: exhibition on Italian painting between the two World Wars

  The exhibition “Classicismo, Realismo, Vanguarda: pintura italiana no entreguerras” opened yesterday evening at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil.  The initiative is the result of the cooperation between the Embassy of Italy to Brasil, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo and the CCBB.  The exhibition will be on display […]

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23 November 2018

Festival of Italian and Albinian Films from the ’60s to date

The University of Arts of Tirana, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute, hosted the Schermo a schermo /Ekrane Përballë (Screen to Screen) Festival which screened a selection of films and videos by Italian and Albanian artists from the 1960s to date. If, in Italy, art films mainly have their roots in the ‘60s, in the […]

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