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Diplomatic Network
5 November 2019
Contemporary Art Day kicks off in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka celebrates Contemporary Art Day. To celebrate the Day, for the first time the Italian Embassy organised a series of events in Colombo with the participation of art gallery owner Susanna Orlando of the Galleria di Pietrasanta. Of the two principal events, one was organised in cooperation with one of the most prestigious local art galleries and was […]

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Diplomatic Network
31 October 2019
Settimana della Lingua: Riad bel canto italiano in concerto

“From Belcanto to Verismo – An introduction to Italian classic opera”: è questo il titolo del concerto organizzato dall’Ambasciata d’Italia a Riad, in collaborazione con la Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Capitale, nell’ambito  delle celebrazioni per la XIX Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo. Ad esibirsi  sono state il soprano Erika Beretti  e il mezzosoprano Irida Dragoti, accompagnate […]

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Diplomatic Network
31 October 2019
Settimana della Lingua: Riad bel canto italiano in concerto

“From Belcanto to Verismo – An introduction to Italian Classic Opera”: this is the title of the concert organized by the Embassy of Italy in Riyadh, in collaboration with Roma Capitale’s Teatro dell’Opera Foundation, as part of the celebrations for the 19th Week of the Italian Language in the world. Singers Erika Beretti, soprano, and […]

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Diplomatic Network
31 October 2019
Ivory Coast: pianist Silvia Belfiore in concert

As part of the ‘Italy, Cultures, Africa’ initiative and of the 19th edition of the Italian Language Week, a concert by pianist Silvia Belfiore was organised in Abidjan by the Italian Embassy. The performance of music pieces was interspersed with the reading of texts by Italian and African authors to highlight the synergies between Italian […]

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Diplomatic Network
31 October 2019
Kenya chooses ‘Fragments of Nature’ to celebrate Italy’s Contemporary Art Day

The project entitled  ‘Fragments of nature’ marked the 15th edition of the Italian  Contemporary Art Day in Kenya. Promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Nairobi, the project enjoyed the participation of Italian and Kenyan conceptual and street artists. The show opened both in Nairobi and in Malindi. In Nairobi, the display featured four works […]

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Events
30 October 2019
Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re at the 31st General Assembly of ICCROM

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, attended the 31st General Assembly of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome. The Deputy Foreign Minister recalled that ICCROM is an inter-governmental organisation established in Rome in 1959. “Italy and ICCROM have […]

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Press Releases
30 October 2019
Deputy Foreign Minister Del Re at the 31st General Assembly of ICCROM

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, attended the 31st General Assembly of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome. The Deputy Foreign Minister recalled that ICCROM is an inter-governmental organisation established in Rome in 1959. “Italy and ICCROM have […]

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Diplomatic Network
29 October 2019
Week of Italian Language: Romeo and Juliet in Istria

The Italian Consulate General in Fiume has brought to Istria, in Buie, the travelling performance ‘Romeo and Juliet’, a peculiar show which the Teatro Stabile di Verona has been organizing for over twenty years in the capital city of  the Veneto province. This time, it was the picturesque historic city centre of Buie to be the […]

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Diplomatic Network
29 October 2019
Italian Language Week: Italian and the Opera in Tashkent

Music, and especially opera music, was the key theme chosen by the Italian Embassy in Uzbekistan for the initiatives organised for the Italian Language Week in the World. The central event was the lecture in Tashkent on “Italian on Stage” by Maestro Daniele Agiman, professor of orchestral conducting at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In […]

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Diplomatic Network
28 October 2019
The Year of Leonardo da Vinci: Medieval music in Bratislava

The music of the Middle Ages is the protagonist of a concert organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Bratislava for the year dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, on the 500th anniversary of his death. The “Arco Antiqua Ensemble” will accompany viewers tomorrow in the Church of the Capuchins on a musical journey through the whole […]

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