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30 December 2015
Hamburg – Alessandra Ferri pays homage to Eleonora Duse

Hamburg pays homage to Italian acting great Eleonora Duse on Wednesday 13 January at the Italian Cultural Institute, where ballerina Alessandra Ferri will offer her personal vision of John Neumeier’s  “Duse”, the composer’s role in the work and the various phases of her career. The work was recently performed at the Staatsoper in Hamburg. Read more, […]

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30 December 2015
Krakow – Italian Cultural Institute explores 19th and 20th century Italy

The Italian Cultural Institute of Krakow has been under the direction of 58-year-old Ugo Rufino for a year and a half now, and it will be the director himself to hold a seminar at the University of Krakow on 20 January entitled “History of 19th and 20th Century Italy”, during a conference on Italy’s contemporary […]

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29 December 2015
Oslo – Film and literature with Moravia’s “Il conformista”

An evening of literature and film at the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo on Thursday 14 January, with a presentation of Alberto Moravia’s novel “Il conformista” and the film of the same name directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Translator Tommy Watz, who has produced the first translation of Moravia’s novel into Norwegian, will present both the […]

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29 December 2015
Tokyo – “Botticelli and His Time” exhibition, with a symposium at the Italian Cultural Institute

To coincide with the “Botticelli and His Time” exhibition at Tokyo’s Metropolitan Art Museum, which runs from 16 January to 3 April 2016, the Italian Cultural Institute in the Japanese capital is organising a symposium on the artist. Speakers will include art historians and academics Osano Shigetoshi, Alessandro Cecchi, Cristina Acidini and Jonathan Nelson. Read […]

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28 December 2015
New York – Silent movies: Dante’s “Inferno” in the Big Apple

“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 […]

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28 December 2015
New Delhi – Unexplored lands and cultures in the works of Pietro Ruffo

Pietro Ruffo is a qualified architect but his love of old maps has turned him into an artist. And now this enthusiasm brings him to India, where he will be displaying his works for the first time in an exhibition called “Terra incognita”. Curated by John Xaviers, the exhibition will run at the Italian Cultural […]

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28 December 2015
Madrid – The creativity of the “Made in Italy” brand on show in Spain

“Made in Italy. 1950-70 Graphic design, creatività ed esperienza” is the title of an exhibition that will run in Madrid until 28 February 2016. The exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid and the Italian Association for Visual Communication Design (AIAP), features works by famous artists such as Vignelli, Noorda, Iliprandi, […]

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24 December 2015
Toronto – Three evenings of Italian opera greats

Toronto 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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23 December 2015
Haifa Italian concerts organised by the Chamber Music Society

Haifa has hosted a number of “Italian Concerts” at a festival which for 21 years has celebrated the city’s multiculturalism through music and the visual arts. The Italian Chamber Music Society, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, organised concerts of liturgical music in the city’s churches, with works by Falvetti, Vivaldi, Scarlatti and other […]

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