Morocco paid tribute to Giuseppe Verdi on the 200th anniversary of his birth, with 4 performances of Traviata by the Orchestre Philarmonique du Maroc, featuring soprano Silvia della Benetta and tenors Valter Borin and Roberto Capovilla, at Rabat’s Mohammed V national theatre. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreThe series “Antonioni, film maker of deconstruction” opened at the Italian Cultural Institute of Montevideo. It was organized by the Embassy and Italian Cultural Institute to commemorate the director’s 100th birthday, and was curated and introduced by Amilcar Nocchetti, one of Uruguay’s most noted cinema critics. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreThe Italian Film Festival taking place in various cities in Scotland (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Kircaldy, Inverness) and, for the first time ever, in Belfast Northern Ireland, is a great success. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh and now in its 20th edition, the festival features selections from contemporary production to memorable classics, and […]
Read moreThe music, history, painting, art and culinary traditions of Tuscany were displayed at Dublin’s “Residenza d’Italia” in a 2-day promotional event that opened with concerts by the “Coro italiano” of Dublin flanked by a pianist, soprano and tenor who performed arias from Italian operas by included Verdi, Puccini and Rossini. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreResounding success for a concert dedicated to Verdi arias at the Center of the Arts of Alexandria in Egypt. A tribute to the composer on his 200th birthday, performers included soprano Giovanna Collica and tenor Andrea Raiti, accompanied by master pianist Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreOn 16 April the Italian Cultural Institute hosted the “Verdi Prize” on the occasion of the composer’s 200th birthday, arranged to coincide with International Voice Day, to stimulate the understanding and practice of lyric studies among the younger generations. The event was carried out in collaboration with the Oslo Opera House. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreOriginally intended for the children of Italian embassy staff during the years of the USSR, the “Italo Calvino” School of Moscow – which turns 40 this year – is now frequented predominately by Russians with a passion for Italy and is the only Italian school in the Russian Federation. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreItalian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington Claudio Bisogniero announced Wolf Blitzer, conductor of the CNN television programme “The Situation Room” Wolf Blitzer, as winner of the 8th annual Urbino Press Award – this year’s being a special edition as one the many events organized for the 2013 “Year of Italian Culture in the USA”. […]
Read moreThe “Ponte d’Oro” award ceremony has taken place at the Italian Embassy in Moscow, in what has become a traditional “get-together” for the Russian population and Italian community in the Russian capital. Founded and organised by the magazine “Italia – La vita come arte”,the award goes to “representatives of the cultural and economic communities who, […]
Read moreItalian art is again in the limelight in the Big Apple, with the Assonance/Dissonance” exhibition focusing on the human figure through the history of Italian art. On show are 14 masterpieces, ranging from archaeological finds to works by 16th and 17th century masters (Jacopo Bassano, Luca Giordano, il Cigoli and others) to contemporary artists (Chia, […]
Read moreMadrid celebrates Rita Levi-Montalcini, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, with a commemoration organised by the Italian Embassy on the eve of what would have been her 104th birthday. The event, organised in collaboration with the Mensajeros de la Paz association, was intended to highlight not just this extraordinary women but also the ample […]
Read moreIn observance of the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, Neapolitan pianist Giulio De Luca will be performing Liszt’s paraphrases of some of Verdi’s major works in a concert in Buenos Aires. Read more, Italian.
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