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10 July 2012
Izmir: italian lyric artists at international festival

Lyric music was the front-liner at the26th edition of the international music festival in Izmir, where hundreds of artists from all over the world compete. The Italian Consulate organised a recital by mezzosoprano Francesca Franci, accompanied by Paolo Villa, performing works by Verdi, Haendel and Bizet. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of […]

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9 July 2012
BEIJING: italian masterpieces at the National Museum

67 works from Florentine National and municipal museums, galleries and art collections: The exhibition “Renaissance in Florence. Masterpieces and Protagonists” for the 100th anniversary of the National Museum of Beijing on 6 July. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the page.

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6 July 2012
Afghanistan – Conference in Tokyo (8 July)

New development interventions in Afghanistan for the post-2014, the date set for foreign military withdrawal, will be the focus of a conference in Tokyo on 8 July, which follows a meeting in Chicago on security. The Italian delegation will be led by Under-Secretary Staffan de Mistura, and join those of over seventy other countries and […]

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6 July 2012
Barcellona: new Roman Forum website presented

On 15 June, the Auditorium of Barcellona’s Fundacio’ RBA hosted the presentation of a complete multimedia web guide to the celebrated Roman Forum created by the Società Indissoluble, also located in Barcellona. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the page.

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4 July 2012
Los Angeles: fund-raising appeal to restore Ferrera’s Municipal Theatre after the earthquake

The Italian Consulate General in Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Cultural Institute and the Italo-Americano newspaper, has launched a fund-raising campaign for the Municipal Theatre in Ferrara. The campaign is an expression of solidarity – by Italians, Italian-Americans and Americans who love Italy – with the communities hit by the earthquake in Emilia Romagna. […]

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2 July 2012
Havana – “The Genius of Leonardo”: an exhibition of artifacts in wood

A permanent exhibition on “The Genius of Leonardo” was opened on 28 June 2012 at the Saint Francis of Assisi Monastery in Havana. The exhibition includes about 100 artifacts in wood, created from the studies conducted by Leonardo and faithfully reproduced by the “Anthropos” Foundation in Rome. Read more, in Italian.

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28 June 2012
BOSTON – A good Italian presence at the BIO 2012 Convention

The Boston Bio 2012 event, which ran from 18 to 21 June, attracted a good number of Italian businesses and provided excellent networking opportunities. The Bio International Convention, the world’s major biotechnology event, runs in a different American city each year. Read more, in Italian.

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28 June 2012
Pakistan: the Jahanabad Buddha restored

The Jahanabad Buddha is coming back to life thanks to Italy, with funds from the Pakistan debt conversion. The restoration of the 6th-7th century A.D. statue is being done by ISIAO (Italian institute for Asia and the Orient) in partnership with the province of Khyber Pakthunkwa and the collaboration of non-governmental organisation ISCOS-CISL. At the […]

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27 June 2012
SOFIA: a summer of contemporary italian art

A painting exhibition and two installations – one of photos the other a mural are the summer events organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Sofia. “Bulgare Visioni”, a exhibit that opened on 20 June at the National Gallery of Foreign Art of paintings by Silvio Formichetti, piqued the attention of the Bulgarian media, as […]

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