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30 November 2016
Buenos Aires – Nino Rota’s music to celebrate “Enchanting Italy”

The event “Incantevole Italia. La musica di Nino Rota con immagini del paese delle mille bellezze” (“Enchanting Italy. Nino Rota’s music with images of the Country of the thousand beauties”) will be held in Buenos Aires on 30 November. It is a journey through the world of Italian cinema and the beauties of Italy’s plastic […]

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30 November 2016
Tel Aviv – Bellini’s Norma delights Israeli audiences

Tel Aviv will stage a new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma, the opera that made its debut at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala on 26 December 1831. The premiere is scheduled for 30 November – with performances until 17 December – at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, the venue of the Israeli Opera, which promotes […]

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29 November 2016
Malta for Italy, Marco Arcidiacono’s watercolours on show for Amatrice

In his watercolours, Marco Arcidiacono reproduces the colours of the Mediterranean by plunging into the beauties of the Mare Nostrum, one of Italy’s greatest treasures. His work will be on display in Malta in an exhibition to support the inhabitants of Amatrice who were struck by the earthquake. The watercolour exhibition entitled “Malta for Italy” […]

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29 November 2016
Australia – Vivacissimo mandolin concert in Sydney

The Anna Schivazappa-Claudio Fontana duo will have the task of enlivening the ninth edition of ‘Vivacissimo 2016’, the music programme that the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney organises every year. The two musicians, who respectively play the mandolin and the piano, will present a programme mainly focused on mandolin music composed by Raffaele Calace, Vittorio […]

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29 November 2016
Japan – Tokyo celebrates famous cartoon based on De Amicis novel

Forty years since the release of the first Japanese TV episode adapted from De Amicis’ novel ‘Cuore’, Tokyo will celebrate the book by screening 52 episodes of the animation series “Marco -Dagli Appennini alle Ande” [Marco, from the Appennines to the Andes]. The cartoon is considered to be a milestone in the world history of […]

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28 November 2016
Iraq – Iraqi Kurdistan: Italian archaeologists discover a 20,000 year old lake

The remains of a dried-up lake dating back almost 20,000 years (late Pleistocene-early Holocene) have been discovered by the archaeologists of the University of Udine in the Dohuk region, in Iraqi Kurdistan. The finding occurred during the annual research campaign under the “Land of Nineveh Regional Archaeological Project” (PARTeN) and within the framework of the […]

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28 November 2016
Chile – Santiago admires Constellations glass exhibition

“Constellations” is the title of an exhibition by glass artist Carellia Riccardi which will open in Santiago in Chile from 30 November to 29 December. The exhibition is hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) and organised in partnership with the Italian Embassy in Chile. Riccardi’s work, which is closely linked to the refined glass-blowing […]

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25 November 2016
Mexico – 12 students selected for Italian Technology Award

Twelve students in four different disciplines (ceramics, packaging, metal and steel works and plastics) of Mexico’s Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Nuevo León and the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), accompanied by four of their teachers, have been selected for the Italian Technology Award. After the ceremony, they will go to Italy […]

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24 November 2016
Russian Federation – Moscow celebrates the art and life of Eleonora Duse

Moscow’s State Contemporary History Museum will open tomorrow the exhibition on “Eleonora Duse and Vera Komissarzhevskaja. Two Divas in the Mirror”. The exhibition is organised by major Russian and Italian institutions and museums, and by the Italian Cultural Institute in Moscow. The exhibition narrates the life and artistic career of the two great stars of […]

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23 November 2016
Week of Italian Cuisine in the World: Malta – Portugal – Czech Republic

Malta A gala evening was held at the Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta on 21 November to inaugurate first Week of Italian Cuisine in the World in the presence of the President Emeritus of Malta, Hon. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici. Following the opening address by Italian Ambassador, Giovanni Umberto De Vito, the Director of the Institute […]

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22 November 2016
Argentina – “Why Italians Like to Talk about Food” presented in Cordoba

To celebrate the 1st Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, Elena Aleksandrovna Kostjoukovic will present her book “Perché agli italiani piace parlare del cibo” (“Why Italians Like to Talk about Food”) on Wednesday, 23 November at 7:30 p.m. at the Italian Cultural Institute in Córdoba, Argentina. The writer will guide participants along an itinerary […]

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