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Diplomazia Culturale

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7 September 2015
Moscow – Caravaggio on display at Italian Embassy

Caravaggio’s “Boy Bitten by a Lizard” is being displayed at the Italian Embassy in Moscow, with a presentation by Ambassador Cesare Maria Ragaglini and the director of the Pushkin Museum, Marina Loshak. The painting will then be shown at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts from 15 September to 10 January 2016, as part […]

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4 September 2015
New York – Dissonanzen Ensemble pays homage to “Assunta Spina”

The Italian Cultural Institute of  New York has organised an event for Monday 14 September dedicated to the Italian silent film masterpiece “Assunta Spinta” at 100 years from its production, with the Ensemble Dissonanzen providing the live soundtrack of the film directed and starring, among others, silent film diva Francesca Bertini, and produced a full […]

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4 September 2015
Oslo – Italian ambassador speaks on Dante and Ibsen

Italian ambassador in Oslo Giorgio Novello will hold a conference on 16 September in which he will discuss Dante and Ibsen, drawing a comparison on the basis of a series of common aspects. The conference will be held at the Ibsen museum in Skein, birthplace of the renowned Norwegian author. Read more, in Italian.

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4 September 2015
San Francisco – Cinema marathon of 4 De Sica films

San Francisco pays tribute to director Vittorio De Sica on 26 September, a day to be dedicated entirely to his Neo-Realist masterpieces at the historic Castro cinema, where a four-film marathon will begin at 11:30 in the morning. The series has been organized in association with the Ministry of Culture under the patronage of the […]

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3 September 2015
Stockholm – Climate soil and landscape: a lecture by Luca Mercalli

The wider public knows him as TV’s “weatherman with the butterfly”, but he is much more: Luca Mercalli is, in fact, an internationally renowned climatologist who will present a lecture on 7 September (at 18:00) at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm entitled “Climate, soil, landscape: how to stop the race to the edge of […]

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3 September 2015
Prague – Traditions and notes: the polyphonic songs of Sardinia

The traditional polyphonic songs of Sardinia, as well as those of Corsica, will be featured in a concert by the world famous Mediterranean polyphonic group “Cuncordu e Tenore de Orosei” on Tuesday 15 September (at 20:00) at Prague’s Hlahol (Masarykovo nábřeží 16), promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of Prague. Read more, in Italian.

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3 September 2015
Marseille – Concert Thursday by Germany’s first electronic orchestra

France and Italy come together for an important event dedicated to electronic music. In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, the Goethe Institute of Marseille, has organised a concert for 3 September by the first electronic music orchestra, conducted by Rochus Aust, a German composer who transfers the physics discoveries of Ampère and Fabry into […]

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2 September 2015
Brazzaville – Azzurri Stars, old glories in the field for Made in Italy

On 2 September, four champions of Italy’s winning 2006 World Cup team – Fabio Cannavaro, Simone Perrotta, Gianluca Zambrotta and Simone Barone – will join other greats such as Totò Schillaci, ‘Penna Bianca’ Fabrizio Ravanelli, Damiano Tommasi, Stefano Tacconi and Antonio Benarrivo as the “Azzurri Stars”. They will be matched in the new Brazzaville stadium, […]

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2 September 2015
Geneva – 50th anniversary of Mattmark tragedy

A solemn commemoration will be held in the Canton Vallese on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Mattmark landslide in which 88 dam construction workers – 56 of whom were Italians – tragically lost their lives. The ceremony’s more than 1,000 participants will include Undersecretary for Regional Affairs Gianclaudio Bressa, Italian Consul […]

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2 September 2015
Copenhagen – Ambassador’s residence open for Golden Days

It will be open house on 17 September at the Ambassador of Italy’s 18th century Copenhagen residence, which is normally closed to the public. The occasion is the Golden Days Festival and has been organised in cooperation with the French embassy in the Danish capital. The two historically significant buildings will be open to the […]

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2 September 2015
Montreal – Madama Butterfly opens opera season

Great expectations for Giacomo Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”, scheduled to open the 36th opera season on 19 September (19:30) at the Place des Arts opera House in Montreal, Canada, the most important French-speaking venue in North America. The event has been arranged thanks to the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, and will be […]

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