The season of Italian film events continues in London, featuring some of our greatest actors and directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergio Leone, Federico Fellini and Anna Magnani. The weekly screening are hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in London. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreOne of Italy’s greatest treasures, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds”, will be exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. for 40 days this autumn, from 13 September until 22 October 2013. The extraordinary document, created ca. 1505, shows da Vinci’s interest in human flight by exploring […]
Read moreBangkok’s cinemas speak Italian, with Thai subtitles. The Moviemov Italian Film Festival, now in its third year, opened with a gala evening for 700 guests and an Italian delegation that included director Marco Risi. Moviemov 2013 includes an Ettore Scola retrospective and a selection of independent Thai productions selected with the help of the Ministry […]
Read moreThe heart of Warsaw is beating to an Italian rhythm. At the International Open-Air Jazz Festival, Enrico Pieranunzi on piano, Mauro Beggio on drums and Luca Bulgarelli on bass delighted an audience of 4000 in the city’s Old Town Square. The performance was supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw. Read more, in Italian
Read moreThe photography exhibition of Italian sites included in UNESCO’s World Heritage list closed today, 7 August 2013, in Miami. The travelling exhibition features 150 photographs and stills from famous films shot at the sites in our country, which has the world’s greatest concentration of world heritage sites. Italy plays an important role in helping emerging […]
Read moreGiuseppe Verdi’s “Nabucco” will be screened at the opening of the 3rd Nikolay Ghiaurov International Musical Film Festival on 8 August 2013. The performance, featuring Ghena Dimitrova, Renato Bruson and, Dimitar Petkov among others, was filmed at the Verona Arena and broadcast by the RAI on 13 November 1981. The screening was organised in collaboration […]
Read moreUna colonna sonora inedita per celebrare l’Anno della Cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti composta dal Maestro Nicola Piovani. Una partitura per orchestra sinfonica dal titolo Allegretto Made in Italy, interpretata dall’Orchestra Italiana del Cinema e realizzata con la collaborazione di: Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Ambasciata d’Italia e Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Washington, Ministero dei […]
Read moreA new soundtrack has been composed by maestro Nicola Piovani to celebrate the Year of Italian Culture in the USA. Entitled “Allegretto Made in Italy”, the score, for symphony orchestra, was performed by the Italian Film Orchestra. It was produced with the collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Embassy and Italian Cultural […]
Read more“We’re working on a series of agreements that, once signed, will make a marked and positive impact on the lives of Italian companies and households. And we’re doing so as part of our diplomacy for growth policy in the framework of economic recovery”. Work on the agreements is on-going, in the run-up to the Italian-Russian […]
Read moreDa domani al 9 agosto il Sottosegretario Mario Giro, con delega per l’America Latina, sarà in visita ufficiale in Messico, prima visita a carattere bilaterale di un rappresentante dell’esecutivo italiano dopo molti anni. “In Messico è in atto un importante processo di riforma economica e sociale che procede rapidamente con la partecipazione responsabile di tutte […]
Read moreUnder-Secretary Mario Giro, whose remit includes Central America, will be on an official visit to Mexico on 8 and 9 August 2013 – the first bilateral visit by an Italian Government representative in many years. “Mexico is undergoing an important economic and social reform process, a process that is making rapid pace and in which […]
Read moreDeputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli will be visiting Tehran on 6 and 7 August to make contact with the Iranian authorities following the inauguration of President Rouhani. His visit will underscore the Italian government’s interest in Iran after the election of the new President. Another aim is to encourage the new Iranian administration to take […]
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