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30 April 2013
USA – ‘A Stradivarious amongst the people” to tour 10 cities

The US tour by violinist Matteo Fedeli, which will see him playing a precious Stradivarius dating from 1726 in over 10 east-coast cities, has opened at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. The initiative is part of the “Year of Italian Culture” programme. The Italian Cultural Institute also hosted a film screening and conference […]

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30 April 2013
KUWAIT – Italian music plays a lead role at the Gulf Jazz Festival

Italian music was showcased at the recent Gulf Jazz Festival in Kuwait, for which the Italian Embassy helped identify sponsors, given the participation of Italian artists. As Ambassador Fabrizio Nicoletti commented, the excellent audience reaction to Italian jazz musicians and to the recent 3-day Italian film event “testifies to the appeal exerted by Italian culture […]

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29 April 2013
PRAGUE – Panels by the Vivarini brothers exhibited

Major public success for the exhibition “Vivarini 1451”, an historic reassembling of seven of the original eleven panels of Antonio and Bartolomeo Vivarini’s polyptych. Speakers at the event included art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, Director Emeritus of the Prague National Gallery Vladimir Rosel and many culture and media world figures. Read more, in Italian.

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26 April 2013
NORWAY – Oslo hails Luchino Visconti

The City of Oslo paid tribute to Italian film director Luchino Visconti in a 2-day series of conferences with professors and experts on Italian cinema. The event was sponsored by the CineCittà Luce Institute and the Foreign Ministry, and was the last in a series that began with a tribute to Federico Fellini in 2011, […]

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26 April 2013
ITALY-ETHIOPIA – Artists united in ‘Heart to Hearth’

Rome and Addis Ababa unite in “Heart to Heart”, an exhibition that brings together 5 Italian and 6 Ethiopian artists in a friendly dialogue embracing painting, drawing, photography and video to explore contemporary interdependence and globalisation themes. Curated by Meskerem Assegued, the show is hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Ababa and runs […]

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26 April 2013
JAPAN – Leonardo’s genius displayed in Tokyo

The opening of the exhibition “Leonardo, portrait of a genius”, an exhibit of works from the Ambrosiana Library of Milan shown for the first time in Japan, was a great success. 109 paintings, drawings, manuscripts and books The exhibition, mounted by at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, includes 109 paintings, drawings, manuscripts and books from the […]

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26 April 2013
POLAND – Italian Cinema a success

The second edition of the new Italian Cinema Festival, organized in collaboration with the CineCittà Luce Institute in Warsaw, Lodz and Gdansk was a major public and critical success. Read more, in Italian.

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24 April 2013
PARIS – Evening to honour Pistoletto at Italian Embassy

Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the leaders of the Arte Povera movement, and to whom the Louvre will open its doors through 3 September, donated a piece of his “Terzo Paradiso” to the gardens of the Italian Embassy in Paris, where an evening in honour of the sculptor was hosted on 23 April by Ambassador Giandomenico […]

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24 April 2013
POLONIA – Works from Farnesina collection exhibited

Works from the Farnesina Collection of Contemporary Art were displayed in an exhibition in Torun, Poland entitled “Artisti della collezione Farnesina – Carla Accardi – Smarrire i fili della voce”: 30 pieces by the Sicilian artist in various periods of her development. Read more, in Italian.

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23 April 2013
MAPUTO – Amb. Vellano awards “Nosside” poetry prize

Preparations are under way in the capital of Mozambique, Maputo, for International Book Day. The Italian embassy has planned an event dedicated to poetry, with a group of “friends” of the Italian language and culture, at which Ambassador Roberto Vellanowill announce the winner of the “Nosside” international poetry prize sponsored by UNESCO. Read more, in […]

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23 April 2013
THE ITALIAN OLYMPICS – Finals in Florence

The event Italian Language Days will take place at Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April, along with the finals of the Italian Olympics, an on-line competition on grammar, spelling and vocabulary aimed at promoting the study of our language. The project is sponsored by the MIUR with the support of the […]

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23 April 2013
RABAT – 200th birthday of Verdi, staging of Traviata

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.

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