“883 – YOU ARE LEGEND!” Evening of Italian vinyl records of 70s-90s pop-disco music
On Thursday 13 March the Italian Institute of Culture, in collaboration with Nowhere Music, is ready for the next Italian Records Club this time dedicated to Italian pop music icons 883 ‘You Are Legend!’. The curators of Nowhere Music will bring together expert and amateur DJs in one evening who will play their vinyl LPs […]
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TALK WITH THE AUTHOR FRANCO FAGGIANI As part of the Institute’s Italian Book Club. Moderator: Enrica Ferrara. In Italian and English.
Thursday 13 March 2025 6.30 p.m., Italian Institute of Culture – Pavilion Hall We are delighted to host Franco Faggiani, author of the novel ‘L’inventario delle nuvole’ (Fazi, 2023), for a meeting with readers at our Institute. In his novel set in the early 1900s, Faggiani reconstructs with extraordinary attention to detail a particular […]
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ARENA DI VERONA OPERA FESTIVAL 2025
The Italian Institute of Culture is pleased to announce the 102nd Opera Season of Arena di Verona Foundation in the splendid amphitheatre of the Arena di Verona that will start on 13 June and end on 6 September 2025 with four operas by Giuseppe Verdi, one of Bizet’s most famous and beloved operas and a […]
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ONLINE GUIDED TOUR “ANDREA PALLADIO THE VENETIAN RENAISSANCE” with “The Grand Tour” – in English
Palladio is synonymous of classicism and solemn buildings. He was an architect capable of interpreting the Renaissance style brought to Venice by Roman and Florentine artists, creating a new language for which he wrote a complete new grammar. We will explore his buildings in Venice and Veneto, as well as his legacy that has spread […]
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LUNEDÌ AL CINEMA – Film screening “Viaggi di nozze” (1995) by Carlo Verdone ITA sub ENG
Monday 10 March 2025, 6 pm “Viaggi di nozze” is a 1995 film by Carlo Verdone which marks a return to the episodic film structure that launched the director and actor’s career with his first two feature films ‘Un sacco bello’ and ‘Bianco, Rosso e Verdone’. The film follows, intertwined together, the adventures of three […]
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EXHIBITION ITALIA GENIALE – Design enables
EXHIBITION “ITALIA GENIALE – Design enables” The beauty, originality and creativity of universally appreciated industrial design Exhibition curated by Francesco Zurlo and Carlo Martino. From 9th March to 27th March 2025 from 10am to 7pm RDS – St. Mary’s Church of Ireland – Anglesea Road entrance – Dublin 4 https://maps.app.goo.gl/eRm4Cjy3ejz1E3ed6 “Italia Geniale […]
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FIRST RECITAL DI ARIE D’OPERA – WITH WEXFORD FESTIVAL OPERA AT RIAM WHYTE HALL
The collaboration with the Wexford Festival Opera continues for the year 2025. The Italian Institute of Culture is pleased to present the first in a series of three new prestigious concerts to be held between March and May 2025, featuring artists from the renowned Irish Opera Festival. Opening this extraordinary series is a magnificent free […]
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TALK “CASTRATI, THE CELESTIAL VOICES THAT CAME AT A PRICE” – With art historian and musicologist Adrian Le Harivel – In English
With ancient origins as eunuchs, from the 17th century they were exclusively Italian and became the superstars of opera by composers of several nations. Castrati had voices quite distinct from other upper registers, between both sexes. Modern falsettos have attempted to recapture their special sound. They could be temperamental and their personal lives often colourful, […]
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ONLINE GUIDED TOUR – “DONATELLO, THE FIRST OF THE MODERNS” with “The Grand Tour”
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, universally known just as Donatello, can be considered the most important sculptor of early the Renaissance. Born in Florence in 1386 , Donatello used his humanistic background to develop a complete Renaissance style in sculpture and he worked with stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco, and wax. His most important […]
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LUNEDÌ AL CINEMA LIVE – Film screening “La migliore offerta” (2013) by Giuseppe Tornatore ENG sub ITA
‘La migliore offerta’ is a film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, which tells the story of Virgil Oldman, a sixty-year-old antiques dealer and auctioneer and his encounter with Claire, a young heiress of a wealthy family intent on selling the precious objects that furnish her villa. A love story, set in Vienna, between truth and fiction […]
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