Matera Capitale della Cultura 2019 // Racconti matematici da Matera – with Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Matera, the famous city of “Sassi” and European Capital of Culture 2019, recently hosted The Poetry of Primes, a series of five great exhibitions meant to explore mathematics from the inside (through the beauty of numbers and their specific content) and from the outside (through the numbers of beauty and their mathematical relations with the […]
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CANCELLED – Suono Italiano 2019 // Nicola Di Benedetto (violin)
***We regret to inform you that this event will be rescheduled to a later date (TBA). We apologise for the inconvenience*** Nicola Di Benedetto was born in Pordenone in 2001. He started playing the violin when he was only 7 years old. Currently he studies with M.Mauro Loguercio at the Milan’s Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi. He […]
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Lunedì al Cinema // Cover Boy: l’ultima rivoluzione
The story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele, respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future and the travails of another youth who instead scrapes along the margins of a […]
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Lunedì al Cinema // 1200 km di bellezza
The Italian peninsula, from the Alps to the Mediterranean, is 1,200 kilometers long; this time-travelling film is a cinematic trip across Italy, from North to South, through an extraordinary collection of 90 years of documentaries depicting landscapes and traditions of all twenty Italian regions. Directed by Italo Moscati, 2015. Lunedì al Cinema (Monday at the […]
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Thursday at the Opera – II
A series of shared operatic experiences illustrated by live performance, presented by Deirdre O’Grady. The series will demonstrate the outstanding features of the early to mid-19th century romantic Italian opera through the glorious melodies of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. History, its presentation and misrepresentation play a part in the rebirth of celebrated historical figures […]
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4th Week of Italian Cuisine in the World // The physics of spaghetti – with Fabio Bruni
Pasta is prepared and eaten worldwide, but what is the science behind the perfect spaghetti dish? There is a direct connection between the taste of pasta and aspects such as the origin of the wheat, if the pasta has been teflon or bronze extruded, how it was dried, the process behind pasta al dente and […]
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Settimana della Cucina Italiana // L’appetito dell’imperatore – with Franco Cardini
St. Francis’ mouth-watering last meal, Honoré de Balzac and his guilty pleasures, the luscious banquets of the Grand Khan, Napoleon’s favourite recipe: all of this and much more can be found in L’appetito dell’Imperatore, a collection of forgotten stories and recipes by historian and gourmand Franco Cardini, who will open our celebrations of the Week […]
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Suono Italiano 2019 // Diego Cambareri (guitar)
Diego Cambareri is known as “the Maradona of classical guitar” due to his unusual ability to perfectly perform both flamenco and classical music within the same performance; at only 20 years of age he is considered to be one of the most promising classical guitarists in Italy. His classical and flamenco concert activity takes place […]
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Lunedì al Cinema // Nessuno mi troverà
The film tries to shed a light on the mysterious disappearance of the “Prince of Physics” through testimony, archive footage and animations. March, 1938: 31-year-old Ettore Majorana, unanimously considered one of the most brilliant Italian physicists of the 20th Century, goes missing without leaving any traces, in circumstances which will never be clarified. After reaching […]
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Thursday at the Opera – I
A series of shared operatic experiences illustrated by live performance, presented by Deirdre O’Grady. The series will demonstrate the outstanding features of the early to mid-19th century romantic Italian opera through the glorious melodies of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. History, its presentation and misrepresentation play a part in the rebirth of celebrated historical figures […]
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