Rossini e il Bel Canto: le opere degli effetti speciali vocali – with George Fleeton
Rossini wrote 39 operas, Donizetti 65, Bellini 10, all innovative and unprecedented (light years away from Mozart), with the emphasis on beauty of sound supported by very refined vocal techniques. These composers dominated Italian opera from the 1810s to the 1840s, until Verdi came along and changed everything again! This captivating talk by George Fleeton […]
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Dublin Theatre Festival // Pasolini’s ‘Salò’ Redubbed – adaptation by Dylan Tighe
A live redubbing of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s controversial 1975 film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed daringly transposes Pasolini’s notorious final film to Ireland. This radical adaptation by Dylan Tighe explores the beliefs and values behind ‘coercive confinement’ and their enduring impact on the power relations and injustices of contemporary Ireland. […]
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Concetto La Malfa – More than 30 years in publishing at the service of the Italian community in Ireland
Concetto La Malfa, living in Ireland since 1965, has devoted over three decades to journalism and writing, as a correspondent for the Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport and for the radio station RTL 102.5, covering the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland. He is the founder/editor of Italia Stampa (1983-2014) a periodical for the Italian community […]
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Culture Night 2019 – A night of Italian opera
Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts. On Culture Night, arts and cultural organisations and venues of all shapes and sizes, including the National Cultural Institutions, extend their opening hours to allow for increased access to the public. Special and unique events and workshops are specifically programmed […]
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Suono Italiano 2019 // Eugenio Della Chiara – classical guitar
Born in Pesaro, Italy, at the age of nineteen Eugenio Della Chiara graduated with top marks and honours at the Conservatoire of his home town, under the direction of Giuseppe Ficara. Among his Maestros were Piero Bonaguri, Andrea Dieci and Oscar Ghiglia, with whom he studied at the Chigiana Academy of Siena. Among the prizes […]
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“Leonardo, the gentle genius”: exhibition for the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death
2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci, the great Renaissance master and polymath. The exhibition Leonardo. Il genio gentile, created by Stefano Baldi and first launched in the Embassy of Italy in Sofia, provides a captivating overview of Leonardo’s life and works, from the key innovations he introduced in his […]
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Opening of the exhibition “Leonardo, the kind genius”
2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci, the great Renaissance master and polymath. The exhibition Leonardo. Il genio gentile, created by Stefano Baldi and first launched in the Embassy of Italy in Sofia, provides a captivating overview of Leonardo’s life and works, from the key innovations he introduced in his […]
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Italian Fusion Festival 2019 ¦ Jazz & Prosecco Edition
The Italian Fusion Festival is the biggest Italian festival in Europe. The third edition will take place on the 13th of July 2019 from 7pm until late at BelloBar, Portobello Harbour, Dublin. The multicultural and multidisciplinary arts festival is organised by Radio Dublino, the only Irish Radio programme in Italian, running since 2013. The festival […]
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Dublin Dante Summer School // An Opera on Dante’s life – with Patrick Cassidy
In 2000, film producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis asked Irish composer Patrick Cassidy to write an aria for an opera that did not exist. The subject: Dante’s love for Beatrice, as expressed in La Vita Nuova. The resulting aria, “Vide cor meum”, was featured in a pivotal scene in Ridley Scott’s film Hannibal. It […]
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Dublin Dante Summer School // Dante for Everyone? Money, greed and (Dante’s) Hell – with Catherine Dunne and Paolo di Paolo
A conversation about the possibility to approach Dante’s texts from different cultures, ages, and languages in spite (and perhaps because) of its apparent distance from today’s world. Are adaptations and translations reliable instruments to experience a text that is certainly medieval, but has achieved a surprisingly solid afterlife? Is the plot (the “libretto”) of Dante’s […]
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