Jhumpa Lahiri – Launch of “The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories”
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London to parent from West Bengala, and then raised in the United States. After winning a Pulitzer Prize (for her first book, the collection of short stories The Interpreter of Maladies, published in 1999), and publishing three other books (The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland), she made a decision […]
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Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival: Shooting the Mafia
Shooting the Mafia by Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto’s powerful documentary strips back the glamorous image of the Sicilian Mafia, showing the harsh reality of life, death and business at the hands of those who wield it. It does so through the eyes and lens of photographer Letizia Battaglia, who captured their brutality on her own […]
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“Roma”: a conversation with Vittorio Giacopini and Enrico Terrinoni
Rome, its streets and its unmistakable language are at the core of countless literary productions which depict the main feature and contradiction of the Eternal City: the endless war between beauty and decay. In his novel Roma, Vittorio Giacopini paints a grim picture of modern-day Rome and even predicts its literal destruction… Vittorio Giacopini is […]
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Lyric Opera Productions presents “La Bohème” (Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème is surely the greatest operatic love story of all. The universally popular opera – a smash hit for over a century – is easy to love, and impossible to forget. A lost key and an accidental touch of cold hands in the dark – so begins the tender romance at the heart of […]
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Pavel Steidl – NCH International Guitar Series
This concert features the guitarist Pavel Steidl, one of the most celebrated and contemporary guitar virtuosos, in a programme focusing on Italian music of the 19th century by Legnani, Regondi, Giuliani and Paganini. The concert is part of a series of six concert focusing primarily on guitarist composers, curated by the NCH and Redmond O’Toole. […]
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Il Quartetto di Venezia: Music from La Serenissima
The Quartetto di Venezia is Quartet in Residence at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice. Bruno Giuranna said of them: “This is a group that stands out in the varied and vast European musical field. The perfect technical mastery and the power of their performances, characterized by the push towards an absolute value of themselves […]
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Reading Dante at the IIC 2019 – Paradiso
The Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to announce the new season of the series “Reading Dante at the IIC”. Several times throughout the Commedia Dante addresses the lettore with the belief that he will be read by the futura gente – ourselves – and this we have done together through Inferno, Purgatorio and the […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – A cavallo della tigre
A remake of the 1961 classic by Luigi Comencini. Guido, a Milanese gambler who is in debt up to his ears, organizes a fake kidnapping to pay off the money he owes. His young girlfriend Antonella helps him. However, everything goes wrong and Guido is arrested while Antonella gets away with the ransom. Two and […]
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A Valentine’s Night Special: Puccini’s little women in love
A Valentine’s Night Special: Puccini’s little women in love An illustrated introduction to some of the most iconic heroines in Italian opera – and their lovers – from Anna and Roberto in Le Villi (1884) to Liù and Calaf in Turandot (1926). Written, produced and presented by George Fleeton on behalf of Lyric Opera Productions […]
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Exhibition “Irish in Italy” – Irish literature and politics in Italy in the first half of the 20th Century
The Irish in Italy exhibition aims to illustrate the progressive emergence of Ireland as an autonomous entity, both culturally and politically, in the Italian public consciousness, focusing on the role of pioneer publishers and translators. Irish in Italy displays several important documents such as letters by Pavese, Joyce, Montale, Yeats, Linati and first editions of […]
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