World Poetry Day: “Poetare e cantare sono sinonimi” – with Marco Ramelli and Antonio Cascelli
Poetry reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals, everywhere in the world, share the same questions and feelings. Poetry is the mainstay of oral tradition and can communicate the innermost values of diverse cultures. For this reason, a decision to proclaim 21 March as World Poetry Day was adopted during UNESCO’s 30th […]
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Italian Design Day 2019 // Italian Design: five perspectives
The Italian Design Day, an integrated promotion project launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to highlight the excellence and peculiarities of Italian design around the world, reaches its third edition. The Italian Institute, in collaboration with Milano Design Film Festival, presents L’Eredità dei Maestri. This series of short films and documentaries, selected from the […]
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“Ciao amore ciao”: recital on Luigi Tenco – with Nino Racco
Ciao amore ciao was the last song and the “suicide note” of the legendary singer- songwriter Luigi Tenco, who took his own life in 1967, shortly after performing at the Sanremo Festival. Tenco subsequently became an icon of love and despair and his artistic legacy lives on to these days. The actor Nino Racco incorporates […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Visioni Sarde
Sponsored by Regione Sardegna, Visioni Sarde is a collection of short films, documentaries and avant-garde films by young Sardinian filmmakers. The five shorts selected for our screening show a hidden side of Sardinian culture, where traditions merge with modernity, urban landscapes blend with rural scenery, and reality and fantasy collide. Deu ti amu! (Jacopo Cullin, […]
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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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