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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CANCELED – Italian Folk Horror: Wyrd, Occulture, Psychedelia – lecture by Fabio Camilletti
***Please note this event has been canceled. We apologise for the inconvenience*** Coined by film director Piers Haggard, the term ‘folk horror’ has become ubiquitous in contemporary British culture, ending up to denote not only the aesthetics of films such as Haggard’s Blood on Satan’s Claw or Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man, but a […]
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Lunedì al Cinema / Holocaust Remembrance Day – 1938 Diversi
In 1938 Mussolini’s “Racial laws” entered into force, and the Italian people, who have not traditionally been anti-Semitic, were induced by fascist propaganda to accept the persecution of a minority that had been living peacefully in Italy for centuries.What made this possible? And how much do we know about that moment in history today?1938 – […]
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Exposing lives: Carla Cerati’s photographic exploration of Italy – with Giorgia Alù
Carla Cerati (1926-2016) is generally remembered for her contribution, along with photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin, to the book Morire di classe (1969) on the shocking enquiry into the condition of Italian mental institutions. Her artistic career, however, includes a vast production of photographs of Milan and other parts of Italy, and the publication of numerous […]
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