Thursday at the Opera – L’Italiana in Algeri
The Institute is delighted to start an exciting and prestigious collaboration with the celebrated Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro. The screenings of Gioachino Rossini’s wonderful works will be introduced by Deirdre O’Grady, UCD Emeritus Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies and will start on November 3rd with L’Italiana in Algeri. Giovedì all’Opera – L’Italiana […]
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Italian presence in Ireland
“Italian Presence in Ireland has its history which dates back centuries. In the XIX century, before the first real emigrants from Italy arrived in Ireland, a number of architects, designers, stucco workers, as well as singers and musicians came to this country. They were not emigrants, as they were called for their services by a […]
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WEXFORD OPERA FESTIVAL – Maria De Rudenz, Gaetano Donizetti
WEXFORD OPERA FESTIVAL Maria de Rudenz Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) Opera in 3 acts | Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano Sung in Italian Maria de Rudenz has been described as ‘perhaps the darkest of Donizetti’s tragedies’, which is saying something and may account in part for the opera’s long-standing neglect. This Autumn’s Irish première is […]
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Objects in Italian Life and Culture. Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality by Paolo Bartoloni – Book launch
with Paolo Bartoloni (National University of Ireland – Galway) Introduction by Michael Cronin Italian life and culture are filled with objects that cross, accompany, facilitate or disrupt experience, desires, and dreams. Yet in spite of their ubiquity, theoretical engagement in the Italian context is still underdeveloped. Paolo Bartoloni investigates four typologies—the fictional, migrant, multicultural/transnational, […]
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A conversation with Roddy Doyle:Translating Don Giovanni
Event organised in partnership with the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies. Opera Theatre Company, as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations in 2016, has commissioned Roddy Doyle to create a brand new translation of Mozart and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni. Set in Dublin, the opera will be performed at the Gaiety Theatre as part […]
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Monday at the Cinema – Si può fare
Director: Giulio Manfredonia. With Claudio Bisio, Anita Caprioli, Giuseppe Battiston, Giorgio Colangeli, 111’In Italian with English subtitles Set in Italy in the early 1980s the film follows Nello (Claudio Bisio), the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his […]
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Il coraggio del proprio tempo – theatrical performance
***IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES*** We are pleased to present in association with the Irish Architectural Archive and the Fondazione Franco Albini a theatrical performance in Italian with English subtitles. Conceived, written and directed by Paola Albini, Il coraggio del proprio tempo is the story of the Modern Movement and Design. The text is […]
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Comma Queen invades Italy
In conversation with Mary Norris, acclaimed author of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. Can a best selling book about English grammar by an American copy editor (subeditor) be translated into Italian? Basic differences between the languages suggest that it would be difficult. For instance, the title, with its reference to a […]
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Leonardo da Vinci and the Unity of Knowledge with Pietro Marani
A unique opportunity to admire and understand Leonardo’s extraordinary complexity as an artist, painter and sketcher, and, in part, his work as a scientist and technologist. Pietro C. Marani is Full Professor in Modern Art History and teaches Modern Art History and Museology in the Politecnico of Milan. He has been Director of the Superintendence […]
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A Fine Line – Gianrico Carofiglio in conversation with Catherine Dunne
Gianrico Carofiglio is now a full time novelist. He was previously a member of the Senate in Italy and before that, an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Bari, a port on the coast of Puglia. He has been involved with trials concerning corruption, organized crime and human trafficing. He is a best-selling author of crime novels and […]
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