Lyric Opera Sings Verdi
An evening of operatic jewels to celebrate the Italian master, Giuseppe Verdi. Much loved Irish soprano Sinead Campbell Wallace, the internationally renowned American tenor Marc Heller and the first trans-gender baritone gaining an exceptional reputation on the international Opera stage Lucia Lucas will perform Verdi’s exquisite arias and duets. The acclaimed Lyric Opera Chorus will […]
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Monday at the cinema – La meglio gioventù II
Lunedì al cinema La meglio gioventù – Second partIn Italian with Italian subtitles La meglio gioventù is a 2003 Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. The title is inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s collection of poems of the same name. The film traces contemporary Italian history through the story of the Carati family from […]
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Luci e Ombre Sonore – Recital by Simone Vallerotonda
On the occasion of the Beyond Caravaggio exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland we present Simone Vallerotonda in Luci e Ombre Sonore, music for theorbo and baroque guitar. Everything is permitted to the musician specialising in 17th century music. Distancing himself from the period’s civilization, without ever actually forgetting it, he draws from the […]
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Monday at the cinema – La meglio gioventù
Monday at the cinemaLa meglio gioventù Director: Marco Tullio Giordana.With Alessio Boni, Luigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Fabrizio Gifuni, 384’.In Italian with Italian subtitles La meglio gioventù is a 2003 Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. The title is inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s collection of poems of the same name. The film traces […]
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The Diary of Kaspar Hauser
The Diary of Kaspar Hauser – book launch Italian Institute of Culture 6:30 pm Followed by the screening of “The enigma of Kaspar Hauser” by Werner Herzog at 8:00 pm The Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the Goethe-Institut are pleased to invite you to an evening dedicated to the mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, […]
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Negated Institutions. Franco Basaglia and Radical Psychiatry in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s.
With John Foot. In English. In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Basaglia, the new Director, was […]
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From invisible to visible: new data and methods for the archaeology of infant and child burials in pre-Roman Italy
International Conference24-25 April 2017Organised by Jacopo Tabolli (Trinity College Dublin) The archaeological record of infant (up to 2 years) and child (c. 2–11/12 years) burials remains elusive. In recent years the topic of infant and child burials in antiquity, and especially in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, has been increasingly addressed in international […]
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Afterhours in concert
One of the most iconic Italian indie rock bands is getting ready to cross international borders to perform on European stages in April 2017. Afterhours will bring their intense sound to Dublin by presenting their new studio album “Folfiri o Folfox” in the Opium Rooms on Sunday 23rd of April. Organised by Tij Events in […]
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Incontri con la scienza – Massimo Ammaniti. La famiglia adolescente
***Event in Italian*** Massimo Ammaniti, one of the most well-known Italian developmental psychoanalysts, was born in Rome in 1941. Graduated in medicine, trained in Child Psychiatry at La Sapienza University of Rome, Honorary Professor of Developmental Psychopathology and Previous Chairman of the Infant and Adolescent Clinical Psychology Faculty at La Sapienza University, he is […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Il Giovane Favoloso
Directed by Mario Martone. Con Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, 137’.In Italian with English subtitles. The film is based upon the short but fruitful life of the legendary 19th century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. Director Mario Martone’s film, a scrupulously researched and cinematically staged period biopic, gives us the full sweep of the […]
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