Thursdays at the Opera – Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Gioachino RossiniA series of screenings dedicated to Italian Opera introduced by Deirdre O’ Grady, Emeritus Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies University College Dublin. Conductor Claudio Abbado with Luigi Alva, Enzo Dara, Teresa Berganza, Hermann Prey, Paolo Montarsolo, Stefania Malagù, 140’Jean-Pierre Ponelle directed this film of Rossini’s comic masterpiece four years […]
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Lunedì al cinema – È stato il figlio
a series of screenings dedicated to contemporary Italian cinema film in Italian with English subtitles Film in Italian with English subtitlesPalermo in the 1970s. The Ciraulos are modest scrap dealers whose uneventful lives are turned upside down the day their youngest daughter is accidentally killed by clumsy killers. Their grief is immense but soon appeased […]
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Thursdays at the Opera – Aida
Aida, Giuseppe VerdiConductor Daniel Oren with Hui He, Marco Berti, Andrea Ulbrich, Ambrogio Maestri, 150’A series of screenings dedicated to Italian Opera Introduced by Deirdre O’ Grady, Emeritus Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies University College Dublin. The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pageantry […]
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Binario 21
dal poema di Yitzhak Katzenelson Il canto del popolo ebraico massacrato Event in italianIn occasione del Giorno della Memoria, in collaborazione con Promo MusicProiezione del film Binario 21, Dal poeta di Yizhak Katzenelson – Il canto del popolo ebraico massacratoDi Moni Ovadia e Felice CappaDurata 80 minutiAd Auschwitz, il luogo simbolo da cui cominciare a […]
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Pasolini, the poet: Friuli, Italy and beyond
A tribute to the poet, 40 years after his death Giuliana Adamo, Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, will introduce the evening with an overview of Pasolini’s extraordinary career and life. From poetry to film making, from literature to political activism: Pasolini stands out as one of the greatest intellectual figures of modern Italy.Angela Felice, […]
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Lunedì al cinema – L’Intrepido
a series of screenings dedicated to contemporary Italian cinema film in Italian with English subtitles Film in Italian with English subtitlesA middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity. Set in modern day Milan, this is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work – every type of work, […]
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Thursdays at the Opera – Don Carlo
A series of screenings dedicated to Italian Opera Introduced by Deirdre O GradyEmeritus Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies University College Dublin. Don Carlo, Giuseppe VerdiConductor Antonio Pappano with Matti Salminen, Jonas Kaufmann, Thomas Hampson, Anja Arteros, 237’“Jealousy, treachery, forbidden love, revenge and self-sacrifice set against a dark backdrop of suffocationg religious repression and political […]
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Ad Astra per Aspera – Paradiso
a reading of Dante’s Commedia To mark the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri and to give us all a chance to revisit his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, and University College Dublin have joined […]
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ASPECTS OF SCIENCE FICTION SINCE THE 1980S
CHINA, ITALY, JAPAN, KOREA PRESENTATION OF A RESEARCH PROJECT, AND BOOK LAUNCH SPEAKERS:CHIAKI ASAI (SENRI KINRAN UNIVERSITY, OSAKA);ROBERTO BERTONI (SLLCS, TCD);LORNA CARSON (TRINITY CENTRE FOR ASIAN STUDIES);DECLAN COOGAN (GLOBAL RELATIONS OFFICE, TCD);ENRICA MARIA FERRARA (SLLCS, TCD);GIULIA IANNUZZI (TRIESTE UNIVERSITY);RENATA SPERANDIO (ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE, DUBLIN)GENERAL DESCRIPTIONAspects of science fiction since the 1980s: China, Italy, Japan, Korea […]
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Ad Astra per Aspera – Purgatorio
a reading of Dante’s Commedia To mark the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri and to give us all a chance to revisit his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, and University College Dublin have joined […]
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