Madama Butterfly by Puccini
Madama Butterfly returns to the Irish stage at the NCH Fully Staged Irish Opera at the National Concert Hall Breathtakingly beautiful from first love to tragic end – Lyric Opera Productions presents its much acclaimed Madama Butterfly at the National Concert Hall on February 18th, 19th and 21st. Audiences adore Puccini’s much loved dramatic opera […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Una sconfinata giovinezza
Film in Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Pupi Avati. With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Francesca Neri, 98’. Una sconfinata giovinezza (Endless Youth) tells the story of Lino Settembre and Chicca, his wife. Lino is a renowned sportswriter and Chicca is professor of Romance philology. They lead a serene married life, after many years of happiness and […]
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Giovedì all’Opera – Matilde di Shabran
Director: Mario Martone. Conductor: Michele Mariotti. With: Olga Peretyatko, Juan Diego Flórez, Paolo Bordogna, 220’. Film in Italian with English subtitles. Matilde:‘Oh! Quanto è mai ridicolo! Amor lo già molesta/Amor il cor gli rosica/Amor gli fa la festa’ ‘Oh how ridiculous he is! / Love is already pestering him. /Love is gnawing at his […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – I Vicerè
Film in Italian with English subtitles Directed by Roberto Faenza. With: Alessandro Preziosi, Lando Buzzanca, Cristiana Capotondi, 120’. I Vicerè is a 2007 Italian historical drama based on the novel with the same title written by Federico De Roberto. The story is set in Sicily in 1800. The Uzeda family fights to remain in […]
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Aspects of intercultural communication between Italy and Asia – with Roberto Bertoni
A book presentation by Roberto Bertoni (TCD).In English.Introduction by Professor Mark Chu (Head of Italian at University College Cork). This book is inspired by an interest in Asia, multiculturalism, globalization, hybridization, and intercultural communication and transmission. Roberto Bertoni (TCD) is an Italianist rather than an Asianist, and therefore the perspective adopted is mostly, but not […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Gli amici del bar Margherita
Directed by Pupi Avati. With Diego Abatantuono, Laura Chiatti, 90’. Film in Italian with English subtitles. Bologna, 1954. The mythical Bar Margherita and its eccentric, male-only clientele provide the back-drop for the coming of age of the youthful and innocent Taddeo, who manages to secure a job as diver to Al, the mysterious and […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Theatrical reading in Italian from Primo Levi’s La tregua introduced by a musical performance of Ravel’s Kaddish. On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the IIC will present a theatrical reading from Primo Levi’s La tregua by Riccardo Bocci. This Italian theatre actor has worked with Italian and international theatre directors such […]
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Giovedì all’Opera – La scala di seta & Il signor Bruschino
Introduction by Deirdre O’Grady. Film in Italian with English subtitles. This evening’s screening is the charming double bill La scala di seta and Il Signor Bruschino were both composed by the twenty- year old Rossini for the Teatro San Moisè Venice. The first tells of a secret marriage musically communicated through four arias and […]
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Yeats and Leopardi, a confrontation
In English. Cesare Catà will explore some surprising similarities and differences in the works and philosophies of W.B. Yeats and Giacomo Leopardi. For W.B. Yeats love is a mystical elevation. For Leopardi, on the other hand, nature is stronger than love. For Yeats “fantasy” is an intellectual power, whereas, for Leopardi, fantasy is “the […]
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Monday at the Cinema – Scialla!
Directed by Francesco Bruni. With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Filippo Scicchitano, Barbora Bobulova. Comedy, 95’ In Italian with English subtitles Scialla! (Easy!) tells the story of Bruno, a retired secondary school teacher and ghostwriter, who gives private lessons to make ends meet. His life is turned upside down when he discovers that Luca – one of his […]
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