The Italian Sound of Ezra Pound
Conferenza di Giuliana Bendelli Arts Building, room 3126Trinity College DublinFree AdmissionGiuliana Bendelli teaches English Literature at Università Cattolica in Milan. Her interest is in contemporary literature, with a special focus on fiction. Her current project is a history of Ezra Pound’s reception in Italy.
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Words and Music: Imaging Italian Opera
Introduction to the Week of the Italian Language in the World and to a series of screenings dedicated to Italian Opera that will start on Thursday 29th October 2015. The Operas in programme are: La Traviata, Nabucco, Attila, Macbeth, Don Carlos, Aida, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Tosca. Every screening will be introduced by Deirdre O’Grady.In […]
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La Bohème
La Bohème returns in this acclaimed production of one of the world’s most loved operas. Lyric Opera directed by Vivian Coates presents a first-class cast of Irish and International singers, supported by the Lyric Opera chorus and orchestra, under the baton of internationally celebrated conductor David Heusel.http://www.lyricoperaproductions.com/productions.php?id=55Saturday 17th at 7:30pmSunday 18th at 3:00pmTuesday 20th at […]
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War and Peace in Dante
edited by John C. Barnes and Daragh O’Connell Con ciò sia cosa che l’animo umano in terminata possessione di terra non si queti, ma sempre desideri gloria d’acquistare, sì come per esperienza vedemo, discordie e guerre conviene surgere intra regno e regno(Convivio, IV. 4. 3)Since the human psyche cannot be content with possessing a limited […]
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Opera Talk – Puccini Heroines
Mimi e le piccole donne innamorate di Giacomo Puccini A free pre-performance talk ahead of La Bohème presented by Lyric Opera Productions at the National Concert Hall on 17th, 18th and 20th October 2015.A former Director of the annual Opera Fringe Festival (N.I.), George Fleeton has been teaching Opera, Cinema, Literature and Theatre studies in […]
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Translating Elena Ferrante
Ann Goldstein in conversation with Enrica Maria Ferrara An evening on translation, literature, languages and the Ferrante phenomenonWednesday 30th September 201518:30Italian Institute of CultureRSVP iicdublino@esteri.itAnn Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Baricco, and is the editor of […]
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Valerio Magrelli in conversation with Clarissa Botsford
Valerio Magrelli in conversation with Clarissa BotsfordIntroduction by Roberto BertoniReadings in Italian and English from Nel condominio di carne (In the condominium of flesh) Valerio Magrelli is the author of six poetry collections, for which he has won the Mondello Prize, the Viareggio Prize for poetry, and the prestigious Montale Prize. In November 2003 the […]
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Culture Night 2015
Italian Opera Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts. This year, it will take place on Friday 18th September 2015. On Culture Night, arts and cultural organisations and venues of all shapes and sizes, including the National Cultural Institutions, extend their opening hours to allow for increased […]
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Zibaldone
Launch of the second English edition of Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone Published in the USA and UK – after seven years of work – the first complete translation in English of the Zibaldone, the personal notebook written by Giacomo Leopardi between 1817 and 1832. A team of English and American professional translators collaborated to the project […]
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Il giro del mondo in 80 pensieri
of Piergiorgio Odifreddi In Around the World in Eighty Days the French writer Jules Verne targeted a concept of travelling typical of an “English travel agency”: going around the globe as fast as possible, with no interest in what could be seen and trying to get back home as soon as possible. Not for the […]
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