Istituto Di Cultura - Dublino

The documentary Mario Botta. The space beyond, by Loretta Dalpozzo and Michèle Volontè, is an artistic and personal journey into the architecture of Mario Botta to understand why a globalized society feels the urge to build sacred spaces and why Botta feels, more than ever, the need to tackle the issue. Passionat...

This lecture by Joseph Farrell will introduce the specific challenges and opportunities of translating Italian plays, with a focus on the delicate process of translating dialects and on masters of modern Italian theatre such as Dario Fo and Eduardo De Filippo. Joseph Farrell is Emeritus Professor of Italian at the University...

Born in 1998, Sante Mileti graduated with honours from the conservatory “N. Rota” of Monopoli in 2017. He ranked first in several national and international competitions and attended masterclasses with musicians such as Oscar Ghiglia, Frédéric Zigante, Antonio Rugolo, Lorenzo Micheli, Andrea Die...

A consistent part of Neapolitan culture as we know it was shaped by the city’s peculiar relationship with natural disasters, which have affected the lives of Neapolitans for millennia. Regularly re-shaped in its architectural substance following earthquakes, the city which lives under the persistent threaten of Vesu...

Following the success of Griselda in Focus, Irish National Opera is delighted to announce the next event in the series, La Cenerentola in Focus, presented in partnership with the Italian Institute of Culture. Join us for an afternoon of talk and music in which we explore this well-loved Rossini classic. Director of the...

Action, animation, drama – expect this and more from Short Shorts, a selection of European short films from the home countries of seven members of EUNIC Ireland (European Union National Institutes for Culture).Let Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, the UK and - obviously - Italy entertain you with a variet...

A series of shared operatic experiences illustrated by live performance, presented by Deirdre O’Grady. The series will demonstrate the outstanding features of the early to mid-19th century romantic Italian opera through the glorious melodies of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. History, its presentation and misrepresenta...

The film tries to shed a light on the mysterious disappearance of the "Prince of Physics" through testimony, archive footage and animations. March, 1938: 31-year-old Ettore Majorana, unanimously considered one of the most brilliant Italian physicists of the 20th Century, goes missing without leaving any traces, in circumstances...

Diego Cambareri is known as “the Maradona of classical guitar” due to his unusual ability to perfectly perform both flamenco and classical music within the same performance; at only 20 years of age he is considered to be one of the most promising classical guitarists in Italy. His classical and flamenco concert ...

St. Francis’ mouth-watering last meal, Honoré de Balzac and his guilty pleasures, the luscious banquets of the Grand Khan, Napoleon’s favourite recipe: all of this and much more can be found in L’appetito dell’Imperatore, a collection of forgotten stories and recipes by historian and gourma...

Pasta is prepared and eaten worldwide, but what is the science behind the perfect spaghetti dish? There is a direct connection between the taste of pasta and aspects such as the origin of the wheat, if the pasta has been teflon or bronze extruded, how it was dried, the process behind pasta al dente and much more. Fabio...

A series of shared operatic experiences illustrated by live performance, presented by Deirdre O’Grady. The series will demonstrate the outstanding features of the early to mid-19th century romantic Italian opera through the glorious melodies of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. History, its presentation and misrepresenta...

The Italian peninsula, from the Alps to the Mediterranean, is 1,200 kilometers long; this time-travelling film is a cinematic trip across Italy, from North to South, through an extraordinary collection of 90 years of documentaries depicting landscapes and traditions of all twenty Italian regions. Directed by Italo Moscati,...

The story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele, respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future and the travails of another youth who instead scrapes along the margins...