Istituto Di Cultura - Dublino

Between 1987 and 1992 the novelist, translator and Dante scholar Vittorio Sermonti recorded his readings of Dante’s Divina Commedia, accompanied by 100 critical essays on linguistic, historical and philosophical aspects of the text. Vittorio Sermonti would then read Dante’s masterpiece for audiences of differ...

A conversation about the possibility to approach Dante’s texts from different cultures, ages, and languages in spite (and perhaps because) of its apparent distance from today’s world. Are adaptations and translations reliable instruments to experience a text that is certainly medieval, but has achieved a surp...

In 2000, film producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis asked Irish composer Patrick Cassidy to write an aria for an opera that did not exist. The subject: Dante’s love for Beatrice, as expressed in La Vita Nuova. The resulting aria, “Vide cor meum”, was featured in a pivotal scene in Ridley Scott’...

***This show has been postponed to September 25th. Original tickets still valid or refundable.***   The Italian pop-rock band led by Francesco Sarcina are getting ready to bring their vibrant sound to some of the best European stages for the first time. Hits such as Così Sbagliato and Amore Zen will be part of t...