online > Operas at Home with La Fenice in Venice
At the end of the eighteenth century, Venice was indeed one of the centers of the operatic scene in Europe, thanks to its long-standing historical and artistic tradition. At the time, Venice had no less than seven opera houses: the San Salvador (later called Apollo, then San Luca and today Goldoni), the San Cassiano, the […]
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online > Celebrating Raphael at 500
On April 6, 1520, Raffaello Sanzio, one of the geniuses of the Italian Renaissance, passed away in Rome. Five hundred years later, while we wait for cultural institutions and museums to open their doors again after the current health crisis, Italy and the world celebrate the Maestro through several multimedia initiatives. Join us on this […]
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N.I.C.E. Festival USA – Tempo instabile….con probabili schiarite
As part of N.I.C.E. Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Cultural Society present a screening of “Tempo instabile con possibili schiarite” by Marco Pontecorvo. In a village in the province of Pesaro, two friends, Ermanno (Lillo) and Giacomo (Luca Zingaretti), jointly manage a factory on the verge of bankruptcy that manufactures sofas. Their […]
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ARCHAEOLOGY AS A PRACTICE OF CULTURAL IDENTITY: The Work of Archaeologists in Yemen
ON VIEW – BY APPOINTMENT ONLY: APR 11 – MAY 18 (Monday to Friday from 10am-12noon/2pm-4pm) TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT: email reservations requests at iicwashington@esteri.it When you email your reservation request, please provide the following: date time name of each guest PLEASE NOTE: the date and time you request may not be available. You will receive a confirmation email. Not open on […]
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The Art of Conservation: Protecting & Preserving our Cultural Heritage
In the context of Protecting our Heritage series of events launched by the 2016 EUNIC Washington DC, under the presidency of the Italian Cultural Institute, the Georgetown University Italian Research Institute, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Embassy of Spain, invites you to a conference on the critical […]
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Night at the Opera with Gianluca Luisi
The Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Italy present a Piano Recital by critically acclaimed Gianluca Luisi celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ferruccio Busoni. The recital includes music by Verdi and Bach. BIOGRAPHY Critics from around the world (Postdate Nachrichten , Fanfare, New York at Carnegie Hall Concert reviews , Musica, consider Gianluca Luisi […]
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THE ITALY-U.S. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FIFTEEN YEARS OF HERITAGE PROTECTION AND CULTURAL COOPERATION
On March 23 at the Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C. Italian and U.S. officials, joined by representatives of the private sector, will present to the public the Memorandum of Understanding between the Governments of Italy and the United States concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories of Archaeological Material Representing the Pre-Classical, Classical […]
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Ella Maillart — Double Journey – at National Gallery or Art
This event is presented at the National Gallery of Art and is part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital.In the summer of 1939, photographer Ella Maillart and writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach left Switzerland by car. Their destination was Kafiristan (present-day Nuristan Province) in Afghanistan. Using only the diaries and letters Maillart wrote en […]
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The Voice of A Legend – Celebrating Enrico Caruso – featuring Pasquale Esposito
An extension of the PBS docu-concert “Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Enrico Caruso”, this live show is an homage to the world’s first bona fide international recording star, the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso. Born in 1873, Caruso made close to 300 commercially released recordings (the bulk of which you can still get in stores or digitally), and […]
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Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, a conference by Gianfranco Adornato
Illustrated lectures by Gianfranco Adornato, professor of classical archaeology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Andrew Stewart, professor of ancient Mediterranean art and archaeology; Nicholas C. Petris, Professor of Greek Studies, University of California, Berkeley and curator of Mediterranean archaeology, Hearst Museum of Anthropology. This program is cosponsored by the Washington DC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. […]
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