Il più bel giorno della mia vita (The Best Day of My Life)
Remembering Virna Lisi Cineforum 2015, our monthly screening of Italian movies, remembers and honors the recent loss of one of the greatest Italian actresses, Virna Lisi, with a film directed by Cristina Comencini. Centered around a family struggling to cope with itself, with much of the action taking place in the villa of of Irene […]
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THE SYMPOSIUM: Food for Mind, Body and Soul – Artifacts Recovered by Guardia di Finanza
The wealth and quality of the cultural heritage that makes Italy an “Open Museum” comes with a big responsibility to constantly defend and guard it. Old treasures, smuggled from Italy and recently recovered by Guardia di Finanza (a special police corps that reports directly to the Minister of Economic and Financial Affairs), will be on […]
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Francesco Nonino: Selected Works
Exhibit Opening – February 18 Francesco Nonino is one of few Italian photographers whose work has been acquired by both the Library of Congress and the Phillips Collection. The exhibit at the Embassy of Italy will include some recent works from two series: Come La Vergogna and Atmospheres. As a homage to his mother, the […]
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NOVA “Colosseum – Roman Death Trap”
PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 AT 9PM ET/8C ON PBS A NOVA film produced by Providence Pictures, Co-Produced with ZED and ARTE France. NOVA is produced for PBS by WGBH Boston. The producers of the PBS science series NOVA and the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC invite you to a special sneak peek screening event […]
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Signore e Signori (The Birds, The Bees and The Italians) ** RESCHEDULED **
CINEFORUM 2015 Movie screening The Cineforum 2015, our monthly screening of Italian movies, remembers and honors the recent loss of one of the greatest Italian actresses, Virna Lisi, with one of the films that made her famous. Pietro Germi’s funny anthology combines the standard sex comedy format with some unexpectedly subtle observations about village life. […]
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Federico Agostini, violinist and Enrico Elisi, pianist
Concert at National Gallery of Art A concert by Federico Agostini, violinist, and Enrico Elisi, pianist. Agostini is world-renowned as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concertmaster (1979-2002) of the legendary Italian string ensemble I Musici Italiani and Enrico Elisi is the winner of nine first prizes in international competitions in Italy, Portugal and the United […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2015
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2015, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan and the Centro Primo Levi in New York, organized two events on January 27 and February 2nd, 2015 to honor the victims of the Holocaust. […]
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Cosmonauta (Cosmonaut)
It’s now 1963 and 15 year old Luciana has been obsessed with Russian space missions since she was a little girl, a passion passed on by her older brother Arturo. She is now a committed member of the local Italian Federation of Young Communists and is nursing a hopeless crush on the handsome leader of […]
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Operapop
Concert Francesca Carli, soprano, and Enrico Giovagnoli, tenor, merge the language of pop music with their experience of opera in a fusion of great vocal skill and stage presence that leads to a spectacular performance. PREVIEW (via YouTube) RSVP Please Make a Reservation by December 16, 2014 at 2 PM Reservations are available until we […]
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Italian Holiday Festival
at the Smithsonian American Art Museum FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – NO RSVP REQUIRED Celebrate the holiday season with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Embassy of Italy, and the Italian Cultural Institute! Enjoy seasonal music and costumed performers that embody Italian culture, and make festive arts and crafts you can keep for […]
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