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Matrimonio all’italiana (Marriage Italian Style)

Film by Vittorio De Sica CINEFORUM – MOVIE SCREENING Domenico Soriano, a successfull businessman, with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is 17 years old. She becomes a prostitute, but also becomes the mistress of Domenico. He eventually sets her up in his apartment, and she works for him […]

Caravaggio Connoisseurship

at Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary In Caravaggio Connoisseurship: Saint Francis in Meditation and the Capitoline Fortune Teller, the Capuchin and Carpineto paintings will be exhibited side-by-side. MORE INFO: click here ON VIEW VISITING HOURS Tuesday-Friday: 10AM – 5PM ~ Saturday-Sunday: noon – 4PM During this exhibition, there is […]

VOICES

featuring the World Premiere of Polvere by Italian Choreographer Walter Matteini At The Cultural Arts Center – Montgomery College Company E returns to the United States with a suite of choreography that spans the globe. VOICES is the Company’s first performance in the US after 14 months. During that time the Company has been working […]

RESCHEDULED: Ieri, Oggi e Domani (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow)

by Vittorio De Sica Cineforum 2014 The film consists of three short stories about couples in different parts of Italy. Starring in all three episodes Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The film won the Academy for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards.   Italy 1963, 118 min. Directed by Vittorio De Sica […]

Memories and Light

by Lisa Borgiani International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014 The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, designed by architect Peter Eisenman, is photographed and interpreted through a present day lens. A Field of Stelae, creating a labyrinth of concrete blocks, exemplifies the profound anguish cemented in the memory of the Jews massacred by the Nazi […]

Italian Jewish Composers 1914 – 1945

Caroline Helton, soprano – Kathryn Goodson, piano INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2014 On the occasion of Remembrance Day 2014, the Istituto will present a concert to remember Italian Jewish composers. They were generally very well integrated in Italian society, but everything changed with the enforcement of the racial laws after 1938 and even more in […]

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014

Exhibit Opening and Concert On the occasion of Remembrance Day 2014, the Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute presents the exhibit Memories and Light followed by the concert Italian Jewish Composers 1914-1945. The photo painting installation is a series of colored images shot sequentially amidst 2711 grey slabs evoking the headstones of murdered Jews. The concert […]

RESCHEDULED: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The film consists of three short stories about couples in different parts of Italy. Starring in all three episodes Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The film won the Academy for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards. Director: Vittorio De Sica – Italy 1963 – 118 min. Marriage […]

Ludwig – Richard Wagner Revisited

At National Gallery of Art Bavarian King Ludwig II became Richard Wagner’s patron, supporting him financially and permitting the composer to create such works as Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, to premiere his Tristan und Isolde, and even to establish the Bayreuth Festival. Filled with Wagner’s music (and that of other German composers), Luchino Visconti’s lavish depiction of […]

La scomparsa di Patò

by Rocco Mortelliti CINEFORUM with Italians in DC Every year on Good Friday the Sicilian town of Vigata is graced with a play on Jesus Christ’s Passion, enacted by local actors. They are all amateurs, but experience, commitment and natural skills make the show the highlight of Vigata’s theatrical life. The most gifted participant is […]