Sunflower (I Girasoli)
MOVIE SCREENING CINEFORUM The excruciating love story of Giovanna (Sofia Loren), a bereft Italian spouse, who wanders and looks for her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) in Russia. Antonio left and never returned after serving on the Russian front in World War II, and when she finally finds him, he has a Russian wife, a daughter, […]
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Happy Birthday Vivaldi:
The Extraordinary Four Seasons CONCERT AT ARTISPHERE The National Chamber Ensemble, together with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, celebrates the birthday of Vivaldi featuring his masterpiece, The Four Seasons. Doug Kammerer, NBC 4 Chief Meteorologist, will be the guest host and will be reading Vivaldi’s Sonnets For The Four Seasons. Artistic […]
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L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love) in Context
Presentation of Washington National Opera new Production Join distinguished musicologist, opera conductor and director, Saul Lilienstein, Washington National Opera (WNO), for a program of discussion and music that explores Donizetti’s bel canto classic and get a behind-the-scenes look at WNO’s production. Special guests Simone Alberghin, Nicola Ulivieri and Daniel Montenegro will perform some of the […]
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La Traviata à Paris
Directed by Pierre Cavassilas This is the televised broadcast of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera telling the love story between Violetta Valery and Alfredo Germont, reconstructed and performed in Paris in locations still reflecting the 1850s setting. The sets of the opera are numerous and far apart, so the production required the use of an extremely sophisticated […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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