Challenge of Venice
2013 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital Movie Screening United States Premiere Venice is inextricably linked to her salty, fresh and brackish waters, an inexhaustible resource that now threatens the city’s very survival. Regulating the water has always played a part in the city’s history. Over the centuries, both major and minor interventions in the […]
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ITALIAN ARTISTS AT Athens SLINGSHOT
Athens SLINGSHOT is a new festival of independent music, innovative art and technology, taking place in Athens, Georgia (USA) on March 9, 2013. SLINGSHOT features bands from across the US and abroad, innovative art presented throughout the urban environment, and technology talks with big thinkers in arts technology. OFFICIAL WEBSITE: athensslingshot.comINFO: info@athensslingshot.com Director: Kai Riedl […]
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NEXT STOP: ITALY (exhibition)
A Journey into Italian Contemporary Photography On view at The Phillips Collection from March 9 to April 28, 2013 Photographic works by both established and up-and-coming Italian artists have been paired with a quintessential selection of lines from highly regarded Italian poets (check gallery below). The project is articulated in 3 phases: ONGOING – Posters […]
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NORMA
Inside Washington National Opera’s Production of Bellini’s Norma Presented by Washington National Opera and the Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute. Join director Anne Bogart, Italian conductor Daniele Rustioni, and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop for a program of discussion and music that explores WNO’s new production of this bel canto masterpiece. Learn more about how a new […]
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Italian movies at the 30th Miami International Film Festival
This year Italian cinema is represented at the Festival by five important features, covering a wide range of genres and styles. OFFICIAL WEBSITE: miamifilmfestival.com FEATURED ITALIAN FILMS BOB WILSON’S LIFE AND DEATH OF MARINA ABRAMOVIC Giada Colagrande 2012 Run time: 96 min. | UK, Spain, Italy | ( screenings ) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Marina Abramovic’s […]
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THE NEXT WAVE: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INNOVATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
THE WASHINGTON, DC INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FESTIVAL A three-month multidisciplinary design celebration featuring the exhibition What makes an object useful, engaging and beautiful? What is it about a distinct design that conveys calm, wonder and excitement in the user and helps us recall a moment in time? Artisphere and Apartment Zero present the Washington, DC International […]
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A Life on Its Own Line
The Secret of Glass – Poems by Corrado Calabrò Book Presentation A collection of Italian contemporary poems presented by Mrs. Grace Cavalieri, poet, Dr. Joseph Abraham Levi, George Washington University, and by the author Corrado Calabrò. A Life on Its Own Line – The Secret of Glass – Poems by Corrado Calabrò English translations by […]
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La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
at Palm Beach Opera Gioachino Rossini’s Angelina (Cinderella) is a beautiful, tolerant and forgiving young woman who is treated as little more than a scullery maid by her abusive family. She must overcome the cruel antics of her scheming stepfather and jealous stepsisters to win her devastatingly handsome Prince. The startlingly beautiful Vivica Genaux brings […]
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Manon Lescaut
Inside Washington National Opera’s Production of Puccini’s Passionate Drama Presented by Washington National Opera and the Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute. Join director John Pascoe and Italian baritone Giorgio Caoduro for a program of discussion and music that explores this Puccini classic. Intensely romantic and dramatically compelling, Manon Lescaut was Puccini’s first popular work; it […]
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Michelangelo, The Art, The Affections
A lecture by Pina Ragionieri A lightness full of pathos characterizes this unusual biography made of glimpses and flashes of inspiration of Michelangelo Buonarroti, told by the guardian of his family home in Florence’s Via Ghibellina. Pina Ragionieri goes on the trail of the life of this great genius of boundless humanity, with a light […]
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