LEO DA VINCI: Mission Mona Lisa
Now in its 12th year Kids Euro Festival is one of the largest performing arts festivals for children in America, bringing Europe’s most talented children’s entertainers to the DC metro area each fall for two weeks of free performances, concerts, workshops, movies, storytelling, puppetry, dance, magic, and cinema. With programs both for the general public and for school […]
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Italian Language and Culture Conference: Challenges in the 21st Century Italian Classroom
19th WEEK OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD The Department of Italian at Georgetown University, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC and the Italian Cultural Institute, are pleased to announce a symposium for educators focusing on the challenges to research and teaching that 21st century classrooms and learning environments pose. In […]
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Il Bacio di Tosca, a film by Daniel Schmid
19th WEEK OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD For the closing event of this year’s Settimana della Lingua Italiana, please join the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Switzerland to the United States for a special screening of Tosca’s Kiss by Daniel Schimd, restored to its full glory for Dustin […]
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OTELLO WITH THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA ** sold out **
19th WEEK OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD The Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Washington National Opera are pleased to present a special preview of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello debuting at the J. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on October 26th. Director David Alden and Conductor Daniele Callegari will take […]
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The secrets of Traviata, a talk by Maestro Speranza Scappucci
19th WEEK OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD Revolutionary, controversial, lashing the bourgeois society: this and much more is La Traviata, one of Giuseppe Verdi‘s most celebrated operas. Maestro Speranza Scappucci, among the first and most acclaimed women conductors in the world, returns to Washington DC to recount the story of Violetta. Performing some of […]
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Tosca and the Two Downstairs, a Play by Franca Valeri
19th WEEK OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD A satirical, behind-the-scenes sister-story to Puccini’s Tosca as imagined by one of the wittiest and most admired Italian playwright and actresses, Franca Valeri. Tosca and the two downstairsis directed by Laura Caparrotti, Artistic Director of KIT, and its English translation is by Natasha Lardera. The play will be acted by Laura Caparrotti and Marta Mondelli in Italian […]
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Meet author Helena Janeczek, winner of the 2018 Premio Strega
19th WEEK OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD On the occasion of the release in the United States of The Girl with the Leica by Europa Editions, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC are pleased to invite you for a presentation of the book by Helena Janeczek, winner of […]
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ArteCinema: International Festival of Films on Contemporary Art
PLEASE NOTE: This event starts at 7 PM. Doors open at 6:45 PM. Held annually during the month of October in Naples, Italy, ArteCinema: International Festival of Films on Contemporary Art was first established in 1996. Filmmakers, artists, scholars, curators, and the general public assemble from all parts of the world for four days to view, converse, and debate […]
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Women Who Jazz: Rita Marcotulli
Our Women Who Jazz series comes back with a much-awaited concert by pianist and composer Rita Marcotulli. Rita Marcotulli, an icon of Italian jazz, carved herself an impressive international career in a very short period of time. She played alongside jazz greats such as Chet Baker, Joe Lovano, Paul Bley, Palle Danielsson, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Pat Metheny […]
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An Hour in Space with Italians at NASA ** SOLD OUT **
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute cordially invite you to the workshop “An Hour in Space with Italians at NASA”. Join us for an exciting one-hour space mission with our panelists: Veronica Bindi – “The key to human space exploration” Giuseppe Cataldo – “Chasing the first light with the James Webb Space […]
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