ENRICO IV (Henry IV)
To mark the 150th birth of Luigi Pirandello, the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute and KIT-Kairos Italy Theater present a reading of Pirandello’s play Enrico IV with a performance by Rocco Sisto. Play translated by Gloria Pastorino and directed by Laura Caparrotti. Meet the King! Or better, meet a man who fell, hit his head […]
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Enrico Fermi, the “Pope of Physics”
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute cordially invite you to a conference and exhibit opening with: Fernando Ferroni (INFN, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, President): Introductory Remarks. Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab, Director): Neutrinos, from Fermi to DUNE. Giovanni Organtini (Physics Museum of Rome Univ. La Sapienza, Director): The Uniqueness of Enrico Fermi. On the […]
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Marco Polo and the Global Silk Roads by the artist and book author Lilya Pavlovic-Dear
The Library of Congress’ African and Middle Eastern Division, Asian Division, and European Division, in partnership with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC, present a talk and video presentation, Marco Polo and the Global Silk Roads, by artist and book author Lilya Pavlovic-Dear. A collections display will follow at 3:30 – […]
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Archeology of the Future – Exhibit by Fabrizio Plessi
An Installation by Acclaimed Italian Artist Fabrizio Plessi Before the birth of light, When all was ash, motionless and still Before the great arousal of quartz, When the only light was that of the sun, Before the opaque solidity of the earth, When all was mud and damp mire, Before the flow of icy water, […]
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The Autism Spectrum Disorder: Latest Research and Treatment of Autism
The Georgetown University Italian Research Institute, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, is pleased to sponsor a conference and discussion on cutting-edge research on the autism spectrum disorder led by renowned neuroscientists. SPEAKERS: Dr. Luigi Mazzone, Neuropsychiatrist at the University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy and Dr. Kevin Pelphrey, Carbonell Family […]
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Pazze di Me
Andrea, the only male in a seven-female family, finally meets Giulia, the woman of his life. None of the previous girlfriends ever survived the impact with his devastating family-members. Poor Andrea thinks that the only way to succeed with Giulia is to pretend to be an orphan. But the seven loose cannons are lurking and […]
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7439 Miles Across the USA
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington present Photographer Renato D’Agostin in a conversation with Verna Poser Curtis, former Curator of Photography in the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress, and Susan Behrends Frank, Curator at the Phillips Collection. This event marks the closing of the exhibition 7439 by Renato D’Agostin. “While traveling across the […]
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Aida with Washington National Opera
The Italian Cultural Institute and the Washington National Opera present a program highlighting WNO’s Aida. E. Loren Meeker, stage director, will give a presentation on the new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera with the participation of Leah Crocetto, soprano, and Evan Rogister, conductor. The timeless conflict of duty versus desire rises like a pyramid in Verdi’s […]
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Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue by Giacomo Campiotti
Leo is 16. He has wild hair and a habit of dividing life up into colours. Everything he can’t stand is white: school, teachers, silence, fear. Everything he loves is red: music on his iPod, his soccer team, the blood in his veins. And the colour of Beatrice’s hair… she’s the most beautiful girl at […]
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L’Oriana by Marco Turco
The biography of one of Italy’s most notorious and divisive journalists and thinkers is brought to life in L’Oriana (Oriana Fallaci) by director Marco Turco. Initially made as a miniseries for Italian TV, it was also released in Italian cinemas as a 106-minute film two weeks before it aired. In one of her last trips back to Italy, […]
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