Starry Messenger: Musical Revelations of Galileo’s Florence
Friday, March 31 – April 2, 2017 Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Consort and the Italian Cultural Institute invite you to an intimate and otherworldly concert of 17th-century Italian music featuring the much-admired early music soprano Julianne Baird, hailed as “one of the most extraordinary voices in the service of early music that this generation has […]
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150th Anniversary of the birth of Arturo Toscanini Celebration Concert at Union Station
Toscanini concert tickets for March 28th are no longer available through the Italian Cultural Institute. However, additional concert seating is still available and we welcome your interest and look forward to seeing you on March 28th. For more information, please contact: Special Events at Union Station 50 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 202-289-8300 […]
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The Four Seasons of Vivaldi and Piazzolla at Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre
Four seasons become eight when the National Chamber Ensemble presents The Four Seasons of Vivaldi and Piazzolla. Arlington County Board Chair, Jay Fisette, is the special guest host for the evening. The performance of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” will include a reading of the sonnets by Mr. Fisette, as well as a multimedia presentation accompanying the […]
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Stai Lontana da Me (Stay Away from Me) by Alessio Maria Federici
THIS SCREENING STARTS AT 6:30PM Jacopo is a brilliant marriage counselor with a serious problem. All his relationships never last more than two weeks because ever since he was very young, all the women that ever fell in love with him suffered some really bad luck…hospital visits several times a week, end to professional careers, […]
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Assunta Spina preceded by Rapsodia Satanica and Inaugurazione di Campanile di San Marco
Il Cinema Ritrovato: From Vault to Screen Introduced by Guy Borlée Francesca Bertini, one of Italy’s legendary movie divas, stars in the hauntingly beautiful Assunta Spina, adapted from the Italian verismo play by Neapolitan writer Salvatore di Giacomo and filmed around the Bay of Naples and in the city’s robust and gritty quarters. Bertini, playing a […]
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La Mossa del Pinguino (The Penguin’s Move)
THIS SCREENING STARTS AT 6:30PM Bruno is a thirty-year-old man from Rome, with a wife and a son, who still hasn’t found his path in life. After his latest failure, which costs him most of his savings, he comes up with a bizarre and bold intuition: he discovers the little-known winter sport of curling and […]
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The Catholic School and the Roman Bourgeoisie with author Edoardo Albinati
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, in collaboration with New Academia Publishing, Italians in DC/ParoLab, and The Library of Congress, invite you to the presentation by Edoardo Albinati of his book, La scuola cattolica, in conversation with Anna Lawton, Lorenza Pieri and Lucia A. Wolf. Last year, a jury of the […]
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Understanding Seclusion: the Legal Dimensions of the Ghetto – at Library of Congress
The Law Library of Congress will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice with the program “Understanding Seclusion: the Legal Dimensions of the Ghetto”, which is in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute, highlighting the early history of the segregated Jewish community in Venice and showcasing […]
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After the Ghetto, In the World at Large, a multimedia presentation and talk
After the Ghetto, In the World at Large. This program explores the immediate aftermath of the end of the ghetto era. Through the stories of a family of collectors and entrepreneurs, the Treves de’ Bonfil and the work of Luigi Luzzatti, prominent economist, politician and intellectual of international renown, the panel will discuss the […]
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The Venice Ghetto at 500: A Jewish Community’s Past, Present and Future
David Laskin, author most recently of The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the 20th Century and The Children’s Blizzard, will discuss the history of the Jewish ghetto in Venice and consider how the city’s Jewish community has evolved and developed over the past half millennium. Even American travelers who visit the ghetto’s […]
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