Events in April 2014
The Italian Cultural Institute – Newsletter. List of cultural events promoting Italy and Italian related activities in and around Washington DC. The events for the month of April 2014 include: music, photography, cinema, conferences, theater. MUSIC – Impressions of Italy – A concert presentation of Symphony of the Potomac The Symphony of the Potomac, conducted […]
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** RESCHEDULED ** Italian Great Movie Classics
A Concert by I Cameristi di Roma RESCHEDULED Italian Great Movie Classics is a program of musical arrangements to the original scores of great Italian films by Totò, Trovajoli and Fellini, and arranged by Giuseppe Cangialosi, Vincenzo Romano and Nicola Scardicchio. The concert will be performed by I Cameristi di Roma. Italian cinema is famous […]
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L’Ultimo Pastore (The Last Shepherd)
Washington, DC Premiere 22nd Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital Renato Zucchelli is the last man to tend sheep in the region of Lombardy, an area increasingly overrun by urban sprawl. Although blessed with family and friends, Renato has a dream: to introduce the children of Milan to the all-but-forgotten joys of his profession. […]
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A journey-based series of events, including performances, conferences, photo exhibits and movie screenings on the voyage. Destination: Italian Culture. Find out more and join us on a fascinating trip. An Inspiring Voyage A journey-based series of events, including performances, conferences, photo exhibits and movie screenings on the voyage. Destination: Italian Culture. Find out more and […]
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Unanswered Prayers
A journey through new worlds in wonder PHOTO EXHIBIT Unanswered Prayers is a photo exhibit by Anna Paola Pizzocaro, a New York-based artist. The fine art photography images of this series invite the viewer into a world between dream and reality. Oceanic images combined with wildlife and human figures in urban settings become one, and […]
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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
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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