Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote and Giselle. A Teatro alla Scala Production.
Italy’s illustrious Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company would come to Australia to perform only in Brisbane for the company’s first ever Australian visit in its 240-year history as part of the 2018 Queensland Performing Art Centre (QPAC) International Series from 7 to 18 November. Read more The 2018 event will feature an extensive program celebrating […]
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Mystical Love in the Heart of Medieval Italy (2): Jacopone da Todi: Polemic and Passion
18th Week of the Italian Language in the World (15th-21st October). Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy. The second lecture of “Mystical Love in the Heart of Medieval Italy: Jacopone da Todi: Polemic and Passion” is presented by Prof. Rodney John Lokaj, associate professor at Kore University of Enna, […]
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Swiss Festival 2018 – Do You Speak Swiss?! Celebrating Swiss Culture
Swiss Festival 2018. In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, Alliance Française and the Goethe Institut. DO YOU SPEAK SWISS?…! PARLEZ-VOUS SUISSE? SPRICHST DU SCHWIIZERISCH? PARLI SVIZZERO? The Swiss Festival 2018 is a classic cultural event on the calendar of Melbourne and surrounds. Once a year Swiss expats, families with kids and friends of Swiss […]
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SENZA PAROLE! (SANS MOTS)
A mime and visual comedy show performed by Matteo Cionini and directed by Patrizia Besantini. Original musics by Alberto Mompellio. The show has been created in 2011 and starts from the great tradition of modern and contemporary mime to reach a new language blending physical theatre, clowning, and musical pantomime skills together with theatre sound […]
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Mystical Love in the Heart of Medieval Italy (1): St Francis and his Canticle of Brother Sun
18th Week of the Italian Language in the World (15th-21st October). Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy. The first lecture of “Mystical Love in the Heart of Medieval Italy: St Francis and his Canticle of Brother Sun” is presented by Prof. Rodney John Lokaj, associate professor at Kore University […]
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Playful raids into a ‘networked’ Italian
Lecture by Prof. Vera Gheno, Accademia della Crusca. 18th Week of the Italian Language in the World (15th-21st October). Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy. On the occasion of the 18th Week of the Italian Language in the World, whose theme this year is “Italian and the network, networks […]
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Finissage of “Counterpoints#01 Marco Fusinato/ Vettor Pisani”
Finissage of the exhibition “Counterpoints#01 Marco Fusinato/ Vettor Pisani. Guest speaker Dr Roberta Crisci-Richardson (Lecturer, Art History & Theory, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation University Australia, Ballarat). Crisci-Richardson studied the history of art in Rome, Paris, and Melbourne, specialising in French and Belgian art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moving across prints, […]
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Special Event: For a Fistful of Dollars – Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2018
Presentation of a new, restored version by Ms Laura Napolitano, Director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Melbourne The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to co-present with Palace Cinemas a new, completely restored version of a movie which inaugurated a new cinema genre, the ‘Western Italian-style’, or Spaghetti Western: For a Fistful of […]
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Amore e speranza – Italian Arias and Songs
A delightfull evening dedicated to Italian opera and music with a fine selection of arias and songs. Presented by Melba Opera Trust in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute. Performing artists: Cleo Lee-McGowan (soprano – Joseph Sambrook Opera Scholarship) Jessica Harper (soprano – Dame Nellie Melba Scholarship) Rhodri Clarke (pianist – Associate Artist) To […]
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Special Event: A Conversation on Elena Ferrante – Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2018
A Conversation on Elena Ferrante The IIC Melbourne is pleased to co-present with Palace Cinemas a double feature of the documentary Ferrante Fever by Giacomo Durzi [2017, 74′] and Troubling Love by Mario Martone [1995, 103′] along with a panel discussion between the screenings. The panel will featureMs Laura Napolitano (director of the IIC Melbourne), Dr Andrea Rizzi (Australian […]
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