Book Presentation: “Possess the Air” by Taras Grescoe
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura will host a presentation for the new book by Taras Grescoe, “Possess the Air – Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini’s Rome”. Description: Whoever you are, you are sure to be a severe critic of Fascism, and you must feel the servile shame. But even you […]
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“Lagrime di San Pietro” with Los Angeles Master Chorale staged by Peter Sellars
The MUST-SEE performance of the season! From the creative mind of acclaimed director Peter Sellars comes his very first a cappella staging and most personal work to date. Lagrime di San Pietro (The Tears of St. Peter) is a ground-breaking production of Renaissance master Orlando di Lasso’s final work, a collection of 27 madrigals sung […]
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Maurizio Guarini and String Quartet
Goblin keyboard player Maurizio Guarini will be performing for the first time his new solo album, A Goblin’s Chamber with a string quartet. A Goblin’s Chamber unveils reimagined versions of some of the most significant tunes from Goblin’s repertoire, with a classical twist…for the first time anywhere, they have been arranged for string quartet. The […]
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Book Presentation: “Where Angels Come to Earth” by Vincenzo Pietropaolo and Mark Frutkin
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to support the launch of the book “Where Angels Come To Earth: An Evocation of the Italian Piazza”, by Vincenzo Pietropaolo and Mark Frutkin. The presentation will be moderated by Professor Don Snyder (Ryerson University), M.A., Photographic Studies, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont /B.A., History of Music, Yale University. […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: North American Premiere of “Figli del destino” (Sons of Destiny)
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Foreign Ministry renews its staunch commitment to preserve the memory of the Shoah, also abroad, through the numerous events and initiatives organised by our diplomatic network around the world, including the Italian Cultural Institutes. In 2020, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto commemorates this tragic event with the […]
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L’Altra Italia Screening (TORONTO): Il grande spirito | The Great Spirit
TORONTO Friday, January 24RECEPTION: 7:00pm | Toronto Fiction Club | 180 Pearl St.SCREENING: 9:00pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox | 350 King Street W. Genre: Comedy-Drama | Language: Italian| Subtitles: English In a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Taranto, a robbery takes place in which a fifty-year-old man named Tonino, who is also known as Barboncino, […]
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CD LAUNCH: A Goblin’s Chamber by Maurizio Guarini
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura presents Maurizio Guarini’s new album: A Goblin’s Chamber – A string quartet revisitation. Maurizio Guarini, member of Italian progressive rock band, Goblin, will perform a brief concert of some of the tracks from the new album, accompanied by a string quartet. “As a member of Goblin, after so many years, […]
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Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” presented by the Canadian Opera Company
This colourful Italian comedy features conductor Speranza Scappucci, “one of classical music’s brightest stars” (Opera News) at the podium, award-winning mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo as Rosina, and an exuberant, carnivalesque staging that audiences loved when this production was last at the COC. Photo: Theshlen Naidoo A special offer from the Canadian Opera Company for subscribers of […]
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Lecture: The Castrati, Then and Now
The castrati singers were probably the most striking feature of Italian opera during the Baroque era, and to this day we still remember the names of singers like Farinelli or Senesino. The practice of mutilating boys for the sake of musical virtuosity, however, quickly disappeared with the end of the Ancien Régime. With the revival […]
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A Clown from Rimini Named Fellini – A Lecture Series by Dr. Franco Gallippi
The aim of this lecture series is to commemorate Fellini’s hundredth birthday (January 20, 2020) by taking a journey through the decades of the Maestro’s filmography. Each lecture will be dedicated to two decades of Fellini’s career by concentrating on certain dominant themes that characterize the films of the decade in question. Whatever the decade, […]
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