THE KILLING FLOWER (LUCI MIE TRADITRICI): opera by SALVATORE SCIARRINO
The Canadian premiere of an opera by Salvatore Sciarrino. Produced by Wallace Halladay and Toronto New Music Projects. Love, infidelity and murder are captured in Sciarrino’s now iconic drama, based on the story of late 16th century composerCarlo Gesualdo, the count who murdered his wife and her lover. Starring alumni of the Opera School: Geoffrey […]
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AMERICAS: EMMANUELE BALDINI and ROBERTO TURRIN
This concert features violinist Emmanuele Baldini, first violin in Brazil’s San Paolo Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by the acclaimed Italian pianist, Roberto Turrin who is in Canada for the 2017 New Music Festival in Toronto. This concert’s program is a tribute to “The Americas” featuring music by composers of North and South America including Copland, Ginastera […]
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SALVATORE SCIARRINO IN TORONTO
The 2017 New Music Festival is centred around the work of visiting prominent Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino and features several Italian guest performers including violinist Emmanuele Baldini and pianists Roberto Turrin and Erika Crinò. The festival also presents the results of an ongoing musical collaboration with Italy’s Conservatorio G. Tartini. With a wide spectrum of […]
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WORKWEAR
An exhibition playfully exploring uniforms. Devised and curated by Milan-based architect, designer and artist Alessandro Guerriero, Workwear features the work of 40 Italian and international artists, designers and architects, including Alessandro Mendini, Issey Miyake, Erwin Wurm, Vivienne Westwood, Elio Fiorucci, and Coop Himmelb(l)au. Public Opening Party from 6-10pm.Exhibitions run through April 23. Some time ago, […]
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VOLCANO: THE FILMS OF ANNA MAGNANI
TIFF Bell Lightbox, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and Cinecittà Luce, presents a retrospective of 23 films dedicated to Anna Magnani, one of the greatest actresses of the 20th century. The retropsective will open on January 27with a 4k digital restoration of Rosselini’s Rome, Open City, the film that launched Magnani’s brilliant […]
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HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY: Sceening of “SHORES OF LIGHT” by Yael Katzir
On the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the Consulate General of Italy in Toronto, in collaboration with The Consulate General of Israel in Toronto, The Toronto Jewish Film Festival, L’Altra Italia Association and Villa Charities, present the screening of “Shores of Light, Salento 1945-7” (Documentary, 56min – […]
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IDR – ITALIAN DOC REMIX
Marco Cappelli – Doug Wieselman – Jose Davila – Ken Filiano – Jim Pugliese. Special guest: Francesco Pellegrino IDR is the result of the artistic exchange between Marco Cappelli and Jim Pugliese, whose mutual reverence for the villages’ ritual music brought them to the following statement: reflect the process of memory’s distortion of the second/third […]
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BETWEEN ROTHKO AND THREE WINDOWS: Presentation of the English edition of Corrado Paina’s novel.
The author Corrado Paina will present the English version of his novel “Between Rothko and Three Windows” recently published by Quattro Books, translated by Damiano Pietropaolo. The presentation will be an opportunity for an exciting conversation about the theme of Italian Canadian cultural heritage. Set in Toronto and Milan, Between Rothko and 3 Windows takes us […]
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AN EVENING WITH LJUBODRAG ANDRIC
In conversation with Marta Braun, Graduate Program Director (Ryerson University) On the occasion of the exhibit THE NECESSARY TIME, the Italian artist Ljubodrag Andric will talk about his works. A Q&A session will follow. Ljubodrag Andric was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on July 21, 1965; his father was a writer and playwright and his mother […]
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