Il codice del volo
Il codice del volo, written and performed by Flavio Albanese Artistic Director: Marinella Anaclerio “As you’ll learn to fly, you’ll walk on the earth looking up for the sky, as once you’ve been there you just want to get back to it.” Leonardo Da Vinci In his Il codice del volo, Flavio Albanese tells […]
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Non ci resta che piangere by R. Benigni and M. Troisi
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the Italian Institute of Culture and the Consulate General of Italy in Edinburgh are delighted to invite you to Infinite Grace: Leonardo 1519-2019, a series of events organised in collaboration with Davide Messina and Carlo Pirozzi from the University of Edinburgh, where we are also […]
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Rustioni Conducts Opening Concert
Daniele Rustioni opens the Season with Elgar’s glorious Cello Concerto! The Italian Institute of Culture is delighetd to support the unmissable opening to the 2019/20 Ulster Orchestra Season! Elgar’s Cello Concerto is elegaic and autumnal, written after the Great War and towards the end of the composer’s career when Elgar felt he was passing out […]
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Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana
A Lectura Dantis is a public reading and explanation of all 100 cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy canto by canto. Each canto of the Commedia is discussed by a different scholar, and we have a wide range of expert speakers coming to St Andrews for each meeting of the Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana (LDA). 28th […]
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A Glimpse into Silent City
The Italian Institute of Culture is supporting Silent City, a project for Matera European Capital of Culture 2019, created and co-produced by Compagnia Teatrale L’Albero and Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 with Orchestra Senzaspine (Bologna) and Opera Circus UK. It is an artistic collaboration which combines the strengths of two highly regarded electronic studios and courses of […]
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Edoardo Albinati & Alessandro D’Avenia | Edinburgh International Book Festival
Alessandro D’Avenia is no longer able to appear and this event will go ahead with Edoardo Albinati. Which Way I Fly is Hell Meet two cutting-edge novelists exploring different sections of Italian society. In Edoardo Albinati’s prize-winning The Catholic School, a shocking act of sexual violence by former students of a prestigious Rome […]
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Christine De Luca & Carlo Pirozzi | Edinburgh International Book Festival
POP ART GURU The work of Eduardo Paolozzi left an indelible print on his hometown of Edinburgh. Fascinated by the artist’s approach of constant reinvention, Scottish poet Christine De Luca and University of Edinburgh academic Carlo Pirozzi, collaborators on Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh, pay tribute to the Leith-born sculptor who was seen as a […]
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Stefi Orazi | Edinburgh International Book Festival
Miles Glendinning, Stefan Muthesius & Stefi Orazi BUILDING SOCIETIES Britain faces a housing crisis: what can the nation’s last major building scheme teach us? Architectural historians Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius analyse the high-rise revolution in Towers for the Welfare State. Stefi Orazi widens the perspective with Modernist Estates — Europe, exploring some of the […]
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Daniela Mari | Edinburgh International Book Festival
Growing old gracefully With an ageing global population, the question of how to live long and well has never been more pertinent. In Borrowed Time, science writer Sue Armstrong harnesses the latest research to ask how and why we age. In Breakfast with the Centenarians, gerontology expert Daniela Mari turns to supercentenarians to learn the […]
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Donatella Di Pietrantonio | Edinburgh International Book Festival
Family born again A teenage girl is suddenly returned to the birth family she has never known in an intense English-language debut from Italian author Donatella Di Pietrantonio. A tale of responsibilities and traumatic rebirth, L’Arminuta (English language title: A Girl Returned) scooped up the coveted Campiello Prize in Italy, marking Di Pietrantonio as a […]
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