Maggio Musicale in Los Angeles – Fourth video concert
A series of four video concerts organized by Antonio Lysy, an Italian cello player and Latin Grammy winner. He is the founder of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy. He has performed as a soloist in major concert halls worldwide, and continues to perform regularly both as a solo, […]
Read moreMeet the Author Online: Erri De Luca
Novelist, translator and poet Erri De Luca recites a poem by Nazim Hikmet titled Welcome, my woman. De Luca has published more than 60 books, numerous collections of short stories and poems, translated in more than 30 languages and has been recognized by critic Giorgio De Rienzo of Corriere della Sera as “the writer of […]
Read moreMaggio Musicale in Los Angeles – Third video concert
A series of four video concerts organized by Antonio Lysy, an Italian cello player and Latin Grammy winner. He is the founder of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy. He has performed as a soloist in major concert halls worldwide, and continues to perform regularly both as a solo, […]
Read moreRapahel’s Dream
On April 6th, 1520, Raffaello Sanzio, one of the geniuses of the Renaissance, died in Rome. On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Raffaello Sanzio’s death, while we wait for cultural destinations to reopen and to be able to see works of art live again, the network of Italian Cultural Institutes (IIC) in the […]
Read moreSTREGA PRIZE 2020
Premio Strega 2020 – excerpts of the 12 works long-listed for the prestigious literary prize are now available in English, thanks to a collaboration between the Fondazione Bellonci and 5 Italian Cultural Institutes: our own Los Angeles one, as well as London, Melbourne, San Francisco and Washington D.C. The books are: La nuova stagione, by […]
Read moreMaggio Musicale in Los Angeles – Second video concert
A series of four video concerts organized by Antonio Lysy, an Italian cello player and Latin Grammy winner. He is the founder of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy. He has performed as a soloist in major concert halls worldwide, and continues to perform regularly both as a solo, […]
Read moreMeet the Author Online: Gianrico Carofiglio
The award winning, best selling author Gianrico Carofiglio, whose books have been translated into over 24 languages, offers a warm greeting to the IICLA Director Valeria Rumori and the Institute’s dedicated public, in particular he wishes happy reading to the IICLA book club currently reading books nominated for the prestigious literary prize Il Premio Strega.Carofilgio […]
Read moreCinzia Zuffada: Reflections on the Earth Viewed from Space
IIC Webinar Series Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles with the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago, the Italian Cultural Instiute in Montreal, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco, the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. Journalist Maria […]
Read moreMaggio Musicale in Los Angeles – First video concert
A series of four video concerts organized by Antonio Lysy, an Italian cello player and Latin Grammy winner. He is the founder of the Incontri inTerra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy. He has performed as a soloist in major concert halls worldwide, and continues to perform regularly both as a solo, and […]
Read moreHandemade cinema
On the occasion of May Day celebrating workers and in anticipation of the event Fare Cinema, the documentary Handmade Cinema (2012, 52′) by Guido Torlonia about the artisans of Italian cinema is available for free until May 3. STREAM IT HERE Written by journalist Laura Delli Colli with Guido Torlonia, who is also the […]
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