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Date: Friday, May 06, 2016 - Time: 7:30 PM. Location: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Organized by: San Francisco Performances - In collaboration with: IIC   Known for her sparkling soprano and gifts as an actress on both the concert platform and opera stage, Rosa Feola regularly collaborates with conductors su...

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Il musicista italiano Marco Fusi, specializzato nel panorama della musica contemporanea, ha fatto visita alla Baia di San Francisco presentando un programma di pezzi per viola e violino di alcuni dei più innovativi compositori italiani attualmente operanti.   Il programma musicale è nato dalla collaborazione fra l’Istituto Italiano di Cultur...

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Warming Up with Luciano Berio- The brilliant young pianist Adam Tendler, visiting from New York, joins Sarah Cahill in a warm-up concert featuring Luciano Berio's piano compositions before they perform the same program a week later at the Italian Academy in New York.   Among the Berio pieces they will play are Touch (1991) for piano four-han...

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by George Calys   Design geeks have known for years that Italy is home to design with a capital "D". You only need watch the ubercool café patron leafing through Domus, to know that you'd better have at least one Italian-designed object in your living room or kitchen or else suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous poor taste. Fortunately...

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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, designed by architect Peter Eisenman, is photographed and interpreted through a present day lens. A Field of Stelae, creating a labyrinth of concrete blocks, exemplifies the profound anguish cemented in the memory of the Jews massacred by the Nazi regime.   The photo painting installation, present...

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The life, work and personality of Amedeo Modigliani will be discussed tonight at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco. Art expert Dr. Kenneth Wayne, author of the book "Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse" will present a two hour lecture that explores the psychology and historical context of Modigliani's bizarre forms, colorful po...

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The accomplished piano virtuosi 'Duo Pianistico di Firenze', invited to San Francisco as part of the annual Salkind piano duo festival, will grace our upper gallery with a special performance. Please click here to register for the concert.   Information Date: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 - Time: 6:30 PM. Location: IIC (814 Montgomery Str...

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Americans and Italians are magnetically attracted to each other. This is one of Beppe Severgnini's statements on May 7th at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco.   Hardly anyone could have questioned it, as 500 Italians and Italo-philes crowded the theater. The event was co-organized by BAIA, the Consulate and the Italian Cultural In...

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La scorsa settimana i rappresentanti istituzionali di quattro paesi europei si sono riuniti per organizzare un evento unico nel suo genere: "European Language Fiera: A Taste of Europe". Grazie alla partnership di Alliance Française, del Goethe Institut, dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura e del Centro per gli Studi della Grecia Moderna alla San Fran...

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A traveling exhibition promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and created by the CNR (Italian National Research Council) in collaboration with IIT (Italian Institute of Technology), the INFN (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics,) and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies 'Italy of the Future' is an exploration of Italy's most rece...

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