The Department of Italian at Georgetown University together with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. invites you to a conference titled Teaching Italian Culture. The one-day conference will take place on October 19th 2013 during the Italian Language Week as part of a series of events celebrating the Year of Ita...

A concert by Federico Agostini, violinist, and Enrico Elisi, pianist. Agostini is world-renowned as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concertmaster (1979-2002) of the legendary Italian string ensemble I Musici Italiani and Enrico Elisi is the winner of nine first prizes in international competitions in Italy, Portugal and the United States. &nbs...

Date: Friday, April 24, 2015 Time: 6:30PM Venue: Embassy of Italy: 3000 Whitehaven Street NW - Washington, DC   Professor Barry Goldsmith - the architectural-travel historian whose specialty is recommending sites around the world missed by most tourists (and even missed by many natives) - will reveal his favorite seldom-visited sites in It...

The National Gallery of Art, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and Georgetown University, presents Tasso, Monteverdi, and the Arts.   Lecturers Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Peter Lukehart (National Gallery of Art CASVA) will present Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered and the works of art it inspired....

Internationally acclaimed Italian pianist Francesco Attesti holds a degree from Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Florence. He received private classes from Sergio Perticalori and has participated in master classes with Jacques Rouvier and Hector Moreno.   Recently he collaborated with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague, perfor...

In the Spring of 2013 Maestro Matteo Fedeli, on the occasion of the Year of Italian Culture in the USA, performed in over 15 concerts all over the USA including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo. Matteo Fedeli will perform at St. Paul's Church in Baltimore with his precious Antonio Stradivari Bazzini 1715 violin.   FOR...

Saturday, September 05, 2015 - from 3:00 pm To 4:30 pm - Free entrance - Italy 2013, 70 minutes - Film in Italian with English subtitles - East Building Large Auditorium - National Gallery of Art - 401 Constitution Ave. NW - Washington, DC 20565   A new documentary on the iconic career of Alberto Sordi — arguably Ita...

The Milanese-born Washington photographer Dario Zucchi explores those brilliant, generally unrecognized connections between modern art and its admirers. The photographer's search for visitors displaying the perfect combination of colors, shapes, textures, and attitudes to be juxtaposed with paintings and sculptures, yields the delight of surprise a...

L'Ambasciatore d'Italia negli Stati Uniti Armando Varricchio ha presentato il catalogo "Italian Treasures in the U.S. – An Itinerary of Art" alla Biblioteca del Congresso, il più vasto archivio mondiale di conoscenza e creatività.   Il volume, realizzato dall'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington a cura dall'Addetto Culturale,...

Embassy of Italy - Auditorium3000 Whitehaven Street, NWWashington, DC 20008 MORE INFO & RSVP: CLICK HERE DOORS OPEN AT 6PM AND CLOSE AT 6:30PM   Set in modern day Milan, L'Intrepido is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work - every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labour - as seen through the eyes of a kind,...