STREAMING: VERDI’S REQUIEM AT THE INTERNATIONAL BAALBECK FESTIVAL 2019
How about an extraordinary classical concert that you can enjoy from the comfort of your home?The Baalbeck International Festival is proud to share online last year’s performance of Verdi’s Requiem. It will be available for streaming until April 14 on the following address: http://www.baalbeck.org.lb/programs/verdi/This concert, which was held inside the Bacchus Temple on July 26th […]
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Conference “Sardinia at the time of the Phoenicians”
A conference by Prof. Maria Spanedda, founder of the cultural association Archeological Group Karaliatano.The conference aims to shed the lights on the cultural link between Italy and the Phoenician people.
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Paolo Fresu Trio – Tribute concert to Chet Baker: « Tempo Di Chet »
The Italian Cultural Institute, Liban Jazz and Eléftériadès Productions present the “Paolo Frésu Trio” tribute concert to Chet Baker: « Tempo Di Chet ». Paolo Frésu is one of the most famous Italian Jazz musicians of our time. The sound of his trumpet is often compared to the legends: Miles Davis and Chet Baker. It […]
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Al Bustan Festival – Symphony N.3 – Piano Concert N.3 – “Heroica”
The third Symphony, also known as Heroica, is one of Beethoven’s most celebrated and technically challenging works. It is considered as a turning point in musical history.Vanessa Benelli Mosell is a rising star on the international music scene. She is continuously praised for her dazzling virtuosity, her technical brilliance and the sensitivity of her musical […]
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Al Bustan Festival – Symphony No. 1 – Piano Concerto No. 1
Beethoven’s first symphony was composed when he was only 25, just before he started to lose his hearing. It is clearly indebted to his predecessors Haydn and Mozart, but is nonetheless a unique masterpiece. The Piano Concerto No. 1, first performed with Beethoven at the piano, will be interpreted by the rising star Italian pianist […]
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Ludic Glottodidactics for the Development of Communication and Socio-emotional Skills in Italian as a Foreign Language
The Italian Cultural Institute and the Lebanese University-Language and Translation Center, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, organize a free refresher course in ludic glottodidactics by Dr. Nicoletta Cherubini, open to all Italian teachers and future teachers.The course – consisting of a module of three days of 5 hours each, is structured as follows: Frontal […]
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Al Bustan Festival – Symphony No. 5 – Piano Concerto “The Emperor”
The 27th edition of the Festival takes off with Beethoven’s best known Fifth Symphony. Who doesn’t know its ominous first four notes Da Da Da Dum? Also called the Fate Symphony, it was composed when Beethoven was in his mid-thirties and troubled by increasing deafness.The Piano Concerto No. 5 is Beethoven’s most accomplished concerto and […]
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Al Bustan International Festival 2020 – “Ludwig”
The Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon and the Embassy of Italy support the 27th edition of the Al Bustan International Festival, this year dedicated to Ludwig Von Beethoven and which will see the participation of numerous Italian artists, including musicians and opera singers, and of the Sicilian Opera Choir.For more information on the program: https://albustanfestival.com/program-2020/
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SOL 2020 – A concert by outstanding students of the organ class at NDU
A concert by the outstanding students of the NDU’s School of Music, which has been organizing since 2015 a pipe organ class (the only one in Leb¬anon) with the support of the Italian Institute of Culture and the Custody of the Holy Land, under the guidance of the Italian organist and professor Cosimo Prontera. The […]
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SCREENING OF THE MOVIE “LEONARDO, THE MAN WHO SAVED SCIENCE”
The screening is part of the BAFF-Beirut Art Film Festival program, dedicated this year to Leonardo da Vinci, on the fifth centenary of his birth. Leonardo Da Vinci was an extraordinary artist and inventor. But researchers have discovered, in ancient manuscripts, drawings and treatises that prefigure many of his inventions and trace back to classical […]
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