CONCERT “A FAMILY AFFAIR: PUCCINI’S GIANNI SCHICCHI” | AL BUSTAN FESTIVAL
The Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut, the British Council in Lebanon and the Embassy of Spain in Beirut, in collaboration with the Al Bustan International Festival of Music and Performing Arts and under the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Lebanon, presents the opera Gianni Schicchi, featuring the Yerevan Youth Orchestra conducted by Maestro […]
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PERSPECTIVES ON RESILIENT ARCHITECTURE | BEYOND ENDURANCE. TOWARD TRANSFORMATION.
What does it mean to build today? What does it mean to design when the climate is changing, cities are transforming, materials must reinvent themselves and architecture can no longer merely occupy space but must generate meaning, energy, responsibility? Perspectives on Resilient Architecture arises from the urgency to interrogate the present through the lens of […]
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CONCERT OF THE TRIO HÈRMES | AL BUSTAN FESTIVAL
The Embassy of Italy in Beirut and the Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut organise, for the Al Bustan International Festival of Music and Performing Arts, a free concert by the Trio Hèrmes, composed of Ginevra Bassetti, violin, Francesca Giglio, cello, and Greta Maria Lobefaro, piano. Program: Beethoven, Piano trio in B-flat, Op. 97 “Archduke“ Brahms, […]
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THE FACE AND THE THRESHOLD | FRANCIS: A CINEMATIC GENEALOGY OF THE SACRED
The trajectory traced by these films is far more than a retrospective devoted to Saint Francis: it constitutes a genuine history of the cinematic gaze upon the sacred. From Il poverello di Assisi by Enrico Guazzoni to Chiara by Susanna Nicchiarelli, passing through Francesco giullare di Dio by Roberto Rossellini and Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna […]
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CONCERT “THE TANGO FAMILY” | FESTIVAL AL BUSTAN
The Al Bustan International Festival of Music and Performing Arts, under the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Lebanon and the Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut, presents an enchanting evening of celebrated tango arias. The programme features masterpieces by two of the twentieth century’s most iconic composers, Astor Piazzolla and Carlos Gardel, promising a […]
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