• Beiser playing, courtesy of Vito

    Just Ancient Loops Debut at IAF a Huge Success

  • Benigni posing before the performance, courtesy of Andreas Solaro.

    Roberto Benigni “Performs” the Italian Constitution

  • AMO Pavarotti exhibit, courtesy of BPOpera

    Exhibit Celebrating Pavarotti Comes to Verona Arena for Opera Centenary

  • The exhibit, courtesy of IIC New York

    Assonance/Dissonance Exhibit Comes to Italian Cultural Institute

  • The beautiful mosaic prize, photo courtesy of Premio Giustiniano

    Muti wins Premio Giustiniano, IAF’s Carusi Special Mention

  • IAF celebrates La Scuola d’Italia 2013 Gala

  • Muti conducting at Teatro dell'Opera, courtesy of chieditoday.it

    Riccardo Muti Conducts Verdi Bicentennial in Rome

  • The Futurist Imagination

    The Futurist Imagination

  • Spiaggia_Isola_dei_Coniglio_Lampedusa

    Sicilian Beach Voted World’s Top

  • Just Ancient Loops Still 6 - tomb1

    Just Ancient Loops

Cultural Diplomacy

The Italian Academy Foundation, Inc. (IAF), established in 1947, is a non-for profit 501©(3), tax-exempt corporation that pursues a unique form of cultural diplomacy, presenting Italian realities to U.S. audiences.   What is cultural diplomacy ? The Italian Academy Foundation, Inc. has adopted “cultural diplomacy” to describe its mission, referring to the staging of cultural events, art, musical and other programmes, together with the publication of materials, notably the Italian Journal,  that will present Italian realities –past and present–to US ...

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Beiser playing, courtesy of Vito

Just Ancient Loops Debut at IAF a Huge Success

Just Ancient Loops, the unique film experience, debuted at the Italian Academy Foundation on April 25. The film, created by Bill Morrison, features the music of Michael Harrison, performed by “cello goddess” Maya Beiser. It combines the genius of the three artists in three mediums: visual, auditory, and musical. All three are acclaimed artists in their own right, and together they create what Beiser calls “music that lives and breathes on its own: raw, naked, real.” The film itself contains ...

Benigni posing before the performance, courtesy of Andreas Solaro.

Roberto Benigni “Performs” the Italian Constitution

Academy Award winning Italian actor, director, singer, and comedian Roberto Benigni’s latest endeavor is… the Italian Constitution. In a new performance in Italy called La Più Bella del Mondo (The Most Beautiful One in the World,) Benigni describes the 12 fundamental principles of the 1947 Constitution in a way that is accessible and understandable to audiences of all ages, but doesn’t oversimplify the principles or make them lose their meaning, which Benigni calls “beautiful.” He introduces each principle by singing a sort of ...

AMO Pavarotti exhibit, courtesy of BPOpera

Exhibit Celebrating Pavarotti Comes to Verona Arena for Opera Centenary

Along with the anniversaries of Verdi and Wagner, 2013 marks the centenary of the Verona Arena Opera Festival. Together with Arena Muse Opera (AMO), a foundation that aims to promote the culture of Italian opera, the master Luciano Pavarotti has been chosen as the subject of a video and photo exhibition. The greatest moments of the master’s career are to be exhibited in 9 rooms of huge screens with newly restored video and panoramic 3-D graphics. Notably, there will be ...

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