Istituto Di Cultura - Londra

The house on the lake _ Franko B’s solo showcurated by Lavinia Filippi14 June – 28 September 2018 ‘It seemed that in an instant I had found a reason, a strategy to be and to want to stay alive because I could try to express the inexpressible using art as a language to try to somehow make sense of what...

Complementing the BFI’s retrospective, Satire and Morality: the Cinema of Marco Bellocchio, the Institut français is delighted to present a selection of his films and to welcome one of the greatest living Italian directors. Political, iconoclastic and psychoanalytical, Marco Bellocchio’s cinema has const...

Salon Italia - In Italian with English subtitlesIntroduction and post screening discussion with Nick  WalkerDirector: Giuseppe BertolucciCast: Lina Sastri, Rossana Podestà, Giulia Boschi, Alida Valli, Stefania Sandrelli, Mariangela MelatoMusic composed by: Nicola PiovaniDrama/ 1985 /92’/ The film is st...

A recital that celebrates Hungary’s greatest composer, Liszt, featuring songs in French, German, Hungarian and Italian. [BOOK NOW]

To close the Northern European leg of the series, Academy Voices return to Great Britain with four centuries of English song, from Dowland to James MacMillan. [BOOK NOW]

“Tutti abbiamo una maschera. È il volto che essa nasconde il pericolo piu’ grande” A regola d’arte chiude la saga delle agghiaccianti indagini poliziesche del detective McBride in collaborazione con l’italianissimo commissario Alvaro Gerace. In una galleria molto in voga della città ...

"The art of the greatest French composers is an art of suggestion", wrote Pierre Bernac. The mélodies of Berlioz, Debussy, Duparc, Fauré, Massenet, Ravel and Saint-Saëns, amongst others, demonstrate a deliberate and close relationship between French poetry and melody.[BOOK NOW]    

Forget the November skies of London for an hour and be transported to sunnier climes, as we explore Spanish song in works by Falla, Granados, Mompou, Montsalvatge, Nin, Obradors, Rodrigo and Toldrá.[BOOK NOW]    

Marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Gioacchino Rossini, this concert celebrates the life of one of the world's best-loved operatic composers in an programme which combines a selection of his songs alongside some of his popular opera arias.[BOOK NOW]  

In collaboration with the Society of Analytical Psychology. Chair: Martin Schmidt After experiencing September 11 in New York, I started studying paranoia as a collective phenomenon. Among mental illness, only paranoia can literally make history, as it did through Hitler and Stalin. Paranoia can take hold of events directly...

Giuseppe Verdi is part of the Italian DNA. His melodies have been adopted as unofficial national anthems and his name incorporated into a political slogan. He also served as a Senator in the then recently unified Italian State. Our second Italian concert in the Academy Voices: Trascending Borders series explores his operatic...

Our European tour in song closes with a concert marking cross-national collaborations. Composers setting texts outside their mother tongue, provide the theme for this culminating event, but they also act as a metaphor for the international bonds we aim to cement.[BOOK NOW]