As part of the celebrations promoted by the National Committee for the centenary of the death of Eleonora Duse (1924-2024), the Institute of Theatre and Opera in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University in Venice is promoting a lecture-performance by performer Luca Scarlini entitled L’ultima figlia di San Marco: Eleonora Duse a Venezia e in Veneto. A […]
An artist born in Belgrade in 1965 and resident in Toronto, Ljubodrag Andric made his Venice debut in 2016 at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia. With a partnership between the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and BUILDING in Milan, the exhibition features a dialogue between the photographic works created during the artist’s stays in Italy and those arising […]
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini has always had a vocation for dialogue between the humanities and sciences, and is recognised as a place for reflection on global issues. With the symposium Global Health in the Age of AI: Charting a Course for Ethical Implementation and Societal Benefit, organised last November, it renewed this commitment, inaugurating a new […]
Open-access and peer-reviewed journal, curated by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. With an interdisciplinary approach, Religiographies fosters dialogue between historians, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and psychologists on three main themes: mysticism, esotericism, and spirituality. This special issue of Religiographies aims to explore and analyse contemporary cases of the use of […]
The Institute for Music continues its online publishing activities on the Open Monograph Press platform of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Beethoven’s Sonatas Op. 31: Creative Process, Formal Structures and Performance The three piano sonatas Opus 31, which even at the time of their publication and first performances were described as works of “great style”, reveal […]
Diego Carpitella Scholarship Deadline for applications:15 April 2025 New call for applications for an annual research scholarship of 5,000 euros in memory of Diego Carpitella, to be awarded to a young researcher to produce an audiovisual product of ethnomusicological interest. Projects received in response to the call for applications will be assessed by a panel of three […]
24 – 27 OCTOBER / 14 – 17 NOVEMBER 2018 VENICE, ISLAND OF SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE Following the success of the Accademia Vivaldi summer school in July 2017, this year the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi has organised another “Accademia”, divided into eight advanced workshops devoted to the performance practice of music by the “Red Priest”. The three-day workshops […]
Concert | Musical Direction by Kudsi Erguner and Giannis Koutis Building on a decade-long collaboration with Kudsi Erguner, artistic director of the advanced training project in Ottoman classical music Birûn, the Institute presents an event dedicated to interfaith dialogue.Two choirs, Byzantine and Ottoman, have been invited to perform in Venice, accompanied on the ney flute by […]
From 3 to 5 March, the seminar Singing in the air, with masks, organised in collaboration with Isabelle Moindrot and Giulia Filacanapa, professors at the Théâtre Performance et Societé of the Université Paris 8 and the École Universitaire de Recherche ArTeC – Nanterre, will be held at the Institute of Theatre and Opera. The seminar, […]
With his threefold activity as composer, conductor and theorist, Pierre Boulez profoundly influenced twentieth-century musical thought. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, a workshop in the Research- Led Performance cycle focusing on conducting orchestral ensembles is offered. The programme, coordinated by Marco Angius, includes four compositions that reflect Boulez’s sound world: […]
