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A production supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of London, the British Italian Society, Il Circolo, and Inca CGIL UK.
2024 is Puccini’s centenary, and to celebrate this important anniversary the Italian Cultural Association Il Circolo, in collaboration with Italian composer and conductor Dimitri Scarlato and the Regium Lepidi Academy, are bringing to stage one of most acclaimed and performed operas composed by Giacomo Puccini.
La bohème tells the story and the romances of a group of young artistic people, full of dreams who live in Paris. Love, laughter, friendship and sadness are masterfully depicted by Puccini’s music and vocal lines, that cannot but stir deep emotions on the audience.
This performance will see on stage young and upcoming singers, accompanied by an ensemble of 10 instruments, conducted by Dimitri Scarlato, and it will be introduced by a talk discussing the impact of Puccini on opera and why La bohèmeis one of the most performed operas
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The Italian Christmas Market is Il Circolo’s annual fundraising event showcasing Italian products in the Chelsea Town Hall. You will find lots of nice ideas for seasonal gifts.
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The British-Italian Society and the Society for Italian Studies have announced the latest winners of the biennial BIS Prizes.
The winner of the 2021 Postgraduate Prize (£500) is Dr Claudia Dellacasa of Durham University for her thesis, Italo Calvino in Japan, Japan in Italo Calvino: A Cross-Cultural Encounter.
The 2021 Undergraduate Prize (£250) was awarded to Freya Cazalet of Cambridge University for her dissertation, The Sleeping Guards: Depictions of the Resurrection in Trecento Italy.
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the competition again attracted a large number of entries from students at British and Irish Universities on a wide range of Italian cultural themes. The judges strongly commended the winners for producing highly innovative and impressive pieces of work.
The judges also awarded joint runner-up prizes to two candidates in each category. In both cases, two candidates had scored similar high marks for impressive entries. In the Postgraduate category the runner-up award was shared between Dr Anna Lisa Somma of Birmingham University and Dr Maddalena Moretti of Leeds University.
At Undergraduate level, the runner-up prize was shared between Isabelle Ragnetti of King’s College, London and Ella Powell of Birmingham University.
Our warmest congratulations go to all the prize-winners, who also receive one year’s honorary membership of the Society.
We look forward to welcoming them to an event in 2022!
Since it was founded in 1941, the British-Italian Society has worked to promote knowledge and understanding in the UK of Italian culture, including Italy’s history, institutions, way of life, language and wider contribution to civilisation.
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