“Andante” – Opera Gallery Exhibition
Showcasing Italian artists: Umberto Mariani, Marcello Lo Giudice and Umberto Ciceri Opera Gallery closes the year with an exhibition finaletitled –Andante– an Italian affair of visual poetry. Opening November 28th, Andante, by rendition of its name, showcases a curated group exhibition of three Contemporary Italian artists Umberto Mariani, Marcello Lo Giudice and Umberto Ciceri whom […]
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“Shine” – Roberto Cherillo & Kekko Fornarelli – Piano and Voice Concert – FREE EVENT
“Shine” is a brand new project born from the collaboration of these two uniqueartists. A Duo melting in a extraordinary bond two different personalities, creating a sound which ranges from classical piano to electronics, from Northern European influences to Anglo Saxons contaminations, to Eastern ideas. Voice and piano are perfectly harmonized and they sustain each […]
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Concert in commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi
2013-11-23Saturday, 8pm 星期六, 晚上8時 Hong Kong City Hall, Theatre 香港大會堂, 劇院 $150, $100 Musica Viva presents this programme of rarely performed non-operatic music by Giuseppe Verdi including his two volumes of 12 songs published under the title of Romances of 1838 and 1845, his four individual art songs dated between 1839 and 1869, […]
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Rodolfo Matulich – Piano Concert – FREE EVENT
Rodolfo Matulich got his diploma in piano at the Music Academy ofAlessandria, then he got a degree (PhD) in composition at the Regis University and at the Berklee College of Music of Boston (USA). He studied Film Scoring with Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and orchestra conducting with Descev and Schumacher in […]
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Urban Design Talks “Turn our gaze, the relationship between territory, city and architecture”
Founders of studio 5 +1AA address the issue of contemporaneity in the relationship between city, territory and architecture, building this relationship as a shaping of reality. The perception and transformation of reality are therefore the cornerstones of an idea of architecture as body and enigma, which is realistic and emotional, pragmatic and sensual, shareable and […]
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Francesco Baccini – Piano and Voice – FREE EVENT
Francesco Baccini was born in Genoa (Italy). He learned to play the piano when he was still a child, studying the great composers of the past. In his early twenties he discovered pop music and rock and this discovery was life changing for him. He then began performing in clubs of his city overcoming his […]
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Film “Tutti giù” – FREE EVENT
SYNOPSIS One is aprofessional athlete. One thinks of sport as a lifestyle. And one gets into sport almost by chance. One, surrounded by the crowd, seeks the inner strength to carve out moments of profound intimacy with self and nature. One feels at home on the street, seeking a family in chaos. And one finds […]
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Book reading with Fabio Pusterla – FREE EVENT
Fabio Pusterla isof mixed Swiss-Italian parentage. Born in Mendrisio, Switzerland, he now lives and works between Lombardy and Lugano, where he teaches Italian language and literature at the cantonal high school. He is an active poet, scholar, essayist and translator; he has translated French poetry to Italian, including Philippe Jaccottet, Antoine Emaz and Corinna Bille. […]
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A Guitar and Voice Recital II – LETTERS FROM COMPOSERS
Chopin writes from Minorca about his being marooned in strangeness… Mozart complains to his father and rages at his treatment at the hands of a Viennese nobleman… Schubert quotes Gretchen’s song at the spinning wheel in his deep depression at his loneliness and lack of success… J. S. Bach sends a formal epistle to the […]
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Sandro Botticelli’s Venus – An Italian High Renaissance Masterpiece
The Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and Macau, the Italian Cultural Institute and the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong are honoured to present to the public one of Italy’s “national treasures” – Venus (ca. 1482) by Florentine Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510). Sandro Botticelli, patronized by […]
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