The Year 2006 was the Year of Italy and China, during which the Culture Office of the Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai has organized in Shanghai almost 200 events, spanning from concerts to dramatic plays, from art exhibitions to conferences.
It is also the year in which a successful cooperation with the Jing’an District has started. The first event has been the installation of a sculpture of Carlo Goldoni, the famous Italian play writer, in what it is called now”the road of the play writers”, i.e. Hua Shan road.
That brilliant event, organized with the highest authorities of Jing’An District and Italian diplomacy, was also the occasion for the signing of a multi-year agreement between the famous “Piccolo Teatro di Milano” and the “Shanghai Theater Academy” (which will result in a joint-performance during the Shanghai Expo 2010).
The second event took place at the beginning of June 2007, when a folkloric group from Italy performed in the plaza near the Jing’An Park. Nearly forty young Italians performed a show of acrobatics and flag-waving exercises, dressed in magnificent customs from the Italian renaissance.
The third event has been in this year, on 31 July 2008. With friendship and kind generosity, the Jing’An district has agreed to organize an “Italian Day”, featuring a concert of the famous violinist Vittorio Di Lotti and the “enchantment quartet” of the young professors of the Shanghai conservatory. The splendid ball room of the Paramount Theater has been the venue for the execution of rare and beautiful harmonies of the Italian 18th century.