Celebrating 10 Years of “Conversazioni”
It has now been ten years since Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini held the first edition of their literary festival “Le Conversazioni”, on the beautiful island of Capri. Since then the event has grown and now takes place in four different cities spanning over 3 continents. The festival takes the form of casual yet sophisticated discussions between notorious intellectual figures.
Viola di Mare: For the Love of a Woman
Isabella Carloni is the writer, director and interpreter of Viola di Mare a one of a kind play that opened the third edition of In Scena! The Italian theater festival in New York at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo'.
Viola di Mare is based on the novel Minchia di re by Giacomo Pilati and it tells the story of a forbidden love. A woman who is in love with a woman, must become a man in order to be free to do so.
Modigliani e les femmes in mostra a Napoli
Il 22 maggio parte la mostra internazionale dedicata all'artista Modigliani
Medardo Rosso, Sculptor of Light
A conversation about the life of Medardo Rosso (Turin, 1858 - Milan, 1928), and his relationship to New York. i-Italy talks to Laura Mattioli, Founder and President of the Center for Italian Modern Art, and Danila Marsure Rosso, President of the Museo Medardo Rosso and the sculptor’s greatgranddaughter.
Massimiliano Finazzer Flory: Bringing Leonardo to Life
"Being Leonardo da Vinci," written by and starring Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, depicts the Renaissance Man in all his glory as he is interviewed by a modern day journalist. The format is rather unique: old Leonardo sits across a reporter who asks him about anything, partly in English, partly in Renaissance Italian and partly in dance.
Shalom Milan, Shalom Expo!!
The Rimon Project, at Milan Expo 2015, showcases Jewish jewels like Viadana in Sabbioneta, Mantua and Piadena, while a special smartphone application guides the visitor through the Expo events and many Jewish sites in Milan and Lombardy: kosher restaurants and food shops, bookstores, shopping places and Italian Judaica.
Senza lavoro per i giovani non c'è futuro
Se non si affronta il tema del lavoro in maniera costruttiva, se la corruzione continuerà a cancellare la meritocrazia, se ai giovani non si offre una concreta speranza di futuro, questa nostra terra è destinata a morire.
Robert Rietti, "The Man of a Thousand Voices' Dies at Age 92
After a long and eventful life, actor, director, and talented dubber, Robert Rietti, died at the venerable age of 92 on May 3rd in London. The son of an Italian actor, Rietti began acting himself very early on, when he was only 8 years old, but his greatest contribution was as the film industry’s go-to voice. Throughout his prolific career, he voiced over an incredible range of roles, including iconic ones such as Doctor Zhivago in the 1965 movie, Orson Welles’ Long John Silver in “Treasure Island” (1970), various James Bond villains, and many more.
Migrant Isle of Lampedusa
Despite the arrival by sea of almost 4,000 migrants on just two days, May 2 and 3, most Italians care. Few care more, or are more hard pressed to handle what is literally a Biblical exodus, than the front-line mayor of the tiny isle of Lampedusa, Giuseppina (“Giusi”) Maria Nicolini. The question is to what extent the rest of Europe shares some of the same courageous awareness.
Cannes in rosa
Come scrive Gloria Satta su il Messaggero, la 68° edizione del Festival di Cannes, che parte il prossimo 13 maggio, fa largo alle donne ed anche se i registi uomini continuano ad essere la maggioranza
Here's why the Italian army is growing hundreds of pounds of marijuana
The Italian army has started growing cannabis in a military pharmaceutical plant outside of Florence in order to drive down prices for medical marijuana across the country.
Antipasto Is the Overture to Breezy Italian-Style Entertaining
An Italian meal begins with the antipasto. Meant to awaken the palate and stave off initial hunger pangs, it could just be a simple platter of sliced cured meats and a few olives.
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