Ennio Morricone’s USA Tour 2014: The Films, the Music, the Legend
Back to NYC for the first time since 2007, the Maestro, who just turned 85 last November, will conduct an ensemble of 200 musicians and singers performing some of his landmark film music.
Pizza Lovers in the Military Have Their Miracle! May be...
For the pleasure of American soldiers, who always craved pizza as one of their ready-to-eat meals. Researchers at a U.S. military lab in Massachusetts invented a pizza that lasts three years without any refrigeration or freezing necessary. A recipe that doesn't require any refrigeration or freezing.
All Music is Political
Once again on music, politics, culture, and life in New York. But also on the Sanremo Festival—for decades the platform for main- stream music in Italy. Pagani is directing it for the second year in a row, and we want to know why.
"As we used to say, the quality of everything one does is political, so music is always political in that it has a political effect. An ugly song is a 'carrier' of subculture whereas a good song is the opposite, so the only way to be positive in music is to produce beautiful songs."
Sorrentino's Great Beauty triumphs again before Oscars
Paolo Sorrentino is heading to the Oscars on March 2 with high hopes The Great Beauty will become Italy's first winner in 15 years after it was named best foreign film at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs).
Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot arrested for 'hijacking' plane bound for Italy
Police have reportedly arrested a co-pilot who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines plane, which was forced to land in Geneva on Monday.
Italy president asks Matteo Renzi to be next PM
Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano has asked Matteo Renzi, the mayor of Florence, to form a new government.
Enrico Letta resigned as prime minister on Friday, after he was ousted in a vote called by Mr Renzi at a meeting of their centre-left Democratic Party.
Italian 'mummy's boys' told by Church that 'mamma' one of the biggest risks to marriage
The Italian male deference to their mothers may be seen from afar as an endearing trait – as joyously traditional a part of their heritage as pizza, pasta and Prosecco.
But the Catholic Church has issued a grave warning that "mammismo" – the classic attachment between Italian men and their mothers – is one of the biggest risks to marriage in the country today.
Una società che non sta vicino a chi muore
Dimmi come sei accompagnato alla fine della vita ed io ti dirò in quale paese vivi, perché fino alla morte, il morente è un vivente.
Abbiamo nascosto la morte esasperando i guasti che non consentono una fine dignitosa: la miseria di morire in solitudine e la miseria di non avere lo spazio di solitudine necessario per morire. Ma è soprattutto il morire da soli che è diventato un inferno per tanti, per troppi: nessuna protezione, nessun accompagnamento.
Gli eventi culturali italiani a portata di APP
Intervista al Direttore Riccardo Viale, alla fine del suo mandato a New York. Nel lasciare il suo posto ci presenta l’App dell’Istituto che consente agli utenti non solo di conoscere il calendario degli aventi dell’Istituto di Cultura, ma anche quello delle iniziative culturali che si svolgono in Italia. “Perchè” ci dice” l’Istituto deve essere il canale attraverso cui gli americani si informano anche su questo.”
Michelangelo e il sogno mai realizzato
Buonarroti e il Monte dell’Altissimo. A 450 anni dalla sua morte si ricorda uno degli episodi più importanti e tormentati della sua vita: il desiderio mai realizzato di cavare e rifornirsi gratuitamente dello statuario del Monte dell’Altissimo
Presentare un libro
Una strana coppia: uno storico, Paolo Mieli ed I Solisti Aquilani, insieme per presentare "I conti con la storia", un importante strumento con immagini e musica per capire i nostri tempi
Magazine
Multimedia
In Italian
-
