Paolo Carignani, a Conductor and a Philosopher
Milanese conductor Paolo Carignani, guest of honor of the third Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin, one of America’s foremost experts on opera , enthralled the audience at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU). At the moment the maestro is in New York City at the Metropolitan where he will be conducting all of the Puccini operas in the calendar: Turandot, Tosca, La Bohème. He took some time to talk shop in a compelling conversation that revealed his philosophy on how to be happy and harmonious.
Ierimonti Gallery - Two Innovative and Unconventional Exhibitions
Two opening at Ierimonti Gallery : “Look very closely”, an exhibition featuring some of the most representative works of Marcel Duchamp and Gianfranco Baruchello and Fusion Prints & Jewels a group exhibition that emphasizes the graphic works of some of the most important artists of the postwar period.
The Voyage of Discovery
For the 17th consecutive year, the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) will sponsor its Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery program, an educational and cultural initiative that sends Italian American students enrolled in a college or university to Italy each year. This all-expenses-paid trip will take place in June 2016.
New York Celebrates Italian Cinema
December comes with a series of events: a retrospective of filmmaker Antonio Pietrangeli, in collaboration with Luce Cinecittà and the best of contemporary filmmaking in Italy, in collaboration with Rai Cinema. And 10 Italian Stories" a table book created in collaboration with Rai Eri (RAI's publishing company), which includes the best images taken from the backstage of the 10 movies that were donated to MoMA.
The Next Page: Baseball’s Italian Heritage From the greats to the long-forgotten, Italian-Americans have made fascinating contri
My wife, Anita, and I live in southern Illinois, about 10 miles from Herrin, a community with a rich Italian-American heritage. Its historical society recently asked me to give a talk on Italian-Americans in baseball history.
The nine circles of hell from Dante's Inferno recreated in Lego by Mihai Mihu
Romanian artist Mihai Marius Mihu spent seven months recreating the hellish visions of the nine circles of hell from Dante's Divine Comedy using almost 40,000 Lego bricks.
"New York Is A City Of No": Why One Bakery Is Trading Brooklyn For Baltimore
Whenever a beloved business closes, the first laments are usually directed at the inhospitable real estate landscape in New York City, where landlords and developers dictate who makes the cut and who gets kicked to the curb. But bakery owner Allison Robicelli wants to make clear that it isn't just obscene rents that make owning a small business here untenable: it's everything.
A brief history of America’s hostility to a previous generation of Mediterranean migrants — Italians
It’s a trope to say America has a long tradition of welcoming immigrants. This is only partially true. It also has a long tradition of treating immigrants with open discrimination and even violent hostility.
Review: Giorgio de Chirico, Under an Italian City's Spell
When the painter Giorgio de Chirico arrived in Ferrara in June 1915 he found himself “assailed by revelations and inspirations” — as he wrote to his dealer Paul Guillaume in Paris — and soon came to believe that fate had brought him to this intriguing Renaissance city so that he might fully realize his artistic destiny.
Alex Polizzi: Italy's true spirit is found on its islands
From Sicily to Sardinia and Capri, Alex Polizzi explores the Mediterranean islands that deliver the flavour of a nation
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