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.
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.
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.
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.
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.