Motus Nella Tempesta
Starting from the first lines of the play, the question of power and the loss of control explode violently: who can govern? Or better, is sovereignty needed at all? Where is the Master? This question bounces back and forth between Gonzalo and the Boatswain, while the boat is at the mercy of furious waves, against […]
Read moreMythical Dances-including Nino Rota’s Dances from Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
The program showcases the winners of The Respighi Prize (presented in cooperation with the city of Bologna, Italy). This event features the world premiere of Austrian composer Daniel Muck’s Oraculum Apollonis, and American soprano Stacey Mastrian in Respighi’s Deita Silvane and Richard Strauss’ Morgen. Also on the program is Respighi’s Serenata (from our latest Naxos […]
Read moreEmbroidered Stories Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
JoAnn Cavallo (Columbia University) Joanna Clapps Herman (Manhattanville College) Edvige Giunta (New Jersey City University)Joseph Sciorra (coeditor) A Book-Presentation with Poem Readings: Phyllis Capello (poet)For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, […]
Read moreSocial World Film Festival
Short Films New York is the next stop for the Social in the World, the project of the Social World Film Festival that brings the efforts and dedication to Social Cinema and to the young in the world of the City of Vico Equense.This international show of Social Cinema of Vico Equense will be hosted […]
Read moreLa Bellezza Eataliana
Have you ever dreamt about getting locked in into our store for a night? Your dream is about to come true! On December 7th Eataly will open its doors from 10PM to 1AM for a night celebratingTutte le Cose Belle Italiane(All the Beautiful Italian Things) from food and wine to music. The renowned Teatro Regio […]
Read moreLAST MAN STANDING By DAVIDE LONGO
A Book-Presentation with the Author Last Man Standing (Quercus Books 2013) Leonardo is a University Professor and a writer. Once quite famous his life unravelled when he had a sordid affairwith one of his students. His wife left him, taking their daughter. He is a man of Letters and recedes into a quiet lifestyle, watching […]
Read moreNew Literature from Europe 2014 – Crossing Borders: Europe Through the Lens of Time
http://newlitfromeurope.wordpress.com/ at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York Join us for a celebration of the most exciting voices in European Literature today, guided by some of America’s top writers and critics. Come on a European journey through the lens of time that takes us on a murder mystery in France, to Italy on the brink […]
Read moreMichelangelo and Versilia
Art Exihibt from December 4 2014 to January 4 2015 The Consulate General of Italy together with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, and the four Cities of the Medicean Versilia – Pietrasanta, Seravezza, Forte dei Marmi and Stazzema – present “Michelangelo and Versilia”, an initiative organized to illustrate the excellences of the territory […]
Read moreTHE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM IN LUIGI EINAUDI’S VIEW
Born in 1874, Luigi Einaudi was one of the most influential European economists of his time and President of the Italian Republic from 1948 to 1955. His main field of interest was public finance, but rather than pure theory, he cultivated history. He believed that in history one could trace the origin of most of […]
Read moreMARIO FRATTI INTERPRETING EDUARDO DE FILIPPO
Reading from and commenting on Filumena Marturano With MARIO FRATTI and GIULIA BISINELLA In the balmy heat of late ’40s of last century in Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her deathbed waiting to marry Domenico Soriano, the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years. But no sooner has the priest completed […]
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