PLACES AND LIFE OF JEWISH DIASPORA IN SOUTHERN ITALY –
IN MEMORY OF CESARE COLAFEMMINA CESARE COLAFEMMINA’S PIONEERING RESEARCHMauro Perani (University of Bologna, Italian Association for Jewish Studies). JEWS AS INTELLECTUAL MEDIATORS IN 15TH CENTURY SOUTHERN ITALY Fabrizio Lelli (University of Salento, University of Pennsylvania) Dedicated to Prof. Cesare Colafemmina’s lifetime work, this program explores the richness of Apulian and Southern Italian Jewish history, current […]
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NEW DIRECTORS FILM FESTIVAL
SALVODirectors Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza in person for both screenings. In their supremely assured debut feature, writer-directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza breathe new life into the time-honored genre of the mafioso thriller. While hunting down a rival who has ordered a hit on him, the titular gangster (a smoldering Saleh Bakri) invades a […]
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GOTHAM AWARD
Exhibition Opening Gotham Prize 2013 – Winners Andrea CHIESI & ZIMMERFREI (Anna DE MANINCOR, Massimo CAROZZI, Anna RISPOLI) This award is a project of the Italian Cultural Institute conceived as an opportunity to present the excellence of young Italian contemporary artists in New York. The winners, selected by an international jury, have the opportunity to […]
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MARISTELLA LORCH-BEYOND GIBRALTAR
Book presentation Introduced by Ingrid Rossellini Maristella De Panizza Lorch, Professor Emerita of Italian and Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Barnard College at Columbia University, has taught courses on Dante, Petrarca, Renaissance Humanism, and related topics for over fifty years. Since retiring Dr. Lorch has devoted herself to writing a semi-fictionalized memoir of her roots […]
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Voices of Italy
Italian dancers and singers – Voices of Italy – choreographed by Alessia Della Casa, Alessandra Corona and Vanessa Tamburi, with Herman Payne, Alessandra Corona and Alessia Della Casa (dancers), Donatella Moltisanti, Ligeia Moltisanti (singers), Sandro Russo (pianist), Mirko The performance will be preceded by our Silent and Live Auction. Your contribution is very important to […]
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TOSCA AND THE 2 DOWNSTAIRS BY FRANCA VALERI
BY KAIROS ITALY THEATER AT DICAPO OPERA From March 20 to 30, Kairos Italy Theater (KIT) and Dicapo Opera will present “Tosca e le altre due” (Tosca and The Two Downstairs), a satirical, behind-the-scenes sister-story to Puccini’s “Tosca” as imagined by one of the wittiest and most admired Italian playwright and actresses, Franca Valeri. The […]
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THE ITALIAN OPERA IN THE CHAMBER MUSIC
Bonfils Minervino Duo The program for this concert covers some of the transcripts of the most famous Italian opera overtures. Gioacchino Rossini Ouverture from “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” Domenico Cimarosa Ouverture from “Il Matrimonio Segreto” Gioacchino Rossini Fantasy on “Il Tancredi” Ouverture from “La Cenerentola” Massimo de Bonfils Professor at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in […]
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FABIO VOLO
A conversation with LA STRADA VERSO CASA, THE ROAD HOME- BY FABIO VOLONow in the U.S. THE EAGERLY AWAITED NEW NOVEL BY THE ITALIAN PHENOMENON With five million copies sold, Fabio Volo’s books have made him unquestionably one of the most read authors in Italy and a sort of miracle in a country which does […]
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JEWISH HERITAGE IN TRANI AND MUSIC OF THE HOLOCAUST
A conversation and a performance by Francesco Lotoro Two less-known topics in Jewish history are among the most keen interests of Francesco Lotoro, a versatile Italian classical pianist and musicologist from Puglia. After having studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Lotoro became a specialized piano player, studying with Kornél Zempléni, Viktor […]
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ANDREA ZANZOTTO-HAIKU FOR A SEASON
A talk by editor Patrick Barron Composed directly in English during a period of writer’s block and later ‘translated’ by the poet himself into facing semi-independent Italian versions, Andrea Zanzotto’s fascinating Haiku for a Season constitutes a singular addition to world literature: a classic poetic form handled deftly by a master innovator and one of […]
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