Canova e la Danza
The exhibition “Canova e la Danza” presents sixteen tempera paintings, made between 1799 and 1806, by the great Italian artist Antonio Canova, a premier for the American public, and on view again for the first time following their recent restoration. The paintings are a loan from the Gipsoteca e Museo Canova, (Canova Museum and Plaster Casts […]
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2018 Mario Fratti Award -In Scena ! Closing Night
Reading and Award ceremony of the Winner of the 2018 Mario Fratti Award for Excellence in Italian Playwriting: The City Rises (La città che sale) by Chiara Boscaro and Marco Di Stefano. The City Rises is a mosaic of interconnected stories about a changing city, Milan, and its inhabitants–victims and perpetrators that include a mayor, […]
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Panorama Europe Film Festival
Panorama Europe Film Festival returns for its tenth year with a selection of sixteen feature films and one short program, from May 4 to May 31, at Museum of the Moving Image and Bohemian National Hall. It opens on Friday, May 4 with the experimental art-world documentary thriller The End of Fear. The Italian film […]
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Exile and Creativity Series – Concert: Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco’s composition
The fourth evening of the series Exile and Creativity is dedicated to a musician who, because of the racial laws, like many intellectuals and politicians, was forced to immigrate to the United States. What better way to honor him than performing his music. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian […]
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Speranza Scappucci in conversation with Harvey Sachs
Italian born conductor Speranza Scappucci recently made a successful Vienna debut acclaimed by the public and critics alike with La Traviata and La Cenerentola at the Vienna State Opera. In February 2017, she was the first female conductor to direct the orchestra in the annual Vienna Opera Ball. She is considered one of the most […]
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Beautiful Day Without You – Marco Calvani
As part of the European Month of Culture 2018 organized by Origin Theater Company, world premier reading of Beautiful Day Without You, commissioned by Origin to Italian playwright Marco Calvani. Directed by Erwin Maas, the play will be presented as a work in progress. Cast includes Michael Edwards, Richarda Abrams & Anne Son. The story: […]
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Outstanding Italian Women Series – Monica Mandelli
The last talk of the series is with Monica Mandelli. Monica Mandelli earned a BS and MS summa cum laude in Economics and Social Science from Milan’s Università Bocconi and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. She started her career working first at Merrill Lynch in London, in their mergers & acquisitions group, […]
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InScena! Festival 2018
Kairos Italy Theater, New York’s preeminent Italian Theater Company, and KIT Italia present the 6th Edition of In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, which features a record of twelve shows, directly from Italy to NYC; including a special Opening Night Event, We are Not Alone, starring Dario D’Ambrosi. The 15-day, 5-borough Festival, founded by KIT […]
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Outstanding Italian Women Series – Lidia Bastianich
The series continues with Lidia Bastianich in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto. Lidia Bastianich is the best‐selling author of thirteen cookbooks and the Emmy award-winning host of public television’s Lidia’s Kitchen, which also airs internationally, as well as a judge on MasterChef Junior Italy and Italy’s highly rated daily program La Prova del Cuoco.The flourishing […]
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Book presentation: The Pope Who Would Be King by David Kertzer
Presentation of The Pope Who Would Be King The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe, by David Kertzer. The author will be in conversation with Alexander Stille. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Pope and Mussolini takes on a pivotal, untold story: the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political […]
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