New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Presents SUOR ANGELICA and CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) celebrates the year of Italian culture in America with its new production of Giacomo Puccini's Suor Angelica and Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. Verismo Opera presents the grand production live with a full cast today, October 20, 3:00 p.m., at the Bergen Performing Arts Center (ber...
BYU to host folklore lecture
Legends, music, tall tales and customs are part of folklore that people enjoy. The world of folklore, from Italy to Utah's Cache Valley, will be captured by Steve Siporin on Wednesday at the Lee Library on Brigham Young University campus. Siporin, professor of folklore at Utah State University will discuss "A Bear and A Bandit: What a Lege...
Dine Out Maine: A virtuoso chef plays at Piccolo
By John Golden Often it's all in the delivery.Some years ago I invited a spirited lady friend to join me for lunch at a fashionable cafe in midtown Manhattan. She was a dead ringer in speech, looks and manner for the character, Alexis, played by Joan Collins in the epic TV drama, "Dynasty." She breezed in, took a quick look around and sai...
Italian art: The Farnese Palace in Caprarola
WTI Magazine #8 2013 Dec, 6Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti In Caprarola, a small town in the northern part of Lazio, in the heart of Italy, there is one of the five most interesting palace of Italy. It's the Farnese Palace. The Farnese were a prominent family in the history of...
Premiazione degli Studenti delle Scuole Medie e Superiori di Houston Partecipanti al Concorso Letterario in Lingua Italiana
La Nona Conferenza dei Ricercatori Italiani nel Mondo del 14 dicembre ha avuto un momento particolarmente significativo con la cerimonia di premiazione del concorso letterario sponsorizzato dal Comites in collaborazione con il Consolato Generale d'Italia, con il duplice obiettivo di promuovere la lingua e cultura italiana presso i giovani, e al tem...
World Famous Tenor, Joseph Spinella, Celebrates Valentine's Day with the Sarasota Mandolin Orchestra at the Italian American Club
A unique musical concert of "Mandolins in Venice" is sponsored by the Italian American Club at its facilities in Venice, FL. Joseph Spinella will conduct the Sarasota Mandolin Orchestra for a one-night only special performance on Wednesday, February 12, 2014. The Sarasota Mandolin Orchestra (SMO) consists of 14-members and plays music arra...
You Are Invited to a Luncheon with the Italian Ambassador to the United States
By Mauro Battocchi We are deeply honored to have His Excellency Claudio Bisogniero visit San Francisco on February 13 and join us for a luncheon organized by the Italian Athletic Club in North Beach (SFIAC) and by the new online channel for the Italians of Northern California, "La Scintilla." You are cordially invited to be with u...
IABC Annual Meeting
Sicily, 1935: Sarina, a young woman with three children, gives up her young daughter Tina to her aunt Vittoria, who lives in a different town, with no apparent explanation. The child, just four, at first is intrigued by the move, which she believes to be a summer vacation, but slowly reality settles in and her journey into abandonment begins. &nbs...
The Italian American Table by Simone Cinotto
Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, University of Gastronomic Sciences professor Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants in his new book, The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Commun...
An Olive Branch No One Wants
Established in 1982, Olive Garden is a chain of fast casual dining of Italian-American cuisine, famous for its endless supply of bread sticks (and salad) during the meal and infamous for serving subpar food in cookie-cutter, generic, faux-Italian settings. There are more than 800 Olive Gardens around the world; the large majority in the U....
Italian, Venezia-style
Italian chain restaurants have become shorthand for describing those who don't like "real" food or aren't "shopping local." Now here's an unpopular position: They're not that bad. Not really. I mean, if you're craving the most authentic Italian food in Oklahoma City, you're already facing a bit of an uphill battle. But the way some people...
italytheater to Host PINOCCHIO IN MANHATTAN Kids Theatre Workshop thru Dec 2014
Created by italytheater, with the extraordinary partnership of the Carlo Collodi National Foundation and based on a new script by Paolo Tartamella, 'Pinocchio in Manhattan' is the first workshop where kids of the age 6-11 get to improvise with professional actors, perform on stage with Pinocchio, try their writing skills on a compelling topic and h...