Inside the new Little Italy Museum and Cultural Center in San Jose
With the new Little Italy Museum and Cultural Center in San Jose now open to the public, people got their first chance to explore the restored house on West St. John Street at Sunday’s Little Italy Festival. Anyone who toured the old Beltramo house during the groundbreaking ceremony in 2020 can attest that architect Sal Caruso — and a team of build...
Women and the Transnational Making of Italy
Saturday, November 16 · 2 - 4pm PST. St. Joseph Cathedral, 1535 Third Avenue San Diego, CA This presentation will discuss three works by women: Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi’s colonial diary Tre anni in Eritrea (1901), Sibilla Aleramo’s memoir Una donna (1906) and Marie Hall Ets’s transcribed oral storytelling Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant (197...
Sophia Loren: La Diva di Napoli
From November 07 2024 To November 30 2024. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Los Angeles - 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. In celebration of Sofia Loren's 90th birthday, the Academy Museum presents this overview of some of her most enduring performances. The series will open with Vittorio De Sica’s “Two Women” (La Ciociara), which earned...
Italian Drama ‘Pagliacci’ is Season Opener for Opera Santa Barbara
Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) will open its 2024-25 season with Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” Nov. 8 and 10 at the Lobero Theatre. Based on a true story, Pagliacci “Clowns” tells the tale of Canio, leader of a commedia dell’arte troupe, who murders his wife and her lover on stage during a performance. The opera is emblematic of the style known as “verismo,...
Carnival Firenze, now sailing out of Long Beach, offers ‘Fun, Italian Style’
Italy and Mexico are separated by an ocean and a gulf, and yet the two countries share much in common. They both speak a romance language, fly a similar green, white and red national flag, and when it comes to soccer — or football as it’s called in these birthplaces of pastas and tostadas — their mutual obsession is at fever pitch. Leave it to Cali...
Il Cinema Ritrovato in tour 2024
From October 24 2024 To October 26 2024. Loyola Marymount University - 1 Loyola Marymount University Dr, Los Angeles, CA. RSVP here. Loyola Marymount University is hosting Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour, a festival on rediscovered and restored films that is a celebration of cinema’s history. This 8th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour at LMU boa...
Six Characters in Search of an Author in San Diego
Saturday October 19 2024, 14:00 (Local time). St. Joseph’s Cathedral (Auditorium) 1535 Third Ave, San Diego, CA. Tickets here. After premiering at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles and Chapman University, Nick Gabriel‘s new adaptation of SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR (1921) by Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello, is presented in...
Tollo, Italy hosts Fullerton delegation and celebrates Sister City relationship in honor of Tommy Lasorda
Although Tollo is world-renowned for its food and wine traditions, the small town of 4,000 inhabitants is also known for its connection to the late and great global baseball spokesman Tommy Lasorda, who lived in Fullerton, California for nearly sixty years and whose parents hailed from this quaint mountain village in Abruzzo. A large delegation fro...
San Francisco Italian Athletic Club Foundation sponsors Club Italia LA28 Baseball
Following the threatening weather situation caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, the first group of Club Italia LA28 pitchers and catchers will depart from Rome for Surprise, Arizona, where they will train at the Kansas City Royals Spring Training Facility. The Olympic Camp is supported by the SFIAC Foundation, an official FIBS partner who is no...
Hit Week Festival with EMMA and more
Monday, October 14 · 7 - 10pm PDT. Whisky a Go Go - 8901 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood, CA. Italy's pop queen EMMA will headline at the world famous WHISKY a GO GO the L.a. Stop of the Hit Week Music Festival 2024, a unique showcase on the actual italian music scene. Opening act from Hit Week 2024 talent winners. Free entrance with RSVP on line a...
The real ancient Roman plot that inspired 'Megalopolis'
Francis Ford Coppola has been working on his epic sci-fi fantasy drama Megalopolis since the early 1980s. Fresh off the success of Apocalypse Now, Coppola became fascinated by the story of Lucius Sergius Catiline, who in 63 B.C. sought to forcibly overthrow the consuls of the Roman Republic, co-led by Marcus Tullius Cicero. This attempted coup d’et...
Convivio: A Night at the Opera
Thursday, October 10th 2024 at 6:30 PM PDT. AMICIBAR - 250 W Date St, San Diego CA. Join San Diego Opera’s General Director, David Bennett, for a journey through the new season, opening in November with Puccini’s much-loved classic, La Bohème. David will guide us through the season’s productions focusing on the operas by the great Italian composers...