Vic DiBitetto Returns To Newton Theatre
The Newton Theatre welcomes back comedian Vic DiBitetto on Friday, May 5, 2017 at 8:00pm. DiBitetto, known as The Italian Hurricane, is one of the hottest stand-up comedians in the country. An incredibly powerful performer, DiBitetto churns energy, honesty and humanity into nonstop laughter at a frenetic pace. He’s been called a cross between Rodne...
Mike Scioscia and Sal Varriale are Italian legends
It was a beautiful reunion when Angels' skipper Mike Scioscia welcomed Team Italy hitting coach Mike Piazza to Tempe's Diablo Stadium hours before the start of Italy's WBC warm-up exhibition game against the LA Angels. Scioscia exclaimed, "Where's Sal Varriale?" Anyone in the Team Italy circle, especially Piazza, would know if Varriale was in the W...
Interview with Simone Alberghini – 20 years at ROF!
by Corrina Simone Alberghini will be at ROF in a few weeks performing in "La Gazza Ladra" Earlier this season we spoke with him after a performance of Cenerentola at Washington National Opera! We've been so lucky to enjoy your performances in Pesaro at the Rossini Opera Festival. During the run of Cenerentola you were interviewed by Raiss...
Italian Culture – Opera
Italian opera is a musical art form that had its beginnings in Florence in the late 1500s. It was based on a number of performance genres that preceded it, including Greek drama, poems sung by a solo vocalist with single instrument backing and madrigals (a capella singing by 3-6 harmonizing vocalists). The earliest known opera composition...
New authors of Italian cinema
The Cinema Studies Program and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia present NEW AUTHORS OF ITALIAN CINEMA 29 November - 2 December, 2012 he Cinema Studies Program and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in col...
Echoes of Mulberry Street (The Italian Tin Pan Alley)
Lecture and performance by John La Barbera. A wonderful opportunity to learn about early 20th century Italian Music Publishers in NYC. The first international popular music to emerge in the modern era is the Canzone Napoletana. The success of Neapolitan song reached beyond the borders of Naples and Italy, credited to the wave...
Italian American golf outing is June 8 at Beaver Brook Country Club in Annandale
The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County will hold their 24th Annual Golf Outing on Monday, June 8, at Beaver Brook Country Club at 1 p.m. Cost is $150 which includes greens and cart costs, lunch, hors d'oeuvres, dinner and a chance for door prizes. Call or email Mike DeSapio at mikedesapio@gmail.com or 908-347 1807 to r...
Piazza d'Amore Coming to a Theatre Near You!
Artists, wine tastings, live performances oh my! All this and more will set the scene in the lobby and streets of The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall as it's transformed into an Italian Piazza before each performance of The Taming of the Shrew May 17-June 26. FREE and open the public, Piazza d'Amore will be a fully-operati...
Sal Valentinetti To Perform At Mayo Performing Arts Center
Sal Valentinetti, the 20-something golden-voiced crooner who nearly swept Season 11 of America's Got Talent, comes to Mayo Performing Arts Center on Friday, February 24, 2017 at 8:00pm. Tickets range from $29 to $69. Valentinetti has won legions of fans throughout the Metropolitan area. Known as "Sal the Voice," he follows in the footsteps of...
New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Presents Bergen County Resident With 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award
The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera presented Rita Tonitto of Fort Lee with the organization's highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, at its production of La Gioconda at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey. Tonitto was recognized for 25 years of service and contributions to the organization and opera. ...
New Jersey comedian Mike Marino returns to the Shore to headline at the Borgata
By Whitney Ullman/NJ.com Fans from across the country made their way to Atlantic City to see New Jersey's Bad Boy Mike Marino do his famous comedy routine at the Borgata. All political correctness was thrown out the window, as the sold-out venue was filled with groupies eager to hear Marino's routine which includes references to hit-men an...
Ciao Philadelphia! - Italy in a Day
Date: 5 October 2016. Time: 6:00 pm. Location: Fisher Bennett 401, 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA, 19104. Join us for a screening of Gabriele Salvatores' Italy in a Day (2014), a crowdsourced documentary on how the Italian view themselves, their present worries, and their dreams for the future. - In Italian with presentation and...