Contributi Italiani in America/ La voce del funky nero
Era il 1969 quando in una anonima sala d'incisione di musica comparve un singolo realizzato da un giovane musicista canadese. Il disco si chiamava "Gina Bold" e l'artista Van Elli. Non ebbe particolarmente fortuna ma bastò a far notare il suo talento tra gli addetti del settore. E non poteva essere altrimenti. Van Elli, alias Gino Vannelli era infa...
Calling Vocalists to Audition for La Traviata, La Bohème at Bergen Performing Arts Center
The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) invites professional, amateur, and retired professional soloists of all vocal categories to audition for roles in the opera company's 2014 productions. The application deadline to audition is December 13, 2013. Artistic Director Lucine Amara, a Met Opera legend, announces solo roles are a...
Andrea Bocelli, Juanes & Philadelphia Orchestra to Perform for Pope Francis in Philadelphia
by Vince Lattanzio Famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, Colombian pop superstar Juanes and the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform for Pope Francis during his visit to Philadelphia in September. The singers and orchestra are the first three music acts to be announced for the Festival of Families taking place on Saturday, September 26 along...
Carlo Grante in a classic music concert
Carlo Grante is an Italian classical pianist. He graduated at the National Academy of St Cecilia in Rome, studied at the University of Miami and at the Juilliard School in New York, moved to London, where he studied intensively with Alice Kezeradze-Pogorelich. He is known as a performer of mainstream classical composers such as Liszt, Moza...
Southern Italian Folk Music and Dance in Philadelphia
Saturday, March 21st (3pm—6pm) Moving Arts of Mt. Airy6819 Greene StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19119 Entrance $15 Through the notes, the rhythms and the steps of Southern Italian folk music and dances you can hear the echoes of an ancient past, made of ground, paganism and superstition. During Pre-Christian Age people used to dance by the...
MEN OF THE CLOTH - Philadelphia Premiere (June 29, 2015) in Philadelphia
June 29, 2015. Monday 7:30 PM - 9:30 PMRitz Bourse - 400 Ranstead Street - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The independently produced documentary film MEN OF THE CLOTH will have its Philadelphia premiere on Monday June 29th at 7:30 PM at the Landmark Ritz at the Bourse. This inspiring portrait of three Italian master tailors had...
Yo movie buffs! Rocky Balboa’s house in South Philadelphia is for sale
PHILADELPHIA — Want to live like Rocky Balboa? The Italian Stallion's house is on the market. The home in South Philadelphia was featured in the 1979 movie "Rocky II." In the sequel to the Oscar-winning smash, the fictional boxer played by Sylvester Stallone buys the house after he loses a bout to Apollo Creed but gains renown for his toughness....
Essential Verdi Week: il Washington Chorus e l’Ambasciata d’Italia in USA celebrano il genio di Giuseppe Verdi
Il Washington Chorus e l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington uniscono le forze per celebrare il genio di Giuseppe Verdi. Al compositore italiano, a 200 anni dalla sua nascita (1813), sarà dedicata un'intera settimana di eventi, la Essential Verdi Week. In programma un concerto di celebri arie verdiane domenica 2 marzo alle ore 17 al prestigioso Kenned...
Veramente magico "Il faluto magico" di Mozart alla Washington National Opera
La prima de "Il Flauto Magico" trasmessa in simulcast nello Stadio di Baseball dei Nationals di Washington ha certamente convertito all'Opera i tanti che per la prima volta hanno potuto godere uno spettacolo in cui la musica ,le scene,i colori,le proiezioni costruivano e narravano la trama fantastica della stupenda fiaba. Dall' ini...
Great Conversations in Music
The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, presents a documentary selection, from the four part television series "Great Conversations in Music", featuring some of the world's most renowned artists in candid and revealing discussions, with the participation of Marta Istomin and Anne McLean (Senior Producer, Libra...
Grandmother of 12 and Cabaret Singer Tonia Tecce Sings the Story of Her Life November 20 & 24 at Curtis Institute of Music's Field Concert Hall
Mother of 6, grandmother of 12, and now cabaret singer, TONIA TECCE sings the story of her life in A COCKEYED OPTIMIST Why We Believe The Songs of Richard Rodgers on Thursday, November 20 and Monday, November 24, both at 7:30PM at Curtis Institute of Music's Field Concert Hall (1726 Locust Street). Tickets at $25 each are available by calling 610-5...
Romeo Castellucci's unsettling 'On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God'
Over the past 15 years or so, visionary director Romeo Castellucci has blossomed into a star of Europe's theater festivals and prestigious institutions with largely plotless, large-scale shows that operate at a dizzyingly high conceptual and technical level, and are so abstract that they become strangely accessible (you can project anything onto th...