Ready for some bocce
By Vince Peluso When Mark Andrews father, Warren Andrews, passed away, his son was looking for a way to help honor his father's legacy. Warren was the creator the Ashtabula Touchdown Club which honors past and present high school football players and awards scholarships to the best players in the county. Looking to help fund those scholarshi...
Squadra di Como rappresenterà l’Italia al mondiale under16 di Chicago
Centosessanta squadre, duemilacinquecento atleti, cinquemila spettatori già prenotati, sponsor come Coca Cola e un solo team a rappresentare l'Italia. La squadra del Collegio Gallio di Como parte per Chicago, pronto a tenere alto il nome del Bel Paese nella Kics Cup, torneo internazionale di calcio giovanile che si svolgerà nella città dell'Illinoi...
Chicago Opera Theater tackles an early Verdi rarity
With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera driving the Giuseppe Verdi bicentennial bandwagon, there nevertheless is room for other local organizations to climb on board. Chicago Opera Theater is doing so, big time, this weekend, when it dusts off an early work by the Italian master the city has never heard before. Indeed, "Giovann...
Cultural Series: O Solo Piano!: Italian Piano Masterworks in Mount Prospect
October 29, 2015 - Thursday 1:00 PM - Mount Prospect Public Library - 10 South Emerson Street - Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056. Pianist Chuck Billington will take you on a musical journey through Italian history and culture. He'll start with 17th- and 18th-century Italian keyboard works, go into a barcarolle, or a Venetian...
Giuseppe Verdi, Giovanna D'Arco
September 15, 2013 - Chicago, Lyric Opera Theater, Italian Cultural Institute On the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Chicago Opera Theater presents Giovanna d'Arco (1845). It is a bold and vivid portrayal of the iconic Joan of Arc, a woman sacrificing everything in fighting for her beliefs and her...
Alessandro Deljavan Recital
Wednesday, 30 Sep 2015 – 7:30 PMThursday, 01 Oct 2015 – 7:30 PMVenue: PianoForte Studios, 1335 S. Michigan Ave. Born of an Italian mother and Persian father, Alessandro Deljavan began learning to play piano before the age of two and gave his first performances at age three. He has since performed around the world including in Austria, Belgium...
Survivor of Andrea Doria tells tale, solves mystery
by Susan Bromley Pierette Simpson was terrified to fly on an airplane to America when she was a child. So instead, she sailed on a ship that sank. She survived and tells the tale, as well as solves a cold case, in the new documentary, "Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?" which has its world premiere at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 at the D...
After volatility of Nebraska, Pelini finds comfort at home
by Ralph D. Russo The heroes of northeast Ohio cover the walls at the most popular Italian restaurant in Bo Pelini's hometown. Bernie Kosar's No. 19 Cleveland Browns jersey next to the door that leads to the kitchen. The photograph behind the bar of Ron Jaworski, the former Youngstown State quarterback who took the Philadelphia Eagles...
Roselle umpire Tony Randazzo named to World Series crew
Lake Park High School grad Tony Randazzo, who has spent 17 years as an umpire in Major League Baseball, will be part of the officiating crew for the World Series with the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs. Veteran umpire John Hirschbeck will be the crew chief for the series, according to a report by mlb.com. The rest of the crew includes...
2015 Dean Martin Festival – Steubenville, OH
Dean Martin was a beloved American entertainer who was so filled with charisma and an incredible stage presence that he was nicknamed, "The King of Cool." He was born in 1917 in Steubenville, OH and actually started out with a passion for boxing. He gave that up though and started singing with local bands but it wasn't until he teamed up with comed...
Muti conducts Verdi and Brahms
September 19, 2013 - Chicago Symphony Center - Concert starts at 8.00pm Music Director Riccardo Muti leads Giuseppe Verdi's powerful ballet from Macbeth in honor of the opera composer's bicentennial and rounds the concert off with the sunniest of Brahms's symphonies, which opens with horns rising like the dawn over brooding lower st...
Italian burlesque opera to sound off on issues of self-discovery at Ohio State
Gender identity, self-discovery, love and family relationships are all major themes explored in "Operetta Burlesque," an Italian production coming to Ohio State as its first performance in an English-speaking country. "We're bringing the world to OSU," said Lesley Ferris, interim chair of the Department of Theatre. Written and directed by...