Italian Film Festival returns to IUPUI for fifth year
The Italian Film Festival returns to Indianapolis for a fifth year on April 1 with a slate of eight films running through April 16. Indianapolis is one of 13 cities around the nation hosting the Italian Film Festival USA. The festival is sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the Department of World Langua...
Songs from a Lost World of Italian Jewish Composers
The Department of Music of Wayne State University, with the enthusiastic support of the Italian Program and the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, is proud to present a fascinating historical and musical event to commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It will take place on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 from 7:30 to 9:00 PM in the...
The “Dawn” of Tony Orlando
by Ron Onesti Growing up in the dawn" of the variety show concept, one of my favorites had to be The Sonny & Cher Show. Each week, watching the little Italian guy get picked on by the tall beauty, well, really hit home for me for obvious reasons. When the show went on summer hiatus in 1974, its replacement starred a guy who I was excit...
An Exceptional Partnership: Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
by Dennis Polkow It is Sunday in Chicago, a day off for Riccardo Muti. Nonetheless, there is a busy day ahead. Muti will have a piano rehearsal with four singers from Lyric Opera of Chicago who will accompany him and a brass quintet of Chicago Symphony Orchestra players to a juvenile detention center later in the day to give a concert, "b...
Women’s Italian Open
2013 Women's Italian OpenLoretta BatesBrianne CanovaJune 3, 2013 Information on The 22nd Women's Italian Open for 2013 The 22nd annual Women's Italian Open will be held at The Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Club on Monday, June 3rd, with an 8am shotgun start. Lunch immediately following golf, in the club house.
Comic Jimmy Carrane
At a time when too many comics try to wow an audience through rapid-fire delivery, Chicago comic Jimmy Carrane has honed the slow burn, winning audiences with sly subtlety, and leaving them in stitches. Then again, Carrane had to figure something out as a kid. The son of a Calabrese father and a half-Calabrese, half-Irish mother, Carrane was one o...
TONY N' TINA'S WEDDING Extends Through Spring in the Windy City
Presented by the original New York producers, in conjunction with Chicago Theater Works, one of Chicago's longest running, smash hit shows, Tony n' Tina's Wedding, has been extended due to popular demand and will run through the end of April 2017. Tony n' Tina's Wedding played an incredible 16 years in Chicago, and, during that time, entertained m...
Italian Film Festival of Chicago
Come spend an evening in Italy! Enjoy the local premieres of four recent, critically-acclaimed Italian films at the 2013 Italian Film Festival USA of Chicago. All films shown in Italian with English subtitles at the Chandelier Room of the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia. Sponsored by Casa Italia and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago....
Soprano Donata D’Annunzio Lombardi Makes Triumphant Return to Detroit Opera House
By Sandra Tornberg Soprano Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi returned to Detroit to sing the role ofCio-Cio-San in the Michigan Opera Theatre's fabulous production of "Madame Butterfly" on November 21 and 23. Ms. D'Annunzio Lombardi gave a brilliant performance as the trusting and faithful fifteen-year-old former geisha who marries the shallow U....
Save the Date: I Vitelloni on Feb. 17
The Italian Cultural institute presents the screening of Federico Fellini's modern fairy tale I Vitelloni, on Tuesday, Feb. 17th at 6p.m. This masterpiece of Italian cinematography tells the story of five young men who live in a small seaside town, that could be Rimini. Their stories are simple, based on the few possibilities offered by such a...
Lena Prima pays tribute to father at Italian Fest
by Mitch Hotts Growing up in Las Vegas as the youngest daughter of legendary entertainer Louis Prima, Lena Prima often found herself as the target of derisive comments from jealous schoolmates, but that changed when she moved to New Orleans. "When we were young, the kids would make fun of us — 'You think your dad's so great' and a...
Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday: 100 things about the life and times of an American legend
A legend, a life, a complex man and The Voice of the 20th Century. Frank Sinatra, who would've been 100 this year, was a man of contradiction. Small and slight, he towered over popular culture. He projected strength and confidence, despite suffering from depression throughout his adult life. "We'll never see anyone like that again" – we of...