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11/3/2015 Start Time: 2:30 PM. Center for Italian Studies - West Campus - Harriman Hall - 100 Nicolls Road - Main Entrance - Stony Brook, NY 11794. Presentation by Fred Kuwornu, Ghanaian/Italian activist-producer-writer-director, who will comment on and screen his documentary, Blaxploitalian 100 years of Blackness in the It...

By Bethany Rickwald The New York City Center Encores! production of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella played the first of its seven scheduled performances last night.   The musical, which follows an Italian-American grape farmer living in Napa, California, and his long-distance love affair with a much younger woman living in San Francisc...

New Rochelle Opera Company ushers in its 29th season with its first production of Gaetano Donizetti's L'ELISIR D'AMORE (The Elixir of Love) from June 19-22, 2014 in the Frank J. Auriana Theatre at the Ursuline School, 1345 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY.   The production will be staged by Company co-founder and artistic director Camille Copp...

Giovedì 22 gennaio, Floriano Pagliara ha realizzato uno dei suoi sogni: all'incontro di boxe tenutosi al Webster Hall, "l'italiano" (così lo chiamano qui a NYC) ha sconfitto Antwan Robertson conquistando così il titolo di campione Wbu.   Con la gioia e l'entusiasmo della vittoria ancora in gola, ha chiesto a Stefania di raggiungerlo sul ring...

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò24 West 12th StreetNew York, NY 10011 OCTOBER 21, 2015 - 06:00 PM With Rapsodia Italiana, pianist Alessandra Garosi returns to Casa Italiana to perform and present music for solo piano written by various female composers active in Italy during the 20th century. The styles of these composers range from post-Romanticism...

di Maurita Cardone  New York sta per aprirsi un intenso maggio di cultura e l'Italia farà la sua parte portando in città una ventata di teatro. Torna infatti per il quarto anno il Festival di teatro italiano In Scena!. Dal 2 al 16 maggio cinque compagnie sfileranno nei teatri e nelle istituzioni dei vari distretti di New York per raccontare l...

Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo, who has earned praise for his elegant and expressive vocalism in performances at the Met and other opera houses around the world, will perform a solo recital on the Met stage on Sunday, March 9 at 4 p.m. He will be joined by pianist Vincent Scalera for the recital, which will feature songs and arias by Bellini, Rossi...

Directed by Dino Risi, Il Sorpasso follows Roberto, a shy law student and Bruno (Vittorio Gassman), a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man during the summer of 1962.   The time they spend together in Rome and Tuscany is a hilarious, but sometimes an emotionally merciless accelerated maturation process. While Bruno's easy going "l'usage d...

By Riccardo Chioni   Due campioni del calcio mondiale del calibro di Beppe Baresi e Youri Djorkaeff hanno richiamato oltre 320 appassionati neroazzurri dell'area metropolitana alla sala ricevimenti The Venetian a Garfield, in occasione della VII edizione del gala dell'Inter Club Facchetti del New Jersey.    L'evento, a cui ha par...

On Sunday, April 21, attend the world premiere of the long-lost music of Alfred Morena Sr. (1893 – 1929) whose piano and violin compositions, along with art songs in Italian by Morena and other composers, was discovered by the composer-musician's son and namesake. Performing the compositions will be violinist Anna Heifetz (with her nine-year-old da...

For the millions of U.S. fans who fell in love with the astonishing talent of IL VOLO following their show stopping PBS Special "Il Volo Takes Flight," or as special guests of Barbra Streisand's fall 2012 tour, the boys will return to North America for a series of 17 concerts. The Live Nation produced tour kicks off August 25th at the Orpheum Theat...

November 14, 7:00 pm — 8:30 pm. Westchester Italian Cultural Center - One Generoso Pope Place - Tuckahoe , NY 10707 United States. Produced by Carlo Magaletti with the assistance and financial support, in part, by the United Pugliesi Federation and the Society of Maria SS del Buoncammino di Altamura.   Premiere scree...