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Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto, and Gianluca Ginoble continue to captivate audiences worldwide with a series of prestigious live performances, highlighting the trio’s enduring global success. Tickets will go on sale from November 22. Members of the Il Volo Official Fan Club will be able to purchase tickets IN ADVANCE from November 20. The States w...

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Daniele Rustioni will become just the third principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in its nearly century-and-a-half history, leading at least two productions each season starting in 2025-26 as a No. 2 to music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Rustioni agreed to a three-year term, the company announced Wednesday. He is to helm revivals of...

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Known as the queen of Italian pop, Mina has sold over 150 million records worldwide and remains a music legend who’s been captivating fans since the ’60s. Her new album, Gassa d’Amante, drops on November 22, and its title — named after an essential sailing knot — represents the solid and yet easily untangled nature of love. Just like the knot, the...

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November 2024 Welcome to Boston, Capital of Italian Creativity in the World for 2024  

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Among the most fascinating American cities to host and represent the relationship between Italy and the United States, certainly Boston, Massachusetts, New England is very important. Here past and future, tradition and innovation meet, and Italian creativity is well represented by many researchers and innovators. This year Boston has one more reaso...

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Humanities West and the Italian Cultural Institute San Francisco celebrate the life and art of Giacomo Puccini (December 22, 1858, to November 29, 1924) on the 100th anniversary of his death. His operas La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are among the most beloved and most often-recorded operas of all time. His arias are famous for bot...

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Friday November 22, 2024 | 8:00 pm. The Broad Stage, Santa Monica, California. Tickets here. Los Angeles will continue the celebrations of Sophia Loren's 90th birthday with a not to be missed musical extravaganza featuring tenor Pasquale Esposito accompanied by the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra conducted by Maestro Carlo Ponti.  The program will p...

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What are we to make of the life, music and spiritual beliefs of Giacomo Puccini, the composer said to be responsible for fully one quarter of all opera performances in the United States today? Puccini, who died a century ago on Nov. 29, 1924, has been called the world’s most popular songwriter, notwithstanding his modern heirs and successors, and w...

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The long awaited documentary about the coolest, hippest, Radio Hall of Famer – the late, great Dick Biondi – will receive a special viewing Thursday, Nov. 14. The film screening and fundraiser starts at 6 p.m. at the Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St., Chicago. Proceeds from the screening will go toward putting the final touches on the film bef...

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Best known for their haunting '70s soundtracks used in the films of gory giallo director Dario Argento, Italian progressive-rock outfit Claudio Simonetti's Goblin plays a career-spanning selection of horror movie themes when its current tour comes to the Regency Ballroom Wednesday night. Initially working under the monikers Oliver and Cherry Five a...

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