A new staging of the opera L’incoronazione di Poppea, or The Coronation of Poppea, is set to debut this weekend at the Anderson Center’s Chamber Hall. Leading the Binghamton University production are music director Julius Abrahams and stage director David Carl Toulson ’97. Based loosely on the life of Emperor Nero (referred to as Emperor Nerone in...
READ MOREA new Italian restaurant will open on the Upper West Side in the coming months from a restaurateur who has already had some serious success in the neighborhood. Sempre Oggi will open at 164-166 W. 75th St. (off Amsterdam) by the end of the summer. It will be an "aggressively seasonal, vegetable forward, modern Italian restaurant," according to i...
READ MOREThe Stony Brook University Center for Italian Studies has announced that the 17th annual Robert D. Cess Concorso d’Eleganza Annual Celebration of Italian Vehicle Excellence and Beauty will be held on Sunday, September 10, 2023. The show, which is free and open to the public, is extremely popular among auto enthusiasts and features examples of “art...
READ MOREMagazzino Italian Art is pleased to announce a new slate of programs for the upcoming year. The calendar will highlight a program series curated by Ilaria Conti on diversity in art and culture across Italy and the US, a lecture series on new scholarship in the study of the Arte Povera movement curated by Roberta Minnucci, Magazzino Italian Art 2022...
READ MOREIt’s a bit modern. It’s a little bit farm. But most of all, it’s authentic. That’s how restaurateur John Tunney III describes his new venture The Farm Italy, a new Italian restaurant that recently opened in Huntington Village. “We wanted to start it with this kind of homey feeling,” Tunney said. “It’s a comfortable environment and really authentic....
READ MOREA million meals and more than two decades later, Jonathan Benno can still recall sitting at a picnic table, by the side of a busy road in Bangkok at 2 a.m. with a small group of renowned chefs, all from Michelin-starred restaurants like The French Laundry and Protégé. But the former Lincoln Ristorante executive chef, now the culinary director for A...
READ MORECountless times I have found myself in an airport lounge reading something while I wait to board my next flight. And to this day, I still vividly remember that incredibly humid evening and the impressive not-so-bad espresso at Changi airport in Singapore. As an Italian man passionate about the fine art of tailoring, it is not infrequent for me to c...
READ MORETorrisi Bar & Restaurant, with its Italian-American ethos and with its odes to Chinatown, Jewish delis and the Jamaican patties served in slice shops, might be the most New York City restaurant that has ever existed. The Mulberry Street spot is clearly a magnificent and jubilant celebration of the city’s rich and diverse food history. But it’s also...
READ MOREA new City Council caucus announced Thursday will bring a bit more amore to the five boroughs. The new bipartisan Italian Caucus will seek to provide a voice for the city’s Italian community while promoting the history, culture and contributions of New Yorkers of Italian descent. City Councilman David Carr (R-Mid-Island), who is of half Italian he...
READ MOREThe Italian Trade Agency (ITA) will extend its sponsorship of a curated selection of some of Italy’s very best womenswear and women’s accessories designers at the semi-annual Chicago trade show, February 21-23 at The Jacob K. Javits Center in NYC. This season ITA will sponsor 70+ Italian brands at Coterie, positioned together on the show floor in o...
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