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Opera Scenes, featuring talented performers from the School of Music and Musical Theatre programs will be presented by the Student Opera Theatre Association at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Thursday and Friday, March 3 and 4, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, March 5, 2 p.m. Highlight scenes are from: “L’Elisir d’Amore” (“The Elixi...

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What Makes It Italian?" is a music listening and discussion group that meets online on the Zoom platform and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of Underworld Productions. Please email ginacrusc...

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 Anthony Volpe has been turning heads for nearly a decade, dating back to when hopefuls at a development facility in Harrisburg, Pa., would speak in hushed tones about the sure-handed shortstop already fielding recruitment inquiries from Team USA. “Oh my gosh, I thought he was like the best player ever,” said Yankees prospect Beck Way, who at...

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Nearly 20 years in the past, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art led efforts to accumulate an Italian Renaissance roundel that dates again to about 1500. That try failed when the museum was outbid throughout an public sale in 2003. The curator, James David Draper, was upset. He had described the work, a bronze aid attributed to Gian Marco C...

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A new, multi-channel platform for Italian excellence was recently launched in New York. Its goal is to make it easier for Italian businesses to get into and grow in the US market. Piazza Italia's mission is to offer customized strategies for companies, institutions, and consortia by offering a portfolio of solutions and services supported by profes...

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To truly understand Italian wine, you have to understand its integral ties to Italian culture. In Italy, food and wine tell the story of a region’s cultural identity, history, and the character of its people. With my recent seminars on Sicilia (on YouTube if you missed them), and an impending trip to Piedmont with a group of Wine for Normal People...

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If you could describe Salvatore Merante with just one word, what word would that be? Italian, dapper, mustache and sausage are four words that come to mind. Let’s examine why these words will forever be associated with Salvatore Merante, a member of the ISDA Brookline Lodge, who passed away in October 2021 at the age of 90. ITALIAN Sal was born in...

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Attention, Sebastian Maniscalco fans! The comedian is coming to Manhattan, Newark, and Brooklyn in March for his “Nobody Does This” tour. Tickets are on sale now for the following shows: - March 21, 2022 at 7 p.m. at Madison Square Garden, N.Y., N.Y. : Buy tickets here. - March 23, 2022 at 7 p.m. at Prudential Center, Newark, N.J.: Buy tickets here...

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Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the Italian American Diaspora, focusing on timely and varied approaches to criticism and analysis of the field by presenting new perspectives and research on transnational issues. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, assistant professor of Itali...

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The borough can say a simultaneous ‘ciao’ and ‘howdy’ to a new concept coming to Grant City. The former home of The Corner House BBQ at 100 and 102 Lincoln Avenue soon will home to Juicy Lucia and Di Fara Pizzeria. “The collaboration is something that is so humbling that this monster group Di Fara and legacy of pizza man Domenico DeMarco. And when...

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