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Boston's spirited Italian community began as the city attracted a steady stream of Italian immigrants in the late 1860s. By 1876, the population grew large enough for them to establish their own Italian Catholic Church, St. Leonard's, which still stands today on Hanover Street. The population stood at around 1,200 people in 1880, growing to over 25...

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The Galata Museo del Mare in Genoa presents from March 14 to April 14, 2024, Giovanni Cerri's exhibition "L'Italia che partiva. Via mare verso l'America," bringing attention back to one of the most pregnant social and cultural phenomena of Italian history, which saw between 1876 and 1925 more than six million Italians leave their country to reach t...

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Giuliano Montaldo, the prolific Italian director, actor and film industry executive, whose works comprise powerful political drama “Sacco and Vanzetti” about the Massachusetts trial and execution in 1927 of accused Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, has died at his home in Rome. He was 93. His death was announced Wednesday by...

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Over the past month, the war has been particularly harsh in the eastern territory of Ukraine. Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group have begun claiming on Telegram every little bit of conquered land, including abandoned and destroyed villages, including one that in Bakhmut province we discovered was called Sakko i Vantsetti in homage to the two...

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A premiere is always a gift to the attending public because of its novelty, regardless of the content and validity of the performance, but in the case of After Dinner Opera Company’s “Sacco and Vanzetti” an extra layer of glamour and interest was added, both because of the composers and the topic of the opera. Yes, it’s composers and not composer,...

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After Dinner Opera Company presents the New York and Orchestral staged premiere of Sacco and Vanzetti, begun by Marc Blitzstein, completed & conducted by Leonard Lehrma, and directed by Benjamin Spierman. Playing Saturday, Sept 10, 2022 at 7 pm, and Sunday Sept 11, 2022 at 3 pm at Lehman College Studio Theatre, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, The...

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Thursday June 9 - 6:00pm. Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) - 421 Broome Street, 4th floor, Manhattan, NY. Admission: $10/ $5 CIMA Members and Students. Contact: 646-370-3596. https://www.italianmodernart.org/ A screening of Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco e Vanzetti surrounded by works of Italian Modern art! The tenth and final film in our Staging In...

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Loyola University Italian American Studies and The Italian American Theatre of Chicago will present a performance of “A Long Shadow” at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 10 at the Loyola University Lake Shore Campus. The staged reading of August Nigro’s play about the last day in the lives of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will be presented on the fourth flo...

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On May 21, 1921, the infamous trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti commenced at the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham. The two were accused of murdering a payroll clerk and his guard the previous year; on July 14, 1921, both men were convicted and in August of 1927 were executed. They were Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists. The trial...

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It’s been more than 60 years since Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed Yet, when Gov. Michael Dukakis pardoned them in 1977 — with the words, “ any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti” — most Italian Americans felt a sense of gratitude and relief. Indeed, the Sacco Vanz...

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