IT and US: Is your "Girlfriend" still in a coma?
WTI Magazine # 1 2013 Oct,18 Author : Bill Emmott Translation by: That has been the question most frequently asked of me since I, in an Anglo-Italian partnership with the film director Annalisa Piras, first released our documentary film about Italy, Girlfriend in a Coma, in February of this year. I expect i...
A Memorable Messa da Requiem for Giuseppe Verdi's Bicentennial
by Roberto Natalini As Music Director Nicola Luisotti and San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley revealed the day prior to the performance, all three hundred and twenty artists from Teatro San Carlo and the San Francisco Opera would communicate together using only the universal language of music. The long awaited combi...
Classic Italian opera 'Barber of Seville' the original sitcom
by Rebecca Godwin When given the choice between watching an opera and a sitcom, most people would choose the sitcom. But according to Associate Professor and Opera Director in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Robert Swedberg, the upcoming production of "The Barber of Seville" by Gioacchino Rossini and Cesare Sterbini, which Swedbe...
The Magical Ambiance of Italy’s Christmas Markets
Italians in Italy don't like to rush things like in America...savor the day, and holiday...one at a time. Come the 1st of December though, Italians and visitors from throughout Europe will be ready to shop in Italy's traditional Christmas Markets. In Levico Terme, in Valsugana, the Historical Habsburg Park provides the fairytale location for the t...
Our Lady of the Angels chapel a timeless beauty at 100
When Our Lady of the Angels Chapel was built and dedicated in the early 20th century, it was surrounded by the rolling hills and open countryside of a farm that served as a retreat for the members of the Catholic order of the Sulpician Fathers. For years, the chapel was the centerpiece of St. Charles College, a Catholic Seminary that opera...
When in Rome
American food icon Alice Waters is a regular visitor to the Italian capital thanks to her work on the Rome Sustainable Food Project. Here she shares her insider tips with David Prior on where to find the city's best authentic flavours. Legend has it that when Alice Waters started her now iconic Chez Panisse restaurant in California in the...
Time to pick the best cheese at Mutzfest
By Summer Dawn Hortillosa / For The Jersey Journal Who's got the best cheese in town? Find out this weekend at the second annual Hoboken Mutzfest. On Sunday, guests will try mozzarella from local eateries and determine whose "mutz" is top. Competitors include defending champion M & P Biancamano, which won both the people'...
Florence, Rome and Verona temporary hubs for the late-1800s genre
Florence's Palazzo Pitti hosts Impressionists at Palazzo Pitti until January 5th, with 12 Impressionist masterpieces on loan from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Two sections compose the exhibit (one outdoors), while both boast names like Degas and Pisarro, Monet and Cézanne, Guigou and Renoir. Verona, rather, is all about Monet, with the retr...
New Hampshire Club News in Brief
Reprisal Chapter of DAR schedules March meeting The Reprisal Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at the home of Pat McCabe, 118 Lempster St., Lempster. McCabe will present the program, "Continental Congress 101." The public is welcome. Read more Source: http://www.n...
Made in Italy: vino nobile, negli USA per consolidare il mercato
Parte dagli Stati Uniti il primo tour internazionale 2014 del Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Una settimana di appuntamenti e di degustazioni in varie città degli Usa per far conoscere a esperti, opinion leader e operatori del settore le ultime annate in commercio (il Nobile 2011 e la Riserva 2010), le stesse presentate di recente nell'Anteprima del...
Marzo: in rete il nuovo numero di "It@lico"
È in rete sul sito www.ItaliaUSA.com il nuovo numero di "It@lico", periodico diretto a St.Louis da Franco Giannotti, sempre ricco di articoli interessanti e utili informazioni. In prima e seconda pagina, spiega Giannotti, Anna Di Palma Amelung scrive il consueto resoconto dell'ultimo riunione dell'associazione "Italiano per piacere", dove la...
Niaf (National Italian American Foundation) Nomina Lombardia "Regione D'Onore" 2014 - Da Domani In Visita Ufficiale a New York
L'assessore regionale all'Istruzione, Formazione e Lavoro di Regione Lombardia sarà da domani, giovedì 3 aprile, e per due giorni, a New York alla guida della missione istituzionale organizzata dalla Camera di Commercio americana in Italia. L'obiettivo è la promozione di Regione Lombardia in quanto nominata 'Regione d'onore' da parte della Nationa...