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The Vermont Italian Opera Intensive is a new two-week program where singers come to study, learn, and sing Italian opera. Modeled after the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera (EPCASO) program in Oderzo, Italy, this program offers coaching in Italian opera style, Italian vocal technique instruction, and Italian language classes. The pr...

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Alessandra Rellini always wanted to raise her own animals. So when this Italian native was recruited by the University of Vermont to teach in the Psychology Department, she saw an opportunity to pursue her farming dream in the Green Mountain State. “The opportunity allowed me to cultivate the idea of raising my own animals and doing my own butcheri...

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Officials in a Vermont town have approved a public vote on celebrating Indigenous People's Day, instead of Columbus Day. The Valley News reports Hartford's Selectboard unanimously approved the vote, scheduled for Town Meeting Day in March 2018. Selectboard members were divided on the issue during a meeting last week, with one questioning the his...

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Trattoria Delia brought something new to Burlington 24 years ago: Italian food, which is to say food that aspired to be as authentically Italian as possible. That included menu items that surprised Vermonters, said Tom Delia, who opened the restaurant with his wife, Lori. “People weren’t ready for squid and pasta 24 years ago,” he said. The menu al...

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The owners of Pizzeria Verita on in Burlington plan to buy two adjacent restaurants on St. Paul Street, including the venerable Italian eatery Trattoria Delia, which has been in business for 24 years. The deal is expected to be completed next Monday, Verita co-owner Leslie McCrorey Wells told the Burlington Free Press. The deal was first reported b...

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Steven Lecchi, chef/owner of Ornella’s Northern Italian Restaurant — which opened on Brooklyn Street in Morrisville two weeks ago — has an impressive resume. In 1993, Lecchi graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. After that, he was the private chef for Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony for four years, spent years cooking...

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Two great appointments for DOP Riviera Ligure extra virgin olive oil: from the heart of Europe to the US East Coast. The DOP Riviera Ligure olive oil is participating at the International Tourism Exchange in Berlin (ITB Berlin), scheduled March 8th to 12th. Liguria region is already scheduled on March 7th, within the "I love Italia” initiative, the...

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Apply now for The Premio Famiglia Fede Scholarship for Graduate study in Italian—A scholarship to support graduate students pursuing an MA in Italian at the Middlebury Language Schools and the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School Abroad in Florence, Italy.   This scholarship is for students who have already embarked on a business career path and/or...

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Now Accepting Applications for the Summer 2015 Middlebury Language Schools Italian Immersion Program. Full Scholarships Available for Intensive Language Study at the Middlebury Summer Language Schools– The Kathryn Davis Fellows for Peace will cover the cost of one summer of language study (tuition, room, and board)—from the beginner to graduat...

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Screenwriter John Fusco's surname is an anagram of "focus" — an apt coincidence for someone who's been in the movie business for more than 30 years.   Back in the 1980s, while still a New York University screenwriting student, Fusco twice won the now-defunct FOCUS (Films of College and University Students) Award. At the 1984 ceremony, where...

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