Schola Antiqua Chicago - Italian Community of St Louis
Join the Italian Community of St Louis (Comunita' degli Italiani - St Louis) this is Friday, April 26th at 8PM and experience Italian music of the Renaissance performed by the Schola Antiqua Chicago at the majestic Cathedral Basilica of St Louis, 4431 Lindell Boulevard 63108, St. Louis, MO. Musical excerpts will be taken from women composers: Raffa...
SDIFF Celebrates Italian Liberation Day With ‘Rome Open City’
This Thursday the San Diego Italian Film Festival (SDIFF) will showcase the neorealist classic, “Rome Open City” ("Roma città aperta") at the Museum of Photographic Arts in honor of Italian Liberation Day. The neorealist movement began after World War II as Italian filmmakers looked to telling stories of ordinary people struggling to survive in a c...
The Ibla Foundation Presents International Competition Winners At Carnegie Hall
The Ibla Foundation of New York and Dr. Salvatore Moltisanti will present their 28th Annual International Grand Prize Competition Winners in concert on Tuesday, May 7 @ 7 PM at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, 154 West 57th Street in Manhattan. Dr. Moltisanti, recognized as one of the foremost Italian pianists of his generation, presents 2018's...
Lush Abruzzo, an Italian Region Unchanged by Time
The Abruzzo region has produced many well-known Italian Americans, including Dean Martin, Rocky Marciano, Mario Lanza, Bradley Cooper and Ariana Grande. History: Many cities in the Abruzzo date back to the time of the Roman Empire, including Corfinio, Chieti, Atri and Teramo. After the fall of the empire, the region came under the control of severa...
Taste of Tuscany coming to Cranmore
Cranmore has announced the inaugural Cranmore Food and Wine Event, hosted by Chef Vito Marcello with special guest Salvatore Ferragamo, vintner from Il Borro Wines in Tuscany, Italy. The event will be held Saturday, June 22, at the base of Cranmore’s North Slope. The Cranmore Food and Wine Event will feature cooking demonstrations by Marcello and w...
She's back by popular demand: Deana Martin's 'Deana Sings Dino,' this time with a Yankee at the Hilton
Deana Martin, the daughter of entertainment legend Dean Martin — a founding member of the “Rat Pack” whose good looks, charisma and stage presence earned him the nickname “The King of Cool” — is returning to Lorenzo’s Cabaret at the Hilton Garden Inn. And is Staten Island ever lucky! The multi-talented song-stylist, actress, best-selling author a...
A Walk Through the Castello Sestiere in Venice
Castello is the largest of the six sestieri of Venice. Start at Campo Santa Maria Formosa, which takes its name from the Church of Santa Maria Formosa, with two facades (one Renaissance, the other Baroque in style), a Baroque bell tower and several artworks inside, including the St. Barbara polyptych by Palma the Elder, one of the most celebrated w...
Inscena! Italian Festival: “Intorno al mondo in 72 giorni: il Viaggio di Nellie Bly”
“Intorno al mondo in 72 giorni…il Viaggio di Nellie Bly” selezionato per InScena! Italian Festival calcherà il palcoscenico per la prima volta a New York l’8 maggio alla Scuola Guglielmo Marconi, 12 East 96th Street . Lo spettacolo con la traduzione ed adattamento teatrale di Paola Sarcina e Diana Forlani dall’originale inglese Around the world in...
Pesto Alfredo and the Power of Emotional Eating
I fell in love with pasta after reading about an Italian witch. It was 1994, and Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola was hot on the Reading Rainbow circuit. My second-grade teacher invited a guest to read the story, and I listened intently, intrigued by the “grandma witch” with a magic pasta pot that accidentally flooded her town with spaghetti. I don’t r...
Victoria Ibleto, Petaluma native who helped her husband build their Pasta King business, dies at 87
Victoria Ibleto was born in Petaluma in 1931, early on in the Great Depression. She learned the value of hard work while growing up on her family’s vegetable ranch, and became an integral and beloved behind-the-scenes force in local businesses that introduced Sonoma County to the splendors of a plate of pasta half in red sauce, half in green. The f...
Soverato, Calabria
Soverato is a small comune and town located in the Calabria region of Italy in the province of Catanzaro. The town is spread over a small area of 7.7 sq km and has a population of close to 9800. The town is located on the Ionian Sea and is surrounded by several beautiful villages and white sand beaches along the coast. The economy of the town is ba...
Artist Of The Week: Riccardo Frizza
Riccardo Frizza is one of today’s leading conductors specializing in the Italian repertoire and bringing a fresh and unique approach to the Bel Canto style. Throughout the past years he has reinvigorated the repertory, finding new critical editions and performing complete versions without the standard cuts. He has also performed rarely performed wo...