La Befana and Epiphany in Italy
By Martha Bakerjian The Feast of the Epiphany, celebrated January 6 with a national holiday in Italy, and the tradition of La Befana are a big part of Italian Christmas celebrations. Epiphany commemorates the 12th day of Christmas when the three Wise Men arrived at the manger bearing gifts for Baby Jesus. The traditional Christmas holiday...
Guggenheim Is to Show Rare Murals by a Futurist
As a capstone to its coming show "Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe," the Guggenheim Museum has managed a rare coup: securing the first loan of five major Futurist murals from the central post office in Palermo, Sicily, where they have hung since being commissioned for the space in the 1930s. These rarely seen murals...
"Nonna Lidia" intrattiene 300 "nipotini" delle elementari che studiano l'italiano in una scuola del Bronx
By Riccardo Chioni L'hanno accolta come si addice ad una superstar e come benvenuto hanno intonato l'Inno di Mameli 300 studenti della St. Raymond Elementary School nel Bronx che studiano italiano, ai quali ieri ha fatto visita la vincitrice di premi Emmy, autrice, ristoratrice e imprenditrice Lidia Bastianich. Nell'auditorium della scuola situat...
"Visit To Relatives": lo spettacolo di Aldo Nicolaj all’Italian American Museum
"Visit To Relatives": è lo spettacolo di Aldo Nicolaj che sarà presentato il 5 marzo alle 18.30 all'Italian American Museum, New York. La pièce, presentata da ItalyTheater e diretta da Vittorio Capotorto, racconta di un'esperienza umana ricca e collettiva dove lo spazio e i personaggi riflettono sul mondo che li circonda. Attraverso un per...
Mike Piazza with New York Mets as spring training instructor
Mike Piazza is back with the New York Mets, working as a spring training instructor. "This is fun for me," the 12-time All-Star said Monday. "I'm blessed to have these opportunities to do this on a part-time basis. I don't know what the future holds; I'm just enjoying the day. It's fun to be back in uniform and be around the clubhouse...
Houston Symphony to perform Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky at SHSU
The Houston Symphony orchestra spreads the classic sounds of Italy and Russia wherever it goes, and it plans to continue its 2014-15 season Tuesday with a performance at Sam Houston State University's Gaertner Performing Arts Center. Concertmaster and Sugar Land native Frank Huang will lead the symphony in Antonio Vivaldi's most popular piece, "Th...
AP® Summer Institute a Perugia
Quest'anno, dal 14 al 26 luglio 2014, l'Università per Stranieri di Perugia organizza l' AP® Summer Institute preso la propria sede di Perugia. L'APSI è l'unico Summer Insititute "endorsed" dal College Board. Sebbene principalmente centrato sull'AP, è comunque rivolto a tutti gli insegnanti di Italiano nelle scuole e nelle...
Ciccarelli appointed dean of Hutton Honors College at IU Bloomington
Andrea Ciccarelli has been named dean of the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University Bloomington. He is professor of Italian and chair of the Department of French and Italian in the College of Arts and Sciences. IU Bloomington Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel announced the appointment today. It will take effect July 1,...
Italian traditions: The Feast of the Pardon, Ortona
WTI Magazine #29 2014 May, 8Author : folclore.it Translation by: One of the most beautiful celebrations of Ortona, in the Abruzzo coast, is the Feast of the Pardon of St. Thomas the Apostle, which takes place on the first Sunday in May.
IT and US: Why Naples must go New Orleans, if we want Italian Theater to be understood in NYC!
WTI Magazine #31 2014 May, 22Author : Laurence Cantor Translation by: In July, 2013, Vittorio Capotorto, Founder and Artistic Director of italytheater and its parent organization, Teatromania, asked me to write a script that would best help a wide American audience to get to know the work of the great Italian playwright, actor and di...
American Dream or Italian Courage?
by Valeria Fanelli Barbara Cattabriga lived in Italy her entire life. She traveled the word, but didn't experience a life abroad. Not until July 2012. It was an ordinary day in Modena, when she received the news that her husband Roberto Rossi was offered a job position in the U.S. and the family would have moved to Chicago, for a...
Italian paradise sprouts up in Tacoma
From the street, Florence Welborn's North Slope garden looks like most other Northwest gardens: tall maples and conifers, some rhododendrons. But peer over the edge of the wall and you're in another place — Italy, to be precise. Because Welborn has recreated the formal parterres, statuary and gravel walks of the place she loves to visit again and a...