Boheme Opera NJ Presents Verdi Tragedy “Il Trovatore”
Boheme Opera NJ turned to a story of love, hate, and revenge for this year’s presentation of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore this past weekend at Kendall Main Stage Theater at The College of New Jersey. With a libretto by Italian playwright Salvatore Cammarano, who based his texts on a play by Spanish dramatist Antonio García Gutiérrez (which in turn...
Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw
Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized on April 27. “St. Francis, St. Clare, of course, important saints who marked an epoch – but that’s far removed from t...
Italian pastry & coffee chain opening first Central Ohio location
Rumor has it (A.K.A, TikTok) that if you order a cappuccino in Italy past 11 a.m., the Italian baristas and servers will poke fun at you (that has never actually happened to me in my travels to Italy, and I order a cappuccino at dinner when I’m there, by the way). Fortunately, that’s not the case of Central Ohio’s first Qargo Coffee location, where...
Staten Island daughter pens book crediting Antonio Meucci as true inventor of the telephone | Inside Out
Author Ella Schwartz — who has an inquisitive mind and pens fiction and non-fiction books for young readers — is in the habit of always asking questions and trying to learn new things. And the books she writes for kids — middle grade and young adult readers— are just as curious as she is. After conducting extensive research about scientists and inv...
‘The Resurrection Of The Christ:’ Mel Gibson To Begin Shooting Sequel This Summer, Says Rome’s Cinecittà Studios Boss
Manuela Cacciamani, CEO of Rome’s historic Cinecittà Studios, has said Mel Gibson plans to begin production on The Resurrection Of The Christ at the studio in August. Cacciamani let news of the production start date slip during an interview with Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. “I can confirm that the next film directed by Mel Gibson, produced b...
“Botticelli’s Primavera” — One of the Great Picture-Puzzles of the Italian Renaissance - Film Review
The sixty-minute film, Botticelli’s Primavera (now available on Ideas Roadshow’s App for TV, tablet & phone and VOD and Amazon Prime) opens like a ceremonial lecture on the occasion of an exhibition opening or the start of an academic symposium: a familiar set piece in museums and art historical institutions, delivered by a well-known expert on a m...
Rome, the Temple of Vibia Sabina and Hadrian will welcome the public with a humanoid robot
Italy’s public administration takes a step forward in the field of innovation with the introduction of ADRIANO, the first employee robot in a public agency. The project, entirely Italian, was developed thanks to the collaboration between four national excellences in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, involving a team of more than 3...
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni rejects ‘childish’ choice between Trump and Europe
Giorgia Meloni has dismissed the idea that Italy will have to choose sides between the US and Europe as “childish” and “superficial”, insisting she would do whatever is necessary to defend her country’s interests. The Italian prime minister said it was “in the interests of everyone” to overcome severe strains in the transatlantic relationship, desc...
The Italian origins of Pesce d’Aprile (April Fool’s Day)
April 1st is a special day in many countries around the world, where people enjoy playing pranks and tricking each other—an opportunity to fool the more gullible into believing the most outlandish things. This tradition in Italy is known as "Pesce d'Aprile" because the fish (pesce) is an animal that easily bites the hook: those who fall for a prank...
With Eurostat data, Italy's economy defies negative mainstream narrative
With the publication of detailed macroeconomic and demographic data for 2024 by Eurostat, it is clear that the narrative of Italy being in severe difficulty does not match the reality. Looking at the last five years (2020-2024) in Europe, Spain leads Italy in total GDP growth compared to 2019, but not by much (+6.9% versus 5.6%), while the countrie...
Happy 50th birthday to Fantozzi, an absolute masterpiece of Italian cinema
Today we celebrate a “splendid” fifty-year-old: in October 1975, a film hit Italian theaters that would soon become a true cult classic—Fantozzi, directed by Luciano Salce and starring Genoese comedian Paolo Villaggio, the creator of the character who, before hitting the big screen, had already been brought to life on television and in a series of...
Italy at Miami Film Festival. Premiere screenings and first North American showing of “Diamonds”, introduced by the director Ferzan Özpetek
From April 03 2025 To April 13 2025. Coral Gables Art Cinema + other movie theatres in Miami. The Miami Film Festival, now in its 42nd edition, presents a rich program of U.S. and international movies. Among the festival sections for the first time, through a collaboration between the Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute in Miami, a Spotligh...
