‘I Pagliacci’ coming to Clinton April 20-21
Opera Theater of Connecticut presents two performances of the powerful opera “I Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Performances will be held April 20-21 at Andrews Memorial Town Hall in Clinton. A mainstay of the dynamic “verismo” repertoire, this commanding work contains pieces such as the memorable Bell Chorus, the melodic Intermezzo, and, of cou...
Milford family hosts Italian student
The Leitz family from rural Milford — Rhonda and Charles — are hosting a foreign exchange student this school semester. Lorenzo Argentero is 17 and from Sardinia, Italy, and had never seen snow before, and it’s his first time out of Europe. He arrived in a snowstorm Dec. 29, 2017, after his flight from Chicago to Indianapolis had been delayed sever...
Habitat's annual Café Italia set for April 21
Habitat for Humanity of Waldo County will once again transform the Shrine Club on Northport Avenue into an Italian bistro Saturday, April 21, for an evening of dining, games, a wine auction, and five drawings to win baskets of delights from area businesses. Event sponsors are Jam Brook Builders and Penobscot Bay Dentistry. The event begins at 5 p.m...
Sicilian Folk Dance Workshop With Michela Musolino
When: Saturday, April 28th (1:00PM–2:30pm) - Where: The Rhody Center for World Music and Dance, 410 Tiogue Avenue, Coventry, Rhode Island 02816 Michela Musolino of Terra Sangue Mare is offering a workshop on Sicilian folk dances. To open up the class, Musolino will share with students a brief history of the dances and run through a warm-up with the...
Free Yale Italian Film Festival Shows Five Films Over Four Days
The 13th annual Yale Festival of New Italian Cinema runs April 19 to 22 at Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. in New Haven, showing a slate of five films. The festival is presented by the Italian Language and Literature Department, but all screenings are free and open to the public. The series opens April 19 at 7:30 p.m. with “Love and Bullets,...
Opera Theater of Connecticut readies ‘I Pagliacci’ in Clinton
Opera in Clinton always catches our eye somehow. It’s not New York, it’s not some metropolitan center and yet here it is, at Opera Theater of Connecticut’s MainStage at the Andrews Memorial Theater in the town hall complex. Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21 will bring a famous clown to town hall in the opera “I Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncaval...
Ansonia High School principal has ties to Bridgeport, Norwalk
It’s not yet July but Paul Giansanti is ready to go to work. “"I'd like to start coming in on Saturdays and opening up the school for meetings with the community," Giansanti said. “I’d like to come in and be a shadow at least one day.” On Wednesday night Giansanti, a 34-year-old Oxford resident, who taught high school history in Bridgeport and Norw...
Duello ai fornelli - Pasta Cacio e Pepe Challenge
Fri, April 20, 2018. 6:30 PM – 11:30 PM EDT. LOCATION: Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts - 41 Hampshire Street - Cambridge, MA 02139. Welcome to the Duello ai fornelli - Pasta Cacio e Pepe Challenge. Register here The four Italian Students Societies (BU, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern) of the Great Boston Area, with the precious help of the Emma...
Happy 90th birthday to Sett Firmani
Dozens of people circled the tables and lined the counters of Don's Diner Monday morning, and nearly every one was a friend of Sett Firmani. The lifelong Leominster resident celebrated his 90th birthday this week with a breakfast that brought together many of the people he's worked alongside during his long career as a community volunteer. For deca...
Italy’s 2018 Election – Immediate Impact and Future Prognosis
April 13, 2018. 4:15pm - 6:00pm. Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way - Cambridge, MA 02138. Italians went to the polls on March 4, 2018, to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. The election took place under a new electoral system, and no party or coalition won a majority of seats. This r...
Italians upon the pages of Cape Cod history
I have heard it said that of the five senses the sense of smell can bring to the surface memories long buried away beneath the cobwebs of years and decades. An aroma can, in an instant, search throughout the innumerable files of all the memories held in our subconscious to locate a precise memory, dust it off, and present it to our conscious mind,...
Salem limoncello maker branches out with new line of Italian margaritas
Family backyard get-togethers over drinks inspired the launch of Fabrizia Spirits' Italian Margaritas. Phil Mastrioanni credits his sister's "Jenna-Ritas" - a combination of lemonade, tequila and Fabrizia's own limoncello - for inspiring the company's margaritas, which debuted in 2015."What she made is the same recipe," he said last week. "We didn'...