Teatro alla Scala's 2023-2024 season and new projects unveiled in New York and Washington
Washington DC and New York were the two stops in the U.S. in the series of international presentations of Teatro alla Scala's 2023-2024 Season-which will open on Dec. 7 with Verdi's Don Carlo conducted by Riccardo Chailly and directed by Lluís Pasqual, LaScala.tv's 2023-2024 programming, and the newly established "Teatro alla Scala Association of A...
John Vecchio Tells The Story Of Mariano Lucca And Columbus Day
This week’s guest, John Vecchio, is Executive Director Emeritus of the Centro Culturale Italiano di Buffalo. He starts by telling us about this center and what it took to create it during Covid. In the show’s second half, Vecchio tells the origin story of Columbus Day and the irony of President Harrison’s attempt to use it to apologize to Italian-A...
Prestigious Award to Simona Rodano for Contributions to Italian Heritage and Culture In Queens, New York
On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 in a highly anticipated ceremony, award winning artist and producer Simona Rodano was set to be honored with a prestigious award from the esteemed Comm. Joseph Sciame, a prominent member of the St. John's Preparatory School Board, as well as the President and Chair of the Italian Heritage Culture Month Committee in Ne...
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church began as a church of immigrants | Then and Now
The carnival at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel R.C. Church, West Brighton, was a local highlight at the end of every summer in my youth. That ended after a fire brought down the church on Dec. 8, 1966. According to the church website, in 1913, Father Campbell and Father Poole decided there was a need for another parish. Father Louis Riccio, then an assista...
New York Solo Andata (New York One Way) at Casa Belvedere
11/02 Thursday 7:00 pm (doors open 6:30 pmCasa Belvedere - 79 Howard Ave, Staten Island, NY. Registration is required! Admission is Free • Donations Welcome & Appreciated. Join us for a special docufilm screening: New York Solo Andata (New York One Way). Featuring an introduction and Q&A session with main actor and director Davide Ippolito. Present...
Cremini’s: The little Brooklyn restaurant that could
If Cremini’s Aperitivo & Kitchen were an American folktale, it would be called “The Little Restaurant That Could.” Opened by newlyweds from Le Marche, first-time restaurateurs and newbies to New York, on the dawn of the pandemic, they have managed to thrive through creativity, hustle and passion. Perhaps even more impressive is that the couple, dev...
Osteria 57 is Serving the Most Innovative and Delicious Italian Food in New York
Located at 57 West 10th Street in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Osteria 57 is a neighborhood gem. Opened since September 2017, the intimate restaurant is meat and poultry free, but offers authentic Italian cuisine that uniquely combines traditional hearty dishes with handmade pasta, delectable fish and garden-grown vegetables, resulting in the mos...
IAP298: cars, culture, and camaraderie at “Casa”- a visit to the Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere
We’re keeping the Italian American Heritage Month party going with a visit to one of our favorite Italian American hangouts, a place that lives up to its cozy name, Staten Island, NY’s stunning Italian Cultural Center at Casa Belvedere. The “House with the Beautiful View” was the brainchild of our friend Gina Biancardi, an Italian American with an...
NOIAW Gathers Around the Table To Celebrate “HER Story”
On Wednesday, October 25th, at 6:30 pm NOIAW presents the first edition of A Tavola. The National Organization of Italian American Women launches a National Dinner Conversation live from NYC at the Columbus Citizens Foundation and via Zoom everywhere else on the importance of celebrating Italian American "HER - story!" All NOIAW members will be inv...
Celebrating Recent Work by Jo Ann Cavallo
Wednesday, October 25, 2023. 6:15pm EDT. The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University, NY. The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America By Jo Ann Cavallo. Sicilian puppet theater is a unique nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular theatrical tradition based on the masterpieces...
How 6 Italian brothers shaped the story of New York
Few people have shaped the streetscape of New York as prominently as the stone-carving Piccirilli brothers, six Italian immigrants who turned out one important public sculpture after another at their studio complex in the Bronx starting in the 1890s.From the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green to the Bronx Zoo, from the figures of...
When ITA and Federdoc Join Forces: A Toast to Italian Culture Through Wine
When it comes to celebrating Italian culture, few things capture the essence of this country quite like its wines. Italy is renowned for its rich history, diverse landscapes, and the exquisite wines that flow from its vineyards. On a warm fall evening in New York City, the Italian Trade Agency, in collaboration with Federdoc, presented an event tha...