Fall Arts Preview: Verdi specials kick off robust opera season
By Roy Proctor Richmond will launch its 2013-14 opera season with two salutes in honor of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday. Virginia Beach-based Lyric Opera Virginia will commence its four-event season this month with "Viva Verdi!" a program of Verdi scenes, in the Oates Theater at the Collegiate School. Read more ...
Zagat: 'Quality Italian' Offers Creative Interpretations On Italian-American Steakhouse Faref
Quality Italian recently opened just around the corner from parent restaurant Quality Meats, and like its predecessor, it's also inspired by old-world butcher shops in its design. "I think the space is kind of really different than any other restaurant I've ever seen because they have these really cool pictures, but they're all backwards,"...
Talented voices of Il Volo take Italian heartthrobs to new heights
By Donna Doherty They might be teenagers, but they sing the kinds of songs that bring moms and daughters to concerts together, and they do so well enough to capture the attention of Barbra Streisand, who invited the Italian trio to sing with her on her 2012 tour. Il Volo, which appropriately means "the flight," has skyrocketed to...
Italia protagonista nelle classifiche Usa con 8 bottiglie, sorprendono Sicilia, Friuli e Alto Adige
Che sia bianco, rosso o rosato non importa, per il mercato a stelle e strisce ciò che conta è la qualità racchiusa nel marchio made in Italy. Almeno secondo il sito Winenews.it che riferisce, come il mercato n. 1 al mondo per consumo complessivo, ha visto una crescita dell´import di vino italiano nella prima metà del 2013 dell´1,9% in volume (a 1,2...
How to Dress Like an Italian: Fall and Winter Edition
Fashion in Italy is serious business—so it's no surprise that lots of travelers often ask us how to dress like an Italian while they're here! While you certainly don't have to dress like a local when you're visiting, and while you should definitely wear what you're comfortable in, immersing yourself in the culture can be part of the fun. And that m...
Marionettes at MIT: technique and technology in 300 years of Marionette theatre
In celebration of the opening of Sleeping Beauty at the Emerson/Paramount Center Theatre, the Italian Consulate, MITaly and ArtsEmerson invite you to engage with Colla Marionette, a centuries old Italian marionette company on Tuesday November 12th at 6:30 pm at MIT. The company will present the evolution of their design technique...
Bergamo e il suoi tesori
By Beatrice Bondi Bergamo si presenta a New York. Il 21 novembre la Provincia di Bergamo e l'agenzia di promozione turistica Turismo Bergamo, in collaborazione con l'ENIT di New York, hanno presentato al pubblico americano le bellezze e le opportunità turistiche che la provincia bergamasca offre: dallo storico centro cittadino alle montagne, dagli...
A+E Networks Establishes Italian Operation
A+E Networks has set up a Rome-based company to launch and operate branded channels and services in Italy: A+E Networks Italy. A+E Networks will launch Crime & Investigation on Sky Italia on December 16. It is working with FOX International Channels to assume full ownership of HISTORY Italy in early 2014. Read more So...
The Flavor of the Big Apple
by Carol Sugarman Joe's Pizza, the Greenwich Village institution owned and operated by Naples-born Joe Pozzuoli since 1975, has been visited by a host of celebrities over the years. But its latest claim to fame was its inclusion in the movie Spider-Man 2. Actor Tobey Maguire, aka Spider-Man, plays a Joe's delivery guy. Our tour gu...
Salvatore Ferragamo
It's a hop, skip and a jump from the Geary Street side of Union Square to 236 Post St., where the Salvatore Ferragamo store just reopened in larger, two-story digs. A fixture in San Francisco since 2000, the purveyor of luxury Italian goods is now cheek-to-jowl with Burberry, Cartier, Graff and Giorgio Armani, a growing designer alley. &n...
Music review: Luca Pisaroni highlights an evening of dramatic songs
By Charles T. Downey The narrators of songs can be such complainers. Luca Pisaroni's recital Friday night, presented by Vocal Arts D.C. at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, brought together a program of songs, half in Italian and half in German and all dramatic. The nature of the music can make the words seem more or less sincere, but t...
Maratona Infernale
Una vera e propria maratona dantesca - 7 ore di trasmissioni, 34 canti dell'Inferno, e migliaia di chilometri attraverso le bellezze paesaggistiche e architettoniche italiane. Questo progetto offrirà a tutto il pubblico di RAI ITALIA una rilettura in chiave contemporanea dell'Inferno dantesco. Un programma non solo culturale, ma anche un v...