Italian Music At The Library in Verona, NJ
In honor of Italian-American Heritage & Culture Month, the Verona Public Library will present an afternoon of classical Italian music featuring mezzo-soprano Teresa Giardina and pianist Rob Keiser on Sunday, October 13, at 3 p.m. Among the works will be keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and three Italian arias by Mozart. Giardina earned her ba...
1000 Miglia Warm-Up USA- October 22-27, 2024
The Tow1000Miglia Opens in new windown of Middleburg is once again hosting the 1000 Miglia Warm-Up USA event. This iconic event has a storied history in Italy, representing sport, culture, and community. Event participants are hosted at Salamander Middleburg depart each day from The Middleburg Museum & Visitors Center at 12 N. Madison Street in dow...
Coccia Institute at Montclair U. Kicks Off Academic Year with Bocce and Symposium
The Coccia Institute, in collaboration with Elmwood Park UNICO, is excited to kick-off the 2024-25 academic year Italian-style with our annual bocce tournament on October 2. Thanks to the efforts of Elmwood Park UNICO in restoring the bocce court in East Rutherford, we are thrilled to offer students and the local community an opportunity to play bo...
Italian Singer Giada Valenti Brings New Captivating Show
Internationally acclaimed Italian singer Giada Valenti is set to perform her much-loved show, “Songs From The Movies,” at the historic Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, PA, Wednesday, October 16. Giada Valenti, known for her enchanting PBS special and standout performances in prestigious venues such as The Smith Center in Las Vegas and Carnegie...
Rich Francese’s Italian-American Comedy All-Stars
Saturday October 12, 2024 @ 8:00 pm. Mayo Performing Arts Center - 100 South Street, Morristown, NJ. Rich Francese’s Italian American Comedy All Stars is a fast paced, unpredictable and hysterically funny show in which proud Italian-American comics Eric Tartaglione, Regina DeCicco, Joseph Anthony and Rich Francese discuss family, friends, growing u...
Cinema with a Social Conscience: Italian Neorealism event coming to Villanova
Cinema with a Social Conscience: Italian Neorealism is coming to Villanova University. According to information provided by Alessandra Seggi, the creator of the event, “the series aims to screen films by or about Neorealist filmmakers with relevant U.S. counterparts. For each film, I envision a screening, plus a lively conversation between a filmma...
Music from the Royal Chapel of Early Modern Naples
The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington is glad to announce the presentation of “String virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples: Culture, Power, and Music Institutions” (Cambridge University Press, 2024) written by Guido Olivieri, Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas – Austin, and the accompanying concert by Modern Music (Risa Brow...
Filippo Sabatini and Patrick Silva embark on their journey to America in pursuit of MLB
In the shadow of the MLB debut for Samuel Aldegheri and recent win for the Los Angeles Angels as well as the success of Pittsburgh Pirates pitching prospect Alessandro Ercolani at High-A ball (6-2, 3.29 ERA with 93 K in 76.2 IP), Italian baseball celebrates and welcomes the initiation of two promising prospects into the world of professional baseb...
Wildwoods to Host 18th Annual Olde Time Italian Festival
The Olde Time Italian Festival returns to Fox Park on Friday, September 27, and Saturday, September 28, bringing the flavors and traditions of Italy to the Jersey Shore. Organized by the Sons of Italy Wildwood, the event will feature two days of food, entertainment, and cultural celebrations. The festival will be held at Fox Park, located on Ocean...
The Giro d’Italia at the Italian Embassy in Washington with Paolo Bettini and Elisa Longo Borghini
As part of the initiatives of the Embassy of Italy in Washington for the first-ever Italian Sports Day in the World, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, Ambassador Mariangela Zappia hosted the event “The Giro d’Italia and the endless discovery of Italy” at the Embassy today. This initiative follows th...
Italian Embassy in the USA promotes Italian sports day
Within the framework of the first Day of Italian Sport in the World promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Embassy of Italy in Washington and the network of Italian Consulates in the United States will launch a series of initiatives throughout the United States with the aim of promoting Italian sport and its...
‘I’ve Never Done Anything This Hard’ Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo on his one-man adaptation of The Marriage of Figaro.
I sang Cherubino [an adolescent boy, usually performed by a mezzo-soprano] when I was 17. Through the sheer effort of singing in Italian, which I hadn’t learned yet, I internalized the whole thing. I would walk around the house singing everyone’s part. Twenty years later, I was doing a show called Only an Octave Apart, with my friend the cabaret ar...