Date: March 27, 2015Time: 7:30-9:00PMLocation: Gasson Hall 100Address: Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467Contact: Prof. Mattia Acetoso, 617-552-1741   This event celebrates the encounter of contemporary music and the Italian Renaissance, commemorating the life and works of Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554), the greatest wo...

When: Sunday, May 12, 2013 — 10 a.m. Where: Coolidge Corner Theatre — 290 Harvard Street, Brookline MA [map]As part of its "Opera in Cinema" series, the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline will offer — on May 12 — a rare chance to enjoy a genre-defining masterwork by Giuseppe Verdi. Containing some of the greatest choral music ever composed, the...

"Let's sit down in my office," says Giuseppe Giangregorio after agreeing to my impromptu request for an interview. We do sit down — on two small folding chairs he keeps between two of the many shelves in his Green Cross Pharmacy. That's when I realize there is no office. Instead, we are sitting in a corner of the store he and his brother Fernando h...

by Susan petroni   An Italian High School leadership program is bringing 14 international students to Framingham in mid-July. The high school students were selected to take part in this pilot initiative and will arrive in the Commonwealth for a 3-week program.   Each student will live with a local family to discover what day to d...

On February 4, 1895, the headline of the Boston Globe read as follows:Eleven Masquerading Italians. They Disturb the Sabbath Stillness of the North End by Celebrating a Carnival which Closes Feb 27." The article went on to describe the event and its consequences. Out for "as good a time as could be had," over 1,000 men, women, and children swung in...

In Christopher Castellani's "All This Talk of Love," Italian immigrant parents raise American offspring, mirroring the author's own life. Although the novel, Castellani's third, isn't drawn entirely from personal experience, he offered that "certain dynamics in the book are resonant to my family," including the complex idea of home.   "There...

When: April 18, 2014 – 8:30 p.m.Where: Berklee Performance Center, Boston MAZucchero "Sugar" Fornaciari, the Grammy-nominated Italian blues-rock singer, and one of Europe's best-selling artists, will release his latest album, La Sesión Cubana, on February 18th via Manhattan Records.   Known as a musical wanderer, Zucchero achieves a long-hel...

On Aug. 1, SoWa's Samsøn gallery celebrated fashion designer Rose Cherubini's 100th birthday in style.With the artist in attendance, guests were able to view dozens of handmade dresses that were once sold in Cherubini's stores in downtown Boston. Born in Boston in 1913, Cherubini opened her first shop at the age of 33 in Quincy, where she had grow...

Two Italian favorites are teaming up as Top Chef fan-favorite Fabio Viviani joins Columbus Foods for its "Meat Up" food truck tour, inviting Americans to explore the simple Italian goodness of premium salumi and deli meats.   They're hitting the road this April and May, spending a week each in Scottsdale, Salt Lake, Boston, New York Metro an...

by Matt Conti   Honoring one of the newer saints, a group from St. Leonard Church held the fifth annual procession for Saint Padre Pio on Sunday, June 28th in Boston's North End. The statue of St. Pio was carried from St. Leonard Church after an Italian Mass and walked through the neighborhood streets where devotees pinned donations on ribbo...