Singer Laura Pausini is celebrating three decades as Italy’s top female artist, announcing on Feb. 14 that she will embark on a three-stop concert tour between the U.S. and Europe to take place within 24 hours. Pausini will perform ten songs in each city, representing each decade of her career. Pausini’s run will begin at 6 p.m. in New York City’s...
READ MOREA rare, nearly 300-year-old violin that has been in the collection of the late businessman Sau-Wing Lam and exhibited twice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be auctioned at Tarisio next month, with an estimate in excess of US$10 million. The instrument, circa 1731, is one of only about 150 known violins handmade by Italian master...
READ MOREWhen: Saturday, March 4 at 8:30pm CT - Where: Constellation, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618 The American group Alla Boara seeks to bring recognition and new life to Italy’s diverse history of regional folk music. Their modern arrangements of traditional folk songs are variously surprising, playful, mournful, tender and bewitching.
READ MORESaturday, February 25. 7:00 PM — 9:00 PM. Renaissance Church, 639 Mountain Ave, Springfield, NJ 07081. The Sopranos meet The Addams Family in NJFO's production of Gianni Schicchi, Puccini’s rip-roaring comic opera about a last will and testament. Featuring Daniel Klein in the title role and MET Opera's Ashley Emerson as Loretta, a cast of internati...
READ MORELa Scala on Thursday launches a global TV and on-demand channel where opera lovers can enjoy live performances from the iconic Milanese cultural mecca. LaScala.tv is a new platform where you can watch performances from La Scala in Milan live while they are being performed or on demand from a catalogue of special contents, operas, ballets and concer...
READ MOREIt is with great pleasure that Carmel Monthly is featuring world-renowned pianist and Deputy Mayor Francesco Attesti of Cortona, Italy. Attesti is considered one of the finest interpreters of the Romantic and early Twentieth Century Repertoire, and he is scheduled to perform at the Palladium alongside the Carmel Symphony Orchestra and will also be...
READ MOREWhen: Fri, March 10, 2023, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST - Where: I AM Books 124 Salem Street Boston, MA 02113 Meet the cast of “Io mi canto da sola - I sing my own song”, the upcoming performance by All’italiana - Boston Italian Theatre company about the centuries-long fight against patriarchy and violence against women . The meaning and purpose of the p...
READ MOREOpera houses across Italy have come together to help the government meet the shortfall on a bid to save for the nation a country house lived in by composer Giuseppe Verdi for 50 years. Villa Verdi in Sant’Agata di Villanova – close to the town of Busseto in the Emilia-Romagna region where he was born – and his home for 50 years, was put up for sale...
READ MOREOn a January day in a drab, deserted hotel in Rome, the four members of Måneskin are back at work after a brief holiday following a whirlwind 2022 that saw the young Italians vault into rock stardom. Last year, the band opened for the Rolling Stones; grabbed a nomination for best new artist at the Grammy Awards; wrote and recorded songs with Max Ma...
READ MOREWednesday February 15th, 2023 at 6.30 pm. "NABUCCO" with the WASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA. Embassy of Italy - 3000 Whiteheaven Street NW - Washington, DC 20008. RSVP HERE. The evening is a preamble to the Washington Concert Opera’s Nabucco scheduled to be performed on March 4, 2023, in the Lisner Auditorium. For more information about this event visit...
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