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"L'Italia!" is an original song composed by Dame, Dr. Mary Rorro to celebrate the cultural treasure Italy is to the world. She wrote the melody and lyrics and the arrangement was composed by now 99-year-old World War II Veteran Maestro Matteo Giammario, who is also Italian American, and Dr. Rorro's former Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra conductor...

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The Embassy of Italy to the United States, the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation present the exhibition “Mosaico | Italian code of a timeless art”, a multimedia immersive exhibition hosted at Dupont Underground conceived with the artistic and creative direction of Mag...

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“A collaboration years in the making between James Beard Award-winning restaurateur Stephen Starr and legendary LA chef Nancy Silverton will finally culminate in the opening of the Michelin-starred Osteria Mozza in Washington DC.  The first East Coast location of the restaurant is a major coup for Washingtonians, spotlighting the regional Italian f...

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The Italian Ambassador to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, presented the honor of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic to Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest biomedical research agency, last night in Washington. “It is truly a great pleasure to be able to bestow such...

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NYC-born Olio e Più, a sprawling spot to sit and sample Italy’s many regional cuisines and wines in one place, makes its anticipated D.C. debut this week. The charming new restaurant joins its fancy French sibling La Grande Boucherie, which made a grand entrance upstairs in the same Federal-American National Bank Building this spring (699 14th Stre...

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Ferrari, Intesa Sanpaolo, Leonardo, Piaggio, Valentino, Ferrero, Ita, Coin, Mcs & Cisalpina, Moleskine, Manifatture Sigaro Toscano (Mst), Palazzo Fiuggi, Forte Village, Boffi are some of the companies featured at the Italian Embassy in DC in the third edition of Italian Design Week, created by entrepreneur Roberta Marcenaro Lyon to connect Italian...

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Please support the bipartisan National Museum of Italian American History Commission Act. The bill would create a planning commission to examine the feasibility of establishing a Smithsonian Museum of Italian American History. Similar commissions have led to the establishment of Smithsonian museums such as the African American History and Culture M...

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The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, met yesterday at Villa Firenze in Washington with a delegation from the American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit (ASILM) and a group of recipients of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. “We wanted to bring together the members of ASILM with other decorated individuals...

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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...

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Dr. Bertagnolli is the 17th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), making history as the first surgeon and only the second woman to hold this prestigious position. With a career dedicated to advancing clinical oncology, she has been instrumental in National Cancer Institute (NCI) and held various prominent transforming the understandi...

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