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The first Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features Italian mezzo-soprano Marianna Pizzolato, who is making her Met debut starring in Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri and singing the role of Edwige in the composer's Guillaume Tell.

In ENGLISH.

Presented with the Department of Italian Studies and the Colloquium in the Humanities

A Lectio Magistralis by
Lina Bolzoni, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa / NYU Global Visiting Professor

Introduced by
Mary Carruthers, NYU / All Souls College, Oxford
Jane Tylus, NYU

SpeakItaly and Cacio & Vino (http://www.cacioevino.com) are glad to invite you on November 6th, 2016 at 12:30pm for a two hour lunch, just like the Italian tradition dictates. 

The Aspect Foundation presents:

Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin;
Dov Scheindlin viola;
Sergey Antonov cello;
Ignat Solzhenitsyn piano;
Illustrated talk by Paul Berry (Yale)

Rossella Spinosa, an Italian pianist and composer, specialized in creating live sound tracks to silent movies, will present in world premiere her new composition for solo piano on Cenere (Ash), 1916.

This year marks the one hundred anniversary of the film, directed and interpreted by Febo Mari with the special participation of the actress Eleonora Duse, and, for the occasion, the ICI has invited Rossella to compose a sound track and to play it live at the screening the movie.

Acclaimed Italian choreographer Caterina Rago will return to New York this fall with her company of eight female dancers in her new full-evening work, “Labir Into,” October 6 though October 8 at New York Live Arts. Caterina Rago is the only female choreographer from Italy running a modern dance company in NYC.

This symposium has its roots in the research and subsequent publication of Forty Years of Italian American Civil Service Employment in New York City and New York State (New York: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2015), an extensive study authored by Vincenzo Milione, Itala Pelizzoli, and Carmine Pizzirusso. The study analyzes the percentage of Italian Americans in New York State and New York City occupations, including Management and Professional, Service, and Skilled and Unskilled government employment.

For the first time ever in New York City, jazz singer and songwriter Laura Campisi pulls an entire show of originals compositions out of her hat. 

After exploring the lengths of American standards, Italian songs and Sicilian traditional music, time has arrived for the next step.
One hour of original music, with brand new arrangements and a new sound! 

Formed by writer Rina Durante in 1975, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino is regarded as Italy’s leading and longest-standing traditional music ensemble, hailing from the Salento, the heel of the Italian boot, in Puglia.

Italy’s fascinating dichotomy of tradition and modernity come together in the music of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: the seven piece band and dancer are the leading exponents in a new wave of young performers re-inventing Southern Italy’sPizzica musical and dance traditions for today’s global audience.

A Bogliasco Foundation 20th Anniversary Special Event

In July, NYC-based theater collective Compagnia de’ Colombari staged an acclaimed production of The Merchant of Venice in the heart of that city’s Jewish quarter. Marking both the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Jewish Ghetto and the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the production brought the Bard’s play to its historic setting for the first time.