opera > RIGOLETTO
RIGOLETTO Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on Victor Hugo’s drama Il re si diverte. Saturday 27 September | 7.30 pm San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House 301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Get the 20% discount reserved for the Italian Cultural Institute for the […]
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Italian Film Festival of Marin County
September 27 – November 1, 2025 Angelico Concert Hall, 20 Olive Avenue, San Rafael Italian Film Festival of Marin – 48th edition Festival director: Lido Cantarutti LEARN MORE & BUY TICKETS Originally started as an informal, one-time only presentation of Italian movies in a college lecture hall, the Italian Film Festival of Marin County has […]
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cinegelato > MIXED BY ERRY
CINEGELATO Thursday, September 18 | 6:30 PM MIXED BY ERRY Dir: Sydney Sibilia Italy, 2023, 110 min With Luigi D’Oriano, Emanuele Palumbo, Giuseppe Arena, Francesco Di Leva In Italian with English subtitles EVENT SOLD OUT SYNOPSIS In the magical Naples of the 1980s, where Maradona reigns supreme, Enrico dreams of becoming a DJ. The amateur […]
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cinegelato > A WORLD APART (Un mondo a parte)
CINEGELATO Thursday, August 28 | 6:30 PM A WORLD APART (UN MONDO A PARTE) Dir: Riccardo Milani Italy, 2024, 112 min With Antonio Albanese, Virginia Raffaele, Sergio Saltarelli, Alessandra Barbonetti In Italian with English subtitles SYNOPSIS After 40 years of teaching in the Roman jungle, an elementary school teacher manages to be assigned to a […]
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cinegelato | LATIN LOVER
CINEGELATO Thursday, August 7 | 6:30 PM LATIN LOVER Dir: Cristina Comencini Italy, 2014, 104 min With Angela Finocchiaro, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Virna Lisi, Marisa Paredes In Italian with English subtitles SYNOPSIS The late Saverio Crispo was Italy’s greatest movie star and a womanizer: his 5 daughters born from 5 different mothers in different parts […]
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cinegelato> TUTTO QUELLO CHE VUOI (Friends by Chance)
CINEGELATO 2025 Thursday July 17th | 6:30pm Tutto quello che vuoi (Friends by Chance) Dir: Francesco Bruni Italy, 2017, 106 min With Giuliano Montaldo, Andrea Carpenzano, Arturo Bruni In Italian with English subtitles REGISTER HERE Alessandro, twenty-two, is an uneducated and troubled man from Trastevere; Giorgio, eighty-five, is a forgotten poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. The […]
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FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY > Maria Manetti Celebrates La Dolce Vita! honoring Ennio Morricone
Tuesday, July 15 | 6:30PM Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug 2800 Main Street | St. Helena Experience the enchantment of La Dolce Vita at this evening dedicated to the music of one of the world’s greatest film composers, the late Academy Award-winning Ennio Morricone. The celebration begins at Charles Krug, where the Festival […]
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FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY > Clelia Cafiero conducts Joyce DiDonato e Tessa Clark
Friday, July 11 | 6:30PM Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug 2800 Main Street | St. Helena Festival Napa Valley kicks off its 19th Summer Season in grand style with a concert featuring three extraordinary talents. Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, hailed by The New Yorker as “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation,” […]
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cinegelato > SE DIO VUOLE (God Willing)
CINGELATO 2025 Thursday, July 3 | 6:30 PM GOD WILLING (Se Dio vuole) Dir: Edoardo Falcone Italy, 2015, 87 min With Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassmann, Laura Morante, Ilaria Spada, Edoardo Pesce In Italian with English subtitles REGISTER HERE SYNOPSIS Tommaso is a respected heart surgeon, although his relationship with the “heart” is limited to the […]
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CINEGELATO 2025
CINEGELATO is back! Join us for a series of five movies and… gelato! All films are in Italian with English subtitles. Free admission | Registration required Thursday, July 3 | 6:30 PM GOD WILLING (Se Dio vuole) Dir: Edoardo Falcone Italy, 2015, 87 min With Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassmann, Laura Morante, Ilaria Spada, Edoardo […]
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