Operation Opera
This Hit at the Edinburgh Festival, MAC Award Winner and sold out show at Lincoln Center stars Adelmo Guidarelli and uses a vintage music hall style to weave well known opera arias and their pop culture references into a charming and funny performance that shuns the pomposity of the art form to remind us how […]
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Parmigianino: la Schiava Turca
The enigmatic masterpiece’s first overseas journey A loan from the Galleria Nazionale in Parma, Italy, provides a rare opportunity for viewing Parmigianino’s masterpiece Schiava turca (ca. 1531–1534). Heralded as an originator of Mannerism, Parmigianino developed an expressive style with elongated forms that was also indebted to the work of Raphael and Michelangelo. The title, which […]
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Festival del Sole
Every July, Napa Valley is on stage. Music, dance and theater are artfully blended with one-of-a-kind lifestyle programs and Napa’s incomparable wines and culinary delights. The region’s beauty is the backdrop for breathtaking performances, vintner’s luncheons, winery dinners, wine tastings, community concerts and rejuvenating wellness activities. This is Napa Valley Festival del Sole. Our members […]
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Film series: homage to Piero Tosi
The costumier for Il Gattopardo and Death in Venice If you have seen Satyricon, Il Gattopardo, Death in Venice or Pasolini’s Medea, you have seen the stunning costumes created by Piero Tosi. Working with Visconti, Fellini, Pasolini and others, Tosi was painstakingly meticulous in his research on historical costumes, and maintained an extensive collection of […]
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Carmel Bach Festival
The Carmel Bach Festival, founded in 1935, is a world-class festival of music and ideas transcending the traditional boundaries of performance and presentation. The festival celebrates the works, inspiration, and ongoing influence of J.S.Bach worldwide by immersing audiences in a festival experience integrating music, education and ideas, and by meaningful community engagement throughout the year. […]
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Alda Merini: The blessed years of innocence
Theatrical performance about the beloved Italian poet A homage to the great Milanese poet Alda Merini, conceived by director and author Antonio Lovascio and actress Isabella Carloni. The text is based on an interview between Lovascio and Alda Merini. From this intriguing experience, Lovascio created a theatrical piece interwoven with the poet’s biographical elements and […]
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Alberto Mesirca on classical guitar
This voyage through the world of the classical guitar, taking us from the discovery of a very important manuscript dating from 1565 found in the archive of the Cathedral of Castelfranco to Angelo Gilardino’s contemporary music, sheds light on the many souls of the guitar. Among the most fascinating, mysterious and introspective of instruments, it […]
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Irene Russo and Tom Djll
An sfSoundSalonSeries concert In conjunction with the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, sfSoundSalonSeries is pleased to present Italian virtuoso Irene Russo in a program of solo works for piano spanning the entire 20th century to the present, with works by Debussy, Malipiero, Takemitsu, Procaccini, and Widmann. She’ll be followed by Tom Djll‘s HackMIDI, piano […]
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UC Berkeley summer classes in Italian Studies
Not only for UC Berkeley students! Take summer courses in Italian Studies at UC Berkeley!Language courses in Italian, culture courses in English, for all skill levels! Italian conversation (theme: Italian families); Dante’s Divine Comedy; Italian cinema. To enroll, go to the Summer Sessions website: http://summer.berkeley.edu/registration. For a more detailed programme, click on the brochure link […]
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Fête de la musique
Annual music and dance party at the Alliance Française The Alliance Française presents its annual dance and music party: the Fête de la musique, in partnership with the Goethe Institut, the Italian Cultural Institute, Crêpe Madame, and Recology SF, and with sponsorship from CALPARRIO travel agency, Ninkasi Beer, and Amelie Wine Bar. 14 musical acts […]
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