Panorama Europe 2019 Film Festival. Director: Barbara Albert, 2017, 97 min, Austria. A blind pianist living in Vienna in the 18th century forms an extraordinary relationship with the physician who is trying to restore her sight. Panorama Europe 2019, the eleventh edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, co-presented by Museum of the Moving Image and…
Founded in 1982, the Czech Boys Choir Boni Pueri is one of Europe’s leading ensembles, carrying on the tradition of a choir that has been active in the Metropolitan Chapter of St Vitus in Prague since 1252. The present choir, which has 200 members ranging in age from 4 to 19, has performed more than 3,000 concerts not only in…
Please join us on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 for a talk by Bathsheba Demuth of Brown University. This event is part of the Elihu Rose Lectures in Modern Military History and is co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This talk traces the history of whaling in the North Pacific from the early 1930s until the…
Rossini's "Stabat Mater" What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of…
How do we endure the memories of war, from whose ravages neither people, animals, nor the earth itself can escape? How do we reclaim what is left after war has destroyed lives, communities, buildings, and landscapes? How do we rebuild ourselves in the wake of ignominious battlefield defeats? Laurent Gaudé (Hear Our Defeats, trans. by Alison Anderson, Europa Editions), Sinan Antoon…
Panorama Europe 2019 Film Festival. Director: Abigail Mallia, 2017, 115 min, Malta. A human story of a family grappling with the discomforting notion of a delusional parent who believes he has what it takes to run for the Malta's Prime Minister. Panorama Europe 2019, the eleventh edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, co-presented by Museum…
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY The Last Day of Sun (L’Ultimo Giorno Di Sole) Text & Music by Giorgio Faletti Directed by Fausto Brizzi Performed by Chiara Buratti Produced by Orlantibor A "novel on stage" by the late writer/actor Giorgio Faletti. Seven monologues and eight songs. The story of a woman who, before the end of the world, returns…
Crisis after crisis has beset the European Union in recent years––Greek sovereign debt, Russian annexation of Crimea, unprecedented levels of migration, and the turmoil created by Brexit. From Paris to Berlin, London to Athens, European leaders have had to improvise on issues––problems of identity, sovereignty and solidarity––that the Union was never set up to handle and which threaten to engulf…
Crisis after crisis has beset the European Union in recent years – Greek sovereign debt, Russian annexation of Crimea, unprecedented levels of migration, and the turmoil created by Brexit. From Paris to Berlin, London to Athens, European leaders have had to improvise on issues – problems of identity, sovereignty and solidarity – that the Union was never set up to…
With Antonio Monda Antonio Monda (NYU) announces the theme of the 2019 edition of Le Conversazioni. Followed by a screening of the documentary Happiness directed by Francesco Zippel about the previous edition (2018) with Ian Buruma, Dave Eggers, David Mamet, Helen Oyeyemi, Benjamin Taylor, and Vendela Vida. Le Conversazioni is the international festival created by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini that takes place annually on…