A Conversation with Roberto Alagna The fourth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features the beloved French tenor of Sicilian origin Roberto Alagna, who has been one of opera’s biggest stars for decades. He is renowned for his passionate singing, incisive acting and excellent diction as well as his charisma on the opera stage. In January 2020,…
Gianrico Carofiglio Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have…
Read and discuss Nordic literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions typically take place the last Tuesday of the month in the Halldór Laxness Library at Scandinavia House and online in our Goodreads group during the last week of the month.This week…
Twenty Years of Kairos Italy Theater Join the KIT staff and their friends in celebrating 20 years of theater in NY (and beyond)! January 28, 2000: KIT incorporates becoming officially the main Italian theater company in New York. Twenty years later, it brings back, for one night only, the first sketches presented at the Miranda Theater and then at Casa…
Join for a lecture with: Giulio Napolitano, Professor, Roma Tre University Moderated by: Karl P. Sauvant Columbia University Law School The 20th century ended with a proliferation of global and regional free trade and investment agreements aimed at breaking down obstacles and barriers to the movement of goods and capital. Since the beginning of the 21st century and even more after the…
An Artist's Paper Life Leo Yeni An Artist's Paper Life Curated by Cynthia Madansky In collaboration with Centro Primo Levi On view through February 26 Mon-Fri 10-6 An exhibition of drawings from the internment camp, sketchbooks with notations on architecture, art history and decorative arts, sketches, paintings, family photographs and official papers. * * * * * * * * * …
The city of Pilsen is considered to be one of the last cities to be liberated by the Allies during the end of World War II. The exhibition "The Liberation of Pilsen" will explain the advance of Allied troops from Normandy to Pilsen, the role of General George S. Patton, and other historical circumstances. The exhibition is on view until…
Concert of the Pilsner Jazz Band, an eight-member orchestra from the city of Pilsen, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Pilsen's liberation by US Army troops. The Pilsner Jazz Band will perform their wide repertoire, from jazz to swing and blues. On May 6, 1945, the West Bohemian city of Pilsen was liberated by troops of the US Third…
This February and March, join historians, writers, filmmakers, and alumni at the Center for Jewish History for a series of discussions and films about City College, its rich Jewish history, and its transformative role in the lives of so many. Part II: The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team At a school better known for intellectual achievement…
Dramatic reading of Maria Eisenstein’s diary Internee n.6, (1944), one of the earliest testimonies of life in a fascist concentration camp. Details to be announced. Excerpts for the reading are translated from the Italian original: Maria Eisenstein, L’internata numero 6, edizione critica a cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2014 (prima edizione Roma 1944).…
A Tribute to Oriana Fallaci Oriana's Words in Concert A Tribute to Oriana Fallaci Written, staged and interpreted by Maria Rosaria Omaggio Cristiana Pegoraro, piano Video editors: Carlo Fatigoni, Vincenzo Oliva Lights and sound: Stefano Berti During these turbulent times, much has been said and written about Oriana Fallaci. More than thirteen years after her death, her prophetic statements continue…
Tales of tricky trolls, clever billy goats, and a pancake that escapes from the pan! Stories from Norway and Sweden will be followed by a workshop for creating a puppet to retell the tales. Join storyteller Regina Ress and artist-educator Melkorka Helgadottir for our Saturday Storytelling on February 1st. All materials will be provided by Scandinavia House. This event is appropriate…
The multi-award winning Aeolus Quartet returns to perform a program of Czech masterworks, including Antonin Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81, one of the jewels of chamber music repertory. The program will also include a selection of Dvorak's love songs from The Cypresses cycle, reimagined for string quartet by the composer, as well as a colorful set of…