Latest Past Events

VIRTUAL EVENT. The Phenomenon of New Russian Drama: What’s New About It?

Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. The Harriman Institute's Contemporary Culture Series presents a conversation with Maksim Hanukai (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Susanna Weygandt (Sewanne: The University of the South), editors of the volume New Russian Drama: An Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2019) with translator Ania Aizman (University of Michigan), as well as Julie Curtis (University of Oxford), editor of New…

A “Furiosus” Preview

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Roberto Scarcella Perino's Opera Comes to New York Composer Roberto Scarcella Perino's latest opera Furiosius, based on Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, with a libretto by Flora Gagliardi, will receive its American premiere in May, 2020. The composer will be giving a presentation of the work in the company of Professors Eugenio Refini (NYU) and Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), featuring…

Terra Matta

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

In Scena! Fall presents Presented by In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY Fall Edition Terra Matta Based on the diaries of Vincenzo Rabito Adapted and interpreted by Stefano Panzeri Terra Matta is adapted from the extraordinary autobiography of a Sicilian laborer at the beginning of the century, written between 1968 and 1975 on an old Olivetti. It is a monumental work: 1027…