To promote musical interchange between Italy and the United States, Italian pianist Cristiana Pegoraro performed on Park Avenue on Sunday, the 23. Acclaimed pianist Cristiana Pegoraro has played in prestigious venues all over the world, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Royal College of Music, Festspielhaus, and Auditorium Parco della Musica. However, she […]
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, who first conquered the audience’s hearts in Italian cinema and later in international cinemas, died on Friday, January 16, in Rome. Born on July 4, 1927, Gina Lollobrigida gained fame for neorealist cinema and became one of the prominent actresses of her time with her beauty and talent. She created a […]
The site-specific artwork Prospettive con Orizzonti of Alfredo Pirri (Cosenza, Italy; 1957), one of the prominent names in contemporary art, found its permanent place on the Florence Opera House’s roof. The installation is described as a “metaphysical archaeological site” resembling a marble quarry in which a trench has been dug for the extraction of the […]
After a 25-year-long break, the Metropolitan Opera once again performs Umberto Giordano’s ‘Fedora’ from 1898, through the 28th of January. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva plays the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with the man who murdered her fiancé, Count Loris, played by the tenor Piotr Beczala. The opera is conducted […]
The National Gallery of Art in Washington hosts the exhibition “Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice,” the artist’s first retrospective outside of Italy. Vittore Carpaccio, a prominent artist in the art of Renaissance Venice, is particularly known for his large, magnificent narrative cycles that brought divine history to life. His spectacular paintings of Christian saints […]
From December 8 through the holiday season, images of Giotto’s famous frescoes adorn the façades Basilica of St Francis, the Cathedral of San Rufino, the Basilica of S. Chiara, and the Abbey of St Peter in Assisi. Giotto’s Nativity switches to a video-mapping show presenting a glimpse of the Basilica of St. Francis’ interior […]
The Italian rock band, Maneskin, won big at the American Music Awards 2022. Beating the Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers, the musicians were awarded for “Favorite Rock Song” with their song Beggin’. The hit single had previously topped the Spotify world chart dethroning Olivia Rodrigo ‘s Good 4 U and became the second […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art brings to the stage a new exhibition that reconstructs classical antiquities through color. The exhibit, titled Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, welcomes an array of pieces representing the Cycladic, Archaic Greek, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods and transforms them into complex and colorful entities. The reconstruction of the 17 replicas […]
Mario Martone arrived in New York to preview his award-winning film “Nostalgia’. The viewing comes to be after the film received a nomination for the Oscars with the members of the Academy, as well as for the inauguration of the seventh edition of the Italy on Screen Today Festival. While the film revolves around a […]
The native New Yorker, Claudia Palmira, launches her new luxury Italian silk scarves series at the Met Opera Shop at Lincoln Center. The retail store is the first of its kind to debut the selections to the public. The special silk scarves series capture Palmira’s operatic experiences while in Box 28 at The Metropolitan Opera. […]