The 58th Season of the Greek Theater of the National Institute of Ancient Drama of Syracuse Fabio Finotti, director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York presents Marina Valensise, Managing Director of the National Institute of Ancient Drama of Syracuse in conversation with the director Daniele Salvo and Peter W. Meineck of New York University. Find out more
The autographed score of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor arrives to New York from Bergamo for the new production at the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Riccardo Frizza The precious manuscript will be on display from 21 April at the Italian Cultural Institute on Park Avenue New York, 686 Park Avenue, 21 April – 21 May 2022 Lucia di Lammermoor is undoubtedly, together with L’elisir
The fourth concert of the Boccherini–Beethoven Cycle with Quartetto Adorno The “Flute Quintet in G minor, op. 19 n. 2”, the “Flute Quintet in E flat major, op. 17 n. 6” by Luigi Boccherini and the “String Quartet in B flat major, op. 130 n. 13” by Beethoven make up the program of the last concert of the Adorno Quartet with Andrea Oliva,
AbunDance The Italian Cultural Institute of New York hosts the masterclass and the AbunDance series of choreographies by Marco Pelle, which recounts the story of dance from the Renaissance until today. We will discover together how dance, a very fascinating form of art, has become what it is today. AbunDance wants to be both a journey and a discovery, an intuition and an
The second concert of the Boccherini–Beethoven Cycle with Quartetto Adorno The dialogue between Luigi Boccherini’s and Ludwig van Beethoven’s chamber writing continues in the Auditorium of the “Italian Rooms”, entrusted to the Quartetto Adorno together with guitarist Giampaolo Bandini, for the second concert, play two famous pages by the composer from Lucca with two very characteristic final movements, and the debut score in
The Cinema of Francesco Rosi in a book Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, full Professor of Italian Studies at Princeton University, Scholar of Modern Literature and Cinema of the late Twentieth Century, won the Flaiano Award for Italian Studies 2021 with her new volume "The Cinema of Francesco Rosi" (Oxford University Press, 2020) dedicated precisely to one of the great directors of post-war Italian Cinema who
Gioachino Rossini from the sources to the stage The musicologist Vincenzo Borghetti and the superintendent of the Rossini Opera Festival present the important edition and staging of “Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra”, a rare work by the composer born in Pesaro The "Italian Rooms", the virtual home of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York directed by Fabio Finotti, an Italianist that hails from Padua,
The first concert of the Boccherini–Beethoven Cycle with Quartetto Adorno The "Italian Rooms" enrich their "Auditorium" space dedicated to music, performing arts and cinema with new unpublished contributions, this time dedicated to the concert repertoire between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From September to December, four unpublished videos executed by the Quartetto Adorno and dedicated to the dialogue between the chamber music of
Opera Italiana is in the Air, by Alvise Casellati, presents “Rebirth!” On Monday June 28th at 7:00 PM, Opera Italiana is in the Air returns to Central Park to present a special, one-night only, open-air performance of beloved Italian opera classics under the baton of Maestro Alvise Casellati at the newly reopened Naumburg Bandshell. A summer evening of music that is free and
Greek Theater and Opera Direction Marina Valensise, Managing Director of the INDA (National Institute of Ancient Drama in Siracusa, Italy) in conversation with Canadian opera director Robert Carsen on future programs at the Greek Theater in Siracusa, and on the expressive possibilities linking classical Greek repertoire to Opera theater. Find out more What's New in the Other
