Digital Library

Photo Library

One of the lesser known treasures of the website, is this Library featuring the many guests we welcome onto our stage as well as our beloved audience members. Appreciate the atmosphere of fellowship and the sense of community that make us a true ‘casa’.

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April 29, 2015

EPPUR SI MUOVE: Panel Discussion: THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SUCCESS: Do We Have to Leave Italy?

Photographs by: Andrew Nelson Photography
Photos: 27

Eppur si muove / And Yet It Moves is a series dedicated to Italians in and outside of Italy who give us hope for the future.

April 23, 2015

Exhibition Opening: AFRO

Photographs by: Andrew Nelson Photography
Photos: 21

Curated by Isabella Del Frate Rayburn Catalogue Edited by Rosemary Ramsey Stewart

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April 20, 2015

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin: A Conversation with PIOTR BECZALA [Also in LIVE STREAMING]

Photographs by: Andrew Nelson Photography
Photos: 15

The sixth and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season will feature tenor Piotr Beczala, who has sung opening nights at the Met, La Scala and many leading opera houses. He is admired for his beautiful voice, sensitive artistry and noble stage presence. He will be appearing in a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at the Met and then sing Gustavo III in Un Ballo in Maschera there for his first New York performances of the role.

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April 9, 2015

Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema

Photographs by: Andrew Nelson Photography
Photos: 17

Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2015)

March 9, 2015

Aria di Commedia

Photographs by: Andrew Nelson Photography
Photos: 13

Pazzi Lazzi is a professional Commedia dell’Arte troupe, native to the Boston area. The company strives both to educate and entertain its audience. All members of the troupe play several characters, of both genders. Commedia dell’ Arte is a very demanding performance art. All actors have to be in excellent physical shape, and can easily go from walking with a hunch to doing summersaults on stage.
Pazzi Lazzi writes many of its own scenarios, inspired by real 1600s plots called “canovacci” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canovaccio ) and newspaper letters of the modern world. And since it is Commedia dell’Arte, “lazzi” (also known as jests or tricks) are written by the performers based on their work of improvisation.