
Variations on the Quartet
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View details about the event: Variations on the QuartetFred Plotkin in conversation with Polish tenor Piotr Beczala. Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin. April 20, 2015
Watch the video: A Conversation with Piotr Beczala [2015]Machiavelli: A Portrait author Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University) in conversation with NYU’s Virginia Cox and Stefano Albertini. April 16, 2015.
Watch the video: Machiavelli: A Portrait [2015]The first event in the new series Eppur si muove / Yet it moves. Tech and the City authors Maria Teresa Cometto and Alessandro Piol in conversation with Brian Cohen (New York Angels) and Alberto Pepe (Authorea). April 15, 2015
Watch the video: Tech and the City [2015]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.
View the album: Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin: A Conversation with PIOTR BECZALA [Also in LIVE STREAMING]Ruth Ben-Ghiat presents her latest book, Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema together with Joseph Luzzi (Bard College), Richard Peña (Columbia University), and Stanislao Pugliese (Hofstra University). April 9, 2015.
Watch the video: Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema [2015]La voce di New York
Read more about: Il cinema fascista e i conti col passato (open in a new tab)A lecture by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown University) offering a new point of view on the founding of New Towns as part of Mussolini’s attempts to remake Italy. April 2, 2015.
Watch the video: Fascism in the Pontine Marshes [2015]Elena Buttiero, piano, and Ferdinando Molteni, voice, guitar, narration, perform songs and tell the story of singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco. April 1, 2015.
Watch the video: An Evening with the Music of Luigi Tenco [2015]Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2015)
View the album: Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinemai-Italy
Read more about: “By Hand and By Lens”, Redefining Italian America Through Art (open in a new tab)Legendary soprano Renata Scotto in conversation with Fred Plotkin. March 31, 2015.
Watch the video: A Conversation with Renata Scotto [2015]The morning session of a One-Day Conference organized by NYU and Columbia University, launching The Global Dante Project of New York. March 27, 2015.
Watch the video: Dante as a Political Theorist [2015]