Dai Quaranta ai Settanta
- Literature
Postwar Italy Through the Lens of Literature
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Video Category: Full Length Videos
- Casa Italiana
Presenting Scarcella Perino’s “Furiosus”
Composer Roberto Scarcella Perino gives a presentation of this latest opera, Furiosus, based on Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in the company of Professors Eugenio Refini (NYU) and Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), featuring selections of the opera performed by tenor Michele Angelini, accompanied by Steven Eldredge at the piano.
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- History & Politics
Terra Matta (with Stefano Panzeri)
Presented by In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY Fall Edition
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- Art
The Humanities and the Sciences: Their Epistemologies
A lecture by Richard Foley, NYU
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- History & Politics
Lina Bolzoni presents “Una meravigliosa solitudine”
Una meravigliosa solitudine L’arte di leggere nell’Europa moderna (Einaudi, 2019)
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- Music
A Conversation with Ailyn Pérez
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin. Ailyn Pérez appears courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera. November 12, 2019
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- Italian Society
Joanna Clapps Herman’s “When I Am Italian”
Author Joanna Clapps Herman presents When I Am Italian (2019, SUNY Press) with writers Mary Ann Carolan, Maria Laurino, Edvige Giunta, and Nancy Carnevale. With the participation of Michela Musolino. November 7, 2019
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- Art
Medardo Rosso and Modern Sculpture
A lecture by art historian Sharon Hecker on Medardo Rosso and the contemporary origins of modern sculpture. November 5, 2019
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- History & Politics
Where Evil Leans Hard on Good
Author of Empire’s Mobius Strip Stephanie Malia Hom discusses Italy’s migrant detention centers and colonial concentration camps, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU). November 4, 2019
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- Music
Omaggio a Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Samuele Amidei (piano) and Raffaello Ravasio (guitar) perform a program of works by and inspired by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Introduced by Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco. October 29, 2019
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- Gastronomy
Italy in the Global Food System
Fabio Parasecoli presents his latest book, Food, in conversation with Meryl Rosofsky (NYU). October 28, 2019
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- History & Politics
Affection and Survival: Primo Levi at 100
A lecture by Uri Cohen (Tel Aviv University) presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi. October 24, 2019
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- Art
Exquisite Elegies: Genoa’s Staglieno Cemetery
In partnership with the Bogliasco Foundation. Poet Grace Schulman (BF ‘18), visual artist Susan Unterberg (BF ‘01), and sculptor/preservationist Walter Arnold recount their personal trajectories with Staglieno and share the creative endeavors it has inspired. October 23, 2019
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