POP: La Traviata
Pacific Opera Project (POP) joins forces with The Occidental College Glee Club for two performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. Following a wonderful experience together producing The Rake’s Progress in 2016, the collaboration allows POP to present Verdi’s masterpiece with a more than 50-member chorus of Occidental Glee Club students and a POP professional chorus, plus […]
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Italy in a day
One day in October 2013, over 45,000 Italians recorded short videos of their daily lives. The videos were collected by the director Gabriele Salvatores and edited together to form a portrait of a troubled but vibrant country. Organized by the Italian Cultural & Community Center in collaboration with the Italian General Consuate of Houston and the Italian […]
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New Italian Migrations to the United States
Authors Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra present New Italian Migrations to the United States, a two-volume collection that explores Italian immigration to the United States from 1945 to the present day. The books offer a radical rethinking of the history of Italian Americans by focusing on immigration to the United States over the last […]
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Italian-Swiss Movie Night
Screening of the Italian-Swiss film Finding Camille (Cercando Camille, 2017, 1h 33m) and the short film Invisible Trajectories (Traiettorie Invisibili, 2010, 14m). The Swiss-Italian director Bindu de Stoppani is back to talk about father-daughter relationships in her second feature film, Finding Camille, presented at the 12th Rome Film Fest as part of the Alice nella […]
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Italian Language Teachers’ Workshop 2018
The third annual convention of ILT (Italian Languag Teachers’ Workshop), organized by the Italian Department of the University of Southern California (USC) will be focused on new strategies to galvanise interest in the study of Italian Language and Culture in the US and to increase enrollment. A team of six experts in the field, from […]
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Look who’s Talking! 101 Things no One ever Told you About the Magic World of Italian Dubbing
The volume entitled Look who’s talking presents the 101 most famous phrases from the world of cinema and tells the story of who really said them on Italian screens. That is to say, the Italian voice-over artists, the best in the world, who often have lives that seem like a movie. Dubbing, other than being a […]
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Between Two Seas / LA International
The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles based, Italian artist Luigia Martelloni and focuses on how artists from more than ten different countries give shape to their heterogenous creative reality. “Their works reflect that all of us, wherever we are, find ourselves suspended between two spaces. We are all immigrants or emigrants in some way. […]
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Pininfarina: Art, Culture, Design
Silvio Pietro Angori, CEO and Managing Director of Pininfarina S.p.A., will give a presentation on the iconic Italian brand, which combines art, design, culture and entrepreneurship. Angori will also present the literary magazine L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, for which he serves as Chairman of the Board. Additional presentations will be held at selected Universities […]
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MEET Italy: The Great Investors’ Debate
MEET ITALY will host a special event in co-operation with the American Association of Individual Investors. Organized by MEET Italy and the IIC in collaboration with Pepperdine University. Join us for a conversation with a team of Finance Professors from Pepperdine University to learn about timely stock market dynamics. A high-level round table will see four Professors […]
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Hitweek presents: Roberto Cacciapaglia
The annual Italian music Festival Hit Week returns to Los Angeles showcasing composer and pianist Roberto Cacciapaglia. Roberto Cacciapaglia was born in Milan. He graduated in composition from the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of his city, where he also studied conducting and electronic music. Over the years he worked at the studio of Phonology of Rai and collaborated […]
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