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Screening of Sicily Jass The world’s first man in Jazz by Michele Cinque, followed by Q&A with the director and author of the movie.

A conversation between Italian pianist Beatrice Rana and Harvey Sachs, writer and music historian, on the occasion of the young, yet renowned, musician's piano recital at Carnegie Hall.

The series Italian journeys of American writers continues with a talk by the writer Benjamin Taylor titled: "Capri Revisited",  a few thoughts on the history of an inexhaustibly rich and beguiling refuge.

House of Secrets
The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo
(2019, Bloomsbury)

by Allison Levy, Brown University

Author Allison Levy in conversation with:
Leonard Barkan, Princeton University
Gerry Milligan, College of Staten Island/CUNY GC
Alexander Stille, Columbia University

Rainbow Jubilee is a series of three events that Casa Italiana put together with its theater company in residence KIT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The events will feature LGBTQ theater respectively from Italy (February 25th), the US (March 25th) and from the rest of the world (April 15th): three events of live performance to discover how much LGBTQ topics have been portrayed on stage and by what means.

Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place with time in the language and customs. The discussion is informal.

Participation is free. 

The journey of a very important stressed alien through the immigration process. Written by Flavia Sgoifo, Arianna Wellmoney, Bianca Waechter

Directed by Flavia Sgoifo. Followed by a conversation with the cast and immigration lawyer Nicola Tegoni

On the occasion of the publication of:

Un biculturalismo negato
La letteratura "italiana" negli Stati Uniti
(2018, Franco Cesati Editore)

by Anthony Julian Tamburri
Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY

The author in conversation with Peter Carravetta (SUNY Stony Brook)

Introducing the Renaissance Playwright and Her Pastoral Drama. Rediscovered in 2010, this late Renaissance play was written by the multi-talented singer, musician, and poet Leonora Bernardi Belatti of Lucca (1559-1616), famous in her day but now almost entirely forgotten. Clorilli offers a fresh and witty take on the courtly genre of pastoral drama, made fashionable by Torquato Tasso’s Aminta (1573). Evidence suggests that it was first performed at one of the Medici family's Florentine villas in the early 1590s. 

The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, who will be singing the role of Fricka in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung at the Metropolitan Opera.

Jamie Barton appears courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.

In ENGLISH.