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The fourth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American soprano Nadine Sierra, performing this season at The Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Rigoletto.

In ENGLISH.

For Students and Young Adults Only!

The third gathering of the 2018-19 opera season will be dedicated to Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment," which the group will be ATTENDING LIVE at The Metropolitan Opera on February 15th.

NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò will be offering 15 tickets to NYU students attending this gathering.

The evening remains free and open to all students and young adults interested.
 

A panel to discuss today's relevance of artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold, on view at The Met Breuer January 23 - April 14, 2019. An exhibition dedicated to Lucio Fontana and avant-guarde artists in 1950s-60s Milan is also on view at the Italian Cultural Institute.

GRUPPO ITALIANO is honored to welcome the event's featured speaker: Eddie Yoon, founder of EddieWould Grow a think tank and advisory firer on growth strategy; and the distinguished panelists: Dino Borri, Eataly's VP of Global Brand Partnership, NY; Louis Coluccio, Owner of A.L.C. Italian Grocery in Brooklyn; Lou DiPalo, Owner of DiPalo's Italian Grocery store in Little Italy; Joe Gurrera, Owner of Citarella, NY; and Danielle Oteri, Writer and Art Historian, founder of Feast On History. Panel Moderator: Michael Colameco, American Chef, Author and Media Personality.

Book presentation. The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the popular European imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned a gross but persistent stereotype: a swarthy “Italian” carrying a bloody knife or revolver and bred to violence by radical politics, madness, innate criminality, and poor genes. The late Nunzio Pernicone and his co-author Fraser M. Ottanelli have dug into the historical, social, cultural, and political conditions behind the phenomenon of anarchist violence in Italy.

The Calandra Institute’s Dean, Anthony Julian Tamburri, bases this lecture on recent studies that suggest we rethink categories with regard to the Italian American writer in the United States. With a hyphen as a point of departure, Tamburri has argued that at this juncture in our cultural history we need to reconsider those seemingly solid cultural categories and taxonomies and re-evaluate their cultural validity at the end of this second decade of the third millennium.