Dear Friends,
We hope you will enjoy the events as well as all the other offerings presented in our Community Calendar.
If a specific event listed below does not include a Zoom link, please contact the hosting organization to obtain the link.
Scholarship Opportunities from Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America and American Foundation of Savoy Orders
Through the Sons of Italy Foundation (SIF), and hundreds of thousands of family members located in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America (OSDIA) has awarded tens of millions of dollars in scholarships to date. In past years, the SIF has offered ten to fifteen merit-based scholarships (National Leadership Grants), ranging from $4,000 to $25,000, in a nationwide competition. Last year, students received a total of $85,000 in merit-based scholarships! Click here for more information and/or to apply.
The American Foundation of Savoy Orders is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2022–2023 Savoy Orders Pigott Scholarships. The Board of Directors of the American Foundation of Savoy Orders is pleased to present the Instruction Sheet and Application Form for the Savoy Orders Pigott Scholarships in two areas of discipline: Humanities & Fine Arts and International Studies. Three $2,500 scholarships, based on academic excellence and financial need, will be awarded for the 2022–2023 academic year. To qualify, prospective grantees must be full time undergraduate or graduate students and have a major in the Humanities & Fine Arts or International Studies. The scholarships are available to citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Click here for more information; click here for a PDF of the application form.
WHAT MAKES IT ITALIAN? The Music and Architecture of Italy
"What Makes It Italian?" is a music-listening and discussion group that meets online on the Zoom platform and is open to everyone. Participation is free.
The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y and who has been music instructor at The New School and director of Underworld Productions.
Please email ginacrusco@gmail.com to confirm your attendance and receive an invitation link.
Tuesday, March 1, 6:00pm
Renaissance: Rome
Tuesday, March 8, 6:00pm
Palladian: Vicenza
Tuesday, March 15, 6:00pm
Gothic: Milan
Tuesday, March 22, 6:00pm
Baroque: Sicily
Tuesday, March 29, 6:00pm
Neoclassical: Naples
Tuesday, April 5, 6:00pm
Late Ottocento: Turin
Tuesday, April 12, 6:00pm
Modern: Bari
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
New York University
Contact: 212-998-8739
casa.italiana@nyu.edu
Rigoletto Live in HD
In theaters
Bartlett Sher’s bold new take on Verdi’s timeless tragedy arrives in cinemas on January 29. The Tony Award–winning director resets the opera’s action in 1920s Europe, with Art Deco sets by Michael Yeargan and elegant costumes by Catherine Zuber.
This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.
https://www.metopera.org/
New York City Opera
The Opera for Kids! series has given thousands of elementary- and preschool-aged children their first taste of live opera. Each performance includes an hour-long, family-friendly adaptation of a classic opera sung by world-class singers with a live pianist, narrated in a lively and engaging presentation by General Director Michael Capasso. Each performance is followed by a Q&A with the artists.
In addition to Opera for Kids!, City Opera's education program includes masterclasses and recitals for older kids, also starring some of the brightest stars of the City Opera stage, presented in an educational and interactive program. In 2022, the historical nature of both The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and The Central Park Five will include age-appropriate educational programming and an accompanying interdisciplinary curriculum that addresses both the historical nature of the events and the social justice issues at hand.
There are exciting education events coming up, with many more to be added:
・January 12: recital and masterclass with Great Neck High School
・March 1: recital and masterclass with Greenwich High School
Please call for more information: 646-981-1888
New York City Opera
142 W 57th Street, 11th Floor, Manhattan
CityOperaVIP@nycopera.com
Cannoli Crawl New York
March 3 (Saturday) 10:30am
The Cannoli Crawl is an interactive, family-friendly, lunchtime walking and tasting tour featuring New York City's Italian American history peppered with stops along the way to enjoy Sicilian-inspired foods.Tours are 5 hours and start on Bleecker Street, near Our Lady of Pompeii Church and end on Mulberry Street, in Manhattan's Little Italy. Advanced registration required.
Sponsored by: Experience Sicily.
Greenwich Village and Little Italy
243 Bleecker Street, Manhattan
Fee: $85
Contact: Allison Scola 646-281-4324
allisonscola@experiencesicily.com
https://cannolicrawl.com
ONLINE WORKSHOPS
by Anabella Lenzu
Dance Composition/ Choreography Workshop
March 5, 12 & 19, Saturdays 11:00am-1:00pm
Focus: Words and Movement Relationship
This workshop will give you the tools to create your own original dances, exploring the elements of composition.
We will explore how words and movement (verbal and non-verbal communication) complement each other, facilitating kinesthetic empathy.
Participants will create and perform solo studies based on choreographic problems.
ALL CLASSES VIA ZOOM.
For more information email: INFO@ANABELLALENZU.COM
www.AnabellaLenzu.com
Festa Della Donna
In Celebration of International Women's Day
March 6 (Sunday) 6:00pm
Vanessa Racci hosts Festa Della Donna, a celebration of Italian-American female contributions to arts and culture featuring a line-up of talented Italian-American Ladies. With special guest Lena Prima.
vanessaracci is giving back to Noiaw (National Organization of Italian American Women) with this event! We hope you can support her and our mission at the same time!
Visit www.metropolitanzoom.com for more information.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
New York University
ON THE ITALIAN STAGE
March 9 (Wednesday) 4:00pm
On the Italian Stage is a series of encounters conceived and led by Laura Caparrotti that journeys into the history of Italian theater to explore its language and its contribution to Italian society and world theater. It may include special readings and performances by members of Casa Italiana’s Theater Company in Residence—KIT Kairos Italy Theater—and other guest artists.
Adelaide Ristori, the Traveling Diva
On the Italian Stage [On Zoom]
with Laura Caparrotti
Participation is free.
IN ENGLISH.
BAAD!Ass Women Festival
Presents: Anabella Lenzu: Dance Film Screening and Conversation
March 18 (Friday) 8:00pm
IN-PERSON and ONLINE!
Join us to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama in a dance film evening. The evening will highlight four award-winning short dance films and an intimate interview of Anabella Lenzu by Christine Jowers, dance critic, founder, and editor-in-chief of the leading online dance magazine, The Dance Enthusiast. The dance films reflect Anabella Lenzu’s experience as a Latina artist living in New York and come from a deep examination of her motivations as a woman, mother, and immigrant.
Since 2006, Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama (ALDD), has presented 390 performances, created 14 choreographic works at 100 venues, produced 8 dance films presented in over 80 festivals both nationally and internationally.
Admission: free to $20
https://fareharbor.com/baadbronx/items/361052
www.AnabellaLenzu.com
Maria SS. Dell'Assunta Society
St. Joseph's Day Party
March 19 (Saturday) 6:30-10:30pm
The celebration will include a delicious buffet dinner, refreshments, dessert, and music for your dancing pleasure!
373 Maple Avenue, Westbury, NY
Admission: Members: $45; Non-Members: $55
Contact: 516-903-6285 to RSVP (call or text)
FREE "WELCOME TO SPRING" CONCERT
March 20 (Sunday) 3:00pm
A stellar group of Regina Opera singers and instrumentalists will welcome the arrival of Spring with some popular vocal and instrumental selections. This will be a 90-minute concert with no intermission. There will be socially distant seating. Proof of COVID vaccination, photo ID, and mask are required. No tickets and no reservations are required.
Sponsored by Regina Opera Company
Our Lady of Perpetual Help School
5902 6th Avenue, Brooklyn
Contact: Fran Garber-Cohen 718-259-2772
reginaopera@yahoo.com
www.reginaopera.org
Gastronomía Is Just One Accent Away from Gastronomia—A Cooking Workshop about the Spanish and Latin American Influences on Italian Dishes
March 26 (Saturday) 5:00pm (Place TBA)
The workshop draws on the vast array of dishes that are the result of the influence of Spanish and Latin American cultures and products in those areas of Italy that were under the Spanish Empire (Milan as well as Naples and Sicily). The event is linked to a broader project about these influences in film, literature, etc., called Memoria presente. Led by: Annalisa Pompeo (Go Sicily) and Federica Heiman (Dolce Federica) Linked to the NEH-awarded project “Memoria presente”
1 Normal Aveue, Montclair, NJ
Contact: 973-655-4000
inserra@montclair.edu
Exhibition
Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880–1917
January 25–June 18 2022
For its 2022 season, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will present a group show focusing on Italian artistic production during the period between 1880 and the end of World War I. The extraordinary and painful circumstances that marked 2020 imposed reflections on our institution’s role as a protagonist of cultural conversations in the United States and a need for a careful thematic choice in the development of the 2022 exhibition and its related fellowship program.
The exhibition, including approximately thirty artworks from Italian museums and first-rate private collections, will focus on four main iconographic themes, exploring how painters and sculptors elaborated and adjourned them through a confrontation with the contradictions of contemporary society. Migration, labor, protest, and social injustice are the fields of intervention that marked the reality of the artists at the center of CIMA’s project—topics whose importance resonates to this very day, both in Italy and in the United States.
Artworks by fifteen artists will offer a cross-section of the most advanced Italian artistic production of the time. To curate this exhibition, CIMA is delighted to welcome Giovanna Ginex, an independent art curator and art historian based in Milan. She specializes in different aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, including painting, sculpture, photography, and design.
Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA)
421 Broome Street, 4th floor, Manhattan
Contact: 646 370 3596
Exhibition:
Poetic Action
Garibaldi Meucci Museum
The story of two women: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro da Silva, also known as Anita Garibaldi.
A site-specific installation by Anna Lise Jensen and Alyssa Casey. Curated by Valeria Federici. The art, artifacts, and people within the house of the true inventor of the telephone and the "Hero of Two Worlds."
Please call for more information, 718-442-1608.
Sponsored by Garibaldi-Meucci Museum.
420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island
Wednesday through Sunday 10:00am–5:30pm
“The Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals” tells the fascinating story on the museum website of how the vast diversity of mineral types arose on our planet, how scientists classify and study them, and how we use them for personal adornment, tools, and technology. The galleries feature more than 5,000 specimens from 98 countries.
Sponsored by Allison and Roberto Mignone.
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West, Manhattan
Contact: 212-769-5100
Open to the public with admission fee.
For New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut residents with groups of 10 visitors, donations are appreciated at your discretion.
Center for Italian Studies Cinema Club
Co-Hosted with the D’Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies
Hollywood Dreams Italian
An opportunity to discuss and view together selected films featuring Italy as the setting. Bimonthly screenings in the Center for Italian Studies, Library E4340
Program and schedule to be announced.
Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook University
Contact: 631-632-7444
Alex Guzmán Memorial Concert: On Regina Opera's Website Now
Those of you who missed the wonderful November 21 concert honoring the memory of Alex Guzmán, longtime Regina Board Member and conductor, can now enjoy the concert in its entirety on our website for free.
http://www.reginaopera.org/season.htm
High Notes: Spring at the Met
The second half of the Met's season features several exciting new productions and a full slate of starry revivals. The spring season kicks off on Monday, February 28, with a new staging of Don Carlos, Verdi’s epic drama of doomed love in the Spanish court, presented in its original five-act French version for the first time in Met history. Tenor Matthew Polenzani makes his role debut as the title prince, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leading some of today’s greatest Verdi singers and the full forces of the Met Orchestra and Chorus.
Early spring also heralds the return of a number of repertory classics—Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and Elektra, Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, Handel’s Rodelinda, and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin—each featuring not-to-be-missed casts. And in April, radiant soprano Nadine Sierra lights up director Simon Stone’s explosive new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.
As part of our commitment to everyone’s safety, we have implemented a mandatory vaccination and masking policy for all audiences and employees. Booster shots are now also required for all who are eligible. For more information, visit metopera.org/commitment.
https://www.metopera.org/
Winter and Spring Programs at The Metropolitan Opera Guild
Live Singing Returns to the Guild!
The Metropolitan Opera Guild
70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 6th Floor
Manhattan
Contact: (212) 769-7000
info@metguild.org
Guild Membership Customer Service: 212-362-0068
Metropolitan Opera Tickets and Customer Service: 212-362-6000
The Metropolitan Opera
New Episode Available Now
Aria Code, the Met’s acclaimed podcast collaboration with WQXR—popular even beyond the opera house—looks at how its message of courage in the face of adversity has helped make it a global anthem of resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Subscribe to Aria Code wherever you get your podcasts.
https://www.metopera.org/discover/podcasts/aria-code/
For Opera Lovers
From Italy Online organized by the Scarsdale Adult School, NY.
Contact: 914-723-2325
