Come to the Vari Symposium 2015 for an enjoyable evening of Italian opera arias, duets and songs performed from notable operas such as La Traviata, La Bohème and Rigoletto. This year's performance is Friday, May 15th at 7:30PM at the Music Recital Hall at Santa Clara University.   The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP click here....

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011. NOVEMBER 20, 2015 - (07:00 PM): Concert: Live At Home with GIOVANNI CACCAMO. LIVE AT HOME - A New Way of Making Music   Giovanni Caccamo is a singer/songwriter produced by Caterina Caselli and discovered by Franco Battiato. In 2015 he won t...

WTI Magazine #73    2015 November 27Author : Cristina Fontanelli      Translation by:   Hello all of you precious readers of "We The Italians". Thank you Umberto Mucci for giving me the opportunity to explain how and why I began the beloved annual Italian show "Christmas in Italy®" 12 years ago in NYC and 4 years ago in San Diego. The memories I...

di Emanuela Zuccalà   Sbarcavano a Ellis Island, sotto la Statua della Libertà, con le valigie colme solo di sogni. Li abbiamo visti in tanti film, i quattro milioni di italiani emigrati negli Stati Uniti fra Ottocento e Novecento, ma non sapevamo che tra loro si nascondessero dei musicisti sopraffini.   Mandolinisti, cantanti, pianis...

di Mark Pernia   Sarà il Resort World Casino di New York (Queens) ad ospitare, il prossimo 22 settembre, la sesta edizione del Festival della Canzone Italiana di New York. Un evento che cresce di anno in anno e che raccoglie interesse sia da parte dell'Italia che degli italiani nel resto del Mondo. Cinque cantanti provenienti dall'Italia e c...

New York Festival of Song marks its seventh annual residency at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts with BEL CANTO/CAN BELTO, to be performed on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall.   A preview performance will take place at the Caramoor Center in Katonah, NY onSunday, March 15, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.   Read...

The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere presents: "The Evolution of Recorded Sound". A Program with Commendatore Aldo Mancusi, Founder & President of the Enrico Caruso Museum of AmericaThe Evolution of Recorded Sound. Presentation by Commendatore Aldo Mancusi filmed by Anton Evangelista   Anyone who loves an...

October 4 (Sunday) 3:00 pmItaly Comes to America "Concerto Tra Amici"Featuring the winner, Deborah Lurato, and several other talented musicians and singers who performed on the Italian version of American Idol, called "Concerto Tra Amici"Sponsored by Il Club Italiano of Westchester Community College, in Cooperation with the Westchester Coalition of...

By Stan Burnett Two nights every week, small throngs of New-Yorkers-in-the-know crowd an unmarked staircase leading to the second floor of a Mexican restaurant on 54th Street, seeking not just to go one flight up, but also to go eighty years back in time. They arrive at a usually-packed night club setting from another era. Up on the stand is an 1...

The King is Naked is an expression derived from the famous tale by Han Christian Handersen, entitled The Emperor's New Clothes and published in 1837. It refers to an arrogant king who is fooled by fraudulent tailors because of his presumption, and walks naked in front of his indulgent subjects, until an innocent child exposes him.   Nowadays...