Commissioned by San Francisco Opera, the world premiere of Two Women / La Ciociara (2015) raises enduring and complex questions about love, loyalty, and the legacy of war.   This opera takes its name from the eponymous Italian novel by Alberto Moravia that was adapted for the screen by Vittorio De Sica, thus making cinematic history when Sop...

15-16 May: lecture and poetry reading.   Valerio Magrelli is a professor of French literature at the University of Cassino and a frequent contributor to the cultural pages of several Italian dailies. He is the author of several scholarly works on French literature as well as four prize-winning poetry collections. His poems have been translat...

The Louis Vuitton Cup finals have been more about survival than sailing.   Emirates Team New Zealand fell out of the second race of the series because of a mechanical problem Sunday, handing Italy's Luna Rossa a victory that evened the finals at one apiece.   Read more   Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com  

by Mauro Battocchi   In four years, the Mind the Bridge (MTB) accelerator and startup school in San Francisco has nurtured over 2000 startups and graduated over 250 aspiring entrepreneurs with a real impact on the Italian startup scene. The startup school is also expanding into the international scene and hosting entrepreneurs from Israel, K...

L'Italian Business & Invetsment Initiative (IB&II) ha creato dal 2011 un presidio qualificato a New York che svolge due funzioni:   1) Rete di relazioni qualificate con gli operatori finanziari Usa, sia private equity che venture capital, per facilitare l'espansione in quel mercato delle piccole e medie e delle start up italiane in p...

Today we have the pleasure to publish a guest post by Ken Borrelli, a leader of the Italian American Heritage Foundation of San Jose. Ken focuses on what he describes as a "Second Diaspora", i.e. what he sees as the demise of Italian ethnic neighborhoods in the Bay Area. This is great food for thought.   Ken's article raises questions that m...

by Mauro Battocchi   Mike Homer, Italy's Honorary Consul to Utah since 2008, is a historian among many other talents and has written several books on the American West and Mormonism. In 2007, the Mormon History Association awarded him the Steven Christensen Best Documentary Book Award for On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in...

The San Francisco Wine Exchange (SFWE), America's oldest independent wine marketing agency and a leading importer of fine wine, announced today the appointment of Diego Lo Prete to the position of General Manager, Executive Vice President. Lo Prete's new position was effective January 20, 2014. Lo Prete will report to Hugh Thacher, President of SFW...

The Italian Cultural Institute joined in celebrating the 8th annual SF Design Week with a satellite exhibit from the Museo Nazionale della Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI) called Piccolo Utopie, or Small Utopias.   Opening night at the Institute, Thursday, June 19, included a round-table panel that helped bring context to the buildings and instal...

La sede dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco si è trasformata per una sera in una vera e propria passerella di moda, per la presentazione della collezione di moda indipendente Eva Flair, la quale mira a promuovere il Made in Italy autentico nel mondo.   In occasione del 2013 Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, Eva Flair h...