Tuesday April 5, 7.00pm,  Brookline Booksmith at Coolidge Corner

Daring debuts Paolo Giordano and Alexi Zentner

A night with two debut novelists who push the boundaries of literary fiction.  

Paolo Giordano's international best-seller The Solitude of Prime Numbers is an arithmetic love story that traces the intersectinglines between two lonely, scarred individuals. Alexi Zentner, winner of the 2008 Narrative Prize and a 2008O. Henry Prize for his short fiction, paints a haunting portrait of anorth-woods boomtown where the dead and living meet and part in his debutnovel, Touch.

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Friday April 8, 8.00pm, Boston Symphony Hall  

Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Europa Unita:  

NOTTE TRICOLORE

Join the Italian Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Europa Unita in the official celebrations of the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy at Boston Symphony Hall with a World Premiere Symphonic Concert!

Notte Tricolore  is a showcase of the best of Italian classical music, themed to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of the Italian Republic. The Italian Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Europa Unita and Maestro Rossana Tomassi Golkar bring some of the most renowned Italian classical symphonies to Boston. The program includes the World Premiere of "Norma - Libera Fantasia e Variazioni per Pianoforte e Orchestra" by Oscar Winner Maestro Luis Bacalov who revisited Bellini's Norma and the drama of Casta Diva. Notte Tricolore also features Verdi's "The Force of Destiny", the "Leopard Suite" (Il Gattopardo) by Nino Rota and a new orchestra arrangement of Mameli's Hymn of Italy composed by Renato Serio.  

Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Europa Unita 

M. Tiziano Severini - Conductor
M. Rossana Tomassi Golkar - Piano  

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About the Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Europa Unita http://boston.oseu.it/
 

Tickets: $35 - $50 - $75 - $100 (VIP ticket incl. pre-concert reception starting at 6.30pm) - please contact Symphony Hall at 617.266.1200

INFO [email protected], [email protected]   

April 8-20, Ann Mary Brown Memorial, Brown University, Providence, RI 

Art Exhibit:  The Garibaldi Panorama   

Prints and books from the  Ann S. K. Brown Military Collection.   

Peter Harrington, Curator  

Open 9.00am-5.00pm - Brown University, Providence, RI

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Saturday April 9, 1.00pm, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA  

Met opera HD Live: Rossini's Le Comte Ory 

Rossini's vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Fl�rez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Ad�le, sung by soprano Diana Damrau. Bartlett Sher, director of the Met's hit productions of The Barber of Seville and The Tales of Hoffmann, describes the world of the opera as, "a place where love is dangerous. People get hurt. That can be very funny and very painful. Rossini captures both-with the most beautiful love music Rossini ever wrote."

Maurizio Benini,Conductor. Cast: Juan Diego Fl�rez, Joyce DiDonato, Diana Damrau, Susanne Resmark.  
3 hrs. 1 Intermission.  

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Shalin Liu Performance Center -37 Main Street - Rockport, MA 01966

Sunday April 10, 3.00pm, First Lutheran Church, Boston

Songs, Laments, and Madrigals of Monteverdi and D'India

Sigismondo D'India has long stood in the shadow of his more famous contemporary Claudio Monteverdi, though each contributed to the transformation of vocal music in sixteenth-century Italy. From the astonishing drama of D'India's laments of Olympia and Orfeo to virtuosic monody and spirited madrigals, acclaimed vocal ensemble Exsultemus presents a program that offers something to delight every lover of Italian music.

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Monday April 11, 7.00pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline 

Il Gattopardo

Luchino Visconti's stunningly restored 1963 epic is based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's fine novel, visually charting the mood of change that the cascade of social revolution brought to an aristocratic family as seen through the eyes and heart of its patriarch.

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Tuesday April 12, 8.00 pm, Distler Performance Hall at Tufts University

The Italian-English Connection

Tufts Early Music Ensemble performs sixteenth- and seventeenth-century works by Marenzio, Lupo, Ferrabosco I & II, Luzzaschi, Coprario, and Monteverdi for voices, viols, harpsichord, recorders, and lute.  Free; no tickets required.

Wednesday April 13, 6.30 pm, Rhode Island Historical Society Library Providence, RI 02906

Rhode Island Historical Society Library

Italian-Americans and Civil Rights

Civil rights struggles in United States history were not confined to the movement in the 1960's. Tullio D. Pitassi Ph.D. narrates the role of Italian-Americans in the ongoing struggle for civil rights from the 1700s through the 20th century. Tullio D. Pitassi, psychologist and author, was the historian on Charles Pesaturo's Italian- American radio program and guest speaker at the Italo-American Club for the 500th anniversary celebration of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the new world.

Rhode Island Historical Society Library - 121 Hope St.- Providence, RI 02906

R.S.V.P. to: Natasha (401) 273-8107 x12 or [email protected]

Free and open to the public.

Thursday April 14, 7.30pm, The Charles Hotel: Regattabar, Cambridge

Newpoli    

Newpoli is a group of exceptionally talented alumni from Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, that performs Southern Italian Folk Music, mainly from the regions of Campania and Puglia, integrating a wide variety of styles such as Tarantella-Pizzica, Tammuriata, Villanella and the Neapolitan Canzone, encompassing music from the Middle Ages to the 19th  

century.  The group has been enthusiastically received everywhere for their vitality, energy and spice of their music. 

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Thursday April 14, 2.00pm, Cogut Center for the Humanities,  Brown University, Providence, RI 

"Mediating the Risorgimento/Risorgimento Mediato"

2011 marks the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. This International Symposium will explore the role of old and new media (so defined within the framework of their time) in the production and dissemination of an "imagined Italian community" and the articulation of a national discourse, against the backdrop of 19th-century Europe: how different media (illustrated news, opera and theatre, painting and photography, panoramas and film) contributed to shaping the social and political relationships and strategies that resulted in the Italian unification, gave voice and expression to national narratives and iconographies, provided a bridge between elite and popular culture, and influenced post-unitarian debates.  

The Symposium is connected to the Garibaldi & the Risorgimento project. Proceedings of the Symposium will be published on the project's web site and a selection will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies edited by John Davis and Massimo Riva, and published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.  

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Friday April 15, 7.30pm, Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI  

"Mazzinian Concert"

Classical Guitar Concert performed by Maestro Giuseppe Maria Ficara from the National Conservatory of Pesaro, Italy.   

Music by Mauro Giuliani, Luigi Legnani, Niccol� Paganini, Ferdinando Carulli.

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For tickets call (401)863-1561or contact [email protected] 

Saturday April 16, starting at 11.00am, Granoff Center for the Arts, Martinos Auditorium

Brown University, Providence, RI  

150 Years of Italian Unity: What Has Been Achieved?

A discussion with former Prime Minister Romano Prodi and representatives of major Italian think tanks regarding Italian Public Policies of the past 150 years.

11.00am Welcoming address 

Lincoln Chafee, Governor of the State of Rhode Island

Giuseppe Pastorelli, Italian Consul General, Boston

David I. Kertzer, Provost, Brown University

Introduction 

Synopsis of Italian Public Policies of the past 150 years:

Prof. Riccardo Viale, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York

Discussants

Fondazione Craxi

Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, Rome

Istituto Bruno Leoni

Centro di Formazione Politica

Fondazione Democratica

Fondazione per la Sussidiariet�

Fondazione Res Publica

Romano Prodi (Brown University), David I. Kertzer (Brown University). Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU), John A. Davis (University of Connecticut), Carl Ipsen (Indiana University), Charles Maier (Harvard University), Jane Schneider (CUNY), Peter Schneider (Fordham University)

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Italian Studies, Brown University.  

190 Hope Str. Brown University, Providence RI 

Phone: (401)863-1561 - [email protected] 

Saturday April 16, 8.00pm Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Arts Brown University, Providence, RI  

La Presa di Roma (The Capture of Rome) 

A rare footage from a 1905 film by Filoteo Alberini. Ma che storia...[What A History]...A documentary about the Risorgimento directed by Gianfranco Pannone, based on footage from the Istituto Luce Film archives.

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Italian Studies - Brown University - 190 Hope Street - Box 1942

Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

Phone: (401)863-1561 - Fax: (401)863-3304

[email protected] 

Saturday April 16, 6.30pm, Temple B'Nai Moshe, 1849 Comm Ave. Brighton   

La Serva Padrona

Boston Vocal Arts Studio persents La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. The program will include Mozart's Violin Concerto #3 and other orchestral works performend by the Orchestra of Boston Vocal Arts Studio.

Tickets: $12/$20. Call (857)284-9982 

Tuesday April 19, 7.00pm, Boston Public Library

Another Ocean  

International Poetry Reading by Walter Valtieri 

The Italian poet and dramaturg walter Valeri will read his poems, translated in English by the Boston's Poet Laureate Sam Cornish and Pina Piccolo, with music by G. Cassado, G. Crumb, J.S. Bach, and improvisations performed by Elena Kovableva (violoncello), Rona Park(soprano), Isaac Bray (voice), and Kenneth Edwards (video recording). 

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Thursday April 28, 6.30pm, Boston Wine School, Allston 

Veni Vidi Vino! Wine Tasting Tour of italy

So many excellent Italian wines, so little time! Take a whirlwind introductory tour of the whole Italian peninsula, from Nebbiolo in the foothills of the Alps, to Chianti in Tuscany, all the way south to Sicily's rugged reds. These are some of the best food wines in the world, and we'll explore how beautifully they work with Italian cheeses, olives, and olive oil too.  

 Week 1 ~ Northern Italian Wines: Veneto, Piedmont & the Alps 
 Week 2 ~ Wines Of Southern Italy: Sicily, Primitivo, Rustic Reds 
 Week 3 ~ Tuscany: Chianti and Beyond
 Week 4 ~ Vini Domani: Modern & Post-Modern Italian Wines

Thursday April 28, 8.30 pm, Wellesley College, Houghton Chapel

The Cloistered Muse

Nun Composers and Musicians in 17th Century Northern Italy 

Friday April 29 & Monday May 2, 8.00pm Bowker Auditorium,  University of Massachusetts Amherst

L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti: Opera Workshop  

Lanfranco Marcelletti, Conductor - Amy Johnson, 

Jr. Program Director - Jill Brunelle, Accompanist.  

Sung in Italian with English titles.

Tickets. $3 UMass students; $5 other students, seniors, children; $10 general public. Box Office 413-545-2511   

Fax 617-722-9407

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