Friday, September 2nd 3rd and 4th on WGBH 

The annual WGBH Opera Bash brings you a full weekend of operatic masterpieces.  Tune in to WGBH 2 and 44, as well as 99.5 All Classical on radio and the web to revel in the voices of today's greatest singers through 42 hours of performances. 

NPR World of Opera host Lisa Simeone is your host, with introductions and interviews with some of Boston's opera luminaries. 

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Friday, September 2nd 3rd and 4th 2011, Lawrence

The Feast is a celebration of our Italian-American heritage, an annual event that draws close to 75,000 visitors from throughout the Greater Boston and New England regions. For three days, Common Street from Union to Jackson Street is alive with music, food, people and their laughter.  

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Thursday, September 15, 7:30pm

at The Charles Hotel: Regattabar at the Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA

Patrizio Buanne

Thursday, September 15, 7:00pm
at Rockport Music and Coolidge Corner Theatre  

One Man, Two Guvnors

Based on Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, adapted by Richard Bean. Directed by Nicholas Hytner (National Theatre Artistic Director)

Having moved Goldoni's classic Italian comedjy to 1963 Brighton, UK, playwright Richard Bean and the National Theater of London has garnered rave reviews for this season opening farce, starring James Corden (The History Boys), in which sex, food and money are high on the agenda.

The show is a non-stop knee-slapping, belly-laughing riot from start to finish. - Edge Boston (John Amodeo) 

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Thursday, September  16 until Tuesday, September 30,
at the Harvard Film Archive

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From its beginnings, the cinema of Italy has been drawn to narratives exploring the establishment of Italian identity, a fascination legible in the many epics of the Roman empire created during the silent era and resurrected as the peplum genre in the 1950s and 1960s. The films chosen for the current program all depict military and political events from the crucial decades in the middle of the eighteenth century when the Italian state took shape. 

Different eras have naturally offered distinct visions of these historic events. Risorgimento films fit the purposes of nationalism and nostalgia during the Fascist era, although both Blasetti and De Sica could plausibly claim that their films were meant to be subversive by presenting their nationalist protagonists as underdogs hunted by the authorities. Later filmmakers, like Pietro Germi and the Taviani brothers, offered a revisionist perspective, presenting deliberately non-heroic visions of the Risorgimento years. 

Of course the two Italian filmmakers most concerned with history, Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini, both embraced Italy's unification as subject matter with Visconti's first two period pieces masterpieces set during the Risorgimento and Rossellini, even before his film about Garibaldi, presented the defeat of Italian fascism as a kind of modern Risorgimento in Paisan. 

This program is a co-presentation of the Harvard Film Archive and the Consulate General of Italy, Boston. Special Thanks: Giuseppe Pastorelli, Consul General of Italy, Boston; Ubaldo Panitti - Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Italy; Laura Argento - Cineteca Nazionale; Carmen Accaputo - Cineteca di Bologna.

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Saturday, September 17, 10:00am at Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA

RIGOLETTO

 

Plácido Domingo (of "Three Tenors" fame) takes on a new challenge - the title role of Rigoletto. Shot LIVE on location in the cobblestone streets of Mantua, Italy, this special film version features hot Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo as the Duke. Experience Verdi's memorable melodies and gripping tale like you've never seen it before!

Following his critically acclaimed turn in the title role of Simon Boccanegra, Plácido Domingo tackles his next major baritone role in a film of Verdi's Rigoletto, titled Rigoletto from Mantua.

In a ground-breaking and innovative event, the opera is performed in locations across the city with Domingo in the role of the hunchback court jester Rigoletto in Verdi's tragic masterpiece.

Rigoletto from Mantua is directed by Palme d'Or-nominated director Marco Bellocchio (Vincere), conceived and produced by Andrea Andermann, conducted by Zubin Mehta and filmed by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.

Price: $20.00- Adult, $17.00- Senior

 

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Thursday, September 22, 1:00pm - 2:00 pm at Sharf Visitor Center Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston 

Gallery Talk: 18th Century Italian Sculpture in its New Setting 

Join Marietta Cambareri, Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, and Jetskalina H. Phillips Curator of Judaica, for a closer look at the recent installation of Italian 18th century sculpture will present recent acquisitions, new attributions, and new interpretations of sculptures from Italy in the 18th century. Set into a sumptuous new gallery installation, this group of sculptures in porcelain, terra cotta, and bronze tells stories both sacred and secular, with charm, grace, and power. Free with admission - no ticket required.  

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Thursday, September 22, 5:00pm Harvard University Department of Music - Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Lauro de Bosis Lectures in the history of Italian Civilization

Nation and Taste: Three Lectures on Music in the Age of Italian Risorgimento 

First of three lectures this fall.

Join Sergio Durante, University of Padua
First Lecture:

"Italia vs. Germania: Don Giovanni to Don Juan and Back"  

The lecture is free and open to to the public.

 

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Thursday, September 22, 6.30pm MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, Room 66-110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge

Ferrari: Nanomedical Vistas

PIB would like to invite you to "Nanomedical Vistas - Technology Applied to Medicine in the Future of Today". The invited speaker is Dr. Mauro Ferrari, Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of NanoMedicine and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Houston, Professor at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University, and President of the Alliance for NanoHealth.

Professor Mauro Ferrari is an internationally recognized expert in the development and application of biomedical nanotechnology. He published more that 200 peer-reviewed articles and has more than 30 US and international patents. He lead the development of the NCI's program on nanotechnology and founded several start-up companies. He received several national and international prestigious awards from the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the Department of Defense among others. His research program focuses on bringing nanotechnology to clinical medicine in several areas including oncology, cardiovascular medicine, infectious disease and diabetes. His research is bringing nanotechnology to address some of the important requirements of modern medicine from early diagnosis (platform for the detection of biomarkers) to personalized therapy (controlled-release implants, BioNanoScaffolds and nano-vectors).

The talk and question time are sponsored by Cerulean. The networking cocktail with appetizers that will follow the talk will be kindly offered by Sauces 'n Love.

The admission to the event is free and there are 100 seats available. 

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Sunday, September 25, 4.30pm at the Passim Center

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino 

 

The original brain child of the writer Rina Durante, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (Best Italian World Music Band - MEI 2010) is the foremost and longest standing traditional music band from Salento, in Puglia, coming together some 36 years ago, in 1975. In 2007 the lead passed from the original founder of the band, Daniele Durante, to his son Mauro (already a highly regarded frame drums player and violinist who has played with numerous artists, such as Ludovico Einaudi, Piers Faccini, Ballake Sissoko, Ibrahim Maalouf, Stewart Copeland and La Notte della Taranta). At the age of 26, Mauro Durante is the musical assistant of Ludovico Einaudi, Maestro Concertatore of La Notte della Taranta, and works with him in the creation and artistic production of that spectacular performance. Canzoniere open the Concertone of La Notte della Taranta in Melpignano, performing live in front of over 100.000 people.

With a range from the energetic pizzica pizzica, to the tenderness of songs of love and longing; from the festa like exuberance of a local band to an ironic glance towards modernity, Canzoniere made the history of Italian world music.
Canzoniere's live concerts are a life explosion: full of energy, passion, rhythm and mystery, they bring the audience from the past into modernity, and back.
With 16 albums and numerous performances in Europe, the Middle East and the USA, Canzoniere have always evoked an enthusiastic response from audiences and sensitively admiring reviews from the music press.

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Entire month of September, until January 22, 2012

Postwar Europe saw many and diverse transformations of the way in which artists depicted the human image. Figuration and abstraction were the contending elements in a dynamic dialogue boldly visible in the work of Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Pablo Picasso, and their many contemporaries. Thirty-five prints, drawings, and paintings by twenty artists from continental Europe and Britain-including works on loan from private collections-illuminate the many innovations and consequent artistic tensions of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Other artists, including Joan Miró, Jean Arp, and Henry Moore added their unique perspectives to the ongoing debate. Many of these mid-century artists are currently in the process of being rediscovered, figures such as Jean Fautrier, Karel Appel, and Stanley William Hayter.  

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