March 24
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, March 24, 2025 – 5:00 pm
Uno, Nessuno e Centomila
Casa Italiana hosts this book club online on the Zoom platform to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place with time in the language and customs. The discussion is informal.
March 25
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, March 25, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Respighi and…
Vivaldi, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Catalani, Respighi: let’s hear the composers we know and love. But what of their contemporaries who are not household names? How do their works compare to those of the greats? Come listen to beloved favorites – balanced by lesser-known works – for an exhilarating exploration of Italian music this Spring.
March 26
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, March 26, 2025 – 5:00 pm
Solo Shows
Solo shows are increasingly becoming a cornerstone of Italian theater. Their affordability, ease of production, and flexibility for touring make them a practical choice for many artists and companies. Despite their simplicity, these performances are highly impactful, often delivering powerful narratives with minimal resources. In fact, solo shows may currently represent the heart of the Italian theatrical landscape, offering a genuine reflection of both the audience’s interests and the artists’ passions. They provide an intimate platform for storytelling, giving voice to personal, social, and cultural themes that resonate deeply in today’s Italy.
March 28
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Friday, March 28, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Paolo Giordano’s “Tasmania”
After losing the future he imagined for himself, a writer sets out in search of connection and purpose at a tipping point with climate change and global conflict, in this breathtaking novel from the Strega Prize-winning author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, translated from Italian by Antony Shugaar. Author Paolo Giordano will be in conversation with Hisham Matar, followed by a signing.
March 31
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, March 31, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Boccaccio’s Anger
Gur Zak is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also serves as the Head of the Institute of Literatures. His primary research interest lies in the interrelations between literature, ethics, and the emotions in the later Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, with a particular emphasis on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. He is the author of Petrarch’s Humanism and the Care of the Self (Cambridge, 2010) and Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature (PIMS, 2022). His current research deals with the literary, philosophical, and political implications of compassion in the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from Dante to Tasso. He has published articles in journals such as Speculum, MLN, and I Tatti Studies, and has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch, The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio, and The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature. He is also interested in the theory and practice of autobiography from antiquity to the present and contemporary theories of affects. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Monday, March 31, 2025 – 6:00 pm
The Store Under the Portico
Ispirato a una storia vera, The Store Under the Portico è un musical originale ambientato a Mantova, in Italia, durante l’occupazione tedesca del Nord Italia nella seconda guerra mondiale. Renata Baraldi, affettuosamente chiamata “Tata”, rileva un negozio di tessuti per una famiglia ebrea nascosta al culmine del fascismo (dove le donne erano considerate niente più che portatrici di figli). In un paese letteralmente diviso in due, dove i nazisti sparavano agli italiani a caso mentre gli alleati li bombardavano, le cose in Italia non erano così semplici come sembravano. The Store Under the Portico racconta la storia mai raccontata del nemico/alleato della seconda guerra mondiale, ma nel profondo si concentra sulla vita quotidiana della gente di Mantova e su ciò che è disposta a fare per amore.
April 1
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, April 1, 2025 – 6:30 -8:30 pm
Advetures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin
A conversation with Federica Lombardi. The sixth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features Italian soprano Federica Lombardi, who will be singing the role of Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at The Metropolitan Opera.
April 2
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Of Orpheus, Eurydice,Vivaldi, and more
Last year, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo captivated audiences at the Metropolitan Opera with his moving portrayal of Orpheus in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. This spring, Sarah Ruhl’s celebrated play Eurydice returns to New York City, following the success of its operatic adaptation. Now, the two artists are collaborating on The Seasons, a “new Baroque opera about the weather,” with music by Antonio Vivaldi and an original libretto by Ruhl, running this March at Boston Lyric Opera. Who better to explore the art of adaptation, the echoes of the past in the present and future, and the transformative power of performance and voice? How do they illuminate memory, loss, nature, and trauma? Join us for an evening of insight and artistry, where music and words come together to explore timeless human questions. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Una conversazione con Maurizio Marinella
Il 26 giugno 1914, l’imprenditore napoletano Eugenio Marinella inaugurò una bottega di 20 metri quadrati in Piazza della Vittoria, nel quartiere di Chiaia, dove si iniziarono a realizzare prodotti sartoriali su misura (in particolar modo camicie e cravatte) con sete stampate a mano in Inghilterra. La clientela originaria era prevalentemente composta da cavalieri e amazzoni della locale aristocrazia, complice la vicinanza della Villa Comunale e del percorso equestre ivi presente.
Nel corso degli anni, la clientela si è estesa esponenzialmente, fino a comprendere personalità di spicco della nobiltà e del jet set internazionale.
April 3
- Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Thursday, April 3, 2025 – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Mattia Venni Opera Recital
Programma: Antonio Caldara: Come raggio di sol. Gaetano Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore – Udite, udite, o rustici! Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula – Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni, Luigi Denza: Occhi di fata, Francesco Paolo Tosti: L’ultima canzone, Renato Brogi: Visione veneziana Ernesto de Curtis: Non ti scordar di me, Cesare Andrea Bixio: Mamma
April 4
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Friday, April 4, 2025 – 7:00 pm
Forgotten Gems with Siri Hustvedt
Forgotten Gems is a series that takes place at Casa Italiana as part of the literary festival Le Conversazioni that focuses on films that the speakers believe worthy of being [re]discovered. Antonio Monda and his guest each choose three films to present and discuss (accompanied by clips). This season’s fourth guest is author Siri Hustvedt.
April 9
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 9, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Unlearn. Racialization and Italian Identity in Italy and the Italian Diaspora
How do both Italians of multiple backgrounds and members of the Italian diaspora consider their place in the world, their various identities, and how they relate to one another? The UNLEARN series podcast, created by Zoe Map and produced in collaboration with Accento World, seeks to answer this question through a visual podcast. Each episode features a series of discussions with Italians of different backgrounds on topics like racialization in Italy and abroad, emigration from Italy and immigration to Italy, Italian colonialism, and, most recently, Italian fashion.
After a screening of excerpts from the UNLEARN series podcast featuring various guests, Zoe Map and Kristal Trotter, founder of Accento World, will talk about their experiences engaging in conversations about Italian identity within the context of the podcast. They will discuss how they make academic knowledge and information accessible to a broader public, what kinds of challenges and resistances they’ve faced in their work, and how Italians and others unlearn old narratives and create space for new ones while taking accountability.
April 10
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Dante and Money
Day 1: Keynote Lecture. Giacomo Todeschini, University of Trieste. Against or According to Nature: Money as circulating humor or aposteme in Dante’s representation of the medieval financial revolution. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Perfection di Vincenzo Latronico
Presentazione libro. Perfection, il primo libro di Vincenzo Latronico tradotto in inglese da Sophie Hughes, è un romanzo tagliente sull’esistenza contemporanea, un racconto di due persone che si svegliano gradualmente e si ritrovano in varie trappole, chiedendosi come tutto ciò sia potuto accadere. È stata una mancanza di lungimiranza o sono semplicemente nati troppo tardi?
April 11
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Friday, April 11, 2025 – 9:30 pm
Dante and Money
Day 2:Symposium. Giacomo Todeschini, University of Trieste. Against or According to Nature: Money as circulating humor or aposteme in Dante’s representation of the medieval financial revolution.
