April 22
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin
The seventh Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features New Yorker mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, who will be singing the role of Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at The Metropolitan Opera. Isabel Leonard appears courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 6:00 pm
EVENTO SOLD OUT- Riapre la Frick Collection. Nuova luce (soprattutto) sull’arte italiana in collezione.
Nel presentare la riorganizzazione della celebre casa-museo sulla 70esima Strada, che riaprirà al pubblico la prossima settimana (17 aprile), questo incontro si concentrerà in particolare sull’arte italiana presente nella collezione. Il nuovo allestimento all’interno della villa Frick consente accostamenti inaspettati e nuove prospettive, incoraggiando i visitatori a osservare ancora e più a lungo.
April 23
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 23, 2025 – 5:00 pm
Festivals and Awards
Italy’s theater landscape is enriched by prestigious awards and festivals that celebrate the diversity and innovation of its theatrical community. Much like the Tony and Obie Awards, Italy has its own accolades distributed throughout the year (the UBU, the Hystrio, the Maschere per il teatro and so on) recognizing both large-scale productions and smaller, independent works. Among these are highly respected awards for playwrights, honoring their contributions to the craft and spotlighting groundbreaking works.The country also hosts an impressive array of festivals, many of which are dedicated to specific niches within the theater world. Notably, there are festivals designed for young artists under the age of 25, offering a platform for emerging talents to showcase their work and experiment with new ideas. Other festivals focus on avant-garde productions, providing a space for daring and experimental performances, as well as events celebrating international works, fostering cross-cultural collaboration and dialogue. - Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 23, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Futurism
A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation. As the first comprehensive avant-garde of the twentieth century, Italian Futurism sought to integrate modern life with every imaginable aesthetic medium. The detached materiality of sculpture offered a singular proving ground for the drive to merge art and existence. Sculpture’s theory and practice offers a distillation of Futurism’s larger aims and frustrations: a will to mechanize haunted by the tradition of craft; the liberation of flight burdened by mass and gravity; the lyrical mutiny of form chastened by the exigencies of design; and a dream of totality splintered by the contingency of the fragment. Centered on avant-garde sculpture in Italy and other European countries between the world wars, Fragments of Totality ventures a new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions. Illuminating understudied works by prominent artists like Giacomo Balla, Enrico Prampolini, Fortunato Depero, and Bruno Munari alongside the efforts of many lesser-known figures, this first major study of Futurist sculpture opens onto wider questions: from labor and leftist Futurism, to the politics of aesthetic autonomy, to the intersections between race, imperialism, and materials. The medium—and the idea—of sculpture sets into relief the demands of any project of modern cultural totality. Futurism’s shifting definitions of “plasticity” underscore the volatile political economy not only of interwar Italy, but also perhaps of a wider Western epoch.
April 24
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Thursday, April 24, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Beyond the Shadows:The Music of Mercadante
To honor the 230th anniversary of Saverio Mercadante’s birth (1795, Altamura), We Are Puglia and the United Pugliesi Federation, with the support of Regione Puglia, present an evening dedicated to the composer, in partnership with Club Federiciano and the Coro Polifonico ‘Saverio Mercadante’.
April 25
- Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Friday, April 25, 2025 – 3:00 pm
25 aprile – Festa della Liberazione: preservare la memoria
n occasione dell’80° anniversario della Liberazione dell’Italia dal nazifascismo, l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura ospita la proiezione di Roma città aperta di Roberto Rossellini (0re 15:00)e L’uomo che verrà di Giorgio Diritti (ore 17:30) (in italiano con sottotitoli in inglese). Ogni proiezione sarà seguita da un dibattito con esperti di storia e cinema, moderato dal critico cinematografico Adriano Ercolani. Tra gli ospiti dell’evento: David Forgacs, Professore di Studi Italiani Contemporanei alla New York University.
April 26
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Saturday, April 26, 2025 – 3:00 pm
Tortelli Lab for Kids
Join us at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò for a hands-on pasta lab in collaboration with Allora BK, as Part of La Casa dei Piccoli series. An event designed for families to come together and celebrate Italian traditions through food! In this fun and interactive workshop, children will learn how to make delicious tortelli from scratch. They’ll mix and roll out fresh pasta dough, prepare a creamy ricotta filling, and assemble their own tortelli under the guidance of Allora’s expert team. More than just a cooking class, this lab is a way to bring children closer to the richness of Italian culture and the joy of good eating. To end the experience on a tasty note, everyone will enjoy a sampling of tortelli prepared by our talented Allora’s chef. Buon appetito!
April 28
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, April 28, 2025 – 6:00 pm
La Madre Italia
Anthologies are communities. And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere won, “La letteratura delle radici,” prize for anthologies in Italy. Now it will be presented for the first time in English. Join us for a gathering of Italian American women writers– Annie Lanzillotto, Jennifer Romanello, Luisa Del Giudice, Kathryn Curto, Jean Feraca, Joanna Clapps Herman, Chiara Montalto, Gail Reitano, Dr. Loretta D’Orsogna who will be reading from their essays and talking with the audience about what it means to be an Italian American woman living outside of la madre Italia. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Monday, April 28, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Opera: vecchie radici, nuovi orizzonti. Sviluppo del pubblico e il progetto Opera out of Opera
Michelangelo Galeati è direttore d’orchestra, educatore e organizzatore internazionale nel mondo della musica classica. Rinomato per la sua arte dinamica e il suo approccio innovativo, è professore al Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia” di Roma. Oltre al suo ruolo di insegnante, ricopre posizioni rilevanti come Delegato per i progetti internazionali, membro della Commissione internazionale e parte del Consiglio accademico, promuovendo l’impegno globale dell’istituzione. Dal 2000, Michelangelo Galeati è stato una pietra miliare nella creazione e gestione di importanti iniziative culturali europee come Erasmus+ e Creative Europe. La sua competenza si estende alla promozione della collaborazione internazionale e dello sviluppo del pubblico, rendendolo una figura fondamentale nei progetti culturali transnazionali, sostenendo metodologie educative innovative per coltivare il talento in tutte le discipline.
April 29
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, April 29, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin
The eighth and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features the conductor and Music Director of Opera Philadelphia Corrado Rovaris.
April 30
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 30, 2025 – 5:30 pm
Is Innovation Grammatically Correct?
The launch of The Grammar of Innovation: A Literary Exploration of Technological and Organizational Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) offers an opportunity to engage in a thought-provoking conversation on the role of interdisciplinarity in higher education. To celebrate its release, a roundtable discussion will bring together perspectives from the corporate world as well as academics from humanities, sociology, and management studies: such distinct and distant perspectives will highlight the crucial role of interdisciplinarity in higher education – indeed, fundamental to equipe students with tools to navigate and govern complex challenges – as well as barriers and obstacles to being accepted in academia and in corporations. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura NY – Wednesday, April 30, 2025 –6:30 pm
“Il Mecenate” di Massimiliano Finazzer Flory – Proiezione film
Presentato in anteprima a Venezia nell’ambito degli eventi organizzati in occasione dell’81ª Mostra Internazionale dell’Arte Cinematografica, il film documentario Il Mecenate, diretto da Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, racconta del primo mecenate della modernità: Galeazzo Arconati. Senza di lui non avremmo una storia di grande bellezza. Non avremmo tutti i Leonardo da Vinci che possiamo ammirare alla Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
Il Mecenate è un docu fiction che mescola piani temporali, racconto e interviste, storia e attualità di un luogo magico, lascito di una grande personalità del passato, che ha contribuito allo sviluppo del tessuto culturale di Milano.
May 5
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, May 5, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Lampedusa Beach
Written by Lina Prosa, Directed by Nadia Kibout, with Nadia Kibout and Daniele Onorati. The story of “Lampedusa Beach” begins with the actress carrying the baggage of her memory on stage and beginning her slow descent into the abyss. Nadia Kibout is Shauba, an African migrant who drowns near the shores of the island of Lampedusa. In that inexorable time Shauba recounts minute by minute the chronicle of her end.
The actress thus brings to life the “Theatre of the Shipwreck.” She fulfills her mythical function of giving body to those who are not there and name to those who do not have it. Before her is the audience, facing its responsibilities. The narrative represents the very current issue of migrants.
May 6
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, May 6, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Alfredo, Italy in a Deep Well
On the evening of June 10, 1981 six year old Alfredo (Alfredino) Rampi fell 36 meters deep into a well in Vermicino, a village near Rome. In the next 35 hours, Italy was glued to the TV watching the first non-stop live broadcast to cover the attempt to save him. It was a turning point in the history of Italian TV, which is still studied in journalism schools and where the modern sensationalist way of dealing with news was born. Fabio Banfo brings the story back to life, introducing in his solo show the many characters that filled that night: the first journalist who rushed to the scene, the sandwich seller who profited from the attending crowd, President Pertini, the robots Mazinga and Grendizer, which Alfredino was passionate about, the policeman who spoke with him for hours to try to reassure him and give him hope, Angelo Licheri, who remained for forty minutes hanging upside down in the well, trying to save the child. At the core of the narration there is Alfredino, in that deep well together with the entire country. - Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, May 6, 2025 – 8:00 pm
In the Name of Mary
The show is inspired by and reworks a mafia news story that occurred in Palermo on 14 November 1982 and which led to the death of the young Sicilian policeman Calogero Zucchetto, who in that period was working with the Palermo Mobile Squad in the search for mafia affiliates. The point of view of the show is from his girlfriend Maria Lo Bello, tormented in the years following the loss by the question: “Could it have gone differently?”. For the entire duration of the show, the protagonist responds unaware to this question, with a true and ironic, fragile and disenchanted stream of consciousness, recounting the meeting and pursuing the love that led her to get engaged to Calogero (Lillo for friends) Zucchetto.
