Chicago Opera Festival 2022
Chicago Opera Festival 2022July 8 through July 24, 2022 This year the three-week festival will stage Gioachino Rossini’s “L’Inganno Felice” and Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il Corsaro”. The Chicago Opera Festival will also pay tribute to one of the greatest Italian opera singers, Renata Tebaldi, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her birth. […]
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Fare Cinema 2022
Fare Cinema 2022June 13 through June 19, 2022Online Screenings The fifth edition of Fare Cinema will start Monday, June 13, 2022. The event launched in 2018 and involves the organization of a series of initiatives to promote cinema and the Italian film industry around the world, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and […]
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Censorship and Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera
Censorship and Opera: Un Ballo in MascheraPresented by Prof. Jesse RosenbergFriday, June 3 at 6pm CTItalian Cultural Institute of Chicago Prof. Jesse Rosenberg presents Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera” ahead of the upcoming performances of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra directed by Riccardo Muti. Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” has long been a mainstay […]
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Carlo Aonzo & Don Stiernberg Trio: An Italian History
Carlo Aonzo & Don Stiernberg Trio: An Italian HistoryWednesday, June 1 at 8:30pm CTLive ConcertConstellation Chicago3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL Italian mandolin player and composer Carlo Aonzo meets the American sounds of Don Stiernberg Trio, in a live concert at Constellation Chicago. The Italian Mandolin rediscovers its overseas descendent. The American Mandolin […]
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G.E. Kidder Smith Photographer: Discovering Italy
G.E. Kidder Smith Photographer: Discovering ItalyMay 23 – July 8, 2022Visit by appointment only, Wednesday through Friday, 11:00am – 4:00pm CTItalian Cultural Institute of Chicago G.E. Kidder Smith Photographer is a multi-site exhibition curated by Angelo Maggi and Michelangelo Sabatino. In conjunction with the publication of G.E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of […]
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Italian Doc Remix North American Tour 2022 / Minneapolis
Italian Doc Remix North American Tour 2022 / MinneapolisThursday, May 19 at 7:30pm CTThe Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, MN IDR (Italian Doc Remix) announces the release of Pandemonium, a new album that reconnects immigrant memory with the ritual and folkloric sources so crucial to their music. As part of […]
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5/ Italian Architecture: Building Sustainable Futures
Le Voci della Natura: Ecologies and Nature in Italian Arts5/ Italian Architecture: Building Sustainable FuturesThursday, May 19 at 6pm CTOnline webinar Delimiting, separating, excluding, and isolating—at times architectural structures have implicitly reinforced the nature/culture divide that has not only defined our daily activities but that has also shaped our anthropocentric conception. This lecture […]
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Italian Doc Remix North American Tour 2022 / Detroit
Italian Doc Remix North American Tour 2022 / DetroitWednesday, May 18 at 7:30pm CTTrinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, MI IDR (Italian Doc Remix) announces the release of Pandemonium, a new album that reconnects immigrant memory with the ritual and folkloric sources so crucial to their music. As part of their 2022 North American […]
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Italian Doc Remix North American Tour 2022 / Chicago
Italian Doc Remix North American Tour 2022 / ChicagoTuesday, May 17 at 8:30pm CTConstellation, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL IDR (Italian Doc Remix) announces the release of Pandemonium, a new album that reconnects immigrant memory with the ritual and folkloric sources so crucial to their music. As part of their 2022 North […]
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L’Amore, il Cinema e i Viaggi in Italia (Love, Cinema and Italian Travels)
L’Amore, il Cinema e i Viaggi in Italia (Love, Cinema and Italian Travels)Monday, May 9 at 5:30pm CTItalian Cultural Institute of Chicago Inspired by his new book Le Immagini dell’Amore (The Images of Love) published for Marsilio, Roberto De Gaetano leads a dialogue with Prof. Armando Maggi, on representations of love in traditional […]
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