“Lucio Silla” di Mozart
“Lucio Silla” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartconducted by Francesco MiliotoDirected by Andreas MitisekSeptember 26-October 4Free performance on Wednesday, September 23rd at 6:30pm.Harris Theater for Music and Dance205 E Randolph Drhttp://www.harristheaterchicago.org/events/2015-2016-season/cot-lucio-sillaMozart’s passionate story of love, power, bloody conspiracies and revenge. Presented by the Chicago Opera Theater
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Paolo Angeli performs at the Chicago World Music Festival
Paolo Angeli performs at the Chicago World Music FestivalSunday, September 205:15–6:30pm Preston Bradley HallChicago Cultural Center78 E Washington StMonday, September 21st8pm (Doors open at 6pm)City Winery Chicago1200 W. Randolph St.http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/world_music_festival6.htmlWith his prepared Sardinian guitar, Paolo Angeli elaborates, improvises and composes unclassifiable music, suspended between free jazz, postfolk and minimal pop. Presented in collaboration wth the […]
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Screening of “I am Love” (2009), directed by Luca Guadagnino
“I am Love” by Luca GuadagninoReeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival Sunday, September 20 at 8:45 pm.Landmark Theater2828 N Clark Stwww.reelingfilmfestival.orgScreening of “I am Love” (Io sono amore, 2009) by Luca Guadagnino will mark the closing night of the festival. “I Am Love” tells the story of the wealthy Recchi family, whose lives are […]
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“Contemporary Art in Italy: Today”
Featuring Artist Diego Perrone, Curator Ilaria Bonacossa, Director of MUSEION Letizia Ragaglia, and Founder of ARTUNER Eugenio Re Rebaudengo Presented as part of EXPO Chicago 2015, this panel will address the question of national context in an increasingly globalized world. Featuring some of today’s most influential voices on Italian culture working today, this panel presents […]
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“Across the Oceans to the Land of Mines”, a book presentation by Pier Giorgio Ardeni
“Across the Oceans to the Land of Mines”Five Thousand Stories of Italian Migration from theMountains of Bologna and Modena to America at the Turnof the Twentieth Century a book presentation by Pier Giorgio Ardeni This is a book of stories, hundreds and thousands of stories, which together tell of the exodus known as the Great […]
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“Siena, City of Secrets” by Jane Tylus
“Siena, City of Secrets” (University of Chicago Press, 2015) is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history and intellectual memoir, travelogue and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys of a town […]
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Master class with Paola Sorressa
July 6-10th from 1-4pm Paola Sorressa is artistic director, choreographer, and founder of the Mandala Dance Company, which performed “Triptych Motus” last Fall at the Ruth Paige Center for the Arts. Part contemporary dance, part acrobatic, Mandala Dance Company presents an innovative performance language that has resonated with audiences worldwide. This master class is presented […]
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“IN A DARK WOOD: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love,”
(HarperCollins, June 2015) by Author Joseph Luzzi Presentation of “IN A DARK WOOD: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love,” (HarperCollins, June 2015) by Author Joseph LuzziIn the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante’s Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief […]
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Screening of the film “The Face of an Angel”
The notorious Italian murder trial of Amanda Knox is the catalyst for this mirror-image fictional narrative, but director Winterbottom (THE TRIP TO ITALY, THE TRIP) pulls an artful bait-and-switch as he employs his signature talent for evoking the haunting allure of Italian locations. The film focuses on the labyrinthine story of Thomas Lang (Brühl), a […]
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Muti Conducts Tchaikovsky 5
Riccardo Muti’s final installment in his cycle of the complete Tchaikovsky symphonies features the noble yet poignant Fifth, with its memorable horn solo and haunting waltz. This cherished masterwork is paired with the world premiere of Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates’ Anthology of Fantastic Zoology. Based on the book by Luis Borges, it promises music inspired […]
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