U.S. premiere of Il giovane favoloso.ÌýAlessandra Mirra, University of ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵsylvania, will introduce the film with a short presentation of its subject, Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi…
Elise Bonner, Princeton University, will discuss Haydn's opera based on Carlo Goldoni's libretto, Il mondo della luna, and its characters' pursuit of happiness.Ìý
Micaela Baranello, Swarthmore College, will discuss the operetta canon and examine the genre’s journey from the commercial theaters of nineteenth-century
Paris and Vienna to the small group of works we find in…
The Music Department, the Center for Italian Studies, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, present the digital edition of the secular music of Luca
Marenzio (1553-1559), one of…
Italian filmaker Marina Spada will discuss women in Italian cinema and her own work starting form her 2009 documentary, Poesia che mi guardi [Poetry that Look at Me], on poet Antonia Pozzi. The event is…
The Center for Italian Studies at the University of ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵsylvania will celebrate the centennial of the birth of Italian poet Mario Luzi (1914-2005) with an international conference that…
Luca Cottini, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Villanova University will present a chapter from a book-in-progress that explores the social and cultural reception of gramophones and sound…
