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A multi-instrumentalist, expert in Mediterranean music and director of international ensembles, Stefano Saletti is one the founder of the Banda Ikona, along with the vocalist Barbara Eramo and the drummer and percussionist Giovanni Lo Cascio. For this concert they will be joined by the Iranian musician Pejman Tadayon (ney, sethar, daf).

Stefano Massini / Piccolo Teatro di Milano-Teatro d'Europa

SOMETHING ABOUT LEHMAN by Italian playwright Stefano Massini tells the story of the historic rise and fall of Lehman Brothers investment house. The fiction book is based on Massini's theatre plays "The Lehman Trilogy", a five-hour saga that traces the legacy of the infamous banking family back three generations, beginning with their humble arrival to America in the mid-1800s and ending with their empire’s eventual demise in 2008.

In collaboration with ArteCinema
Sponsored by Magazzino Italian Art

Curated by Laura Trisorio

6:30pm
Capo Dio Monte - Luigi Ontani
(Pappi Corsicato, Italy, 1997, 12 min.)
No dialogues

The third Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkinfeatures Cori Ellison, Dramaturg at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in England who is on the Vocal Arts Faculty at The Juilliard School. Her expertise and eloquence on everything operatic has benefitted singers and audiences.

In ENGLISH.

The “Integrated Theater of the Emotion” is a university-level degree especially designed to academically and professionally prepare people with disabilities in the field of theater arts. It has been fully operational at the University of Studies of Tor Vergata, one of Rome’s outer boroughs, for almost a year now, and it has been a true revolution in the lives of people with disabilities and their families.

Peppe Voltarelli is a singer-songwriter and actor whose body of work is dedicated to exploring the Italian diaspora throughout the world. In his performance and talk, Peppe recreates the atmosphere of ancient Sicilian and Calabrian tales narrated by popular Southern Italian storytellers and musicians, while updating them for a modern audience.

Embroidered Stories:
Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
(2014, University Press of Mississippi)

Edited by Joseph Sciorra and Edvige Giunta