Italy's Treasures
by Magda Lauer |
Federico Fellini, often referred to by his colleagues as “Rimini Fellini”, the filmmaker and scriptwriter who won five Academy Awards , is considered the most…
by Magda Lauer |
The signing of The Lateran Treaty established Vatican City as an independent state in 1929. With little more than 400 citizens including Swiss guards,…
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“This is going to be good” uttered the 27 year old athlete. His trainer, a man who had coached him for several years was slightly taken back, never having…
by John Bensalhia |
BACKGROUND
Un Ballo in Maschera has a complex genesis. The end product is the result of numerous changes, rewrites, and no doubt, one or two headaches for…
by Carol King |
Carol King heads off the beaten track to take a trip round the northern Italian city of Brescia.
Brescia is not as popular a tourist destination as the…
by Magda Lauer |
This extraordinary woman carried mice in her handbag to Rio, was awarded the Nobel Prize and lived to 103!Child of an engineer and a painterBorn on 22 April…
by ITALY |
BACKGROUND
Aida is a four-act opera written by Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antoni Ghislanzoni, which was based on a scenario by French Egyptologist…
by John Bensalhia |
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest Italian romantic composers of all time. Giuseppe Verdi was responsible for some of…
by Magda Lauer |
image courtesy of Acorn Montessori SchoolOn the 31st of August, we honored Maria Montessori's 142nd birth anniversary. Even google marked the date with a…
by Gabi Logan |
Dante—one short word, one mononym—because of the words written by one man, has come to mean so many things. Beauty. Complexity. Man’s quest in life. Redemption…
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