Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) will open its 2024-25 season with Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” Nov. 8 and 10 at the Lobero Theatre. Based on a true story, Pagliacci “Clowns” tells the tale of Canio, leader of ...

This fantastical drama is about a young, good-hearted sharecropper (Lazarro) living in rural Italy. The story takes off when Lazarro meets a nobleman, Tancredi, who asks him for help faking his own ...

The Oscar-nominated refugee drama took best film at the 2024 David Di Donatello Awards, Italy's top film honor. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief “I want to thank those who gave me the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Italy has won the Academy Award for Best International Film 14 times. That’s more than any other country, and it’s part of the reason why Joyce Mariani started the Cleveland Italian ...

If you stayed for the credits of this year’s Oscar-nominated Italian film, Io Capitano, you would have seen an American name, Virginia Jewiss, listed under “translation by….” Jewiss acknowledges that ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland Italian Film Festival returns for its 17th edition in September. “After studying and living in Italy on visits back to Cleveland I wondered why great award-winning ...

“Life Is Beautiful,” a melodrama by Italian filmmaker and comedian Robert Benigni, follows an Italian Jewish father and his son as they are sent to a Nazi concentration camp. There the father uses ...

CHARLESTON — Bringing a few films from the old country, the Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival recently announced the schedule for its 19th annual fete celebrating contemporary Italian cinema and ...

Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival has announced its 18th annual celebration of contemporary Italian cinema and culture. This year's event is set for Nov. 14-17 at the Queen Street Playhouse, 20 ...

Rocco Siffredi, the retired global porn star whose life story inspired Netflix’s recent series “Supersex,” is to star in “Blue,” an Italian drama set in the erotic social media world. Shooting is ...

EXCLUSIVE: Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has joined forces with Italian producer Andrea Iervolino (Ferrari) and his Space11 Corp banner for the upcoming “romantic space drama” I See You, which is ...

Residents of the Italian town where Amanda Knox was accused of killing roommate Meredith Kercher 17 years ago are reportedly furious that she has returned to film a TV drama about the incident years ...