by Penny | 28 Aug, 2015 | Books, Cooking, Films set in Italy, Music, News, Opera, Renaissance Art, Social History
This tour sounds wonderful – I wish that I had time to join it myself – a combination of most of the great joys of Italy in a small but select group heading for the the food capital of Italy, Emilia Romagna. Food designer and writer John Carafoli will...
by Penny | 3 Jun, 2014 | Italy and the American Imagination, Music, Opera, Religious History, Renaissance Art, Wine tasting
Wine, Love Duets and Il Sole Mio’s This weekend in Florence we had friends to stay from the UK, and as they had shown an interest in wine we had already decided that a day out in Chianti would be enjoyable and booked a minivan as usual through Filippo Fattori at...
by Penny | 16 May, 2014 | Festival of San Giovanni, Music, News, Religious History, Renaissance Art, Social History, The Last Supper
Federico Maria Sardelli Is a Florence based Italian conductor, Historicist composer, musicologistand flautist. He is the founder of the baroque orchestra Modo Antiquo and has made more than forty recordings as soloist and conductor, some of them in co-production...
by Penny | 2 May, 2014 | Exhibitions, Festival of San Giovanni, Music, Painting, Renaissance Art, Sculpture
3rd Festa della Cultura – San Giovanni Battista Firenze, Italia Mostra – Convegno – Musica – Visite Spiritualità – Comunità sabato 14 – giovedì 26 giugno 2014 PRESS RELEASE – updated 15 May 2014 The festival is dedicated to...
by Penny | 1 Apr, 2014 | Music, News
Modo Antiquo – for Vivaldi beyond the Four Seasons Most people I know say that they love Vivaldi , especially the famous Four Seasons , …..some people even say that they are fed up of Vivaldi because the beautiful music of the Four Seasons has been spoilt...
by Penny | 21 Aug, 2013 | Architecture, Music, Opera, Social History
This is just a titbit from the Proms Concert programme from Monday night that I thought I would share …. In1831 Hector Berlioz was spending time in Italy as the winner of the 1830 Prix de Rome – a prize which he had struggled to win for the four preceding...
