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Stadio band won the 66th Edition of the Italian Music Festival in Sanremo with the best cover performance, as chosen by an equal combination of votes from a press jury and a public televotes.   The third night of Sanremo …

Renato Bialetti, the Italian entrepreneur know for having launched the Moka, has died last night in Ascona, at the age of 93. While he lived in Omegna and was raised in the family whose businesss had been founded by his …

Antonin Scalia, the influentialmember of the Supreme Court, died Saturday at the age of 79. An only child, Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on March 11, 1936. His father, Salvatore Eugene Scalia, was an Italian immigrant from Sicily, who …

The Festival di Sanremo is known as Il Festival della Canzone Italiana, which is the most important festival of Italian music. While it takes place at the Ariston Theatre, for a week, famous and young Italian singers perform new songs, …

On February 11, a new production of ‘Il Barberie di Siviglia’ by Davide Livermore and the orchestra directed by Donato Renzetti went on stage at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome in order to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first representation. …

Torna in Italia la splendida “Testa di Ade”, opera di eccezionale valore artistico trafugata nella zona di Enna, in Sicilia, alla fine degli anni ’70. Esportata illegalmente negli Stati Uniti è stata venduta al Getty Museum nel 1985 per 500mila …

As reported by the Italian Press Agency, 62% of Italians decide where to go on holiday looking for historic and artistic treasures as well as cultural events. Another 59% look for the most beautiful landscape and natural environment: that’s what …

Francesco Gabbani has won the 2016 edition of Youth at the Festival Di Sanremo , with the song “Amen”. Born in Carrara in 1982, after the win, he stated: “As a child I approached the world of music  thanks to …

The Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco has died aged 84. Eco was born in Alessandria, Northern Italy, in 1932. He developed an interest in medieval philosophy and literature and studied the subjects at the University of Turin in the 1950s. …

La Capitale italiana della Cultura 2017 sarà Pistoia. Ha superato la concorrenza di Aquileia, Como, Ercolano, Parma, Pisa, Spoleto, Taranto e Terni. La candidatura è risultata “decisamente ben sostenuta nei suoi diversi elementi: area centrale urbana, relazione con il territorio …