Opera, concerts + more: 2025 season announced at Maggio …
Sep 6, 2024 · 27 concerts make up the music season at Teatro del Maggio, starting on January 3, 4 + 5 with family-friendly Fantasia Live in Concert based on two Walt Disney films that sees cartoons projected onto a screen while music is performed by the resident orchestra. The long concert season moves in parallel with the opera performances, bringing important names such as Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti ...
Layered polenta with broccoli rabe | The Florentine
Nov 21, 2024 · Some people like to serve polenta pasticciata as a vegetarian main course, but we also serve it cut into small portions as an appetizer. Either way, polenta as lasagna is virtually unknown in America, and always sparks a conversation about how delicious it is! The broccoli rabe filling is wonderful, but consider other vegetables like grilled eggplant, sautéed mushrooms or steamed and squeezed ...
Michelin star restaurants in Florence for 2025 | The Florentine
Nov 7, 2024 · Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura * “Florence’s cosmopolitan credentials receive a boost with Karime Lopez and Takahiko Kondo’s cuisine, served in this modern, lively restaurant that bears the name of theatrical chef Massimo Bottura.The cuisine overseen by these excellent cooks demonstrates an openness to the rest of the world, with influences and reinterpretations of dishes from other ...
The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline | The Florentine
Mar 10, 2011 · The process of Italian unification was the result of nearly 60 years of events, daring action and revolutionary ideas. Here is a timeline of the key moments leading to and sealing Italy’s unification.
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael at the Royal Academy of Arts in …
Nov 13, 2024 · The exhibition opens with Michelangelo’s only marble sculpture in the UK, his celebrated Taddei Tondo, c. 1504-05 (Royal Academy of Arts, London), which is shown alongside related preparatory drawings.The Taddei Tondo was created in a defining moment of the Italian Renaissance:the febrile atmosphere of Republican Florence, when Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael brieflycrossed paths ...
Venice Film Festival 2024: in pictures | The Florentine
Aug 29, 2024 · For the 2024 edition, the inaugural red carpet underwent an invasion of celebrities. Starting with the Jury led by Isabelle Huppert, who bravely wore a Balenciaga cape in the same red as the carpet, moving on to Sveva Alviti, who hosted the opening ceremony, followed by the Orizzonti Jury with Barbara Paz as a total black juror. The waits, shouts and selfies make an event come alive that would ...
All that jazz: Firenze Jazz Festival 2024 | The Florentine
Aug 30, 2024 · A wine corner by main sponsor Ruffino can be found in piazza del Carmine from September 13-15 with an event at their picturesque estate in Poggio Casciano starting at midday on September 15 featuring a fabulous jazz festival buffet brunch that sees Catalan singer Magalí Sare and multifaceted musician Manel Fortià perform on the platform in the garden from 2pm, with instruments like the flute ...
Feathers from Florence: Mazzanti Piume | The Florentine
Nov 26, 2024 · Downstairs, two employees are busy lining turkey and ostrich feathers into a wooden plank pronged with combs to keep the plumes magnetically secure before sewing three lengths together with a sturdy cord to make a four metre-long boa. A tug at the unfinished accessory reveals the strength of the central rachis. The device was invented by Duccio’s grandfather, who moved the business from its ...
American International League of Florence: the spirit of giving
Nov 26, 2024 · The first Christmas Bazaar organized by AILO was in 1975 and a Christmas Bazaar has taken place every year since, apart from during the Covid pandemic in 2020 when gathering under the same roof was prohibited.Although the league was unable to raise money for charity from the bazaar, AILO decided to make a sizeable contribution to three chosen charities, which had suffered greatly from the ...
Fortezza da Basso - The Florentine
January 2024 saw the beginning of yet another busy year at the Saint John the Baptist Fortress, better known as the Fortezza da Basso (the Lower Fortress) after the Forte di Belvedere was constructed on higher ground in 1600. Since 1967, it has been the largest congress and exhibition centre in Florence, just a short walk from the Santa Maria Novella train station.