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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Talking about Helen Frankenthaler | The Florentine
Oct 2, 2024 · Ahead of the opening of the 20th-century American artist’s exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi, we sat down with Douglas Dreishpoon, the show’s curator and director of the Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné, and Christian Levett, art collector, owner of several of the artist’s works and a member of the Palazzo Strozzi Scientific Committee.
I'Tuscani steakhouse: the art of the bistecca | The Florentine
Nov 24, 2024 · Formed in Florence by Alberto Florindo, Enrico Burberi and Barbara Fagioli, the passion for all things Tuscan is fostered in an ambience that attracts both locals and international diners, uniting all those who seek a high-quality food and wine experience.Certain additions to the menu appease those less-accustomed to the likes of lampredotto, with more unsightly meats masked in a bignè ...
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 ...
About Us - The Florentine
The Florentine was launched as a news magazine for English speakers in Florence, Italy, in 2005. On moving to Florence, Americans Nita and Tony Tucker were surprised not to find an English newspaper, so they teamed up with co-founder Marco Badiani, Giovanni Giusti and Leonardo Cardini to produce, print and distribute the paper.
Forchettiere Awards 2024: The best restaurants in Florence and …
Jan 16, 2024 · Best restaurant in Florence: Cibrèo Ristorante Best fine dining restaurant in Florence: Architettura del Cibo Best hotel restaurant in Florence: Il Palagio, Four Seasons Best traditional trattoria in Florence: Antico Ristoro di Cambi Best international restaurant in Florence: Sevi Best pizzeria in Florence: Il Vecchio e il Mare Best cocktail bar …