Entries by Dante Alighieri Society Charleston

A trip to Operatic Italy

February 6, 2024 – Wonderful performance by Edward Brennan and Hälis Rünk Enthralls, amazing voices of Charleston Opera Theater for the Dante Alighieri Society of Charleston. We couldn’t be more grateful and more proud for their amazing singing, guiding us through timeless arias by Italian operas. They were introduced by Louis Barrella, M.A., Music Educator […]

His Majesty Black Truffle

January 22, 2024 – A very special event dedicated to Italian cuisine. A guest chef from Umbria, Junio Valerio Gallina (foto on the right) – trained at the 3 Michelin Star restaurant Niko Romito – taught us how to make the perfect risotto with Winter Black Truffle. Not a normal risotto, but the perfect one! […]

Musica Italiana night

August 22, 2023 – Delightful concert by Maestro Yuriy Bekker for Dante Alighieri Society. We were so lucky to listen at a string quartet formed especially for us to play Italian music from Corelli to Vivaldi, from Puccini to Morricone. Maestro Bekker is well known in Charleston as Concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony, and Conductor […]

Seven centuries of Divine Comedy

June 30th – Exclusive event for the DAS of Charleston in Foligno, the Italian city where, on April 11th 1472 was born the first ever printed edition of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The printing was carried out by the master printer Johann Numeister, from Mainz, and Evangelista Angelini from Trevi, with the collaboration of the […]

The history of an old enemy

April 19, 2023 – After events about Music, Literature, Cinema, Art, Language, it’s time to talk about Scienc with a very special lecture by Saverio Gentile. Professor Gentile, born in Capua, is an amazing communicator and he managed to gather an extraordinary rich presentation about the very long history of cancer – since the Paleolithic – and the […]

Tips and advice to speak Italian

March 27, 2023 – A whole event dedicate to Italian language. It will be a very special lesson by professor Marinella Marino Griffith (College of Charleston) to become a better Italian speaker on your next trip to Italy! Monday, March 27 from 6 to 7:30 pm @ Thaddeus Street Jr. Education Center Lobby 25 St Philip St, […]

Celebrating the Florentine master

February 22, 2023 – An evening dedicated to Franco Zeffirelli in the 100th anniversary of his birth with the screening of Rebel Conformist by movie director Anselma dell’Olio. He died at the age of 96 in 2019 and he was one of the greatest directors and intellectuals of the last century, whose creative fervor gave […]