Save the date! L’Impresario, Mozart’s operetta on stage

Sunday 4 December, 7:00 pm

Next month the Dante Alighieri Auckland, with the

support of the Dante Alighieri Society in Rome, is staging

Mozart’s operetta The Impresario, with the original

libretto of Gottlieb Stephanie adapted by Matteo Telara

to be half in English and half in Italian.

Direction and adaptation: Matteo Telara

Pianist: David Kelly

Actors/singers: Thomas Røsholl, Te Ohorere Williams,

Maeve Herd, Matteo Telara

After the operetta there will be a refreshment, and a

Christmas Function to celebrate the end of another year

together at the Dante!

Sunday 4 December 2022, 7.00 pm

Theatre of the Freemans Bay Community Centre

1st Floor, 52 Hepburn Street, Auckland

FREE ENTRY

An Italian language immersion programme for everyone!

5 Day Summer Italian Intensive Course

Wednesday 25 – Sunday 29 January 2023

Suitable to all levels of Italian, from absolute beginners to advanced speakers

Freeman’s Bay Primary School, 95 Wellington Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland

Course Fee: $280

Times: Wed to Sat 9:30am – 12:30pm, with Italian movie on Thursday afternoon (2pm)

Sun 10:00am – 1.30pm with lunch

This programme combines formal lessons with conversation and activities.

The course fees include: all lessons and activities, morning coffee, Sunday lunch, and Italian movie on Thursday afternoon.

Places are limited, please see the enrolment form for booking and deposit.

 

DANTE’S OPERETTA PROPS LIST

 

Ciao a tutti!

As you might already know, this year, Dante is putting together an operetta: “The Impresario”, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!

The operetta will take place on the 4th of December at 7:00 pm, in our Auditorium, and it will be followed by food and drinks. It will be our Christmas function! (You are welcome to bring a plate, btw) 😊

This year operetta will be in both English and Italian, so both Italian and English speakers, and both the Italian and Kiwi community will able to attend, enjoy and understand it!!!

Here is a list of props we might need.

If you have any of these items and want to contribute to the success of this year's operetta, please contact Matteo by email: matteotelara@gmail.com

It will be much appreciated!

• 2 sedie da salotto o 2 poltrone o/e 1 divano          

  (2 lounge chairs or 2 easy chairs or/and 1 sofa)

• 1 tavolinetto (1 coffee table)

• 1 attaccapanni a stelo

(1 hatstand)

• 1 specchio

(1 standing mirror)

Photos of Festival Italiano 2022

 

Bellissimo Festival Italiano thank you to the organisers Festival Italiano - Auckland Newmarketnz Only Events, to all our Dante Auckland friends who volonteered at out stand , to La Marzocco NZ for the coffee and everyone who attended. You can find the Dante FB photo album by clicking here.

#festivalitalianoauckland #festivalitalianonz

Dante Auckland Stand at the Festival Italiano Kent St, Newmarket, 13 November 2022, 11am - 5pm

Come and say ciao at our Dante stand at the Festival Italiano! This year, in addition to the usual info about language classes and Italian activities, on our stand we will have the much loved ‘Buongiorno Kiwi’ merchandise for sale: T-shirts, aprons and tea towels. Plus there will be Alessandra’s cookbook at the special Festival price of $20 (usually $35) and coffee made with La Marzocco! All profits to the Dante School! Vi aspettiamo al Festival!

 

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Un giorno con Pier Paolo Pasolini - a talk with Bruno Ferraro e Matteo Telara, followed by movie.

Tuesday 4 October at the Dante School, FreemansBay Community Centre, 52 Hepburn St, Freemans Bay, Auckland

Talk 10am-12pm - Lunch break and then, from 1.30pm to 3.30pm, movie screening. All welcome!!

Dante School News

 

The school open day of Dante Alighieri Society of Auckland will be on Thursday 13^th October 5pm to 7pm at the Freemans Bay Community Centre, a great opportunity to meet and chat with our teachers. 

 The new term for the adult classes will start on Monday the 17^{th of} October. You can find all the info here. If you are unsure of your level of Italian, you can join us on the open day so the teachers can assist you in choosing the right class. If you are unable to come, then please do not hesitate to send us an email and we can provide you with the information you need: info@dante.org.nz 

We have also attached the enrolment form for the Tuesday children class starting on the 18^th of October and the Playgroup which will start on Thursday the 20^th of October. 

 

New book release in October

Tales from the wood’s edge - a memoir

by Wilma Giordano Laryn

In a reversal of the usual ‘Tuscan Dream’, a small Italian family of parents, daughter and dog, move to New Zealand in search of adventure. Here are their stories, as well as memories of life in Italy and Japan, of holidays in Kenya, Turkey and other.This is also a woman’s personal story of emigrating to a new country and integrating with the local way of life, something many will identify with. They will recognize their own efforts to meet new challenges while maintaining their core personalities as defined by their country of origin and their personal and collective memories.Inquisitive readers will find the book’s themes stimulating and the style engaging. They will immerse themselves in a tapestry of people, animals, places, landscapes, colours, buildings, music, wine, food.

“… unless we make things personal, they may not really matter in the end and fade away.
These tales are as personal as storytelling can be, yet they have something to say for
everybody – beautifully and painfully true to life as they are to the author’s life.”

Marco Sonzogni
Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington

 

 

 

About the author

Wilma spent the first half of her life in Italy, then moved to New Zealand in 1996. In Christchurch Wilma has worked with the Dante Society as a committee member for 22 years and was president for 6. She has started the Christchurch Dante Language School and the Festival Ciao Italia. She has run a radio programme, Cartolina, and a TV cooking series; she has coached the opera chorus and taught Italian for Musicians at the Canterbury University. 

She has been a member of the ComItEs in 2015, besides working as Marketing Manager for the family wine business. Wilma received from the Italian Government a civil knighthood, the “Star of the Italian Solidarity”, for her activity as a journalist and teacher, and a gold medal from the Dante Alighieri headquarters. After retiring and moving to Auckland in 2018, she finally completed her book of memoirs. No surprise that it counts some 400 pages!

 

Category: non fiction, life in Italy, life in New Zealand, wine-making 

Pages: 400 - Size: 6" x 9" - softback ISBN: 978-0-473-65322-4 

Kindle edition ISBN 978-0-473-65325-5 

Publication date: October 2022 

Publisher: Wilma Giordano Laryn 

Distributor: Nationwide Book Distributors