Useful Links

Consulate General of Italy in Houston
Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C.
Isitituto Italiano di Cultura Los Angeles (Francesca Valente, Director)

ITALIAN CULTURAL RESOURCES WITHIN EASY REACH OF RICE UNIVERSITY

Ars Lyrica — early (baroque and classical) music performance Ensemble (Matthew Dirst, Director)
Italian evenings — A Neapolitan New Year (31 December 2009), Roman Holiday (9 May 2010)

Da Camera of Houston — chamber music, jazz (Sarah Rothernberg, Director)
Italian evenings —
Eliot Fisk, guitar & John Gibbons, harpsichord (27 October 2009)
Italian Romantics with the Enso String Quartet & guitar  (30 October 2009)
Modern Virtuosos including Luciano Berio (17 November 2009)

Houston Grand Opera — leading national opera company
Italian language offerings in 2009-2010 — L'esisir d'amore, Tosca, Serse (Xerxes)

Italian Cultural and Community Center in Houston (ICCC) — federation of Italian organizations in Houston

Museum of Fine Arts Houston — two art collections of particular interest to Italianists 
Masterworks of European Art — Fra Angelico, Giovanni di Paolo, Sebastiano del Piombo, Andrea Antico, Scarsellino, Orazio Gentileschi, Guido Reni, Luca Giordano, Canaletto
The Blaffer Foundation Collection — Sandro Botticelli, Parrasio Micheli, Sebastiano Ricci, Alessandro Magnasco, Bartolomeo Bettera, Pietro Longhi, Pompeo Batoni
MFAH Film Series — 4th Annual Italian Retropsective — Signore e Signore : Leading Ladies of Italian Cinema

Opera in the Heights — local opera company
Italian language offerings in 2009-2010 — Il tabarro, Pagliacci, Un ballo in maschera, La bohème