Online Extras
Try out our fun and games pages
See the Virtual Exhibit of pre-unification
Stamps and Coins of Naples
from the collection of John Osburn,
UCO History Department Professor Emeritus
Online Extras Try out our fun and games pages
See the Virtual Exhibit of pre-unification
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The team-taught format featured a dazzling array of 23 UCO faculty members giving scheduled lectures in their areas of expertise.
Il Festival Italiano Scheduled Events:
September 16-18: Italian Country Fair & Market, UCO campus. Click the link to view photos from the fair.
September 23 - 26: La Serva Padrona & Bastien and Bastienne. Mitchell Hall Theater, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23-25, 2 p.m. Sept. 26. Pergolesi's comic opera performed in Italian, and Mozart's first opera (written at age 12), performed in English.
September 28: The Etruscans: The "Other" Ancient Italians, Free evening lecture by Dr. Margaret Musgrove, Business building, UCO campus, room 121, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
October 4: Night of Italian Song, University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab, 100 East Fifth St. 7:30 p.m. Live performances, great food and wine, no cover charge!
October 6: Free Movie: The Bicycle Thief, 5 p.m. Pegasus Theatre. Awarded an honorary Academy Award in 1949, this classic is on almost every critic's list as one of the greatest films of all time. Recently re-released in a crisp new print, The Bicycle Thief is moving audiences all over again.
October 7: Math and the Mona Lisa: Bridging the Cultural Divide, Free evening lecture by Bulent Atalay, sponsored by the Oklahoma City Da Vinci Institute, 7:30 p.m. Pegasus Theatre.
October 7-10: Two Gentlemen of
Verona. Oct. 7, 8, 9, 7:30 p.m. & Oct. 10, 2 p.m. - Mitchell Hall Theater. The beloved classic comedy, with a modern twist. A couple of "criss-crossed lovers" together with bandits, silly servants, and a dog, travel from a hip modern Verona to a Medieval Milan. Is it time travel, merely a re-enactors' festival or the mesmerizing power of amore? Capice!
Don't know much about Shakespeare?
Read Professor Sandra Mayfield's background information page about this play.
October 12: Let the Games Begin: Sporting Events in the Ancient Roman World, Free evening lecture by Dr. Stephen Law, Business building, UCO campus, room 121, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
October 13: Free Movie: La vita áe bella, Life is Beautiful, 6 p.m. Pegasus Theatre. Roberto Benigni's bittersweet comedy about a family's love in the midst of the Holocaust won the 1998 Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Foreign Film and Best Dramatic Score.
November 10: Fibonacci: Significance and Controversy Today in Science and Mathematics, Free lunchtime lecture by Dr. David Boliver, Howell Hall Atrium, UCO campus, noon-1:00 p.m.
November: Fellini
Film Festival, Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m., Pegasus Theatre.
Click on the links below for reviews and reflections by the UCO English Department's John Springer.
November 8: Anna Maria Alberghetti Musical
February 12, 2005: The Gala -- Carnevale
UCO Passport to Italy pages designed and maintained by Susan Spencer, Department of English