LA, ITALIA 2026 CELEBRATES MUSIC WITH RENZO ARBORE & L’ORCHESTRA ITALIANA: MARCH 12 IN HOLLYWOOD FEATURES THE FILM OF THE MEMORABLE 1993 NEW YORK CONCERT

LOS ANGELES, 15 FEB. – The film capturing the memorable 1993 concert by Renzo Arbore and his Orchestra Italiana at New York’s Radio City Music Hall will be featured in the rich program of the 21st edition of L.A., Italia – Film, Fashion and Art Festival, bringing to Hollywood the electrifying atmosphere of a night that made history—also thanks to the extraordinary managerial vision of Adriano Aragozzini, whose work proved decisive in shaping and expanding the project on an international scale.

The screening is set for March 12 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood: a landmark concert that marked the beginning of Arbore and the Orchestra Italiana’s highly successful U.S. touring era. That New York engagement became the first chapter in a journey that carried Neapolitan music and the broader Italian tradition into the most prestigious theaters across the United States—except for those on the West Coast, where the beloved showman and his musicians never performed, despite the region’s longstanding and vibrant Italian-American community, particularly of Campanian origin.

An absence Arbore himself recalls with regret: “We were constantly touring across the U.S. and around the world, and somehow we never managed to perform there. Looking back, I regret it,” Arbore said in a recent phone interview.

The Hollywood screening of the Radio City Music Hall concert thus takes on powerful symbolic value: it represents an ideal arrival on the West Coast of a musical journey that began more than thirty years ago, celebrating a historic chapter of Italian music on the global stage.

Promoted with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the MIMIT and the MIT, L.A., Italia – Film, Fashion and Art Festival 2026 is presented in collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo, Rainbow, and Givova. The festival’s Chairperson is Raffaella De Laurentiis, while Filippo Puglisi Alibrandi serves as President.

Among the additional highlights announced by producer Pascal Vicedomini are the U.S. premiere of “Anna,” written, directed and starring Monica Guerritore; special screenings of the year’s Italian box-office hits including “Buen Camino” starring Checco Zalone, “Oi vita” written and performed by Pio e Amedeo, and “La vita va così” by Riccardo Milani; as well as “Two Billion Hearts,” dedicated to the historic FIFA World Cup USA ’94 final, symbolically anticipating the expanded 2026 World Cup.