LAS VEGAS, Dec. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Award winning,
Italian icon and actress Sophia
Loren will grace the stage at The Venetian
Theatre inside The Venetian® Las Vegas on Saturday, March 26. Loren will treat fans to an
unforgettable night of firsthand, personal accounts including such
topics as her life in Italy, film
career and private memories. Guests will also have the opportunity
to ask questions for the actress through a moderator and to be
answered by Loren herself on stage.
Loren, born Sophia Scicolone in
Rome, started her career when she
entered a beauty pageant at the age of 14, which caught the eye of
producer Carlo Ponti, who would sign
her to a contract and later become her husband. Her talents
as an actress were not recognized until her performance as Cesira
in Vittorio De Sica's "Two Women."
Loren's performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress in
1962 and made her the first artist to win an Oscar for a
foreign-language performance. She holds the record for having
earned six David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, the most
ever received.
In addition to her Academy Award, Loren has won a Grammy Award,
five special Golden Globes, a BAFTA Award, a Laurel Award and the
Honorary Academy Award in 1991. In 1995, she received the
Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime
achievements.
Loren was part of the opening ceremony of The Venetian Las Vegas
when the hotel and casino debuted in 1999, launching the first
gondola with a bottle of champagne accompanied by Las Vegas Sands
Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer, Sheldon G. Adelson.
"To say Sophia Loren is iconic,
glamourous, talented and elegant is a great understatement," said
George Markantonis, president and
chief operating officer of The Venetian, The Palazzo and The Sands
Expo. "These adjectives do not begin to do justice to the radiating
woman we all know and love. We can't wait to have Ms. Loren
back with us to wow fans with her one-of-a-kind evening in The
Venetian Theatre."
Tickets start at $69.95 (plus
applicable fees) and a VIP meet and greet is available. Tickets go
on sale Friday, Dec. 11 at
10 a.m. PST at any box office at The
Venetian or The Palazzo, online at www.venetian.com/sophialoren or
by calling (702) 414-9000 or (866) 641-7469.
About The Venetian® Las
Vegas
Located in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, The Venetian Las
Vegas features all-suite accommodations, exquisite restaurants by
celebrity chefs and world-class entertainment and shopping. The
luxury resort offers 4,028 elegant suites, including standard
suites that are nearly double the size of the average Las Vegas hotel room. The Venetian is home to
restaurants from celebrated chefs including Wolfgang Puck,
Mario Batali, Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, Emeril Lagasse and
Buddy "Cake Boss" Valastro. The resort also features Canyon Ranch
SpaClub; a five-acre pool and garden deck; TAO nightclub; the Grand
Canal Shoppes retail and dining mecca; a 120,000-square-foot casino
and The Strip's largest poker room; and more than 2.25 million
square feet of meeting and convention space. Dynamic live
entertainment includes concert headliners at The Venetian Theatre;
'80s rock musical "ROCK OF AGES;" Motown favorites from the
multi-platinum quartet Human Nature; and the all-female comedy
series LIPSHTICK – THE PERFECT SHADE OF STAND UP. For more
information, visit venetian.com, @venetianvegas and
facebook.com/venetianlasvegas. The Venetian Las Vegas is a
property of global integrated resorts developer Las Vegas Sands
Corp. (NYSE: LVS).
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here
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Miller
The Venetian|The Palazzo Las Vegas
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