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International pop superstar and winner of over 81 major awards including Grammys, World Music awards and Billboard Chart Toppers, Laura Pausini will return to Chicago October 23rd.   This very rare Chicago appearance comes at the hands of local entertainment pro Ron Onesti, who produces over two hundred shows annuall...

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Il "Verdi Opera Theatre" del Michigan, in collaborazione con l' "Italian American Club" di Livonia e con l' "Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation" presenta la 21º Competizione Annuale di Canzoni Italiane ed Arie Vocali per gli studenti del liceo nel Michigan.   Tra le domande ricevute, verranno scelti dieci finalisti, i qua...

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This is definitely the most discussed and most loved opera by Giacomo Puccini. A fiery protagonist finds herself trapped between her allegiance to her rebel lover and the scheming of a treacherous police chief who will stop at nothing in his lust for her. The unbearable situation leads to intense drama and an unexpected, quite bloody grand final....

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Italian opera is a musical art form that had its beginnings in Florence in the late 1500s. It was based on a number of performance genres that preceded it, including Greek drama, poems sung by a solo vocalist with single instrument backing and madrigals (a capella singing by 3-6 harmonizing vocalists).   The earliest known opera composition...

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By Lawrence Budmen While Pietro Mascagni achieved his greatest success with his very first opera, the violent and impassioned Cavalleria Rusticana, his second opera L'Amico Fritz, composed in 1891, was also highly acclaimed in its day.   That score continues to hold the stage in Italy but has largely disappeared from the international opera...

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Take the 1960s-era song stylings of Connie Francis and Sergio Franchi, mix in a little Mario Puzo and you've got part of the recipe for "Cinderella Italiano!," a new musical version of the classic fairy tale. The season closer for the Pantochino children's theater in Milford draws on writer-director Bert Bernardi's warm memories of growing up...

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by Chris Martins   Lady Gaga is sitting in her "sanctuary" -- the sprawling, olive tree-dotted backyard of her Malibu home -- when a silent, tie-clad man arrives with cocktails on a tray. "Thank you," she says, with the sort of silver-screen elegance that it's surprising a "dahhhling" doesn't follow.   "I might have busted my ass on t...

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by Charles Bramesco Quentin Tarantino has always had a magpie-like obsession with collecting and carefully rearranging bits of pop-cultural detritus to make something new.   This can sometimes take the form of blink-and-you'll-miss-'em allusions he squirrels away in the nooks and crannies of his scripts — it's no coincidence that the name o...

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Pur non essendo la città ideale dove godere l'arrivo dell'estate, dato il suo clima piuttosto fresco in questo periodo dell'anno, la città di San Francisco offre ai suoi abitanti e visitatori un programma musicale di grande livello, a cominciare dall'opera.   La stagione estiva dell'Opera di San Francisco si è aperta a giugno avendo come pro...

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An Italian Musical Genius Performing in Columbus, Sunday 26 October for City Music Columbus at Via Vecchia.   Giuseppe "Peppino" D'Agostino è stato salutato come "un chitarrista chitarrista" dalla rivista chitarra acustica così come "un gigante della chitarra acustica" (San Diego Reader), e la lotta contro numerosi premi chitarra migliori, m...

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