Announcing the first annual Italian International Dance Festival, which will bring together dancers, companies and choreographers from Italy and America in a spirit of exchange and collaboration, with a Gala Performance March 22, 7:30 PM, at Julia Richman Theater, 317 East 67th Street. Tickets: $20. Reservations: www.italianidf.com or 646.387.8979....
READ MORELa Scala has rarely seen a more fashionable— and powerful — audience. Giorgio Armani, Prada's Patrizio Bertelli, Stefano Pilati, Diego Della Valle, Alberta Ferretti, Renzo Rosso, Roberto Cavalli, Frida Giannini and a healthy sampling of Ferragamos, Zegnas, Missonis and Marzottos were among industry heavyweights who joined a battalion of Condé Nast...
READ MOREThe second edition of Mondomusica New York - the most prestigious Exhibition of contemporary, handcrafted violin and string-instrument production worldwide - will take place on April 10-12, 2014 in the new and fascinating location – 82Mercer - in the heart of SoHo - Manhattan. Today, the beautiful Chicago Cultural Center hosted the first presentat...
READ MOREThe accomplished piano virtuosi 'Duo Pianistico di Firenze', invited to San Francisco as part of the annual Salkind piano duo festival, will grace our upper gallery with a special performance. Please click here to register for the concert. Information Date: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 - Time: 6:30 PM. Location: IIC (814 Montgomery Str...
READ MOREArtistic Director Lucine Amara invites vocalists of all ages around the world to apply now to the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera 26th Annual International Vocal Competition. The application deadline is October 31, 2014. The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera), the house opera company of the Bergen Performing Arts Cente...
READ MOREThe 2014 FIAT Gran Finale commercial shows just how prevalent Italy's presence is in America. Cars are driving around the country, showing off different signs of cities named after places in Italy like Naples, Utah. The narrator even says: "America loves Italy. The signs are everywhere." There's a fun, funky song sung by a woman playing the backgro...
READ MORENo "ritardando," or slowing down, for Cleveland Opera Theater. No, at this point in the score it's following, the marking clearly reads the opposite: "accelerando." Even as it puts the finishing touches on a full-scale production of Puccini's "Tosca," its largest effort to date, the group also is advancing rapidly as an organization,...
READ MOREBy Giovanni di Napoli Ferdinando Carulli (b. Naples 1770 - d. Paris 1841) was perhaps the most significant composer and instructor for the guitar in the Nineteenth Century. Highly prolific, many of the virtuoso's works, including his "Harmony Applied to the Guitar," continue to be used today to train students the classical guitar. ...
READ MOREMain Street Opera and Casa Italia proudly present......Puccini's TOSCA! Full Dinner and Opera on Friday, June 7, 2013, at the Festival Center at Casa Italia – 6:30 p.m. 3800 W. Division St., Stone Park, IL 60165 Tickets (including sit down dinner) $50 Per Person in Advance $60 per per at the door. Limited Reserved Seating Click...
READ MOREDear Members and Friends, We are very proud to announce that the ICCC toghether with the Houston Grand Opera's O.N. for Young professionals will host an evening celebrating HGO's 2013-14 season and the productions of Verdi's Aida and Rigoletto. Don't miss it, enjoy complimentary wine and light bites! August 28th from 6 to 9 pm at the ICCC...
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