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In this week's installment of Ciao Pittsburgh's Italian-American Profiles of Success, we reached all the way down south to Palm Beach, Florida to chat with Franco Corso, a pop-opera international recording artist originally from San Remo, Italy. His voice offers a blend of pop Italian and American operatic style. Known in the music circle...

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Visit the Enfield Public Library on Wednesday, May 7th at 7:00 PM for an evening of musical enchantment as Enzo Boscarino presents Italycious.   Enzo Boscarino, originally of Siracusa, Italy, will serenade his audience with traditional Italian music, as well as presenting several songs from other countries. The songs will be performed in the...

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di Piero Negri   Si chiamano Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, Tommy DeVito, Nicholas Macioci e Robert Gaudio. Italoamericani? Di più: italoamericani del New Jersey, di Newark, a 20 minuti d'auto dal centro del mondo, Manhattan.   È l'alba del nuovo decennio, gli Anni Sessanta, e Francesco, che diventa Frankie, Tommy, Nick e Bob voglion...

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Award-winning Italian tenor, songwriter, and producer, Michéal Castaldo will perform A Musical Celebration of the Italian Spirit—A Feast for the Ears, Eyes, and Soul at the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) on Sunday, September 21, 2014.   Michéal Castaldo is the living embodiment of authentic Italian culture. A native of Calabria...

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Popera prince Andrea Bocelli will perform a special Keep Memory Alive concert for the next Power of Love Gala on June 11 to benefit our downtown Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.   When the Italian tenor was here for a Christmas concert at MGM Grand two weeks ago, Andrea and his wife, Veronica, toured the Frank Gehry-designe...

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by Robyn Leach   The spirit of Frank Sinatra was very much alive Wednesday night in the restaurant named after "The Chairman of the Board" at Steve Wynn's Encore. Sinatra will be even more so Dec. 12, "Ol' Blue Eyes' " birthday, when CBS airs a two-hour special from Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas with stage and audience filled with su...

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Era il 1969 quando in una anonima sala d'incisione di musica comparve un singolo realizzato da un giovane musicista canadese. Il disco si chiamava "Gina Bold" e l'artista Van Elli. Non ebbe particolarmente fortuna ma bastò a far notare il suo talento tra gli addetti del settore. E non poteva essere altrimenti. Van Elli, alias Gino Vannelli era infa...

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Join us for an intimate concert of Italian songs and arias, performed by the students of University of Minnesota, Music Department Professor, Jean del Santo. Three students from Jean's Italian Diction for Singers class, will perform a concert of twelve songs and arias that the students have studied and performed in class during Spring semester 201...

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di Maurita Cardone Lorenzo Cherubini, in arte Jovanotti, si è esibito sabato pomeriggio a Prospect Park, Brooklyn, nel corso del festival GoogaMooga aperto venerdì da band come gli Yeah Yeah Yeahs e The Flaming Lips. In Italia la performance di Jovanotti a New York ha guadagnato i titoli dei giornali ma in America non sono in molti a conoscere il...

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The Center for Italian Opera Studies and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago announce a free symposium, "Giovanna d'Arco in Chicago." A welcome reception begins at 10:30 AM.   Co-sponsored by the Chicago Opera Theater (COT) and the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Fund, the symposium led by Philip Gossett pairs a roster of world-renowned sc...

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