Italian concert pianist Alberto Lodoletti will perform at 7 p.m. today at the United Methodist Church of Sun City Center, 1210 Del Webb Blvd. This is Lodoletti's first American tour. He traces his musical background to his paternal grandmother, Nelly Schroder, a pianist in Paris. Over the years, Lodoletti has staged concerts in Italy...
READ MORECome da tradizione, la ricorrenza della Festa della Repubblica italiana a San Francisco si è celebrata in concomitanza con l'evento "Italian Opera Day at the Park", appuntamento annuale presentato in cooperazione con l'Italian American Community Services Agency, il coordinatore del programma Maria Fassio Pignati e i Simi Cantori. L'evento...
READ MOREThe New York Philharmonic is kicking off their 2014-15 season on September 16th with LA DOLCE VITA: THE MUSIC OF ITALIAN CINEMA, a special concert presented in collaboration with Sugarmusic. Celebrating the music of Italian cinema, the tribute concert will feature famous suits and songs pulled from Filippo Sugar's impressive library of soundtracks....
READ MOREIf you enjoy singing and want to perform on the stage in professional productions, the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, the house opera company of the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), invites you to audition for the Verismo Opera Chorus. Artistic Director Lucine Amara announces professional, amateur, and retired professional male...
READ MORECome to the Club Wednesday, September 9, and learn about Italy's foremost orchestral composer and musicologist, Ottorino Respighi. Respighi captured the essence of Rome through his seminal works, The Pines of Rome, The Fountains of Rome, and Roman Festivals. Learn about the composer and his beautiful music at a presentation by the the Dallas Wind S...
READ MOREA vocal journey through Italy's best-loved songs and arias by composers such as Donizetti, Tosti, and Puccini, plus favorites like "Torna A Surriento," "Ave Maria," and other Christmas classics. Now playing for nine Christmas seasons in New York, the magic of "Christmas in Italy" comes to the West Coast for the second time in 2012. Ms. Fontanelli...
READ MOREby Roberto Natalini As Music Director Nicola Luisotti and San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley revealed the day prior to the performance, all three hundred and twenty artists from Teatro San Carlo and the San Francisco Opera would communicate together using only the universal language of music. The long awaited combi...
READ MOREby Rebecca Godwin When given the choice between watching an opera and a sitcom, most people would choose the sitcom. But according to Associate Professor and Opera Director in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Robert Swedberg, the upcoming production of "The Barber of Seville" by Gioacchino Rossini and Cesare Sterbini, which Swedbe...
READ MORENew Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the lineup of productions set for its 2015-16 season. The season will open with Bandstand, a world-premiere musical, featuring music by Richard Oberacker and a book and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor. Read more Source: http://www.theatermania.com/
READ MOREItalian pop star Laura Pausini opened her Miami home to ANSA to share the story of her latest album. Titled Simili (Similar), it is to be released November 6 in 60 countries on the Atlantic-Warner Music label. A Spanish version is set for release on November 13. "Becoming a mother has changed my life, in terms of work as well," the 41-year-old...
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