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by Enrica Corselli   Se diciamo "Giuseppe Verdi", qual è la prima cosa che vi viene in mente? Se ci state ancora pensando, possiamo darvi un aiutino..."La donna è mobile, qual piuma al vento"... Ecco, ora canterete l'aria più famosa del Rigoletto per il resto della vostra giornata.   E per chi invece non ha familiarità con questi vers...

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The American Italian Cultural Center (AICC) is rounding out the year with a concert series held in the Piazza d'Italia! Following the extremely popular "Opera in the Piazza" on June 2014 with more than 700 attendees, the AICC is continuing to celebrate the significant contribution of American Italian's on our music, food and culture.   The "...

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by Sara Bibel   Considered one of the most unique and distinguishable voices in the world, Italian tenor, singer and songwriter Andrea Bocelli will be bestowed the Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award and will perform live at the 2014 Billboard Latin Music Awards presented by State Farm®. The longest-running and most prestigious Latin music...

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If the opening notes on Joe (Pugliese) Pug's new LP "Windfall" are a bit disorienting, his fans won't likely be surprised.   The Austin, TX, singer-songwriter has made a habit of defying expectations, showing he is quite comfortable stepping outside of the guy-with-a-guitar trappings of the genre. Pug will be at Boston's Brighton Music Hall...

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21-23 August, Vogue Theatre, 3290 Sacramento St, SF. Frank Sinatra would be 100 this year and to celebrate Jack Daniel's is presenting "Ring-A-Ding-Ding: The Movies of Frank Sinatra" at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco.   Over the weekend of August 21, 11 of Sinatra's most iconic roles will be screened, a carefully curated selection o...

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By Jennifer Edwards  Jessica Bailey left for Italy last week with the University of North Alabama Chamber Choir, but when the rest of the 30-member elite vocal ensemble returns to Florence next week, Bailey won't be on the plane. She will stay behind to prepare for the four-week Operafestival di Roma, a select opera festival in Rome. Bailey...

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by Alex Q. Arbuckle On Dec. 12, 1915, Francis Albert Sinatra was born in a tenement in New Jersey, the son of Italian immigrants Natalina Garaventa and Antonino Sinatra. His delivery was rough, leaving him with a perforated eardrum and scarring on his neck, cheek and ear.   As a young child, his parents ran an illegal tavern (which was igno...

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Il capolavoro di Giuseppe Verdi "Il Trovatore" conclude la stagione operistica 2012/2013. Con la sua trascinante e intensamente melodica partitura e le sue passioni infiammate, "Il Trovatore" e' un tour de force di elementi musicali e drammatici, ed una delle piu' grandi Opere di tutti i tempi.

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by Luca Martera   From the Italian ancient tradition of the Great Opera Houses to early New Orleans Jazz set by Nick La Rocca; from Vincente Minnelli's musicals to Louis Prima's swing; The Voice Frank Sinatra to modern Pop-Rock by Madonna, Frank Zappa, Bruce Springsteen and Lady Gaga, hundred of artists with Italian ancestry, without whom Am...

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Opera in the Heights presenta dal 15 al 24 novembre il "Don Pasquale" di Gaetano Doninzetti al Lambert Hall nel quartiere storico di Houston Heights. Preparatevi a rimanere incantati dal canto, e a ridere al vedere come Don Pasquale si rende ridicolo per amore !   Don Pasquale, al vedere suo nipote Ernesto rifiutare la sposa che questi aveva...

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