Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016 Hours: 7:30 PM Venue: Theatre Raymond Kabbaz Organized by: Theatre Raymond Kabbaz In collaboration with: Le Lycée Français of Los Angeles, TV5Monde, KCRW and IIC tickets at www.theatreraymondkabbaz.com The concert includes the West Coast premieres of dramatic orchestral arrangements of Giuseppe Verdi's and Cl...
READ MOREFor the millions of U.S. fans who fell in love with the astonishing talent of IL VOLO following their show stopping PBS Special "Il Volo Takes Flight," or as special guests of Barbra Streisand's fall 2012 tour, the boys will return to North America for a series of 17 concerts. The Live Nation produced tour kicks off August 25 at the Orpheu...
READ MOREFor decades, Boston has been the home of talented musicians thanks to institutions like the Berklee College of Music. Now it will also be the home of the Sounds of Italy Festival.Spearheaded by artistic director Stefano Marchese, the festival will take place over the next several months. Its aim, says the Pescara native, is to "promote Italian and...
READ MOREOn June 24, 2015, Musica Vesuviana kicked off its fifth annual Summer Music & Art Camp in Italy. Students from all over the United States landed in Naples, Italy, embarking on a two-week excursion to S. Marco di Castellabate (Salerno) to discover the historical, cultural and artistic sites of southern Italy while studying music and art. This y...
READ MOREby Liliana Rosano Ha cominciato a comporre a sei anni, per poter suonare i suoi pezzi mentre imparava il pianoforte. Roberto Scarcella Perino, siciliano di Messina, dal 2000 vive a New York, dove è Senior Lecturer e docente di Italian Opera presso la New York University e Scholar in Residence all'American Institute for Verdi Studies. &nbs...
READ MORECleveland's Severance Hall was included in the eight-city American tour of the Antonio Stradivari 1726 "Ex Adams Collection" violin played by Matteo Fedeli with pianist Andrea Carcano. Presented by The Consulate of Italy in Detroit commemorating the Year of Italian Culture in the USA 2013, the program of short pieces served well to show off the ric...
READ MOREMarco Cappelli's Italian Surf Academy featuring Marco Cappelli (guitar), Luca Lo Bianco (bass) and Francesco Cusa (drums) will perform at the 38th Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival. Followed by book discussion and signing: Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development By Luisa Del Giudice at 12:30pm Noah Purifoy Gallery...
READ MOREInstead of the usual sound of cheering fans and cannon fire...you can expect to hear tenors and classical music playing at Indiana University's Memorial Stadium tonight. The Jacobs School of Music and IU Athletics are partnering up to bring the Italian opera "La Boheme" to the field as part of their new "Opera in the End Zone" series. &nb...
READ MOREExtraordinary vocalist, hand-percussionist and dancer Alessandra Belloni creates a voluptuous exploration of Tarantella— the frenzied ritual dances that enact the release of built-up erotic desire— in a contemporary incarnation of the southern Italian folk form. In the traditional "Pizzica Tarantata" healing rite, performers suffering the...
READ MOREBoston's own Italian folk group is back! Drawing inspiration from their own members' immigrant experiences, the group is set to realese its fourth album later this month, infusing their southern Italian sound with a fresh wave of originality. "In the last couple of years we've seen so many more young people emigrate from the south of Europ...
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