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Tuesday, August 15 • 6:30 to 9:30 pm; doors open at 6 pm. The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere - 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301. $125 members, $135 non-members. Four-course dinner includes wine and soft drinks. Register for August 15 Musica Celebrate Ferragosto with Vanessa Racci! In honor of the Italian holiday, Vanessa wil...

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Aug. 3 will be known as “Tony Bennett Day,” to honor the late Italian-American singer, who was a true New Yorker, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer announced. Bennett, who passed away Friday, was two weeks shy of his 97th birthday. Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to The Associated Press, saying he died in his hometown of New York. There w...

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They were living “The Good Life.” Tony Bennett’s widow and longtime love, Susan Benedetto, shared memories of the couple’s romantic trips to Italy — alongside an exclusive new photo of the crooner — in a new interview with People. Bennett died on Friday, at the age of 96. “Tony, naturally, loved visiting his ancestral homeland, and we spent many su...

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Tom Morello, 59, one of the world's greatest guitarists, received honorary citizenship of Pratiglione today. Best known for being the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine and numerous other international bands, he discovered his family history in 2008. Of those Morellos who, having left the small town in the Gallenca Valley, found their fortune i...

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In the same years in which Broadway was already the Hollywood of Musicals and the big film production companies bought the rights to works such as " Singin 'in the Rain " and "An American in Paris", Italy too found its dimension of " musical theatre,” as a specific reflection of the spirit of a nation. Starting from the "revue" genre (the Italian c...

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On Sunday, July 23, Morgan Park Summer Music Festival (Germaine St, Glen Cove, NY) will present Italian Night including a full evening of music, food, and all things Italian. The free performance begins in Morgan Park at 7:00 pm. For this Sunday’s concert, Pizza Company 7 - a popular Italian food truck, will begin serving pizza in the park starting...

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Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga were an unlikely duo — 60 years separated them — but they were the perfect team for tours, albums ,and classic hits. Working together was a dream come true for both of them. “I’ve been singing jazz since I was 13, and being with Tony, it’s really changed my life,” Gaga previously told “Extra.” The Grammy winners released...

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When: Sunday, September 3 · 6 - 7:30pm EDT - Where: Italian Cultural Garden 990 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44108 United States Featuring well known music from Italian opera, Broadway musicals with the the Cleveland Opera & Cleveland Ballet in the beautiful Renaissance garden. Reserved Chair Seating Section ($29.50) in front of the stage. Family f...

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It’s a sunny July day, you’re at an Italian bagno, and Italy’s Top 40 Hits have been blasting since 8 AM. After the fifth repetition of the unshuffled playlist, you’re wishing for something, anything, else to play. Whatever idea you had of a tranquil day on the coast is being ruined by the constant club music pumping in the background. And it’s not...

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A century and a half after his birth, Italian tenor and opera legend Enrico Caruso is finally being celebrated by his hometown of Naples with a new museum. Long before Luciano Pavarotti, it was Caruso who represented Italian opera to the rest of the world, ushering in an era of music for the masses with his prolific recordings at the advent of the...

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