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Greater Worcester Opera's upcoming production "Love Italian Style" focuses of the beautiful music of discovering love. The show, running June 5 to 8 at Calliope Theatre in Boylston, could also be about finding the beauty of opera for the first time for some people in the audience. "We really want it to be an introduction to opera for people in Engl...

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The lira calabrese is one of the most distinctive traditional instruments of Southern Italy, known also for its long and varied cultural history. As its name says, the lira calabrese comes from Calabria, the rugged region forming the “toe” of Italy’s boot, and is very connected with the region’s folk music and storytelling traditions. After having...

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On the occasion of the celebrations for the 2500 years of history of the city of Naples and of Fare Cinema, an initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperations to promote Italian cinema and Italian cinema in the world, we host a special screening of the documentary Posso entrare? An Ode to Naples, written and directed by...

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  La partnership tra Visit Detroit e la Juventus FC Umberto Rispoli è il primo fantino italiano a vincere una gara della Triple Crown Race Italia e Stati Uniti rafforzano la cooperazione per il recupero dei resti dei soldati americani dispersi della Seconda Guerra Mondiale Lady Gaga è ora a un solo premio dal titolo EGOT Cinque nuovi voli tra Itali...

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Opera Italiana is in the Air, a unique outdoor global concert series, returns to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with Opera Unbound: A Sunset Serenade on Sunday, June 15 at 6:30 PM. The free, open-air concert invites audiences of all ages to experience the beauty of Italian opera in an iconic, welcoming setting - far different from the fancy g...

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Spotify’s Loud & Clear initiative, which reveals data about stream counts and royalty payouts on the platform, has unveiled 2024 data for Italy. Royalties generated by Italian artists on Spotify jumped 20% year-on-year in 2024, to nearly EUR €150 million, or around USD $162 million at the average exchange rate for last year. Italian-language music...

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A Luciano Pavarotti biopic, titled “Vox Divina,” is in the works. The LA-based production company, Women Occupy Hollywood, has secured rights to Italian writer-director Ivana Massetti’s Pavarotti biopic. Following two years of research, the film will chronicle the tenor’s life from his boyhood in Modena, Italy, to his confirmation as a star at the...

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Lady Gaga won the Sports Emmy Award in the Best Musical Direction category for singing Hold My Hand before the start of the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Her performance, a tribute to the 14 people who died during the Jan. 1 terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, moved the world. Now, Lady Gaga is only a Tony Award away from joining the Olympus of EGOT a...

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Connie Francis, 87, was surprised to learn her 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” is having a massive resurgence, going viral on TikTok—even if she had to ask what exactly that meant. Sixty-three years after she recorded the track, it’s become a huge hit on TikTok, where even celebrities like Kylie Jenner have recorded lip-sync videos. Overall, “Pretty...

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When Gina Perregrino was about 12 years old, Alexis I. du Pont High School music teacher Paul Parets asked her to sing a song for him. She chose Andrea Bocelli’s “Time to Say Goodbye” (in Italian) which left a lasting impression on Parets, an influential music educator in Delaware, and a friend of her family. “He insisted to my parents that I take...

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