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By Niccolò Graffio   My clearest memories growing up of my father was of him being a workaholic. He had spent the first 17 years of his life living in Italy helping his mother and older brothers try to eke out a living on the family farm. His father immigrated to America and found work with the railroads.   As happened to many of our...

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Join us at the ICCC for a wonderful evening of Italian Opera! Secret marriages and incognito government inspectors, what could possibly go wrong? Come enjoy an evening of laughter, a preview of what the Moores Opera Center has to offer in its 2016-2017 season. This event is sponsored by the University of Houston's College of the Arts - Moores Opera...

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A critic once wrote that if the Three Stooges had written an opera libretto, it would look something like Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers (L'Italiana in Algeri).   "It really is more fun that you should be allowed to have in an opera house," says OCM executive director Douglas Anderson. The wild and irreverent comedy will take the stag...

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The Torrington Symphony Orchestra will present, "Viva Italia II," at the Warner Theatre's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre, Saturday, May 9 at 8 p.m. Conducted by Maurice Steinberg, "Viva Italia II" features Italian composers and melodies performed by guest soloists Christi McLain and Jerron Jorgenson.   Soprano Christi McLain made her New E...

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by Mike Silverman   Anna Caterina Antonacci is an opera star who thrives on defying expectations. A mesmerizing performer with a supple and lustrous voice, Antonacci seems equally at home in roles written for soprano or for the lower-voiced mezzo-soprano.   She has triumphed in one of the most popular of operas, Bizet's "Carmen," but...

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Boston Bel Canto Opera presents Pianist Bradley Pennington, Soprano Catrina Boncaldo and countertenor William Peacock. Click here for event flyer   When: Sunday, 19 October, 2014 at 2:30 P.M.Where: Dante Alighieri Italian Society of MA, 41 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA   Tickets are $20, $17 for Seniors and Stu...

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Westminster Opera Theatre brings Verdi's comic opera Falstaff to the stage of the Robert L. Annis Playhouse at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton on Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m.   It will be sung in Italian with English supertitles and fully staged with chamber ensemble. The comic opera will be...

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One of our fundamental challenges is keeping the Rossini revival alive; this is a particular problem in the US where we are not blessed with the density of opera houses found in Europe.   We can hardly expect the Metropolitan Opera to carry the "burden" since there doesn't seem to be a lot of enthusiasm for Rossini among the "powers that be"...

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  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Karen Lauria Saillant      Translation by:   "Tutti gli uomini sono per natura egualmente liberi e indipendenti." With light streaming through the majestic Palladio window of Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson turned these words of his Italian friend, Philip Mazzei, into the heart of The Declarati...

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The New York Festival of Song will be presenting Bel Canto/Can Belto as a part of its Emerging Artist Series and exploration of Italian song. The show marks NYFOS’s seventh annual residency at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.   Bel Canto/Can Belto will be an exploration of Italian song. Five young artists will take the a...

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