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by Tony Bravo   With real estate at a premium in San Francisco, there's been a lot of creative repurposing of spaces in the city of late, especially in the arts. This was evident at the grand reopening of the Italian Cultural Institute (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) on Wednesday in Opera Plaza.   Previously in North Beach, this center...

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Among the few women who have made it to the conductor's podium, Speranza Scappucci is also a brilliant pianist and a graduate from the prestigious Juilliard School and the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome.   After her debut as a conductor at the Yale Opera with Così Fan Tutte, in the last few years Maestro Scappucci has performe...

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A harpsichord that entertained the elites of Italy in the mid-1500s has been restored by a South Dakota museum and will soon bring its sound to 21st-century ears. The National Music Museum in Vermilion, which acquired the instrument in 2009, worked with Chilean-born musician Catalina Vicens, who specializes in historical keyboards and percussi...

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By George Grella   Four pieces of music from as many different composers are nowhere near sufficient to comprehensively survey a style or an aesthetic, much less an entire nation.   But Monday night at SubCulture, the New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! new music series used four pieces to demonstrate the continued vitality and depth of...

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By Ross Amico When kickstarting a new opera company, there is no more reliable source of juice than the blood-and-thunder dramas of Giuseppe Verdi. As opera houses across the world honor the Italian master in this, his bicentennial year, New Jersey's fledgling MidAtlantic Opera makes its debut with a concert devoted wholly to Verdi highlights. &...

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An aspiring American opera singer hoping to perform regularly in Italy is asking a Manhattan judge to unseal her grandfather's adoption records so she can prove that she is entitled to Italian citizenship. Kenneth Rose, a San Diego lawyer, says in a petition to Manhattan Surrogate Court that his whole family could benefit professionally from dual...

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An Italian music duo will perform Sunday afternoon in the second concert of the Symphony @ the Museum series. ##The D'Antonio and Montanari Duo, a guitar and flute duo, will perform a program of a variety works by composers Carl Nielsen, Terry Riley, Astor Piazzola, Toru Takemitsu and others at the Albany Museum of Art, 311 Meadowlark Drive. Part...

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By Kelly Dean Hansen "Rigoletto," Giuseppe's 1851 score based on a play by Victor Hugo, is the quintessential 19th century Italian opera. It has so many elements associated with the genre at its finest that even Verdi never again quite achieved such a synthesis.   Its musical and dramatic scope set a new standard for the composer and for th...

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L'elisir d'amore, by DonizettiBaton Rouge River Center TheaterFriday, March 1, 20137:30pmBuy Tickets L'elisir d'amore or The Elixir of Love rounds out the 2012-2013 Season in style, Friday, March 1, 2013. Donizetti's soaring melodies and irresistible choruses make L'elisir d'amore an immediate audience favorite. This unlikely love story of the sma...

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By Chiara Trebaiocchi Devo ammettere che ero un po' intimorita dall'idea di intervistare un direttore d'orchestra. Quelle figure di spalle al pubblico mi hanno da sempre messa in soggezione: la concentrazione, l'impeto e la fermezza che servono a guidare un'orchestra nella mia mente si associavano solo a maestri dall'aspetto un po' burbero e sever...

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