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Cifre da capogiro per la rappresentazione della Tosca di Giacomo Puccini all’Opera House di San Francisco. Nove rappresentazioni in due mesi e trentacinquemila biglietti venduti che chiude alla grande il novantaseiesimo anno di vita della famosa Opera House.  La prima rappresentazione della Tosca a San Francisco risale al 2 Ottobre 1923 e fu condot...

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Opera Colorado opens its 2018-19 season in just a few weeks, with an opulent production of Verdi's La Traviata-one of the most beloved operatic works of all time. The production opens Saturday, November 3, at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House with additional performances on November 6, 9, and 11. This Romantic masterpiece overflows with Verdi's brilli...

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Italian tenor Pasquale Esposito returns to Sacramento’s Crest Theater on Saturday, Oct. 27, with his new multimedia celebration of Italian culture in video and song.  In 2016, Esposito’s show celebrated Enrico Caruso. This time, perhaps surprisingly, it’s a celebration of Italian piazzas. Esposito has shown the vocal resources to take on the lyric...

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Some of Chicago’s best young singers will perform arias and art songs by iconic Italian composers at the Italian Cultural Center’s Vocal Scholarship Awards Dinner and Concert. The event will start at 2 p.m. on Nov. 11 in the Mentesana Weber Chandelier Room of the Community Center at Casa Italia and feature a wine-and-cheese reception, concert and d...

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There won’t be any yellow police tape around the Winspear  Opera House on Friday but the stage will become the gritty crime scene of a murder driven by jealous rage. It all takes place in The Dallas Opera’s production of Bizet’s ever-popular opera Carmen, which is filled with sex and smuggling, violence and victimization, theft and terrorism, deser...

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Tacoma Opera’s production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” is scheduled to open Oct. 26. In addition to a great story, music and sets, the production promises lavish costume design. “The costumes for our production of ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ are going to be absolutely stunning,” said Tacoma Opera Artistic Director Noel Koran. “They are being given to us by o...

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A group of opera performers eager to pass along their deep love of music to future generations visited P.S. 163 in Bath Beach on Friday morning, where they enchanted first and second graders by belting out Broadway show tunes for them. Led by Director Nina Di Gregorio, members of the Italian Opera Company treated the children seated in the school a...

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This fall, the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera opens with Norma on Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. The company presents Vincenzo Bellini's tragedia lirica opera set in ancient Rome at the Bergen Performing Arts Center, located at 30 North Van Brunt Street, in Englewood, New Jersey. Verismo Opera announces the artists performing in thi...

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The extraordinary violinist Rachel Barton Pine returns to tackle Paganini's devilishly difficult Violin Concerto No. 1, and guest conductor Daniel Boico leads a marvelous tour of Italy with Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite III, and Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony No. 4. The Columbus Symphony presents the Italian Festival at the Southern T...

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Si­ci­lia­na la ma­dre, Ka­the­ri­ne, una can­tan­te jazz ori­gi­na­ria di Ara­go­na, pae­se del­la pro­vin­cia di Agri­gen­to. Pu­glie­se il pa­dre, Ni­cho­las Tur­tur­ro (nato Ni­co­la Tur­tur­ro), car­pen­tie­re emi­gra­to ne­gli Sta­ti Uni­ti a sei anni in­sie­me con la fa­mi­glia pro­ve­nien­te da Gio­vi­naz­zo (Bari). E gli umo­ri, i ru­mo­ri...

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