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by Corrina   Simone Alberghini will be at ROF in a few weeks performing in "La Gazza Ladra" Earlier this season we spoke with him after a performance of Cenerentola at Washington National Opera! We've been so lucky to enjoy your performances in Pesaro at the Rossini Opera Festival. During the run of Cenerentola you were interviewed by Raiss...

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Music director Rene Knetsch will conduct the Parker Symphony Orchestra and Legend High School's Cantores Choir in "Messa da Requiem," a masterpiece composed by Giuseppe Verdi, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Pace Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., downtown Parker. The concert will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Italian composer's birth. Guest solois...

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By Catherine Reese Utah Opera is welcoming music lovers back to Salt Lake City's newly renovated Capitol Theatre in grand style with an excellent production of Giuseppe Verdi's beloved "La Traviata."   Though it features a pair of festive and sparkling party scenes — staged smartly by director José María Condemi and sung with flair by the U...

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Il "Verdi Opera Theatre" del Michigan, in collaborazione con l' "Italian American Club" di Livonia e con l' "Italian American Club of Livonia Charitable Foundation" presenta la 21º Competizione Annuale di Canzoni Italiane ed Arie Vocali per gli studenti del liceo nel Michigan.   Tra le domande ricevute, verranno scelti dieci finalisti, i qua...

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This is definitely the most discussed and most loved opera by Giacomo Puccini. A fiery protagonist finds herself trapped between her allegiance to her rebel lover and the scheming of a treacherous police chief who will stop at nothing in his lust for her. The unbearable situation leads to intense drama and an unexpected, quite bloody grand final....

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Italian opera is a musical art form that had its beginnings in Florence in the late 1500s. It was based on a number of performance genres that preceded it, including Greek drama, poems sung by a solo vocalist with single instrument backing and madrigals (a capella singing by 3-6 harmonizing vocalists).   The earliest known opera composition...

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By Lawrence Budmen While Pietro Mascagni achieved his greatest success with his very first opera, the violent and impassioned Cavalleria Rusticana, his second opera L'Amico Fritz, composed in 1891, was also highly acclaimed in its day.   That score continues to hold the stage in Italy but has largely disappeared from the international opera...

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Pur non essendo la città ideale dove godere l'arrivo dell'estate, dato il suo clima piuttosto fresco in questo periodo dell'anno, la città di San Francisco offre ai suoi abitanti e visitatori un programma musicale di grande livello, a cominciare dall'opera.   La stagione estiva dell'Opera di San Francisco si è aperta a giugno avendo come pro...

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A shy young man wins the girl of his dreams, with a little help from a bottle. If only it were that easy in real life! Our production of this charming comedy is set in rural Texas in the 1930's. The opera was a favorite of both Pavarotti and Caruso and we're sure it will become yours as well. Sung in the original Italian with English surtitles. &n...

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Giuseppe Verdi, that colossus of opera and courageous nation-builder, was celebrated in New York last week in four distinct ways. There were important visitors from Parma, where Verdi is venerated. A small rendering of one of his early works got right to the core of his musical essence. And a performance of Simon Boccanegra at the Met instantly joi...

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