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The Houston Symphony orchestra spreads the classic sounds of Italy and Russia wherever it goes, and it plans to continue its 2014-15 season Tuesday with a performance at Sam Houston State University's Gaertner Performing Arts Center. Concertmaster and Sugar Land native Frank Huang will lead the symphony in Antonio Vivaldi's most popular piece, "Th...

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by Patrick Neas When music is led by a great conductor like Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Furtwängler or Herbert von Karajan, it is charged with an electricity missing from performances led by lesser talents. Riccardo Muti belongs in that pantheon of great conductors.   In a Muti performance, whether live, on radio or on a recording, one i...

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Date: Friday, May 06, 2016 - Time: 7:30 PM. Location: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Organized by: San Francisco Performances - In collaboration with: IIC   Known for her sparkling soprano and gifts as an actress on both the concert platform and opera stage, Rosa Feola regularly collaborates with conductors su...

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Il musicista italiano Marco Fusi, specializzato nel panorama della musica contemporanea, ha fatto visita alla Baia di San Francisco presentando un programma di pezzi per viola e violino di alcuni dei più innovativi compositori italiani attualmente operanti.   Il programma musicale è nato dalla collaborazione fra l’Istituto Italiano di Cultur...

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MAY 26, 2015 - 06:00 PMCasa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011In cooperation with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (presenting the 2015 edition) and UNITEL Classica   Bass-baritone Paolo Bordogna in recital (arias and songs by Rossini), followed by a Q&A with the artist, presenting his new album Tutto Buf...

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Fabrizio Nava's first visit to Tulsa to coincided with the much-ballyhooed opening of the Woody Guthrie Center in the Brady Arts District. But Nava, the consul general of Italy in Houston, was in town for a different sort of celebration. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., have designated 2013 as...

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November 21, 2014 - Friday 7:30 PMInternational Student House - 1825 R Street, NW - Washington, District of Columbia   A rare treat for fans of Gaetano Donizetti (and those who have never experienced his brilliant works before), this benefit concert showcases the Italian opera composer's rarely performed art songs. Highly popu...

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While trying to get to his wedding, a young Parisian man is swept up in events that spiral hilariously out of control. The composer of iconic film scores — such as The Godfather; Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet; and Fellini's La dolce vita, La strada and 8 ½ — also wrote this charming and disarming farce that moves like the wind with bountiful bel ca...

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With the participation of EDWARD SMALDONE, DIRECTOR, AARON COPLAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC GIULIO GATTI-CASAZZA (1869-1940) who was born in Udine, Italy was the beneficiary of extensive education at major universities as well Genoa's Naval School of Engineering. He left the world of engineering, however, to conduct the opera orchestra in Ferrara.  ...

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By Jillian McCarthy   On Wednesday, April 29, students from Medford High School Italian classes attended the Boston Lyric Opera's final dress performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the Shubert Theatre in Boston. Forty free tickets were given to us by the educational department of the Boston Lyric Opera.   The bus to take us to...

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