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No "ritardando," or slowing down, for Cleveland Opera Theater. No, at this point in the score it's following, the marking clearly reads the opposite: "accelerando."    Even as it puts the finishing touches on a full-scale production of Puccini's "Tosca," its largest effort to date, the group also is advancing rapidly as an organization,...

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By Giovanni di Napoli   Ferdinando Carulli (b. Naples 1770 - d. Paris 1841) was perhaps the most significant composer and instructor for the guitar in the Nineteenth Century. Highly prolific, many of the virtuoso's works, including his "Harmony Applied to the Guitar," continue to be used today to train students the classical guitar.  ...

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Friday, September 23, 2016 at 7:30 PM. Davies Symphony Hall. MTT and the SF Symphony showcase the many facets of Italian music – from its sweeping drama to moments of delicate beauty and lighthearted joy. Hear Verdi's show-stopping Te Deum, alongside Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble The Swingle Singers, SF Symphony Principal Oboe Eugen...

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Main Street Opera and Casa Italia proudly present......Puccini's TOSCA! Full Dinner and Opera on Friday, June 7, 2013, at the Festival Center at Casa Italia – 6:30 p.m. 3800 W. Division St., Stone Park, IL 60165   Tickets (including sit down dinner) $50 Per Person in Advance $60 per per at the door. Limited Reserved Seating   Click...

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Dear Members and Friends, We are very proud to announce that the ICCC toghether with the Houston Grand Opera's O.N. for Young professionals will host an evening celebrating HGO's 2013-14 season and the productions of Verdi's Aida and Rigoletto.   Don't miss it, enjoy complimentary wine and light bites! August 28th from 6 to 9 pm at the ICCC...

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By Beatrice Bondi Nell'ambito dell'iniziativa Adventure in Italian Opera, l'esperto di opera e gastronomia italiana Fred Plotkin, tra ottobre e aprile incontrerà alla Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò della NYU diversi personaggi del mondo dell'opera noti a livello internazionale, con i quali intavolerà una conversazione per esplorare i segreti del mon...

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The Nashua Community Concert Association opens its 2014-2015 season with a concert by The Sicilian Tenors on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m., at the Edmund Keefe Auditorium at Elm St. Middle School.   Accompanied by a grand piano, the Sicilian Tenors sing songs from Hollywood to Broadway to Italy. Aaron Caruso studied opera in Italy and New Yo...

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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born on October 9 or 10, 1813, in Le Roncole, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. His love and talent for music were obvious at a young age. When he was only eight, he became the official organist at his local church. During his teenage years, he recalled that he "wrote a motley assortment of pieces: marches for band by th...

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Opera San José (OSJ) continues its season with Gioachino Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers. This sparkling and fast-paced opera weaves a madcap story full of twists and turns into a comic adventure to a land of magnificent palaces, swashbuckling pirates and lavish harems.   The Italian Girl in Algiers will be sung in Italian with English...

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The international triumphs, the rivalry with Maria Callas, the ill-fated love life: the great soprano Renata Tebaldi, the pride of Italy in the world, was a unique artist, who devoted her life to opera, giving her characters some of the best vocal and expressive interpretations in history. From the 1940s to the 1970s she appeared on all the most im...

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