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Marco Armiliato conducts this entertaining production featuring Diana Damrau's first-ever performance in the title role of the sleepwalking Amina.   The sensational Mexican tenor Javier Camarena is her fiance, Elvino, with the Italian bass Michele Pertusi as Count Rodolfo. The cast also includes the Australian soprano Rachelle Durkin as Lisa...

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Il 20 dicembre scorso, presso palazzo Armieri, sede dell' Assessorato regionale alle Politiche Sociali e migratorie, è stato presentato il nuovo progetto di Asmef, l'associazione culturale che da anni studia la storia, le dinamiche e i personaggi dell'emigrazione italiana. Si tratta di un musical, incentrato sul tema che da anni promuove l'associaz...

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Giorgio Albertazzi, an acclaimed Italian actor and filmmaker, is performing a show from November 1 until November 17 on the American lectures of Italo Calvino. These lectures are five in total that Italo Calvino wrote and for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for poetry at Harvard University. Calvino wrote in his introduction "I would like to devo...

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In keeping with the mission of the Italian American Museum, located in the heart of New York City's iconic "Little Italy", the newly created italytheater plans to create an Italian American "Cultural Roadmap" which promises to become the richest portfolio in the United States of Italian inspired activities, soirees, and educational programs, all me...

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Il Teatro della Ginestra di Cosenza presenta, a New York, nell'ambito del festival "In Scena" il suo storico spettacolo "Jennu brigannu. Storie di briganti calabresi" scritto da Vincenza Costantino e interpretato da Dante de Rose, Manolo Muoio ed Ernesto Orrico.   "Jennu brigannu" andrà in scena domenica 16 Giugno al DiCapo Opera (184 East 7...

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by John Quinn   If we were to believe poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Miles Standish, military advisor to the Plymouth Colony, was smitten with the lovely Pilgrim maid, Pricilla Mullen. Rather than woo her himself, he sent his roommate, John Alden, to speak to her on his behalf. Bad move. John also loves Pricilla and the love triangle takes...

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  WTI Magazine #59    2015 May, 1Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! As previously announced, We the Italians is working in partnership with a few other friends on Tony Lo Bianco's "Little Flower" one-man show, for the first time in Italy on May 18 here in the Eternal city. It will be a legendary evening, with VIP and t...

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by Bob Curtwright   Is "The Light in the Piazza" opera for the Broadway crowd or Broadway for the opera set? Well, it's sort of both, says Wayne Bryan, guest director for the lushly romantic tale about the meeting of a naive American tourist and a lovestruck Italian boy in Florence, Italy, during one summer in the post-war 1950s.  ...

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by Kathaleen Roberts   The Gavones are an Italian family just trying to get through a funeral between embezzling, fighting and eating. "I would hesitate to call them dysfunctional because within their psychosis, they're functioning quite well," said James Cady,director of "The Gavones of Philadelphia," opening at the Adobe Theater on Fr...

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Hayden Milanes is too young to have caught the Four Seasons' music when they were topping the charts during the 1960s, but growing up in Tampa, Fla., he often heard his parents play the band's records, and vividly recalls his father walking around the house singing, "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."   Milanes also feels at least two strong conne...

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