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New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Artistic Director Lucine Amara invites soloists in all vocal categories to audition for roles in the professional opera company's 2014-2015 productions. New Jersey residents are encouraged to apply.Solo roles are available in the company's new productions of Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, Georges Bizet's Carmen...

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Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival with the Carmel Bach Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute present "Italian Chamber Music - Vivaldi's Four Seasons".   Program:Ottorino Respighi - Notturno for Piano; Gioacchino Rossini - Fantasie for Clarinet and Piano; Gian Carlo Menotti - Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano; Antonio Vivaldi - The...

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You don't often hear "football" and "bel canto" in the same sentence. How about the same opera? The new production Great Scott, which premiered Friday at the Dallas Opera, pulls that off with a meta-story of sorts: It's an opera about a struggling opera company, whose future just happens to hinge on the outcome of the Super Bowl.   If...

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The world's leading conductors bring Classical masterpieces to cinematic life in these unique programs from Europe's premier symphony. MusicEmotion transports audiences to the glorious Teatro Alla Scala in Milan for an Old World musical experience in high definition.   Hosts Francesco Micheli and Joelle Williams go behind the scenes, interv...

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When: Saturday, October 11, 2014 – 12:55 p.m.Where: Shalin Liu Performance Center – 37 Main St, Rockport, MAThe show is a HD screening of the MET Opera's performance. Star soprano Anna Netrebko delivers her searing portrayal of Lady Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Željko Lučić's doomed Macbeth, for the first time at the Met. Adrian Noble's...

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You can join the San Francisco Opera this season for the World Premiere of La Ciociara – "Two Women" in English – a story about the cruelty of war, loss of innocence and intense love of a mother for a daughter.   Nicola Luisotti, director of both the San Francisco Opera since September 2009 and music director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Na...

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By Fred Plotkin   I am writing this on a quick work trip that has me immersed in Italian conversation but, for the purposes of this article, my mind is back home in New York. Specifically at the Metropolitan Opera House. The first four operas of the Met season were Anna Bolena, Otello, Il Trovatore and Turandot.   All operas had two t...

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by Tony Bravo   With real estate at a premium in San Francisco, there's been a lot of creative repurposing of spaces in the city of late, especially in the arts. This was evident at the grand reopening of the Italian Cultural Institute (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) on Wednesday in Opera Plaza.   Previously in North Beach, this center...

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Among the few women who have made it to the conductor's podium, Speranza Scappucci is also a brilliant pianist and a graduate from the prestigious Juilliard School and the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome.   After her debut as a conductor at the Yale Opera with Così Fan Tutte, in the last few years Maestro Scappucci has performe...

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A harpsichord that entertained the elites of Italy in the mid-1500s has been restored by a South Dakota museum and will soon bring its sound to 21st-century ears. The National Music Museum in Vermilion, which acquired the instrument in 2009, worked with Chilean-born musician Catalina Vicens, who specializes in historical keyboards and percussi...

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