By Sharon Litwin For years now pundits and observers of the "high" arts in America have predicted the demise of classical music, opera and dance, whose audiences, they say, consist mainly of those with white hair and or no hair.   And yet, with every generation, inspired talented ones have appeared whose glorious flashes of brilliance and p...

Are you an intermediate speaker of Italian who loves opera? Have you always wanted to have a better understanding of the words? Now is your opportunity to discover more of Verdi's "Rigoletto"!   Join ICC's native Italian instructor, Mirella Heimpel, as she uncovers the famous opera. You will listen to the music, pause to learn new language p...

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera), the house opera company of the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), will hold its fall Open House on Saturday, September 10, 2016. The annual event will be held at 44 Armory Street in Englewood, New Jersey at 2:00 p.m. Artistic Director Lucine Amara, a Met Opera luminary, invites t...

Pianists Anthony Porter and Sarah Cahill, Soprano Amy Foote, and Bass Richard Mix present an evening of Italian contemporary pocket operas suspended in between the humorous and the apocalyptic.   Featured works are Fabrizio de Rossi Re's King Kong, amore mio (King Kong, My Love; 2011), on a libretto by Luis Gabriel Santiago, and the wor...

Join us for a wonderful evening discovering Mozart's "Don Giovanni". Dr. Nicolas Reveles, Director of Education at the San Diego Opera, will lead the talk. Cheese and wine will be offered to our guests! Italian Cultural Center of San Diego - Friday, February 6, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM. ICC Members Only Event. Click here to RSVP...

martedì 16 aprile 201317.30 Regency Theater26762 Verdugo Street, San Juan Capistrano, CA (map) In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles you are invited to celebrate The Year of Italian Culture AND the great Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday with a special presentation of Nabucco at the San Juan Capistrano Regency Theater!...

La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi and IACE in collaboration with THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY IN NEW YORK present  La Scuola d'Italia Liceo students in "The Barber of Seville"   and The DiCapo Opera Teather in Famous Opera Arias Sunday, June 2, 2013 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.   La Scuola d'Italia Auditorium Middle School...

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) invites the public to celebrate its 25th anniversary year with its new Bring the Family to the Opera program. To launch the program, the only grand opera company in Bergen County is offering several special ticket offers for children, senior citizens, and individuals to see the company's p...

The program will feature the operas of the greatest Italian Opera Masters: Rossini, Donnizetti, Puccini, Verdi and Mascagni. Spectacular overtures of the most loved arias ever written for opera such as La Boheme, Cavalleria Rusticana, Lucia di Lammermoor, Barbiere di Siviglia, and Aida, performed by the artists of the New York City-based Amore Oper...

by Dean M. Shapiro Staged by the American Italian Cultural Center, the second annual "Opera in the Piazza" concert will take place Friday night at the Piazza d'Italia. Seasoned New Orleans opera singers will present arias from operas in the Italian repertoire, plus such well-known Italian songs as "O Sole Mio," "Volare" and "Santa Lucia." &n...