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The Italian Baroque chamber orchestra Interpreti Veneziani has played two sold-out concerts in Tucson in recent years.   Both were set in Crowder Hall, a venue that seats about 600 and is your classic concert hall, with seats that can grow hard after a long spell and darkness that swallows the hall and forces you to focus on the light shinin...

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La vera forza dei grandi capolavori dell'arte umana, in tutte le sue diverse forme, è data dalla capacità di superare i confini del tempo e dello spazio, suscitando emozioni uniche e facendosi apprezzare anche a distanza di secoli e in tutto il mondo.   Un perfetto esempio del potere immortale dell'arte è stato offerto lo scorso mercoledì 7...

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A Night of Italian Opera," sponsored by The Scarsdale Woman's Club and The Westchester Italian Cultural Center, will be presented on Friday, November 14, at 7 p.m. at the Club located at 37 Drake Road, Scarsdale.   The concert will feature arias from the operas La Bohème, I Pagliacci, Madama Butterfly, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Aida by artists...

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Starting from the 50's / 60's took place a musical revolution, destined to change composition and interpretation and the very idea of the musical language in the fields of Contemporary Music, having as one of its important medium a musical instrument: the flute. In particular, during the first years of the mythical Ferienkursen in Darmstadt, at th...

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Dopo il clamoroso trionfo dell'Otello alla Scala (5 febbraio 1887), ancora una volta fu Boito a spronare Verdi, perché si decidesse a scrivere un'altra opera, possibilmente un'opera comica. Grazie al suo librettista e collaboratore Arrigo Boito, Verdi potè lavorare ancora meglio che per Otello.E aveva ragione per amare il personaggio di Falstaff:...

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You are invited to attend a performance of Vincenzo Bellini's beautiful opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" (the Romeo and Juliet story) which will take place at the GW Lisner Auditorium, 21st and H St. NW in DC at 6:00 pm on Sunday, September 28, 2014.   Concert opera is a form in which the singers are at the front of the stage and perform in...

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For the June 2015 Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival's undertaking to produce all three of the extant operas of Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) — The Monteverdi Trilogy — with a cohesive artistic and scholarly vision, is a momentous occasion in the modern revival of Baroque opera. Monteverdi was the first great genius in the history of opera...

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by Sam Hall Interesting fact –Lorenzo da Ponte , librettist for Don Giovanni, was the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University in New York City; he was also the first ethnically Jewish member of the faculty, and the first to be a Catholic priest.   Before that, he worked at various points in his life as grocer, among oth...

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On Sunday, October 6 at 12:30 p.m. at Verdi Square in Manhattan, Inter-Cities Performing Arts, Inc. will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the renowned Italian composer and statesman. Joining the New York/New Jersey-based arts organization and its founders, Leonard and Carmela Altamura, dignitaries from the Italian and...

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by Juliette Angoulvant   UNC opera theatre students make Puccini's "La Rondine" come to life in their production, which opens this week on Thursday. Performances will be held on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Langworthy Theatre in Frasier Hall). The production was directed by associate professor of music Brian Clay Lue...

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