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Nicola Luisotti says he will end his term as music director of the San Francisco Opera when his contract expires at the end of the 2017-18 season. The 55-year-old Italian made his debut with the company in 2005 and was hired in January 2007 to succeed Donald Runnicles as music director starting with the 2009-10 season.   In a statement...

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by David Wright   San Francisco Opera became Hollywood by the Bay as the company unveiled the war opera Two Women (La Ciociara), composed and co-written by Marco Tutino, Saturday night at the War Memorial Opera House. Two Women was a co-commission of the SFO and the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy.   If its title sounds familiar, th...

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When: Wednesday, January 25th at 6pmWhere: Italian Cultural Institute, 500 N Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450What: Love, Death, and Music in Vincenzo Bellini's 'Norma'Registration at https://norma2017.eventbrite.com   Bellini's celebrated opera Norma received its first performance at the celebrated Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1831, and will be...

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di Beatrice Bondi Pomeriggio all'insegna del cultura cinematografica italiana alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò della NYU, dove sono stati proiettati tre cortometraggi di Ermanno Olmi: "L'Onda" basato sui testi di Gabriele D'Annunzio, "Dialogo tra un venditore d'almanacchi e un passeggere" basato sulle opere di Giacomo Leopardi e "Manon Finestra 2...

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by Marco Carminati   Giuseppe Verdi is the most popular, most performed and most widely loved among Italian composers, and Italy takes pride in being not only the Maestro's birthplace, but also the setting for most of his life. Today, we can still visit the places where Verdi lived and worked: the houses he inhabited, the theaters he went t...

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Putting opera aside for an evening, members of the Italian Opera Company, a Brooklyn-based performance troupe, will entertain audiences with Neapolitan folk songs in a special concert at the Dyker Heights Library on Oct. 14.   The free concert, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Dyker Heights Library at 8202 13th Ave., will feature timeles...

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The Pirandello Lyceum presents The Boston Bel Canto Opera - Aria Concert Directed by Bradley Pennington Sunday, January 18, 2:30 pm at the Dante Alighieri Society of MA41 Cambridge StreetCambridge, MA 02139 Click here for more information   Source: Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts  

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New Rochelle Opera Company ushers in its 29th season with its first production of Gaetano Donizetti's L'ELISIR D'AMORE (The Elixir of Love) from June 19-22, 2014 in the Frank J. Auriana Theatre at the Ursuline School, 1345 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY.   The production will be staged by Company co-founder and artistic director Camille Copp...

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Mother of 6, grandmother of 12, and now cabaret singer, TONIA TECCE sings the story of her life in A COCKEYED OPTIMIST Why We Believe The Songs of Richard Rodgers on Thursday, November 20 and Monday, November 24, both at 7:30PM at Curtis Institute of Music's Field Concert Hall (1726 Locust Street). Tickets at $25 each are available by calling 610-5...

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Soprano Jennifer Forni, who sings the role of Micaela in Portland Opera's upcoming "Carmen," has a bundle of credits that show the makings of a star ascending. During a 2012-2014 stint with the San Jose Opera, she received glowing reviews for her performance of Cio-Cio-San in "Madama Butterfly."   In 2013 she joined the Metropolitan Opera, d...

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