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In honor of the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth on October 10th, musical and historical events in America and Italy celebrate the esteemed composer over the next few months. Here are a select few: Italian Academy Foundation presents Verdi at Carnegie HallThe IAF along with the Consulate General of Italy in New York along with Vento and...

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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 2016 productions. New Jersey residents are encouraged to apply. Solo roles are available in the company's debut of Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda and Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto...

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The Tuesday Musicale of Detroit is proud to present A Verdi Opera GalaCelebrating Giuseppe Verdi's 200th anniversarySunday May 5, 2013 at 3:00 P.M.Grosse Pointe United Methodist Church,211 Moross, Grosse Pointe Farms 48236

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Come da tradizione, la ricorrenza della Festa della Repubblica italiana a San Francisco si è celebrata in concomitanza con l'evento "Italian Opera Day at the Park", appuntamento annuale presentato in cooperazione con l'Italian American Community Services Agency, il coordinatore del programma Maria Fassio Pignati e i Simi Cantori.   L'evento...

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If you enjoy singing and want to perform on the stage in professional productions, the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, the house opera company of the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), invites you to audition for the Verismo Opera Chorus. Artistic Director Lucine Amara announces professional, amateur, and retired professional male...

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by Roberto Natalini   As Music Director Nicola Luisotti and San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley revealed the day prior to the performance, all three hundred and twenty artists from Teatro San Carlo and the San Francisco Opera would communicate together using only the universal language of music.   The long awaited combi...

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by Rebecca Godwin   When given the choice between watching an opera and a sitcom, most people would choose the sitcom. But according to Associate Professor and Opera Director in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Robert Swedberg, the upcoming production of "The Barber of Seville" by Gioacchino Rossini and Cesare Sterbini, which Swedbe...

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By Niccolò Graffio   My clearest memories growing up of my father was of him being a workaholic. He had spent the first 17 years of his life living in Italy helping his mother and older brothers try to eke out a living on the family farm. His father immigrated to America and found work with the railroads.   As happened to many of our...

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Join us at the ICCC for a wonderful evening of Italian Opera! Secret marriages and incognito government inspectors, what could possibly go wrong? Come enjoy an evening of laughter, a preview of what the Moores Opera Center has to offer in its 2016-2017 season. This event is sponsored by the University of Houston's College of the Arts - Moores Opera...

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A critic once wrote that if the Three Stooges had written an opera libretto, it would look something like Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers (L'Italiana in Algeri).   "It really is more fun that you should be allowed to have in an opera house," says OCM executive director Douglas Anderson. The wild and irreverent comedy will take the stag...

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