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By Catherine Reese Utah Opera is welcoming music lovers back to Salt Lake City's newly renovated Capitol Theatre in grand style with an excellent production of Giuseppe Verdi's beloved "La Traviata."   Though it features a pair of festive and sparkling party scenes — staged smartly by director José María Condemi and sung with flair by the U...

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Italian opera is a musical art form that had its beginnings in Florence in the late 1500s. It was based on a number of performance genres that preceded it, including Greek drama, poems sung by a solo vocalist with single instrument backing and madrigals (a capella singing by 3-6 harmonizing vocalists).   The earliest known opera composition...

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Pur non essendo la città ideale dove godere l'arrivo dell'estate, dato il suo clima piuttosto fresco in questo periodo dell'anno, la città di San Francisco offre ai suoi abitanti e visitatori un programma musicale di grande livello, a cominciare dall'opera.   La stagione estiva dell'Opera di San Francisco si è aperta a giugno avendo come pro...

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Parma's Palatine Library is one of those wonderful places where "immortal souls" speak to us, as Pliny the Elder would have said. Or, to quote Marguerite Yourcenar, it is "a public granary, accumulating stocks for the winter of the spirit". Founded in 1761 and opened eight years later, in May 1769, the Palatine Library was named after the Temple of...

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Giuseppe Verdi, that colossus of opera and courageous nation-builder, was celebrated in New York last week in four distinct ways. There were important visitors from Parma, where Verdi is venerated. A small rendering of one of his early works got right to the core of his musical essence. And a performance of Simon Boccanegra at the Met instantly joi...

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Riccardo Muti will launch the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's planned celebration of the bicentennial of composer Giuseppe Verdi's birth by leading a special October performance of his "Requiem" that will be streamed live online, the Italian conductor announced Wednesday. The orchestra plans to mark the Verdi anniversary with several performances of...

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The Kentucky Opera, in celebration of renowned composer Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday, will perform the musically stunning yet rarely produced opera SIMON BOCCANEGRA in continuation of their THE BROWN-FORMAN 2013/14 SEASON. This unique operatic event will take place at the Brown Theatre on Friday, November 15th at 8pm and Sunday, November 17th at...

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With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera driving the Giuseppe Verdi bicentennial bandwagon, there nevertheless is room for other local organizations to climb on board.   Chicago Opera Theater is doing so, big time, this weekend, when it dusts off an early work by the Italian master the city has never heard before. Indeed, "Giovann...

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September 15, 2013 - Chicago, Lyric Opera Theater, Italian Cultural Institute   On the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the Chicago Opera Theater presents Giovanna d'Arco (1845). It is a bold and vivid portrayal of the iconic Joan of Arc, a woman sacrificing everything in fighting for her beliefs and her...

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Roma, 10 ottobre 2013200esimo anniversario della nascita di Giuseppe Verdi Va pensiero.. L'importanza dell'opera di Giuseppe Verdi per le comunità italoamericaneLiceo Classico e Linguistico "G. Mazzini" di Genova Nell'anno del duecentesimo ann...

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