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Saturday, May 10th, 3:00 pm - 151 Mulberry Street, New York, NY. A live musical performance featuring Italian and Neapolitan Music. The Italian American Museum is proud to present an unforgettable afternoon of music with acclaimed vocalist, composer, and global musical innovator Simona De Rosa, joined by celebrated Neapolitan guitarist Gennaro Espo...

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Over two and a half million people flocked to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to attend Lady Gaga’s free concert, the grandest and most significant of her career as an Italian-American artist. This is most likely the most attended concert by a female artist ever, surpassing even Madonna’s performance in Rio, which drew 1.5 million peopl...

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The irrepressible melody and dazzle of Italian music is on full display in Atlanta Symphony concerts May 1 and May 3. Guest conductor Jader Bignamini will be on the podium to lead the orchestra in works by Bottesini and Respighi. The young Italian virtuoso Giuseppe Gibboni will be the soloist in Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1.  Bignamini is the a...

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Long Island Concert Orchestra presents the World Premiere of Rossini Perduto on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 7:30pm at The Theater at St. John, 150 E. 76th Street, NYC. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased online at https://liconcertorchestra.org/events/rossini-perduto, by phone at 877-444-4488, or in person at the door. With music by award-winning Ne...

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Matteo Mancuso has announced his first headline national tour of North America. The itinerary brings Mancuso coast to coast in the U.S., and into Canada for several annual marquee events. The tour begins May 20 at Boston’s City Winery and wraps June 30 at Le Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. Mancuso will perform at Buffalo’s Electric City...

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Pianist Alessandro Martire spent years convincing local officials to let him play while floating on the glittering blue waters of Lake Como in northern Italy, but when the show — called “Floating Waves” — finally came to pass, the internationally famous resort town clearly was meant for such a spectacle. Pictures from the first concert look like so...

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In one amazing two-year burst of inspiration, Giuseppe Verdi composed three of the world’s most beloved operas that set a new path for the art form and secured his place in the opera pantheon. Maestro Robert Butts will discuss “Verdi’s Trilogy: Il Trovatore, Rigoletto and La Traviata,” 2 PM Wednesday, May 14 at the Ocean County Library Long Beach I...

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From the prestigious stage of the Ariston, Carlo Conti officially announced the launch of the 2025 edition of the Sanremo Giovani World Tour, an initiative aimed at promoting young talents of Italian music. The stars of this edition will be Alex Wise, Maria Tomba, Settembre, and the duo Vale LP & Lil Jolie, selected from hundreds of aspiring artist...

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For thousands of years, humans have played music using some version of the ocarina, a rounded wind instrument that produces a flute-like sound. In China, ocarina-like instruments date back to 5,000 BC, and the Maya and the Aztecs used them in religious ceremonies. But the modern ocarina, a sweet potato–shaped instrument with 10 to 12 holes, was inv...

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The song Mamma has a special place in Italian music history, both because of its universal theme, maternal love, and the many famous artists to whom it is associated. The song was composed in 1940 by Cesare Andrea Bixio, with lyrics by Bixio Cherubini, a known artistic duo. Born in Naples on October 11, 1896, Cesare Andrea was a prolific Italian co...

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