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Ciao, Amici! After Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo, our traditional Fall event, Circolo Italiano is now opening our Winter schedule with two delightful events. We start with a combination of a fabulous Matinee at the Opera and a lovely champagne luncheon at La Cumbre Country Club on Sunday, Nov. 8th.   For this event Circolo Italiano is j...

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Studying famous opera pieces, will effectively help you build new vocabulary, as the memorization of the music facilitates the memorization of the words. Please join ICC native Italian instructor, Mirella Heimpel, to discover Italian opera, and learn more about Italian cultural heritage. Mirella will be the guide as students discover Verdi, and le...

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Luciano Ligabue has always claimed to have a truly unique audience. Not only "beautiful", nor even just "different" from all the others, but really "particular"; a public whose story deserves to be told. Emanuela Papini rises to the challenge with a book which began as a testimony to the reciprocal love and gratitude between the singer-songwriter...

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Warming Up with Luciano Berio- The brilliant young pianist Adam Tendler, visiting from New York, joins Sarah Cahill in a warm-up concert featuring Luciano Berio's piano compositions before they perform the same program a week later at the Italian Academy in New York.   Among the Berio pieces they will play are Touch (1991) for piano four-han...

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After WWII, excepting Benjamin Britten, only one opera composer has had wide success. Italian-American Gian Carlo Menotti never had the musical importance of the British composer, but in many of his works he had the knack to communicate with his audience.   Of course, he was a tonal composer; Italianate melodies came easily to him. And he ne...

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In the new exhibition Sinatra: An American Icon, visitors will have a chance to look deeper into the life and legacy of Frank Sinatra. In the new exhibition Sinatra: An American Icon, debuting this March at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at Lincoln Center, visitors will have a chance to loo...

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Come to the Vari Symposium 2015 for an enjoyable evening of Italian opera arias, duets and songs performed from notable operas such as La Traviata, La Bohème and Rigoletto. This year's performance is Friday, May 15th at 7:30PM at the Music Recital Hall at Santa Clara University.   The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP click here....

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Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011. NOVEMBER 20, 2015 - (07:00 PM): Concert: Live At Home with GIOVANNI CACCAMO. LIVE AT HOME - A New Way of Making Music   Giovanni Caccamo is a singer/songwriter produced by Caterina Caselli and discovered by Franco Battiato. In 2015 he won t...

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WTI Magazine #73    2015 November 27Author : Cristina Fontanelli      Translation by:   Hello all of you precious readers of "We The Italians". Thank you Umberto Mucci for giving me the opportunity to explain how and why I began the beloved annual Italian show "Christmas in Italy®" 12 years ago in NYC and 4 years ago in San Diego. The memories I...

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di Emanuela Zuccalà   Sbarcavano a Ellis Island, sotto la Statua della Libertà, con le valigie colme solo di sogni. Li abbiamo visti in tanti film, i quattro milioni di italiani emigrati negli Stati Uniti fra Ottocento e Novecento, ma non sapevamo che tra loro si nascondessero dei musicisti sopraffini.   Mandolinisti, cantanti, pianis...

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