When: Monday, September 25 · 7pm EDT - Where: Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 United States The Teatro Carlo Felice—among Italy's foremost opera houses—comes to Columbia with a leading mezzo for this performance of Italian music. Performers: Cecilia Molinari, mezzosoprano and Claudio Marino Moretti, pianist Program: Gioach...
READ MOREThe compositions, as well as frequent moments of collective improvisation, exhibit the defining characteristics of a classic modern jazz quartet. The quartet's first recording, “aLive Shouts” (Fonterossa, 2019), contains the “Suite for Bessie Jones”, inspired by the lyrics of some songs made famous by the singer and recorded by Alan Lomax. A second...
READ MOREWhen: September 18 2023 at 18:00 - Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura - NY - Please RSVP to [email protected] Indicating: “Minnozzi” In “Naples, port of the soul” there is the Naples of the world, with its melodies, harmonies, its stories of love and passion that speak to people’s hearts because they are an expression of colors, sounds and rhyt...
READ MOREFrom September 16 to September 30, 2023 at 7:00 PM. 339 Pleasant St, Malden, MA, 02148. Discover the Splendor of Italian Grand Opera in this Limited Engagement Special Event! Prepare to be enraptured by the ethereal voices of today's top opera vocalists, as they weave a mesmerizing tapestry of emotion, drama, and passion through the timeless art of...
READ MOREMusic, the universal language of the soul, subtly shapes our experiences, colors our memories, and stirs our emotions. It has the power to bring us to another time and place and evoke feelings that words alone cannot express. Now, imagine a melody that your ancestors carried in their hearts as they traveled across the ocean to a new land: that song...
READ MOREI am happy to announce my Arts on Bergen Concert Series recital "Songs that Heal and Comfort," featuring my original songs. The recital will honor veterans and include songs I composed in tribute to this service and sacrifice of veterans, in addition to songs for healthcare providers caring for patients with COVID-19, and inspirational and spiritua...
READ MOREToto Cutugno has died. At just turned 80 in July, the singer-songwriter passed away around 4 p.m. today in Milan. After a long illness, Cutugno had been getting worse in recent months. Toto Cutugno, born July 7, 1943, was the symbol of Italian melody abroad thanks mainly to L'Italiano, but also to other cazones that allowed him to sell more than 10...
READ MOREThe Teatro Costanzi in Rome was no more than half full on the evening of Saturday 17 May 1890 for the first performance of a new opera by an unknown 26-year-old composer. Pietro Mascagni – who was currently working as a local musician in the small town of Cerignola in south-eastern Italy – was one of three obscure figures who had made it through to...
READ MOREFor those who long for doo wop, a genre that once dominated the radio and TV air waves, the sounds of the 50s and 60s will come alive Saturday, Aug. 19 when the “Sounds of Summer Concert Series” unfolds beginning at 6:30 p.m. The grand concert production — a sentimental walk down memory lane — will be staged at the Midland Beach Splaza on Father Ca...
READ MOREIn the great tradition of the last 30 years, Opera & Broadway of the Hamptons will return to the East End bringing the great “chestnuts” of the Opera and Broadway favorites in their program “A Southampton Salute To Summer: Cristina Fontanelli And Her Fabulous Friends” taking place for the 3rd year in a row in the magnificent Basilica of the Sacred...
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