Seattle-This January, Seattle Opera heats up the winter with one of the most fiery melodramas of all time: Tosca. In this tale, an opera diva must save the man she loves from the clutches of the lecherous police chief whose lust for the leading lady is as strong as his hunger for power.   The ultimate, high-stakes love triangle takes audienc...

Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016 Hours: 7:30 PM Venue: Theatre Raymond Kabbaz Organized by: Theatre Raymond Kabbaz In collaboration with: Le Lycée Français of Los Angeles, TV5Monde, KCRW and IIC tickets at www.theatreraymondkabbaz.com The concert includes the West Coast premieres of dramatic orchestral arrangements of Giuseppe Verdi's and Cl...

by Liliana Rosano   Ha cominciato a comporre a sei anni, per poter suonare i suoi pezzi mentre imparava il pianoforte. Roberto Scarcella Perino, siciliano di Messina, dal 2000 vive a New York, dove è Senior Lecturer e docente di Italian Opera presso la New York University e Scholar in Residence all'American Institute for Verdi Studies. &nbs...

Instead of the usual sound of cheering fans and cannon fire...you can expect to hear tenors and classical music playing at Indiana University's Memorial Stadium tonight.   The Jacobs School of Music and IU Athletics are partnering up to bring the Italian opera "La Boheme" to the field as part of their new "Opera in the End Zone" series. &nb...

by Sharon Dargay   Viviana Garabello quit her job, left her country and followed her passion for music last summer. Now the Livonia woman is hitting all the right notes both on and off the stage.    "I have been all my life in Italy. I was working there as a quality systems engineer," said Garabello, 34, a soprano who s...

Lyric Opera of Kansas City concludes its dynamic 57th season with Giacomo Puccini's vibrant Tosca, April 18, 22, 24 and 26 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The production will be sung in Italian with English and Italian titles.   General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler stated, "The 2014-15 season is the season of emotionally...

The Mattatuck Museum celebrates the holiday season with a concert featuring renowned tenor Michéal Castaldo and guest soprano Marissa Famiglietti at 3 p.m. Sunday, December 20. Michéal Castaldo, a classical crossover tenor and light Italian opera singer, songwriter and composer, is an Italian-born Canadian who currently resides in New York. &...

The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra continues its "Symphony of Elements" series, exploring themes of the water, fire, and now Earth.   The production, called GAIA: A Musical Voyage, will be held on March 6 at 3 p.m. in the Angelle Hall Auditorium. Listeners will experience a bucolic scene and folk dance from Hungary, the charm and exuberance of...

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera debuts Amilcare Ponchielli's magnificent work, La Gioconda, replete with complex plots and intrigue, on Sunday, April 17 at 3:00pm at the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), located at 30 North Van Brunt Street, in Englewood, New Jersey.   "Verismo Opera's La Gioconda is overflowing with hum...

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden and his wife Jill paid tribute to the Year of Italian Culture in the USA on the occasion of the "Opera Ball", one of the American capital's most important cultural events, which was organized with the help of the Washington National Opera (WNO) at Villa Firenze, residence of Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero.Over 5...