Dear Members and Friends, We are very proud to announce that the ICCC toghether with the Houston Grand Opera's O.N. for Young professionals will host an evening celebrating HGO's 2013-14 season and the productions of Verdi's Aida and Rigoletto.   Don't miss it, enjoy complimentary wine and light bites! August 28th from 6 to 9 pm at the ICCC...

By Beatrice Bondi Nell'ambito dell'iniziativa Adventure in Italian Opera, l'esperto di opera e gastronomia italiana Fred Plotkin, tra ottobre e aprile incontrerà alla Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò della NYU diversi personaggi del mondo dell'opera noti a livello internazionale, con i quali intavolerà una conversazione per esplorare i segreti del mon...

The Nashua Community Concert Association opens its 2014-2015 season with a concert by The Sicilian Tenors on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m., at the Edmund Keefe Auditorium at Elm St. Middle School.   Accompanied by a grand piano, the Sicilian Tenors sing songs from Hollywood to Broadway to Italy. Aaron Caruso studied opera in Italy and New Yo...

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born on October 9 or 10, 1813, in Le Roncole, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. His love and talent for music were obvious at a young age. When he was only eight, he became the official organist at his local church. During his teenage years, he recalled that he "wrote a motley assortment of pieces: marches for band by th...

Opera San José (OSJ) continues its season with Gioachino Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers. This sparkling and fast-paced opera weaves a madcap story full of twists and turns into a comic adventure to a land of magnificent palaces, swashbuckling pirates and lavish harems.   The Italian Girl in Algiers will be sung in Italian with English...

The international triumphs, the rivalry with Maria Callas, the ill-fated love life: the great soprano Renata Tebaldi, the pride of Italy in the world, was a unique artist, who devoted her life to opera, giving her characters some of the best vocal and expressive interpretations in history. From the 1940s to the 1970s she appeared on all the most im...

Experience the inimitable sights and sounds of La Scala here in California, thanks to the project MusicEmotion: Filarmonica della Scala and the Saturday Symphony Series.   Performances from the legendary Scala theatre in Milan will be screened in high definition and with surround sound at the Arena Theatre beginning on Saturday, the 20th of...

DANTE ALIGHIERI CULTURAL CENTER - 41 Hampshire St. Cambridge, MA (617-876-5160) - SUNDAY JANUARY 17, 2016, 2:30 PM - Boston Bel Canto Opera Company - Director, Bradley Pennington. The Pirandello Lyceum invites all members and friends to enjoy a wonderful concert by Bel Canto Opera Artistic Director Bradley Pennington. The c...

One of Italy's most historic opera companies is taking some of the country's most beloved operas – as well as some Italian culture – to the Middle East, Russia and the United States. The Teatro di San Carlo, which was founded in Naples in 1737 and is Europe's oldest, continuously active venue for public opera, begins its worldwide tour in the Sulta...

The Italian American Opera Foundation, that for the past two years has produced the Italian Opera Festival ™ (IOF) in Orange County, has announced today the program for its expanded 2014/2015 season, with a preview concert on October 26th at the Performing Art Center of Soka University, in the marvelous City of Aliso Viejo, and ...