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By Riccardo Chioni La commemorazione popolare che New York si appresta a portare in piazza in occasione del bicentenario della nascita del romantico compositore parmense si annuncia trionfante, come l'avrebbe immaginata lo stesso Giuseppe Verdi.Verdi Square, situata a W 72nd Street tra Broadway e Amsterdam Avenue, diventerà teatro della celebrazio...

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Italian conductor Riccardo Muti said Monday he will extend his tenure as the musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through 2020. The famous maestro from Naples has thrilled audiences in Chicago since his arrival in 2010."Chicago is my home away from home, and I am very glad it will continue to be so," Muti said in a statement.  ...

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Un collegamento via Skype con il Metropolitan Opera di New York aprirà stasera la quattro-giorni di festa per la 63^ Sagra del Pesce presentata nei giorni scorsi in Liguria e in programma domenica a Camogli, con la distribuzione di tre tonnellate di frittura nel maxi-padellone del Guiness dei Primati di 26 quintali e quattro metri di diametro. &nb...

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Last October's 200th anniversary of Verdi's birth unleashed a flurry of performances of the Verdi Requiem that hasn't subsided. This most operatic of Requiems concludes the 2014 Oregon Bach Festival Sunday in Eugene.   What makes this performance especially tantalizing is its young but proven solo quartet: soprano Tamara Wilson, mezzo-sopran...

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C'è un compositore d'altri tempi che ha esportato il suo sapere oltre l'oceano. Da Roma a Los Angeles, Gabriele Ciampi è un italiano che ha esportato il suo modo di comporre negli Usa. Un orgoglio nostrano che scrive musica usando solo pianoforte, carta e matita. E che dirige la CentrOrchestra mixando un look contemporaneo e una chiave romantica....

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by Paul Hyde   "Veremonda, L'Amazzone Di Aragona" ("Veremonda, the Amazon of Aragona") takes place on Gibraltar. The Spanish Queen Veremonda, sung by the wonderful Vivica Genaux, is frustrated about the lack of progress in the war against the Moors. What's to account for the delay? King Alfonso is distracted by his scientific studies.  ...

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Join NOIAW's Rhode Island Region for an "Italian Afternoon" starring violinist Grazia Raimondi at the Newport Music Festival on Saturday, July 18th at 4PM at the Elms Tent in Newport. Raimondi will be joined by seven other classical musicians including Jiří Bárta (cello), Terezie Fialová (piano), and Coline-Marie Orliac (harp.)   The pe...

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The second half of Casa Italia's summer camp will feature several cultural presentations that are free and open to the public. Main Street Opera will present "Rita" by Gaetano Donizetti at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13. In this domestic comedy, Rita, believing her tyrannical first husband, Gasparo, to be drowned at sea, marries the meek Bep...

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When: January 17-18-19 — 8 p.m. Where: Boston Symphony Hall — 301 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA [map] For tickets, please visit www.bso.org. To mark the bicentennial of Verdi's birth in 1813, Italian conductor Daniele Gatti, music director of the Orchestre National de France, leads the BSO in three performances of the composer's Requiem with t...

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In an era when so many arts groups are struggling to hang on, the Connecticut Lyric Opera in New London continues its growth, both in its ability to reach broader audiences and to broaden the scope of operas staged in Connecticut. Last season, the CLO made a splash by performing what is believed to be the first production of a Wagner opera ever in...

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