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Over one hundred young musicians from the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras' (BYSO) premier orchestra, Boston Youth Symphony (BYS) will bring to life one of the most popular operas ever written – Puccini's Tosca. A melodrama in three acts, Tosca is an opera filled with lies, lust and corruption that turns a tale of love into a struggle for survival...

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Waiting for LA Opera's 2015 production of what has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe," M° Ignazio Terrasi, Music Assistant Conductor at the LA Opera and LA Grand Ensemble Music Director & Conductor will introduce a production directed by Daniela Vismara and conducted by Andrea Battistoni e Stefano Vizioli / Orchestra and Cho...

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Join Connecticut members in celebrating Italian Heritage Month with an afternoon gathering in tribute to Luciano Pavarotti. We'll start with a delicious lunch at La Tavola, which was recently named one of the best Italian restaurants in the state by Connecticut Magazine. After lunch, we'll head to the Silas Bronson Library for its eighth...

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by Miles Hoffman From the 1400's to the 1700's, the Italian word viola was the general term for any stringed instrument played with a bow. Viola da braccio, or "arm viola," was the generic name for any member of what we now call the modern violin family.   And even though it was always played between the legs, the instrument we now call the...

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"I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear." – Giuseppe Verdi   200 years after his birth, we celebrate the anniversary of one of the most influential composers of operas of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Verdi. As 2013 marks his bicentenn...

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The Center for Italian Opera Studies and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago announce a free symposium, "Giovanna d'Arco in Chicago." A welcome reception begins at 10:30 AM.   Co-sponsored by the Chicago Opera Theater (COT) and the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Fund, the symposium led by Philip Gossett pairs a roster of world-renowned sc...

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The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) invites professional, amateur, and retired professional soloists of all vocal categories to audition for roles in the opera company's 2014 productions. The application deadline to audition is December 13, 2013. Artistic Director Lucine Amara, a Met Opera legend, announces solo roles are a...

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For the "New York Times," he was the "San Carlo of the Symphony," and an Italian daily called him the "silent giant." Among the major conductors of his generation, Carlo Maria Giulini was in many ways the exception.   He wasn't the type to revel in power, and his career remained scandal-free. His priority was music and, with it, respect for...

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Chamber music for violin, viola, trumpet and organ by Girolamo Fantini, Biagio Marini, Dario Castello and Giovanni Battista Fontana.   Info – Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015. Hours: 6PM. Venue: Italian Cultural Institute. 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065   Read more   Source: http://www.iicnewyork....

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by David Fleshler   Imagine an opera company that functions with the cold precision of a touring Broadway musical, and you will have imagined everything that Miami Lyric Opera is not.   At the low-budget company's 2010 production of Puccini's La Bohème, the orchestra played out of tune and the set looked like it had been delivered fro...

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