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VERDI’S 200th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Aida at the Opera de Paris

AIDA OPERA IN FOUR ACTS (1871) MUSIC BY GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901)   LIBRETTO BY ANTONIO GHISLANZONI AFTER AUGUSTE MARIETTE Performed in Italian From October 10 to November 16, 2013 Commissioned to celebrate concord between the nations, Aida is essentially about … Continue reading

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Opera as a Graphic Novel: Otello.

Otello as a graphic novel, Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello is about to become a graphic novel. “We are not talking about a simplified version of the opera” explains Aldo Sisillo, the director of the Fondazione Teatro … Continue reading

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VERDI’S 200th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Rigoletto with the London Symphony Orchestra (Review)

Rigoletto – review Barbican, London High-voltage intensity and fierce insight powered this superb concert performance of Verdi’s masterpiece By Tim Ashley, The Guardian, Tuesday 17 September 2013 In his element in Verdi … conductor Gianandrea Noseda     The London … Continue reading

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MOZART and More; Free Concert in Arizona

La Forza Chamber Orchestra offers free concert Friday, September 27, 2013 7:30 p.m. Valley Presbyterian Church 6947 E. McDonald Dr. Paradise Valley, Arizona   “Mozart and More” PROGRAM: The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) Overture – Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 … Continue reading

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Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera de Paris

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR DRAMMA TRAGICO IN TWO PARTS (AND THREE ACTS) (1835)   MUSIC BY GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797-1848) LIBRETTO BY SALVATORE CAMMARANO AFTER WALTER SCOTT’S NOVEL “THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR” Performed in Italian From September 7 to October 9, 2013 … Continue reading

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Bellini opera fragment found in Spain

Bellini opera fragment found in Spain Rare fragment of an opera score handwritten by 19th century Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini found in Spain. Spain’s national library said today that it had discovered a rare fragment of an opera score handwritten … Continue reading

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Terrible news: Tragic death of young soprano while singing Verdi’s Requiem

Terrible news: Tragic death of young soprano while singing Verdi’s Requiem  by Norman Lebrecht, Arts Journal Blogs, Slipped Disc The Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires reports the death of soprano Florencia Fabris, who had suffered a brain aneurysm while singing … Continue reading

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Euphoria and Unease. Jewish Vienna and Richard Wagner

Euphoria and Unease. Jewish Vienna and Richard Wagner 25 September 2013 – February 2014 (the exact end date will be announced later) The year 2013 marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, one of the most … Continue reading

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Wagner and the Jews, Symposium in London

Sunday 6 October 2013 Wagner and the Jews Event type: Symposium Venue: London Jewish Cultural Centre Time: 2pm No aspect of Wagner generates more heat than his anti-Semitism. This discussion will attempt to throw light  too, debating Wagner’s anti-Semitism in … Continue reading

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“Wagner’s Jews” Screening in Chicago

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Hilan Warshaw Filmmaker, Author, Lecturer Lecture and Screening of his documentary film   Wagner’s Jews Documentary, 55 minutes, 2013 Produced, directed, and written by Hilan Warshaw Includes a Q+A with the filmmaker Richard Wagner was notoriously … Continue reading

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