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RIGOLETTO Verdi (April / May 2016)

RIGOLETTO (Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco M. Piave) Fully staged opera in partnership with Connecticut Lyric Opera Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto is a spectacular fast-paced story of seduction, love, ridicule and tragic death, with powerful music, that has often been cited as Verdi’s best! Connecticut Lyric Opera and the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber […]

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Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte Nov. 6, 2015 Trinity-On-Main Arts Center – New Britain Nov. 7, 2015 MHS Performing Arts Center – Middletown Nov. 11, 2015 Infinity Hall – Hartford Nov. 15, 2015Garde Arts Center – New London Cast: Figaro: Luke Scott Susanna: Amanda Kohl, […]

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Luke Scott, baritone (Nov. 7, 8, 11, 15)

Luke Scott, described by the Hartford Courant as a baritone with an attractive voice filled with rich and powerful resonances, has performed leading roles of Handel, Mozart, Puccini, and Verdi with Orchestras and Opera companies in Canada and the US. A graduate of The Hartt School Music and Bel Canto […]

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Amanda Kohl, Soprano (Nov. 7, 8, 11, 15, 2015)

Amanda Kohl, lyric soprano, holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Hartt School of Music and a Master’s of Music degree from Indiana University. As a graduate student Ms. Kohl studied with soprano Carol Vaness and performed Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, also singing […]

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October 23 & 25
SLAVIC MASTERPIECES

Karlowicz   Dvorak   Tchaikovsky Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Lithuanian Rhapsody symphonic poem Op. 11 Antonin Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Melissa Morgan, cello Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: “The Tempest” Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare symphonic poem in F minor op. 18 On Friday, Oct. 23 and Sunday, Oct. 25, the […]

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NATIVE AVON GIRL, RENOWNED CELLIST TO PERFORM DVORAK’S CONCERTO

by Larry Kellum On Oct. 23 at Central CT State Univ. in New Britain, and on the 25th at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Hartford, an interesting and unique program called “Slavic Masterpieces” will be presented by the CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra offering music by Antonin Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and Polish composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz. […]

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