By Ethan Sadoian – The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra will close out its 2017-2018 concert season on the first weekend of June with “An American Dream,” a concert of music by American composers. – A featured highlight of the program will be Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s “Symposium,” for violin […]
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By Ethan Sadoian On June 2nd and June 4th, the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra will celebrate 20 years of making music in Connecticut with a commemorative Gala Concert, the finale of the Orchestra’s concert season this year. Dr. Cathryn Addy has been involved with the Virtuosi for nearly all of […]
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By Ethan Sadoian Italian violinist Luca Rinaldi will join the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra for two concerts on December 9th and 10th, featuring Italian masterworks by Arcangelo Corelli and Ottorino Respighi. Luca Rinaldi’s acclaimed career has seen him perform as a soloist and violinist throughout Europe, and win international competitions […]
Read MoreThroughout the month of May, the Connecticut Lyric Opera and the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra will close its 2014-2015 season with Puccini’s popular tearjerker “La Boheme”, an opera based upon the famous French novel and play “Scenes de la Vie de Boheme” by Henri Murger. Composed in 1896, this “slice […]
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CLO’s “Madama Butterfly” flies on the wings of Svedaite’s title role By Milton Moore Published May 17. 2014 4:00AM Updated May 17. 2014 5:47PM New London — Of the Big Three Puccini operas — “Tosca,” “La Boheme” and “Madama Butterfly” — “Butterfly” is the most perilous and the least […]
Read MoreDecember 2013 “To start its eleventh season, the Connecticut Lyric Opera stepped up, moving past the standard repertoire of Donizetti, Mozart and Puccini to play with one of the big boys: Wagner. The company’s November production of “The Flying Dutchman” was more than a fine evening at the opera, it […]
Read Moreby Mitra Sadigh In commemoration of the death of Frédéric Chopin in October 1849, the music that sprang from his living years, and his resounding legacy, the CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Chopin Society of CT will sponsor a series of concerts this October. Repertoire includes Chopin’s two sets of […]
Read Moreby Mitra Sadigh On Sunday, Oct. 20, the CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra will commence its 2013/14 season of free orchestral concerts at CCSU’s Welte Hall. This season, the Virtuosi will present the Heritage Series, so named for its “reflection of the cultural richness of the Greater New Britain community, all the […]
Read More‘Flying Dutchman’ opera at Garde was worth the wait By Milton Moore Publication: The Day New London – The Connecticut Lyric Opera gave New London its first taste of a fully staged Richard Wagner opera Saturday night – and it was delicious. On this bicentennial of Wagner’s birth, the CLO […]
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