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Fanfare interview with Brunilda Myftaraj

A JESTER’S GESTURES: A Review of Rigoletto

Special to Town Times by Larry Kellum Verdi’s dark, but ever so beloved “Rigoletto” closed the CT Lyric Opera/CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra’s 2015-16 season on April 22 when it premiered at New Britain’s Trinity-on-Main. The production will also appear on May 1 at Hartford’s Infinity Hall and culminate at MHS […]

Romanticism Is Not Dead!
Interview with Jorge Antonio Pita

By Larry Kellum An internationally acclaimed Cuban-American tenor is coming to Connecticut on March 11 and 13 to appear in concert with the CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and CT Lyric Opera during this season of Lent. His full name is Jorge Pita Carreras. No, he is NOT related to the […]

Faustian Legend Gets Modern Twist in CT Lyric Opera’s Production of “Faust”

By Ethan Sadoian Bookended by last fall’s production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” and an upcoming production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” in April and May, the Connecticut Lyric Opera and Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra continue their 2015-2016 season by teaming up once again to stage a production of Charles Gounod’s grand […]

Virtuosi @ New Britain Schools:

We were at the Smilley Academy and Jefferson School today, and at DiLoretto School yesterday, performed Brandenburg concerti for the 2-5th grades of the New Britain Schools!! The purpose of our Concerts at the New Britain Schools Program is to introduce classical music to children. These concerts are an important […]

CT Virtuosi Brings Bach to Hartford

Click to hear the excerpt from the rehearsal… Article by Ethan Sadoian: “It is a very special thing. Each one has different keys, different moods, different combinations of instruments—to me that makes it fascinating, because nobody had written concerti with such different groups of instruments until Bach. They are wonderful, […]

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. […]

Bravi Tutti! Cosi’ Fan Tutte An Outstanding Success In Woodbury !

Over 200 ticketholders were enthralled and bedazzled by tonight’s performance of Mozart’s Cosi’ fan tutte, at Old Town Hall, in Woodbury, Connecticut. This was another sold-out performance by the Connecticut Summer Music Institute and Virtuosi Orchestra and the Connecticut Summer Opera Foundation (CSOF). Sopranos Allison Lindsay (Dorabella) and Kerry Lynn […]

CT Virtuosi, Opera bring back stories from Italy

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and the Connecticut Lyric Opera perform in the Italian city of Greve-In-Chianti. Faculty and students of the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, whose headquarters are at Trinity-on-Main, and the New London-based Connecticut Lyric Opera returned this week from the inaugural Greve Opera Festival in Italy. The three-week […]