The Teatro Carlo Felice—among Italy's foremost opera houses—comes to Columbia with a leading mezzo for this performance of Italian music.
Performers:
Cecilia Molinari, mezzo-soprano
Claudio Marino Moretti, pianist
Program:
Giuseppe Martucci
*La canzone dei ricordi*
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Selections from *Shakespeare Songs*
Gioachino Rossini
“Nacqui all'affanno” (from *La Cenerentola*)
Reception to follow
Production and presentation: Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova; Italian Academy, Columbia University
About the companion event on the same day:
"Opera in the U.S. before 1850"
Celebrating a new book at 5:00 PM in Butler Hall.
To register for this book event click here.
Read more about this book, Italian Opera in the United States, 1800–1850: At the Origins of a Cultural Migration, a collection of essays from a conference produced by the Italian Academy in 2018 (Lorenzo Da Ponte and the Birth of Italian Opera in New York).