Festa Nazionale Cristoforo Colombo
Monday 12 October 2009
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Houston Grand Opera
L'elisir d'amore (1832)
by Gaetano Donizetti to text by Felice Romani
Friday 23 October 2009 | 7:00 pm
Sunday 25 October 2009 | 2:00 pm
Wednesday 28 October 2009 | 7:30 pm
Wednesday 4 November 2009 | 7:30 pm
Sunday 7 November 2009 | 7:30 pm
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Shepherd School of Music — Fall 2009 Opera Performances
Ariadne auf Naxos, prologue (1916)
by Richard Strauss to text by Hugo von Hoffmansthal
&
Viva La mamma! (1831)
by Gaetano Donizetti to text by Antonio Sografi
Wednesday 4 November 2009 | 7:30 pm
Friday 6 November 2009 | 7:30 pm
Sunday 8 November 2009 | 2:00 pm
Tuesday 10 November 2009 | 7:30 pm
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Concerto per la Festa di Santa Cecilia
Italian Opera Arias of the 18th Century
Performed by Students of the Shepherd School of Music
enrolled in Italian Language and Culture courses in the Fall of 2009
Sunday 22 November 2009

Italian Film Series at the Italian Cultural and Community Center
for complete Spring program click here
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The Classical Legacy & Music — The Circle of Orpheus
excerpts from:
Euridice (1600) by Jaco Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini
Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) by Christoph Willibald Glück and Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) BY George Frideric Handel and Nicola Francesco Haym
Le nozze di Figaro (1786) by Wolfgang A. Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte
La mort de Cléopâtre (1829) by Hector Berlioz and Pierre-Ange Viellard
Wednesday 25 March 2009

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Shepherd School of Music — Spring 2009 Opera Performances
Don Giovanni ossia Il dissoluto punito (1787)
by Wolfgang A. Mozart to text by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Sunday 19 March 2009
Saturday 21 March 2009
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Shepherd School of Music — Fall 2008 Opera Performances
Savitri by Gustav Holst
and
Gianni Schicchi (1918)
by Giacomo Puccini to text by Giovacchino Forzano
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Friday 7 November 2008
Sunday 9 November 2008
Monday 10 November 2008
for complete program click here