Leoncavallo News

Art of Time Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Andrew Burashko, will present Cantabile: An Evening of Italian Music, a special concert featuring the music of Italy from powerful and familiar opera arias by Verdi, Leoncavallo and Puccini to popular songs by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte and others.

Both perform in the acclaimed Art of Time Ensemble's Cantabile: An Evening of Italian Music under the direction of Artistic Director Andrew Burashko, a special concert featuring the music of Italy from powerful and familiar opera arias by Verdi, Leoncavallo and Puccini to popular songs by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte and others.

Art of Time Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Andrew Burashko, presents Cantabile: An Evening of Italian Music, a special concert featuring the music of Italy from powerful and familiar opera arias by Verdi, Leoncavallo and Puccini to popular songs by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte and others.

Art of Time Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Andrew Burashko, will present Cantabile: An Evening of Italian Music, a special concert featuring the music of Italy from powerful and familiar opera arias by Verdi, Leoncavallo and Puccini to popular songs by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte and others.

This was a challenging program to perform and the groups are to be commended for their tenacity in rehearsing something so difficult.

Camilla Williams, believed to be the first African-American woman to appear with a major U.S. opera company, has died.

Who cares if Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci are done to death by opera companies? Lust, jealousy, infidelity, revenge and murder are always in style, as Opera Tampa proved once again in a top-flight staging of the durable double bill - invariably paired together and dubbed Cav and Pag - Friday at the Straz Center.

Tenor Scott Piper makes his debut as Canio in Opera Tampa's Pagliacci. He also sings the lead, Turiddu, in Cavalleria Rusticana.

The UC Davis Symphony Orchestra's next concert - at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Mondavi Center's Jackson Hall - will be a tad unusual: TheA orchestra will not perform a symphony.

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin is the arts critic for the Austin American-Statesman where she has worked since 1999.

More sailing on the high Cs . . . Sony Classical, in its ongoing partnership with the Metropolitan Opera, adds to its popular series of releases drawn from the illustrious Met archives with four multi-disc sets that represent the first official release on CD of historic Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts dating from 1962 to 1968.