Archive for October 2024
Opera Talk—Puccini: The People’s Composer
On December 14, 2024, at the Henry Carter Hill Library, in Clinton, CT, join Mann and other opera fans and those just curious, for an Opera Talk about the renowned composer Giacomo Puccini, in commemoration of the centennial of his passing. This free Opera Talk will be in the Henry Carter Hull Library’s Community Room on Saturday December 14 at…
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On Saturday, November 9, 2024, 11:00 AM at the Essex Library, Mann will talk about Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi was a leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1851), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Don Carlos (1867), Aida (1871), Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893) and for his Requiem Mass (1874). Mann will illuminate the artistic and musical imagination of this profound man whose vision not…
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