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Spring 1999 (2/18/99 - 3/25/99)
All You Have To Do Is Listen! (Act One)
2/18: Overture: An introduction to 19th c. Italian Opera. An historical overview of 5 of Italy's greatest composers of opera and a sampling of their glorious music.
2/25: Gioacchino Rossini's SEMIRAMIDE. The great dramatic work by the master of Italian comic opera.
3/04: Vincenzo Bellini's NORMA. The sublime bel canto masterpiece that strikes terror in the hearts of sopranos.
3/11: Gaetano Donizetti's L'ELISIR D'AMORE. The Elixir of Love is a favorite romantic operatic romp in which everyone is alive and happy at the end!
3/18: Giuseppe Verdi's IL TROVATORE. Verdi's dramatic transitional masterpiece about gypsies, Counts and a kidnapped baby in which no one is happy and few are alive at the end!
3/25: Giacomo Puccini's LA BOHEME. Puccini's most popular opera of doomed young love in Paris a century and a half ago.
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