Now That’s Italian!

 

A wonderful evening of opera favorites, Neapolitan melodies, Hollywood film scores, and Broadway show tunes featuring vocalists, soprano Sarah Jane McMahon and John Cudia. Maestro Topilow's virtuoso clarinet playing is an additional highlight. This complete package includes the music for all selections.

  • Verdi - Triumphal Scene from Aida 

  •  Verdi - Libiamo (Drinking Song) from La Traviata

  • Puccini - O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi

  •  Leoncavallo – Vesti la giubba from I Pagliacci

  •  Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

  •  Verdi - Va pensiero from Nabucco

  •  Verdi - La donna e’ mobile from Rigoletto

  •  Rossini – La Danza

  •  Puccini - Un bel di from Madama Butterfly 

INTERMISSION

  • Ponchielli – Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda: finale

  • A Medley of Italian Movie Themes

    • Luis Enríquez Bacalov – Il Postino

    • Nino Rota – La Passarella from 8 ½

    • Ennio Morricone – Cinema Paradiso

  •  Ennio Morricone - Your Love from Once Upon a time in the West

  •  Ernesto de Curtis – Torna a Sorrento

  •  Alessandro Cicognini, Stefano Allocchio, Giuseppi Perotti, arr. Ployhar - Summertime in Venice

  •  A Medley of Neapolitan Songs: Santa Lucia, Tarantella, Oi Marie, Funiculi, Funicula

    • Carl Topilow, clarinet

  •  Yeston – Be Italian from Nine

  •  Capua - O Sole Mio

  •  Carlo Donida - Al di la

  •  Warren – That’s Amore

  •  Puccini - Musetta’s Waltz from La Boheme

  •  Puccini - Nessun dorma from Turandot

ENCORE

    • Time to Say Goodbye — Sartori

For more information and to book this exceptionally entertaining show, contact Shirley Morgenstern at ShirleyMorgenstern@ClevelandPops.com / 216-965-1619.

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