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August 2018
August 16 – Tosca by Giacomo Puccini – Ancient Thetre
Thursday August 16th 2018, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou’s 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples’s control of Rome threatened by Napoleon’s invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of…
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Carnevale di Taormina 2020
The Carnival festival in Acireale is one of the most famous of Italy and it attracts thousands of tourists every year, curiosity to discover something new grows and to have fun to the rhythm of exciting music! The festival has a very ancient tradition. It dates back to the XVI century having run every February from then on, as a spontaneous party among the people. At the beginning of the XVIII century, the Carnival was much richer. Folk poets who improvised songs, rhymes and…
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