cleveland's opera per tutti: angelica & schicchi, in april

got an e-mail, today, from andrea anelli, head of our wonderful company opera per tutti

they're doing giacomo puccini's 'suor angelica' and 'gianni schicchi' -- friday, april 19, at 7:30, and sunday, april 21, at 3 -- in cleveland public theater

you can pitch in, and support the orchestra

then, of course, this summer, their always-magical evening of song, in the italian cultural garden -- sunday, july 21, at six

well, this reminds me to put up 'o mio babbino caro,' which i heard kent state's marita tornabene do, sunday -- and she did it beautifully -- always a winner

also taking part in the 'schicchi' were opera per tutti's tim culver (in the top picture, as the clown pagliacci, and in the white jacket and black vest), and his son (i assume), samuel (whom i saw in opera per tutti's 'amahl and the night visitors,' a year and a half ago)

the 'schicchi' was part of kent's program of shorts (the other two being mozart's 'impresario' (they did the play in english -- and the songs in german, i think) and samuel barber's 'hand of bridge'

first, an anna moffo rendition of 'babbino'

victoria de los angeles, one of the all-time greats

and, in honor of oberlin's production, last week, of johann strauss jr.'s 'die fledermaus' (done in english), an anna moffo rendition of 'mein herr marquis' (sung in oberlin on saturday by aubry ballaro-hagadorn)

i went to oberlin for saturday's show because rob mcginness performed the lead that night (as well as on wednesday) -- i saw him in a master class in oberlin with marilyn horne, a couple of weeks ago

 

then, a week later, the lucky dog got in, as a last-minute fill-in, with thomas hampson, in akron -- after hampson's recital of american art songs