Guitar at the Opera

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…."A refined moment of classical guitar in which the strings of the instrument, played by the very sensitive hands of maestro Federico Quercia, have replaced the entire complexity of an orchestra designed for Italian opera"… Rete Abruzzo.com news The concert is introduced by the beautifully romantic Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, in the mandolin – style tremolo. The Sicilian Vespers is the name given to a rebellion in Sicily in 1282 against the rule of the Angevin king Charles I of Naples, who had taken control of the island with Papal support in 1266. It was the beginning of the eponymous War of the Sicilian Vespers. The Sevilla Barber was one of the earliest Italian operas to be performed in America and premiered at the Park Theatre in New York City on 29 November 1825. Rossini's Barber has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all opere buffe; even after two hundred years, its popularity on the modern opera stage attests to that greatness. La Traviata is an Italian opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Alexandre Dumas, fils's novel La dame aux camélias, published in 1848.. The title "La traviata" means literally The Woman Who Strayed, or perhaps more figuratively, The Fallen One. Although a failure at its premiere, the opera soon established itself and became one of the best-loved and most frequently performed, recorded and filmed of all operas.