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Don Pasquale will play at Teatro Colon in Argentina from Tuesday September 24 to Wednesday October 2, 2019.

Building on the momentum of a powerful series of fall kick-off events, the Chicago Humanities Festival is excited to announce the full lineup for its 30th Fall Festival. Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, author Jonathan Safran Foer, historian Ibram X. Kendi, comedian and The New York Times Magazine's a?oejudgea?? John Hodgman, poet Nikki Giovanni, Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins, and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) will all be part of CHF's endeavor to explore Power this fall. Returning Festival favorites including poet and musician Patti Smith, novelist Salman Rushdie, and historian Sarah Vowell will return to Chicago this fall. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is this year's Chicago Tribune Literary Prize recipient.

If you have an appreciation for fine food, indulge in gourmet, dining at Cardoncello diVino. This modern Italian Osteria is located on West 27th Street just east of 6th Avenue in Nomad.

The Carpenter Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, has announced the 2019-2020 Arts for Life season. Arts for Life is the Carpenter Center's education initiative, providing concerts, classes, lectures, readings, workshops and more to the CSULB campus, Long Beach schools, and to the wider community. The new Arts for Life season includes the return of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Concert Series, the Bob Cole Conservatory Showcase Concert, and the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra. Additional free offerings to the public include Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Versa-Style Dance Company, a new lecture series, and a continuation of the popular Shakespeare Aloud series.

El Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), en acuerdo con Amigos del IAGO y del Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, A.C., comunica que Hazam Jara Chávez fue designado, el pasado 1 de agosto, director del Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO), fundado por el maestro Francisco Toledo en noviembre de 1988.

Salisbury Playhouse has announced casting for ROBIN HOOD, which runs in the Main House from Saturday 30 November until Sunday 12 January 2020 and is already Salisbury's fastest selling pantomime.

After 17 years on England's venerable Rough Trade Records, the world's favorite underground indie-rock songwriter, Jeffrey Lewis, is finally putting out a proper album on a stateside label — Bad Wiring, which will land November 1st via American indie-stalwarts Don Giovanni Records!  

En el marco de su 70 aniversario, familiares, amigos y lectores celebraron el onomástico con el escritor, académico y filósofo capitalino Óscar de la Borbolla el domingo 8 de septiembre en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes, donde estuvo acompañado por Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Fernando Rivera Calderón, Alma Delia Murillo, José Luis Trueba y Juan Stack, quienes reconocieron su amplia trayectoria literaria como uno de los “creadores de universos” más destacados de las letras mexicanas.

On Tuesday 8 October at 6.45pm, Mozart's exciting opera Don Giovanni will enchant audiences in a live broadcast to 600 cinemas all over the UK, from Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands all the way down to Jersey. This wonderful fast-moving tragi-comedy about a master seducer features enchantingly complex characters, gripping drama and glorious melodies, from Don Giovanni's exuberant 'Champagne Aria' to Don Ottavio's tender expression of love 'Dalla sua pace'. For a Sunday afternoon treat, there will also be an encore performance on 13 October at 2pm.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts proudly presents the preeminent Italian quartet Quartetto di Cremona on October 24, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. in Samueli Theater. Noted for its lustrous sound, refined musicianship and stylistic versatility, the internationally renowned ensemble makes its Center debut to open the 2019a?"2020 Chamber Music Series. The quartet will present a program which includes the World Premiere of Omaggio a Monteverdi, commissioned by the Center from award-winning composer and UC Riverside professor of music Dr. Byron Adams, in addition to works Verdi and Beethoven. Quartet members include Cristiano Gualco, violin; Paolo Andreoli, violin; Simone Gramaglia, viola; and Giovanni Scaglione, cello.

Deadline reports that actors Kearran Giovanni, Geoffrey Cantor, Michael Paul Chan, and Erinn Westbrook will play recurring roles on Fox's 'The Resident' in its third season. 

Geva Theatre Center presents La Cage Aux Folles, with book by Harvey Fierstein, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, based on the play by Jean Poiret, directed by Melissa Rain Anderson, with musical direction by Don Kot, and choreography by Sam Hay in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage from September 3 through October 6. 

The Arctic Cycle and Poetic People Power have teamed up to present 'Climate Change Theatre Action: Setting the Stage for a Better Planet' on September 15, 2019 at 3:30pm, at Caveat on Manhattan's Lower East Side. This event kicks off thirteen weeks of global participatory theatre and action around climate.

Circo de Nada presents Idiopathic, a new work of abstract clown art and movement by Nick Trotter.  Performances will be October 10 through 12 at 7:30 PM at the People's Building, 9995 E. Colfax Ave, Aurora, CO 80010.

The Royal Opera House today announces its 2019/20 Cinema Season which will launch in October. 13 productions will be broadcast to 600 UK cinemas stretching the length of the UK from the Orkney Islands all the way to Jersey in the Channel Islands.   

The Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team of the riveting West Coast premiere of Noura by Heather Raffo (the award-winning 9 Parts of Desire, the opera Fallujah), a graduate of The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Loosely inspired by Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Noura received the prestigious Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Original New Play and the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Directed by Johanna McKeon (Off Broadway's I Have Loved Strangers and Tokio Confidential), Noura begins performances September 20, 2019 and runs through October 20 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Preview performances run September 20a?"25. Opening night is Thursday, September 26 at 8:00 p.m. Single tickets on sale now, starting at $30.00, and can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE [234-5623], or at the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.

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Rare testimonies to the history of Italian opera from the Milan-based, Bertelsmann-owned Ricordi Archive will now be shown in the United States for the first time. Fans of classical music and literature can look forward to the exhibition “Verdi: Creating Otello and Falstaff – Highlights from the Ricordi Archive”, which will be on view at the renowned Morgan Library & Museum in New York from September 6, 2019 to January 5, 2020.

One of the nation's most adventurous opera companies, Odyssey Opera, begins its seventh season with a concert performance of Henry VIII (1883) by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns based on El cisma en Inglaterra (The schism in England) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. This kick-starts the company's 2019-20 season featuring concert and staged operas about the great English dynasty of the 16th century: the Tudors. With libretto by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre, Henry VIII brings to life one of history's most infamous love triangles featuring baritone Michael Chioldi as King Henry, soprano Ellie Dehn as Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and mezzo-soprano Hilary Ginther as Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn.