BRAVISSIMO Interview with Diana Merezhko for Encore Productions on MIX TV Toronto

The extravaganza of BRAVISSIMO!

It is an opera sampler pack! - a best knows arias from the best known operas! Little tastes of everything Opera

Bravissimo is a sparkling Holiday Presentation with an all-star international cast of singers featuring famous arias, duets and overtures from some of the worlds most popular operas, such as Carmen, Madama Butterfly, Nabucco, La Bohème, Samson and Delilah, The Marriage of Figaro and many more.

The beauty of Bravissimo!--it allows the listener to understand all styles of opera. The audience is not only given a musical experience but also a historical one at that. No composer gives a better example of opera comique (comic opera) than Mozart and his Magic Flute. The same can be said about Puccini and the intensity of his serious romantic operas Madama Butterfly and Turandot.
Opera aficionados and newcomers alike have embraced this innovative opera extravaganza since it premiered at Roy Thomson Hall in 2007. The 2009 presentation features another all-star international cast.

The cast includes Italian Maestro, Roberto Paternostro, leading the 75 piece Opera Canada Symphony, American sopranos Susan Neves and Sarah Jane McMahon, fellow American tenor Carl Tenner, Portuguese-Italian tenor Bruno Ribeiro, Russian mezzo-soprano Elena Bocharova and Serbian baritone Nikola Mijailovic.

Date and time: December 31st, 2009 at Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto.
Bravissimo! The Greatest Hits of Opera!

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[Querzeo]

Now, since when is Bruno Ribeiro a "portuguese-italian"!?!? Would you tell me? Just because he had some studies in Italia, it doesn't make him an italian. Placido Domingo moved to Mexico with his family, and I never saw nobody saying he's "spanish-mexican".

Bruno Ribeiro was born in Portugal, lived in Portugal for 20 years, started his musical and singing studies in Portugal (went to Lisbon Conservatory), and then moved to Italia to complete his studies, so he is PORTUGUESE!!