The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers are taking audiences on a tour of operatic history this winter, with a concert devoted to great opera choruses spanning more than three centuries.
Is there any more tuneful “star turn” in opera than Cio-Cio-San’s entrance in Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly? Besotted with American naval officer Pinkerton, on shore leave in Nagasaki, the young ...