9 March 2000
The next concert in the Gibraltar Philharmonic Society’s current season will be a recital by soprano Carmela Bucceri Altamura on Saturday the 18th of March in the Cathedral of St Mary the Crowned starting at 8.30 in the evening.
Ms Altamura’s recital is entitled “Eternal Melodies – Echoes of Adieux” and will include such popular works as Schubert’s Ave Maria and Serenade, I Love Thee by Edvard Grieg, None But the Lonely Heart by Tchaikovsky and O Mio Babbino Caro from Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicchi. Carmela Bucceri Altamura will be accompanied on the piano by her daughter, Cristina.
Sought after world-wide as a soloist, Carmela Bucceri Altamura’s career began in Milan's Teatro dei Filodrammatici and has continued in the World's major concert halls including Avery Fisher, Alice Tully, and Carnegie Hall. Invited by the United Nations and sponsored by the Italian Consulates, she has appeared in concerts throughout the Middle East and Europe. Ms Altamura, has served as a jury member on many international competitions and programme auditions, and has presented master classes at the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation and Wagner College in New York, Opera Music Theatre International in Newark, New Jersey, USA, and with Giulietta Simionato, Master Class 2000 in Italy.
Ms Altamura currently serves as voice and language coach for the Opera Music Theatre International in Newark, New Jersey, and a style, language, and voice consultant for the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation in New York and for the Accademia Pianistica’s Bach to Bartok Festival in Imola, Italy. In 1998, she founded “Master Class 2000” at this festival. In addition, she maintains a private voice studio in Union City, New Jersey.
The Altamura Centre for Arts and Culture, which the Altamuras are currently building, will promote sharing and understanding among peoples through study and music. The centre will open on May 21, 2000 with a gala celebration and concert. Located in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York, the centre will offer participants an immersion in Italian culture without having to leave the United States, and feature a performing arts series, “Concerts on the Greene”. From August 1 through September 6, 2000, a study programme, “Encounters with the Maters”, will be offered. The inaugural season’s faculty, comprised of world-renowned operatic luminaries, will include Giulietta Simionato, Licia Albanese and Jerome Hines.
Tickets for Carmela Altamura’s recital “Eternal Melodies – Echoes of Adieux” go on sale tomorrow, Friday 10th March, priced £8. They will be available from Solomon Levy in Convent Place and Sacarello’s in Irish Town.
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