October 21, 2013, Monday Concert for Peace November 12 in Rome You are cordially invited to attend a CONCERT FOR PEACE November 12, 2013 at 9 P.M. at the Auditorium Conciliazione at via della Conciliazione #4 in Rome. Please email us to reserve your seat in the concert hall. A GROUP OF CATHOLICS AND ORTHODOX WORKING COLLABORATIVELY FOR CHURCH UNITY IS offering a Concert for Peace as a gesture of thanks to Pope Francis, who on September 7 brought hope to the world with his call for a worldwide day of prayer and fasting for peace. If you would like to join us in Rome for this memorable concert, we are offering a 3 night package which will include Inside the Vatican magazines 20th anniversary dinner. Call 202.536.4555 or email Concert@InsideTheVatican The principal soloist will be Svetlana Kasyan (photo, working with children in Kenya), a remarkable young Russian opera singer whose message in her singing is Let us no longer make war. Born in Georgia, Svetlana’s own life was scarred by the late 1980s civil war in Georgia, in which her father lost his life and she herself became a refugee in Kazakstan. So her message in this concert is a personal cry from her heart. The concert will include classic pieces of Italian opera from Puccini and Verdi, and a moving piece reflecting the sorrow of Mary from The Passion According to St. Matthew by the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan and composer, Hilarion Alfeyev, who plans to be present at the concert. Svetlana Kasyan has been recognized by modern critics, among them Mikis Theodorakis, as a new Maria Callas. The timbre of her voice and her four octaves of vocal range allow her to be appreciated as a new musical phenomenon on the international stage. She received her degree from the prestigious Moscow Conservatory summa cum laude and made her debut at the Bolshoi Opera House in Moscow singing in Puccinis Tosca at the age of 26. In Italy she made her debut in the Teatro di Bari earlier this year. She has since sung the part of Queen Elizabeth in Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Teatro Regio of Turin, and the lead in Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at the La Fenice theater in Venice. Svetlana has personally invited Pope Francis to attend the concert. She says she would very much like to sing for the Pope because she admires him greatly for his commitment to peace and to those who become refugees, as she once was. But she tells us: I know Pope Francis is extraordinarily busy, and so I understand that he simply may not have time to attend. Still, I am singing in unity and in solidarity with him, and the work he is doing on behalf of peace and the outcasts of our world. The November 12 concert is being held under the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Holy See and of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow. The concert will be dedicated to all families around the world that have been dispersed, victims of war. All proceeds from the concert will go to charitable works to support these families.
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