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1) The Little Opera Singer
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Home and Family
Dear Friends,
My name is Paullina Marina Truvianni, I am 9 years old and as you can probably guess it is my lifetime dream to become an opera singer. Some of you may not know this but in opera there are several kinds of voices, for girls there is the soprano, the alto, and the mezzo soprano and for boys there is the tenor, the bass and the baritone. My father said I should try to be a soprano because most of the leading roles are for sopranos.
Before I talk about myself I would like to s...
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2) USA 94 (Italy VS. Mexico)
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Sports
An Article about not only the match Italy played against Mexico in USA 94 but what it was like to live in a country in which the world cup was being played.
Italy had won by beating Norway 1-0, after which I was pretty much sure they had qualified to the next round, specially since even third place teams could go through or at least 4 out of the top 6 could do so. Of course, there was always the possibility they could loose to Mexico but I doubted this was going to happen, as I figured if...
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3) Poems For Melba And Ariseli (Part Two)
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Two more poems dedicated to those sisters from Peru, the memory of which will stay with me forever. All in spite of the near twenty years since the last time I last encountered them.
Melba, Night Lost Ye To Me
(A Poem dedicated to Melba, lovely sister of Ariseli)
Oh, Melba weakness of mine
and painful night ruler
to my dreams
plans forged end in ruin
as remains from empires
gone long ago
Melba, in passion
thine hand created he
to serve thy need
for worshiper who
wit...
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4) USA 94 (Italy VS. Norway)
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Sports
An article about Italy's second match in USA 94, which saw hope come back to us who loved Italian football.
We had lost but we were not out! We were Italy, after all and we were not going to give up after only one defeat, specially since we had already won three world cups, been in the finals four times and been semifinalists six times. Our record demanded that we go out and show what we were capable of; this I knew and having settled this in my mind I set back and enjoyed the rest of the w...
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5) Rompryska, Sensual Soprano
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
A poem dedicated to a passionate Polish soprano who at one point inspired my romantic feelings and still does my keyboard to write about her and our time spent so tenderly in each other's arms. It is in this poem that I include roles which her soprano voice might some day interpret from Carmen, to La Traviata, to Halka, To Susana in Figaro and to Musseta in La Boheme to many others.
Rompryska, oh ye female of high voice
soaring above all notes and keys that be
Rompryska sensual soprano i...
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6) World Cup USA 94 (Italy VS. Ireland)
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Sports
It was the summer of 1994 and the date was June 18, a day on which Italy would be playing its first world cup game against the Republic of Ireland. I for my part would be not only watching it but even present at "Giant's Stadium" in the Meadowlands as I had gone through the trouble of getting a ticket, not only to see Italy take on Ireland but Norway in the next match as well. Regarding the game against Norway that had been a relatively easy task as interest had not been so high given there are...
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7) Poems For Melba And Ariseli
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Two Poems dedicated to two most beautiful Peruvian sisters, from Lima. Sister's of contrast, one dark, one light but both of charm and sensuality.
Melba Cinnamon Flower
A Poem dedicated to a very young woman from Peru based in part on the song "La Flor De La Canela" by Chabuca Granda.
Oh, let me tell all ye gents
bout Melba, she who was
my cinnamon flower
and do permit thine ears
to take charm from
my tale of female
earthly beauty
to surpass a deity
Oh, let me for it...
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8) Melba And The Half Orange
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Food and Drink
There are places that through out our lives simply attract and make us want to go back, or at least when ever we find ourselves in the city in which they are located in, almost as if a visit to that particular city would not be complete without a stop over at that special corner. In what has been my life up and till this point there have been several such locales through out the world which I would gladly go back to; one of them being the "La Media Naranja" in Lima, Peru.
Of course there ha...
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9) Polish Influence In Peru
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Travel and Leisure
As a photographer, there was always something I enjoyed about taking photographs on the street, and I speak not of only monuments or buildings which compose the landscape of a city but of what I would hail as the "life of the city". By this it is the people and their activities of going about that I have in mind, for it is there that I see the spirit of the city I happen to be in at the time. This which I speak of is in people going to work, both men and women dressed in their business suits, s...
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10) Gianni Truvianni's Bus Trip From Tacna, Chile To Lima, Peru
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Travel and Leisure
It happened in late September of 92, while I was in Buenos Aires that I decided to go back to Lima, Peru from where I knew I would go back to the United States but only after having captured that part of Peruvian life I had yet to really see.
The part I make reference to is those shanty towns which in Spanish or at least in Peru are referred to as "pueblos Jovenes", which if literally translated in to the English language would be "young towns". This an expression which to a certain extent...
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11) What Kind Of Instrument Is The Piano?
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
As many who read my articles may already know about I am what could be called a true opera fan, as not only do I attend performances on a regular basis but have even written a book about the subject called "New York's Opera Society". A lot of my knowledge however about the subject started when I was a student at New York's Hunter College, it was there were I learned many things about music such as the four kinds of instruments, with the first being the human voice. In other words singing which...
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12) Rompryksa, My Desperate Love
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Rompryksa, My Desperate Love
A poem continuing the romance of the character to be found in my fourth book entitled "Rompryska And Other Erotic Tales" along with the poem "Rompryska, My Youth" which gave a start to it all.
Rompryska, in thine desolation
thou seeks he who may not be
but creation of thine imagination
solely for delight of ye
oh, female of covetousness
of fragmented ideas
thou crafts he
who idyllically suit ye in...
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13) Italy in Italia 90, A Great Start For The Sake Of A Tragic Ending
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Sports
It was the end of the spring of 1990 and I found myself living in Warsaw, Poland where at the time I was attending a Polish course at the University of Warsaw, where I just happened to meet Danilo Facca from Pordenone, Italy. Danilo and I would go on to become friends and it would also be Danilo who introduced me to Catallini, the director of the Italian Center of Culture in Warsaw at the time. This the place which during the world cup would be open to all Italians or descendents of which; like...
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14) Obama, First Black President of the USA! Is It Really So Shocking?
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
News and Society
It happened last year, during the month of December in the city of Warsaw, Poland which has been my adopted home town since 1994 and though the precise day escapes my memory the conversation never will. I had just been introduced to a well known stage actor from Congo in Poland by the name of Christian Emany, who though perhaps not a household name in most countries is not a complete unknown as far as the theatre stages of Warsaw are concerned. He after all has been in many a play with some of...
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15) Give Berlusconi A Break
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
News and Society
It happened yesterday, November 6 in Moscow during a news conference being given by both Russian President Medvedev and Italian Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi that the later of these two men made a comment about Obama (President elect of USA) that translated in to the English language would be as follows: He (Obama) is young, handsome and tanned.
One could interpret these words as offensive if one chose to do so but then again one could interpret just about anything as such if one looked f...
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16) Charles "Sonny" Liston, An Undeserved Tragic Ending
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Sports
The idea to write an article about Charles "Sonny" Liston came to me late last night as I was watching a program about him on ESPN Classic, which concentrated on the life and career of the man who at one time was the world heavy weight champion of boxing. I for my part must confess before I go further in this article that I am not nor have I ever been what could be considered a real boxing fan, though at one period in my life I did follow the sport more closely. This interest of mine starting b...
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17) Gianni Truvianni Meets Charles Coleman
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
I of course am aware that many may not know who Charles Coleman is and it is for those that do not that I have chosen to write this article as he was the man, who in part is responsible for my love of opera and classical music that even lead to the creation of my first book "New York's Opera Society". Naturally when referring to Charles Coleman, I do so regarding the New York composer who way back in 1985 was a schoolmate of mine at "The Tutoring School Of New York" and not others with the same...
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18) The Night On Which Lennon Was Killed
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
For me it was a Monday night like any other, on which I vividly recall being home watching a football game (of the American variety) on ABC's Monday Night Football between the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots and though I do not remember the exact time I know it must have been close to midnight on the 8th of December, 1980. This given the fact that the game was late in to the 4th quarter with the Patriots winning by seven points though the Dolphins, lead by their young quarterback Wo...
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19) Gianni Truvianni's List Of Great Christmas Films
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Home and Family
There are many a Christmas film to entertain during this most special time of year and in spite of this tradition not going back as far as the music and stories that accompany this season; it has become just as much apart of Christmas as any other. Christmas films; now a days are just as eagerly awaited as perhaps the season itself by cinema goers all over the world with every season bringing on a new batch, most of which will probably be forgotten before the season returns the following year....
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20) Recommendations For A Christmas Full Of Great Music
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
Home and Family
It is without much room for doubt, safe to say that no other holiday (religious or secular), or day of the year or time of which has so much in the way of music dedicated to it; as does Christmas. This in a tradition that goes back through the centuries as far as the middle ages. However it was during the years of the reformation that a lot of the music connected to Christmas was banned as was the celebrating of Christmas itself. This being caused by the believe of those who stuck firm to the n...
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