Italian Studies Hosts Romantic Dinner Show on Thursday
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 6, 2006
Kathleen McPartland
530-898-4260
Eugenio Frongia, Foreign Languages and Literatures
530-898-4479
Italian Studies Hosts Romantic Dinner Show on Thursday
The Italian Studies program at California State University, Chico will host Italia Romantica, Thursday, Feb. 9, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Bell Memorial Union Auditorium on campus.
The dinner features gourmet Italian cuisine and fine wines. A musical program, produced by Mike Bankhead, chair of the Department of Music, will include opera as well as Italian folk tunes. There will also be accordion and mandolin music from Italy, followed by the JazzExpress, the Choral Ensemble and classic pieces from opera, sung by sopranos Ying Yeh and Tamara Alspaugh.
This event is presented in conjunction with the Italian Studies Advisory Council, the Department of Music and the Department of Theatre Arts. A portion of the proceeds will go to the ISAC/Maria S. Haynes Italian Studies Scholarship.
Tickets are available at the University Box Office at the corner of Second and Normal streets, 530-898-6333. Tickets are $40 per person. This event is open to the public.
For more information, contact Eugenio Frongia, director of Italian Studies, at 898-4479.