Here are the Prize Winners of the Composition Section of the
33rd Young Musician International Competition ‘Città di Barletta’.

Our warmest Congratulations to the Composers from all over the world who attended to our Competition!!!

Prize Winners  Composition Sections 2023

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GREAT SUCCESS FOR THE FINAL EVENING OF THE 26th INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION
“MAURO PAOLO MONOPOLI PRIZE”
First prize to Vietnamese pianist Ho Khanh Van, second prize to Russian pianist Artem Kuznetsov, third prize to Japanese pianist Hana Igawa

Great success for the 26th International Piano Performance Competition “Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize, organized by the Culture and Music Association “G.Curci” in collaboration with and under the patronage of the City of Barletta, the Apulia Region, the Ministry of Culture, Buzzi – Unicem, the Megamark onlus Foundation, and the Barletta Ricettiva Association , with the various Special Prizes offered by Professor Maria Rita Lamonaca and Engineer Luca Dimiccoli that took place in the splendid setting of the Curci Theater in Barletta

A resounding Soundiff Symphony Orchestra – Diffrazioni Sonore, masterfully conducted by maestro Benedetto Montebello, in a packed theater, acted as a showcase for the three finalists on the final evening of the 26th International Piano Performance Competition “Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize” an event that brings the city of Barletta into the limelight every year all over the world, projecting it into a truly international dimension.
A very high level was found by the International Jury formed by masters Susan Shu Cheng Lin (Taiwan), Bertrand Giraud (France), Roberto Corlianò (Italy), Vittorio Costa (Italy), Lorenzo Di Bella (Italy), Benedetto Montebello (Italy), and Francesco Monopoli (Italy), who found themselves judging participants , from South Korea, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, Vietnam, Romania, Japan, Australia, Russia, Mexico, Armenia, Great Britain, Bulgaria, and China, who expressed a very high level of artistic and musical sensitivity and technical expressive quality never seen in previous years, making the Jury’s task truly difficult.

To open the evening, presented by Floriana Tolve, was the very young Vietnamese pianist Ho Khanh Van, the youngest of the three, just 20 years old, winner of many prizes in National and International Competitions, perfected with prestigious musicians and a student of Stepan Simonyan at the University of Music in Hamburg, who gave us a refined, engaging and fresh interpretation of the concerto Concerto No. 4 in G Major Op. 58 by Ludwig van Beethoven engaging both the Jury and the audience that crowded the theater.
It was then the turn of Russian/Texan pianist Artem Kuznetsov, 33, one of the most awarded pianists, in the most prestigious International Piano Competitions, an eclectic artist and virtuoso of the keyboard, to captivate the audience with his romantic , quiet, thoughtful and melancholy performance of Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 in E Minor Op. 11.
The evening was then concluded by 30-year-old Japanese pianist Hana Igawa, whose Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major Op. 73, “Emperor,” with a richly colored interpretive mastery engaged the audience who applauded her at length .
At the end of the evening the prestigious International Jury, decided to award First Prize to the Vietnamese pianist Ho Khanh Van, to her goes the prize offered by Buzzi Unicem and the Nuovo IMAIE Prize of ten thousand euros, for a tour project of six concerts, yet another recognition for the work done over the years by the Curci Association, which will allow him to carry out a tour of concerts throughout Italy. To her also went the Audience Prize, offered this year by Professor Maria Rita Lamonaca along with a concert with the Soundiff Orchestra – Diffrazioni Sonore. Second Prize went to Russian/Texan Kuznetsov Artem to whom the prize offered by the non-profit Fondazione Megamark went and Third Prize to Japanese Igawa Hana, offered by the Artistic Direction of the Associazione Cultura e Musica G. Curci.
The “Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli” Special Prize, offered by Maestro Eng. Luca Dimiccoli, went to Korean pianist Park Jeongro and Japanese pianist Ota Saya , three semifinalists awarded by Buzzi Unicem : Japanese Yuki Mihara, Italian Federica Reale and Japanese Sayaka Yamashita

Particular praise goes to the spectacular  Symphony Orchestra Soundiff – Diffrazione Sonore, (over 45 elements), composed of artists from our area mostly under 35, the only Apulian orchestral reality recognized by FUS, conducted very well by Maestro Benedetto Montebello.

For the presentation of the Prizes to the various winners, the Deputy Mayor Dr. Giuseppe Di Leo, Councillor for Social Services Dr. Rosaria Mirabello, Dr. Domenico Ingegno, Director of Buzzi – Unicem, Barletta plant, Dr. Michele Sardone representing the Barletta Foundation, and Dr. Benedetto Montebello, Director of the Buzzi – Unicem Foundation, attended the ceremony. Michele Sardone representing the Megamark Foundation -Onlus and Cavaliere Giovanni Pomarico and Raffaele Rizzi President of the Barletta Ricettiva Association who with their words paid tribute to this now traditional reality that every year projects Barletta in a truly international context.

The very large audience appreciated and underscored the skill of the finalists with very long applause and ovations of enthusiastic admiration both towards these young artists who, for the love of music, do not hesitate to travel all over the world and every year find themselves in Barletta, and towards the International Jury that during these long days of intense auditions found itself listening to so many artists of international level and having to choose the best during this International Music Competition, which has the honorary presidency of the late great maestro Carlo Maria Giulini, dedicated to the unforgettable Mauro Paolo Monopoli .

Here are the three outstanding Finalists and the two Special Prizes Winners of the 26th International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’

– Ho Khanh Van – Vietnam 

- Kuznetsov Artem – Russia/USA 

- Igawa Hana – Japan  

and to the Winners of  ‘A. B. Michelangeli’ Special Prizes 

-Park Jeongro – South Korea 

-Ota Saya – Japan 

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 Here are the Semifinalists of the
26th International Piano Competition ‘ Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’

– KIM Jeongjin Corea del Sud

- MIHARA Yuki Giappone

- REALE Federica Italia

- YAMASHITA Sayaka Giappone

- HO Khanh Van Vietnam

- PARK Jeongro Corea del Sud 

- KUZNETSOV Artem Russia/Stati Uniti

- OTA Say Giappone

- IGAWA Hana Giappone

 

Good and Great News!!

Nuovo Imaie’s support for the 26th International Piano Competition ‘Premio Mauro Paolo Monopoli’ has been confirmed, which recognizes the initiative as one of the most prestigious competitions in Italy, with a prize of 10,000 euros for a tour of 6 concerts for the winner, who  add to the 8,000 euro prizes offered by Buzzi Unicem, the Megamark Foundation and the supporters of the prize!!

The deadline for registrations, for which there is no fee, is set for 27th April 2023.

The Competition will take place from 10th to 14th May  2023 at the Teatro Comunale Curci in Barletta and the Final will be with the Soundiff Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benedetto Montebello.

The prestigious International Jury has been published!!

Great success for the 32nd Young Musician International Competition ‘Città di Barletta’
that finally returned live in the wonderful Curci Theatre in Barletta!!!!

During the six days of the Competion hundreds Talents coming from more than 30 Nations
played with great emotions!!!

Guitars, Strings, Winds, Chamber music Duos and Ensembles,
Piano soloists and Composers from all over the world! 

Here are all the Results!!!

Wonderful Final Concerto of the 25th Intl. Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’ at Curci Theatre with Soundiff-Diffrazioni Sonore Orchestra conducted by m° Benedetto Montebello and the 3 Finalists.

Here are the winners!!!

1st Prize Dominic Doutney – Great Britain
2° Prize ex-aequo Giulio De Padova – Italy           A Jin Sohn – South Korea
Audience Prize A Jin Sohn

  ‘A. Benedetti Michelangeli’ Special Prizes
Alyssa Kok – Singapore            Lu I Shan – Taiwan

Semifinalists awarded
Ami Kurosawa – Japan      Igawa Hana – Japan 

Here are some shots of the Final Concerto!!
Soon the video on our youtube channel!!

On Sunday 22nd May 2022 will take place the Great Final Concerto
of the 25th International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize with the 3 Finalists
Giulio De Padova – Italy, A Jin Sohn – South Korea and Dominic Doutney – England
who will play the Beethoven Piano Concertos nn. 5, 1 and 3
with the Soundiff – Diffrazioni Sonore Simphony Orchestra
conducted by Benedetto Montebello.
Wonderful Final for the 38th Concert Season at Curci Theatre!!!

Great success for the 32nd Young Musician International Competition ‘Città di Barletta’
Here is the Audition Schedule and the Rehearsal Schedule with Piano Accompainist at the following  link
Auditions Schedule of ‘Città di Barletta’ | Associazione Cultura e Musica G. Curci

This year the Association “Barletta Ricettiva”, focused on Hospitality in the city of Barletta, is partner of  Association “Cultura e Musica” and
has the pleasure to offer a
15% DISCOUNT ON THE BEST AVAILABLE RATES PUBLISHED ON THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF EACH B&B
to all musicians who will participate to the 2022 International Music Competitions in Barletta and their accompanying guests booking at the following link
Bed & Breakfast Partners | Associazione Cultura e Musica G. Curci

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Great international success of participation for the
25th International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’!!!
We give the warmest welcome to the extraordinary Pianists we will listen
at the wonderful Curci Theatre in Barletta from 18th to 22nd May 2022!!

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Teatro Comunale Curci
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24th International Piano Competition
‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’ Restart Edition

THE WINNERS!!!

The Soundiff Orchestra

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Here is the amazing Programme of the Final Concert of Sunday 3rd October at Curci Theatre!!!

Here is the list of the 6 Finalists!!
From 1.30 p.m. it is possible to follow the Auditions, that will be live in presence at Curci Theatre, even on line on our youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/asscurci

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37th Concert Season at  Curci Theatre “Non ti scordar di me…”
The Music Events return on the stage of the Curci Theatre!!!

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31st Young Musicians International Competition “Città di Barletta”

Here is the second Gala Concerto with the 1st Absolute Prize Winners and with the Special Prizes of the Piano Section.

A wonderful concert that you can follow on line at this link
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yclxOVEa3Ps

Thank you to All the contestants who make wonderful these Edition, to the Juries and to all who support the Competition

And see you for the next year, live in Barletta!!

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Here is he wonderful First Gala Concerto with the First Absolute Prizes and the Special Prizes
of the Guitar, Winds and Strings Sections!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-84wFAxHl1Y

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HERE ARE  THE AMAZING 18 PIANISTS ADMITTED
TO THE SEMIFINAL STAGE
OF THE
24TH INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION ‘MAURO PAOLO MONOPOLI PRIZE’ –
2021 RESTART EDITION

Incontri col Contemporaneo

Coming Soon!!

Here is the link to the live streaming  video        https://fb.watch/3DZrDhk83r/

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23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
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The Final Concert will be broadcasted at 6.30 p.m. at the following link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMup4djM3x0
Subscribe our You Tube Channel and vote for the Audience Prize!!
https://www.youtube.com/user/asscurci

Here are the Competition Winners!!!
Congratulations!!!

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Fourth Session – October 3rd 2020 h 9.00 a.m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4toMtHw9qs

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Third Session – October 2nd 2020 h 4.00 p.m.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ywAK9Z07I

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Second Session – October 2nd 2020 h 9.00 a.m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejo94Yc21co

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For technical reason the live broadcast of the First Part of the Final stage will be at 6 p.m.
October 1st, 2020 h. 6.00 p.m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNSKe4Tuitc

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23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
Here are the 12 Pianists admitted to the Final Stage!!!

23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
First Stage – Seventh Session –  
October 1st, 2020  9 a.m.
live broadcast at the following link 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xfJ4X3M82Y

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23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
First Stage – Sixth Session –  
September 30th 2020  3 p.m.
live broadcast at the following link 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh8E4tuXJ7Y

23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
First Stage – Fifth Session –  
September 30th 2020  12 a.m.
live broadcast at the following link 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYOnjDFGxzE

23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
First Stage – Fourth Session –  
September 30th 2020  9 a.m.
live broadcast at the following link 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfWMma2aSOw

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23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
First Stage – Third Session –  
September 29th 2020  3 p.m.
live broadcast at the following link 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA9x8GLjVFk

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23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
First Stage – Second Session –  
September 29th 2020 12 a.m.
live broadcast at the following link 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xlIfKrJEI4

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The First Stage – First Session –
of the 23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
starts on September 29th 2020 at 9 a.m.
live broadcast at the following link 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c688Zy21dXE

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Here is the prestigious International Jury of the 
23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’

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23rd International Piano Competition ‘Premio Mauro Paolo Monopoli’
on line Edition 2020
We published the Schedule for following on line, on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/asscurci
the First Stage of the Competition starting on September 29th, 2020.

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Diplomas, Money and Concert Prizes for the Contestants
to the ‘Città di Barletta’ Intl.Competition

The digital Diplomas with scores and signed by the Juries will be sent
to all the Contestants by email not later than October 10th, 2020
The money and concert Prizes winners will be contacted by e-mail
not later than the same date.

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The 2nd  Gala Concerto with the First Absolute Prizes and the Special Prizes of the
Piano Section of the 30th Young Musician International Competition
‘Città di Barletta’ 2020 online Edition
An amazing event on September 26rd, 2020 at 9 p.m.
with wonderful International Music Talents at the following link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4DvSbwjE-U

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Here is the list of the amazing Contestants to the
 23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’!!!

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1st  Gala Concerto with the First Absolute Prizes of the Guitar, Winds,
Strings and Chamber Music Section of  the
30th Young Musician International Competition ‘Città di Barletta’ 2020 online Edition
An amazing event on September 23rd, 2020 at 9 p.m.
with wonderful International Music Talents at the following link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpwVJ5u2PS0

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All the Competition Auditions are on live broadcast on our YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/asscurci
We invite you to apply and to follow all the extraordinary performances!!
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-Important News-
Even for the 23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli’ – online Edition
the Winner will get, in addition to the expected money Prize,
a 8 Concert Tour of a value of 15.000,00 Euros offered by NUOVO IMAIE !!!
That’s really wonderful!!
Deadline for apply Sep 19, 2020.

-Notice-
The 30th Young Musician Intl Competition ‘Città di Barletta’ had a great International success!!
We received more than 320 applications from all over the world!!!
Thanks to participants from China, South Korea, Thailand, Poland, Singapore, Portugal, Luxembourg, Scotland, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, U.S.A., Turkey, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Australia, Indonesia, Canada, Georgia, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Malta, Mexico, France, Montenegro, Ukraine, Croatia, Belarus, Serbia, Greece, Denmark, Mongolia, United Kingdom and France that make it the most important and international Competition.
The full list of Participants and the Competition Official Auditions Schedule is available on the site.
The names of the international Professor who will be part of the Juries is on line.
A great International Music Festival that meets all cultures and all nations!!!

We remember that the application deadline of the 23rd International Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
is confirmed on Sep 19, 2020 and  that there is no application fee for this Competition.

IMPORTANT NOTICE
30th Young Musician Intl. Competition ‘Città di Barletta’ and
23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
After several requests, the Artistic Committee decided that, if you will play different long duration pieces, in each stages, you can record the different pieces separately  and send us a playlist of videos or different video links or merge all the recordings in one video.

Here is the 23rd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
Special On Line Edition
For a real international participation to the prestigious contest
and to overcome the limit to mobility of the Artists caused by pandemia
the 2020 Edition will be realized on line and will not have any application fee.
We published Rule and application form.
Soon the prestigious Juries.
Prizes for € 8000,00 and 8 Prize-Concerts offered by Nuovo Imaie

Here is the 30th International Young Musician Competition ‘Città di Barletta’
Special On Line Edition
For a real international participation to the prestigious contest
and to overcome the limit to mobility of the Artists caused by pandemia
the 2020 Edition will be realized on line.
We published Rules and application forms.
Soon the prestigious Juries.
Prizes for € 9000,00 and 10 Prize-Concerts

The wonderful Concert Season 2019-2020 at Curci Theatre
artistic director prof. Francesco Monopoli

The amazing Composer in Residence Project ‘Creative Tools’

Artistic Director prof. Nicola Monopoli

Project of Music Residence
‘Creative Tools’
for 8 Young Composers under 35 
Supported by  #perchicrea #siae #mibact

All the information at 
http://creativetools.apuliaresonance.it

We published all the Photos (more than 2500!!!)

and the Two Amazing Gala Concerto Videos of the 1st Absolute Prize Winners

of the 29th Young Musician International Competition ‘Città di Barletta’

All the Prizewinners of the 29th Young Musician
International Competition ‘Città di Barletta’

An extraordinary 2019 Edition!!!

Here are the Winners of the 22nd International Piano Competition
Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize

1st Prize
Polina Sasko – UKraina –
IMAIE Prize 15.000,00 Euros

2nd Prize and Audience Prize
Daria Kiseleva -Russia
Buzzi Unicem Prize 5.000,00 Euros and Artistic Direction Prize 500,00 Euros

3rd Prize
Kimoto Shuta – Japan
Fondazione Megamark Prize 2500,00 Euros 

Young Artist Prize ‘A.B.Michelangeli’ –
Chin LEE (Taiwan) and Federico Pulina (Italy)
Eng. Luca Dimiccoli Prize  500,00 euros for each one

Honor Diploma
Oh Yeaontaek (South Korea) – Special Prize ‘Osimo Intl. Festival and Competition’
Kato Daiki (Japan)-Special Prize ‘Osimo Intl. Festival and Competition’
Diana Gabrielyan (Armenia)- Special Prize ‘Osimo Intl. Festival and Competition’
Shin Minchul (South Korea)

Polina Sasko

Daria Kiseleva

Kimoto Shuta

The 2019 Young Talents Music Festival
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Here are the amazing Pianists who will attend to the 22nd Edition of the International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’!!!
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Here is the extraordinary 2019 Edition
of the International Music Competitions!!!
A Great Chance for All the Young Talents!!!
An amazing Success of International Participation!!!

Here we published the list of the Contestants of the 22nd International Piano Competition ‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’

  

22nd International Piano Competition
‘Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’

The  35TH MUSIC SEASON AT CURCI THEATRE!!

Autunno Musicale 2018
8 Great Events with Jazz, Classical and International Talents

Tickets and Subscriptions at St. Anthony Church the evening of the Events
and at vivaticket stores and online at

MusicArte 2018 -10.ma Edizione
‘NonSoloClassica’

On line you can find more than 2500 Photos and the extraordinary Videos of the Gala Concertos 
of the 28th International Young Musician Competition ‘Città di Barletta’ 
A wonderful International Music Festival with Artists coming from more than 60 Nations 
Great Emotions with all the Participants and
the amazing Top Winners!!

The final result of the 21.st International Piano Competition
‘ Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize’
is
2nd prize ex-aequo to ITO Junichi (Japan) and JEON Youngseob (South Korea).
The special audience prize was awarded to JEON Youngseob.
The other finalist SADAUNYKAITE Yulia (Lithuania), who had distinguished himself during the various stages of the competition, had an accident on his wrist and could not participate in the final.
She was awarded a Special Prize from the Artistic Direction and various concerts in Italy for the 2019.
Letizia Noemi HAHN (Germany) and TAI Li Ting (Taiwan) won
the Special Young Artist Concert Award.
The final evening in the Curci Theatre was unforgettable!

 
Two extraordinary Events with the participation of musicians coming from more than 50 different Nations.

#asscurci  #resonance  #weareinpuglia

Here is the Programme of the
34th Concert Season at
Curci Theatre

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