This show, performed by "acclaimed musician" Enzo Boscarino, celebrated the rich history, art, cuisine, and culture of Italians, how it influences their lives, and the way they express themselves.
The music included well-known Italian classics in a variety of genres; the audience was invited to sing along during the program.
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Vincenzo Boscarino was born in Sortino, province of Siracusa, Italy. He lived in Italy until he was twenty-one and graduated from the Istituto G. Lombardo Radice, Catania, with a degree in elementary education. It was in Italy that as a young boy Enzo began to sing, leading church choruses in singing Gregorian chants. Later he learned to play the guitar and has been playing and singing ever since. He enrolled at the Università di Catania but decided to go to the United States to further his education, graduating from the University of Connecticut in 1965 with a bachelor's degree and from Central Connecticut State College in 1970 with a master's degree (in Italian, laurea magistrale or specialistica).
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He worked at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut, for 35 years as a Spanish teacher. He is currently employed by Central Connecticut State University and the University of Saint Joseph as a professor of Spanish. He has appeared in television commercials, and in 1999 he recorded a compact disc with his wife, Maryanne Crane. He has also been a translator for many prestigious clients, including Andrea Bocelli's USA tour with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.
In 1977, Enzo was the winner of a bronze medal for the United States in the New England States Foil Competition in Waterbury, Connecticut, and coached the Conard Traveling Fencing Team from September 1976 to June 1986. He has fenced in Madrid, Spain, at the Palacio del Deporte and in Florence, Italy, at the Circolo Scherma.
Enzo has performed abroad in concerts at the Scuola Francesca in Catania, Italy, and at Villa Magna in Madrid. In the United States he performed at the Trinity Park Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard. He has been a featured performer at Mamma Leone's in New York City, the Rosecliff in Newport, Rhode Island, and has participated in Italian festivals in Buffalo and Olean, New York, as well as in Hartford and Bristol, Berlin, Connecticut, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island. In Hartford, Enzo is well known for his performances in Hartford's First Night event and for his role as master of ceremonies for "Opera al Fresco" in Constitution Plaza. Because of his many talents the Martha's Vineyard Gazette once described him as a Renaissance man.
