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An Operawala in Goa

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Operatic singing is not a musical genre usually associated with Goa, although the state is far more steeped in Western culture than most of India. Oscar Castellino, who is performing at Goa Chitra Museum, Benaulim, on the 8th of March as part of his continuing Operawala Tour of India, brings his baritone voice to amaze and mesmerise his audience. In association with the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, Oscar, or Operawalla as he calls himself, is commemorating the centenary of composer Francesco Paolo Tosti with a concert tour of India. An alumnus of the Royal College of Music, UK, Oscar Dom Victor Castellino already has an impressive body of work with roles as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet with Opera at Bearwood; Dancairo in Carmen ; Mahival, which is a lead role, in Sohini and Mahival , an Urdu opera at the Southbank Centre and others. He is, furthermore, scheduled to play the lead as James Meredith in Kommilitonen! with Welsh National Opera young artists in July 2016. Oscar had an