Veteran actor from The Sopranos returns to Windsor with 'brilliant' music-led show

A veteran American actor and singer, of The Sopranos and The Godfather fame, will share his life story at The Old Court in Windsor this Friday (July 5).

Best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Corrado ‘Uncle Junior’ Soprano on the hit HBO mob drama, Dominic Chianese has spent more than 60 years on stage and screen.

The 93-year-old will return to the Windsor auditorium for his two-hour show ‘How I Became a Soprano – in words and music’.

He said: “As a singer on the musical stage, and as an actor in comedic and dramatic plays, I was trained during the last 70 years to learn the crafts.

“I take theatre and the world of entertainment very seriously and my hope for the future is that this new world of virtual reality will not encroach upon the aesthetic beauty in the arts I have seen in my lifetime.

“Performers need to remember that, whether you’re building a bridge or writing a symphony, or learning to dance the tango, education is more than encyclopaedic knowledge and knowing facts and the date of the Magna Carta – it’s putting things all together and, OK Dominic, get off your soap box. Save it for the stories and songs you will be hopefully singing on the local stage.

“Sure, I will be dropping names of people - those who have inspired me all the years and have made me become the best performer that I could be. Acting is doing. To serve any community, anywhere in the world takes courage, knowledge, and good intentions.”

He said he plans ‘to sing in concert venues, anywhere I can find an audience’ including Windsor on July 5 and Egham on July 27.

The show will feature a guitar and piano-accompanied programme with stories and songs of how he became a television celebrity with David Chase’s script, The Sopranos.

Director at The Old Court, Martin Denny added: “We are thrilled to welcome back Dominic Chianese to The Old Court with his show which has proved, and continues to prove, so popular. It is a great entertaining evening, brilliantly presented.”

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