Gala Event – Sharon Wilson Center, Brookefield, Wisconsin 9 April – Cincinnati, Ohio – Yellow Ribbon Scholarship Fundraising Event 6 May – Solo concert at the Detroit Opera House in Detroit, Michigan 16 June – Solo Concert – Sanders Theater – sponsored by the Greek Institute at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 24–28 June Greek Concert tour (Piraeus, Athens, Thessaloniki etc.) 30 June – Private Gala Event – Baalbek, Lebanon International Music Festival's 50 years anniversary 2 July, his second concert in Turkey, at the Harbiye outdoor theater in Istanbul October: at the Herodes Atticus theater, "Tribute to Mario Lanza" concert. October: debut Concert in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony at Orchestra Hall and at the Landmark Theater in Richmond with the Richmond Symphony. 2007 Frangoulis completed his new album Amor Oscuro (Skotinos Erotas), dedicated to the Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca. In April he performed with Elena Kelessidi and the Baltimore Opera Company orchestra at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore and in October he returned to The United States for a concert in Boston. In December, Frangoulis released another album: "Passione" a collection of songs that Mario Lanza performed. 2008 Frangoulis toured in the United States leg of Sarah Brightman's "The Symphony World Tour". 2009–2011 Frangoulis had various appearances in great Athenian and other Greek venues in those two years. He was invited by the Special Olympics Committee to take a major part on the opening ceremony of the event in June 2011. Since he loves and adores children, Frangoulis gave a compassionate, loving and warmhearted performance, presenting a song from his new third international album Beautiful Things, which was first released in a place that occupies a very special spot in Frangoulis' heart: the country of Greece. The album was released in November 2011. It was released in the United States and the rest of the world in winter of 2012. 2012 Mario Frangoulis had a very successful appearance with the Boston Pops Orchestra and Hayley Westenra at Symphony Hall in Boston the month of June. He continued his summer with a multi-city tour in his native Greece where he concluded it with his first official concert of Beautiful Things album, in a majestic night under the August blue moon, at the Herodes Atticus Theater in Athens, Greece. 2014 In 2014 Mario Frangoulis performed with the acclaimed Norwegian soprano Sissel at a concert on Friday 5