03/04/13 COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR OPERA

• Birmingham Hippodrome Announces Upcoming Workshops _{2013-03-04, 12:13 pm}
  ... Birmingham Hippodrome stage in the past, present and future - including Sister Act, We Will Rock You, Phantom of the Opera and High Society. No experience is necessary, and participants are encouraged to come along to have fun, meet new people and ...
• Kiri Te Kanawa to guest-star on 'Downton Abbey' _{2013-03-04, 12:01 pm}
  "Downton Abbey" is set to get a visit from a famous opera singer in its new season.
• Chor Leoni and Friends _{2013-03-04, 11:53 am}
  ... of beautiful music that reaches out to touch and move you. In those 20 years they've shared the stage with rock stars, opera super stars and stars of the stage. Chor Leoni and Friends will reunite some of them with the Lions in an event that marks a ...
• Reviews of the latest music releases _{2013-03-04, 11:47 am}
  ... such as Maria Callas,Victoria de Los Angeles and Giuseppe di Stefano amongst others.As an introduction to the world of opera it's well nigh faultless,giving newcomers to the genre an opportunity to immerse themselves in the delights of Verdi ...
• Caramoor Presents 2013 Schwab Vocal Rising Stars: 'Song of the Midnight Sun' _{2013-03-04, 11:36 am}
  ... Blier, Artistic Director, was launched as a pilot program in spring 2009. It focuses on singing outside the realm of opera, including the song recital and vocal chamber music. Singers at the beginning professional level are invited to Caramoor for a ...
• American Bach Soloists presents unfamiliar Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi _{2013-03-04, 11:21 am}
  ... was also the time of Pope Clement XI's ban on operatic performances, which did not serve Handel's reputation as an opera composer particularly well. If Handel felt constrained by this ban, Psalm 110 provided him with a perfect opportunity to get ...
• UTC Student And Rossville Native Receives Glenn Draper Scholarship Fund _{2013-03-04, 11:19 am}
  ... Into the Woods, The Music Man, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Grease, and A Charlie Brown Christmas, as well as UTC Opera's production of Mozart's "The Impressario". In addition, she has sung at several venues at rallies and gatherings. An ...
• Harrisburg Academy launches first high school musical with "Aida" _{2013-03-04, 11:12 am}
  ... were acquainted with "Aida," but are enthusiastic about the music in the Tim Rice/Elton John version of the Verdi opera. "We never heard of it before, but it's pretty cool music," Sheker said, although not a stereotypical musical. "There's a lot of ...
• MacLaine to return to Downton Abbey _{2013-03-04, 10:18 am}
  ... the ITV show's third series last year, and there were rumours she was due to return. It has also been announced that opera star Kiri Te Kanawa is joining the cast. The New Zealand-born soprano will play a house guest, and will sing during her visit. ...
• 'Hamlet' at Minnesota Opera _{2013-03-04, 10:05 am}
  ... of Ambroise Thomas." This is delicious, but grossly unfair. Indeed, one of the pleasures afforded by Thomas' 1868 opera "Hamlet," which opened Saturday in a no-holds-barred production by Minnesota Opera, is discovering how engaging the music is. ...
• Review: Tosca @ The Royal Opera House _{2013-03-04, 09:51 am}
  Set against the background of Napoleon's invasion of Rome in the summer of 1800, Puccini's Tosca is an opera that boasts sex, lies and violence in a brisk work with ravishing tunes.
• Weekly Ticket _{2013-03-04, 09:23 am}
  ... birthday of Richard Wagner. Also featuring Zalman Raffael's new hip-hop ballet "A Street Symphony." Where: Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. When: Thursday through March 24, times and prices vary. Starting at $35. LORD OF THE DANCE BY MICHAEL ...
• Artsmash blog _{2013-03-04, 08:02 am}
  ... He's written for the New York Times, BBC Music Magazine and other publications, and he's a longtime contributor to Opera News. His book, The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music (Perigee, 2002), can be found on the most discerning ...
• Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Program Artists _{2013-03-04, 07:20 am}
  ... 759-5334 Admission: $30. No charge for students 17 and under. Amadeus Concerts presents: Aria: Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Program Artists The Domingo-Cafritz Program is unique in guiding singers on the verge of international careers. ...
• Buffalo Grove Resident Finds Joy in Making Pottery _{2013-03-04, 07:14 am}
  ... handle food, and she decided that she wanted to learn how to make her own functional earthenware. Chung, a long-time opera singer, was soon taking pottery classes at suburban studios. Now, three years later, her work can be found on display and for ...
• Tufts Announces Upcoming Public Concerts _{2013-03-04, 06:19 am}
  ... composer. He is currently on faculty at Tufts University as piano teacher, chamber music coach, Co-Director of the Opera Ensemble, and staff pianist. The Granoff Music Center is located at 20 Talbot Avenue on Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus. ...
• MarkRees published WIN tickets to see Carmen at Swansea Grand Theatre _{2013-03-04, 05:55 am}
  ... guarantees an evening of passion and romance, and features some of the most evocative and best-loved melodies in opera; The Habanera, The Seguidilla, The Flower Song, The Chanson Bohme and perhaps the best-known baritone aria of all The Toreador's ...
• 5 Things You Need to Know Today: March 4 _{2013-03-04, 05:50 am}
  ... Powers School of Music faculty member and soprano Jessica Cooper - a 2003 New England finalist for the Metropolitian Opera's National Council Auditions - with guest artists Thea Lobo, mezzo-soprano; Rosalind Stowe, viola da gamba; and James Meadors, ...
• thebuzz published Review: Cheltenham Ladies' College Spring Concert, Pittville Pump... _{2013-03-04, 03:51 am}
  A curtain-raiser to Rossini's opera The Barber Of Seville heralded a curtain closure for the Sixth Form students of the Ladies' College.
• FdL and Area Library New & Notes _{2013-03-04, 03:00 am}
  ... discussion -- 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5. The Rev. Jack Stubbs leads a discussion focusing on Puccini's beloved opera. The evening will include opera excerpts. "La Boheme" follows the lives of artists, musicians and writers in 1840s Paris. The ...

02/07/13 COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR OPERA.

• 'Xerxes' is a musical and visual delight _{2013-02-07, 06:52 am}
  There simply isn't a more ideal prelude to the approaching Valentine's Day than IU Opera 's production of George Frideric Handel 's " Xerxes ," seen Saturday at the Musical Arts Center in Bloomington, Ind.
• Fed Cup drops 4th singles after 3-0 lead _{2013-02-07, 09:34 am}
  ... why she might think a baby would give her the love she’s missing. Where can you go to see a rock concert, opera performance, comedy roast, video game tournament, karaoke and pyrotechnics? A Kansas City movie theater. Actually, quite a few of ...
• Rocker Primes Young Musicians in Exclusive Stanford Workshop _{2013-02-07, 09:25 am}
  ... both original Kotche compositions and the West Coast premiere of atmospheric composer John Luther Adams' "drum kit opera" Illimaq . But before the concert, eight Stanford students got a closer glimpse of Kotche's side of the process. In ...
• Tenor Nicky Spence walked away frm 1 million record deal for opera dream _{2013-02-07, 09:10 am}
  ... singing with Placido Domingo and Katherine Jenkins, he decided to walk away to concentrate on training to be an opera singer. Since then Nicky has won many prizes, performed work by a huge range of composers and impressed in his opera roles so far ...
• 2/7/13: Today's Tips: Thursday _{2013-02-07, 08:15 am}
  ... of rock musical based on Green Day's concept album of the same name. 8pm. $20, $45, $60 & $70. Read review here OPERA : "La Traviata" @ Proctors , Schenectady. With a 22-piece orchestra, it's Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre's production of the Verdi ...
• Andrew Lloyd Webber Recovering Well After Back Surgery _{2013-02-07, 07:53 am}
  The British composer had to skip the 25th anniversary performance of his hit production The Phantom Of The Opera in New York last week to undergo an operation on his bad back.
• Syracuse Opera announces three productions for its 2013-2014 season _{2013-02-07, 07:29 am}
  Syracuse Opera has announced its 2013-2014 season of three operas. The productions are more contemporary than in past and two of the operas will be presented in the smaller Carrier Theater of the John H. Mulroy Civic Center, with five performances.
• David A. Smith: Knowledge of art can bind society _{2013-02-07, 07:16 am}
  Last weekend I attended a "family concert" by the Dallas Opera orchestra and two of its wonderful singers.
• Anatomy of Murder _{2013-02-07, 06:37 am}
  ... they look into the murder as a matter of patriotism. They discover the victim to have been a minor figure in a city opera house, and it is the political machinations of the opera that serve as background while Westerman and Crowther interview the ...
• 5. Much-loved Tchaikovsky opera gets big screen treatment _{2013-02-07, 06:23 am}
  The season of Royal Opera House screenings at Strode Theatre in Street continues with a live transmission of Tchaikovsky's passionate late-19th-century opera Eugene Onegin.
• Opera Theatre Company's Cos Fan Tutte _{2013-02-07, 06:21 am}
  OPERA THEATRE Company, Ireland's national opera company, comes to Galway next week with a sparkling new production of Mozart's much-loved Cos Fan Tutte.
• All Saints concert features music of Webber and Sondheim _{2013-02-07, 06:00 am}
  ... 8 p.m. Feb. 8 and 9 at All Saints Church, 10 Irving St., Worcester. The show will include songs from "Phantom of the Opera," "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Company," and "West Side Story." Featured singers include Graeme McCullough, Richard Monroe, ...
• 3. Review: Madam Butterfly, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham _{2013-02-07, 05:33 am}
  For their only performance of this opera in Cheltenham they attracted a full house, people travelling many miles to be stirred by Puccini's music in this tragic story of love betrayed.
• FBI: No other explosives found near Ala. bunker _{2013-02-07, 05:30 am}
  ... why she might think a baby would give her the love she’s missing. Where can you go to see a rock concert, opera performance, comedy roast, video game tournament, karaoke and pyrotechnics? A Kansas City movie theater. Actually, quite a few of ...
• The Rest is Noise festival: Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring - video preview _{2013-02-07, 05:23 am}
  ... h thanks to Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre - performing The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells in April - English National Opera and English National Ballet
• TCO pulls out all the stops with 'Il Trovatore' _{2013-02-07, 03:00 am}
  ... soap operas have nothing on real operas. Take, for instance, Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore," which Tri-Cities Opera will present Friday and Sunday at the Forum in Binghamton. The 1853 potboiler, set in the kingdom of Aragon in 15th century Spain, ...
• Ms. Cheap: It's a great month for music _{2013-02-07, 03:00 am}
  ... at 8 p.m. on Feb. 23 is a concert performance by bass-baritone Eric Owens, one of the rising stars of the Metropolitan Opera. His program at Blair, which will spotlight classics of the opera, is free, but tickets are required (available in the ...
• Preview: Romeo and Juliet _{2013-02-05, 06:00 pm}
  ... ending that doesn't include (spoiler alert) poison, dagger, double suicide. Often adapted for stage, film, musical and opera, Romeo and Juliet is also one of the most enduringly popular ballets. Originally, Sergei Prokofiev's score, which ...
• Syracuse Opera to present 'Sweeney Todd' for six performances _{2013-01-31, 03:00 am}
  Syracuse Opera presents "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" for six performances at Carrier Theater in the John H. Mulroy Civic Center.
• 76ers fall to defensive-minded Pacers _{2013-02-07, 05:00 am}
  ... why she might think a baby would give her the love she’s missing. Where can you go to see a rock concert, opera performance, comedy roast, video game tournament, karaoke and pyrotechnics? A Kansas City movie theater. Actually, quite a few of ...

01/31/13 COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR OPERA.

• Who's 'Quadrophenia' still resonates ahead of Reno show _{2013-01-31, 03:00 am}
  When the Who chose to play its 1973 rock opera, "Quadrophenia," in its entirety on this winter's North American tour, it opened the group up to speculation that it's following the recent trend of bands doing tours based around a popular album from their back catalogs.
• Things to do this weekend _{2013-01-31, 05:00 am}
  ... at 4 p.m. Sunday (Jan. 27) at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church. Experience the baroque origins of Italian opera with works by Barbara Strozzi, Francesco Cavalli, Alessandro Scarlatti and others. Tickets are $25; $20 for seniors; $10 for ...
• 'American Idiot' set for 5-show run at Hanover _{2013-01-31, 04:53 am}
  ... girlfriend, Heather, is pregnant and uncertain what she should do. The musical is an adaptation of the 2004 rock opera "American Idiot" by the punk rock band Green Day. At first, at least, unhappiness and angst prevail as we watch the lives of the ...
• Gunn's blazing; from high school musicals to the Met, he's a vocal favorite _{2013-01-31, 04:06 am}
  Nathan Gunn is currently playing Rimbaud, the conspiring sidekick of the infatuated Comte'Ory at the Metropolitan Opera.
• IBM's Watson supercomputer goes to university _{2013-01-31, 04:03 am}
  ... was that along the way he would become a patent agent, a rocket scientist, a gourmet cook, a biotech entrepreneur, an opera tenor and a science writer. All articles by Brian Dodson
• Nibbles: Vibrante _{2013-01-31, 02:44 am}
  ... University's Armstrong Browning Library. Free, but donations accepted for the Baylor Voice Excellence Fund. Baylor Opera Theater stages Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29 and Jan. 31-Feb. 2 at Baylor's ...
• Wood-fired ceramics, tale-telling photos in new Baylor art show _{2013-01-31, 02:44 am}
  ... University's Armstrong Browning Library. Free, but donations accepted for the Baylor Voice Excellence Fund. Baylor Opera Theater stages Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29 and Jan. 31-Feb. 2 at Baylor's ...
• FCT's 'Lend Me a Tenor' was worth the wait _{2013-01-31, 02:38 am}
  ... the experience of almost being in the show. It also came with some delicacies. "Lend Me a Tenor" is about a famous opera singer doing a show in Cleveland and the madcap adventures that happen when there is a mistaken identity. I enjoyed bright-eyed ...
• S.F. Ballet season-opener: variety, contrast, excellence _{2013-01-31, 02:11 am}
  San Francisco Ballet 's 80th season began with a bang Tuesday night in the War Memorial Opera House.
• 'Turandot' will open Sarasota Opera's winter season _{2013-01-31, 02:10 am}
  Soprano Brenda Harris stars in Turandot , which opens the Sarasota Opera's winter season on Feb.
• Stella Zambalis is Tosca in St. Petersburg Opera production _{2013-01-31, 02:09 am}
  Stella Zambalis is going to be busy in February. First, she is playing the title role in Tosca , the St. Petersburg Opera production of the Puccini staple that opens this weekend. Next she'll be playing PBS chef Julia Child in Lee Hoiby's comedy Bon ...
• South Wales Evening Post published A whistlestop tour of G&S _{2013-01-31, 02:00 am}
  ... - the full Gilbert and Sullivan condensed into 90 minutes and lovingly presented by the Scratchy Bottom Wind and Light Opera Society." "I absolutely loved it as a child but I had forgotten about it a little as an adult, so it was wonderful to be ...
• Evita' auditions scheduled this week _{2013-01-31, 01:54 am}
  Auditions for "Evita" are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday at the Charleston Light Opera Guild Theatre at the corner of Tennessee Avenue and Roane Street on the West Side.
• 'Spamalot' tour gives singer a chance to horse around a bit _{2013-01-31, 01:54 am}
  ... people, so it's landing with the right people at the right time." Hamilton got his start in classical music with opera. "I discovered that I could sing when I was in sixth grade," he said. "And then I taught myself. I really wanted to just play ...
• A Bloody Good Time 01.31.13: The Ten Best Dario Argento Films _{2013-01-31, 01:50 am}
  ... an entire movie over what was a silly twist. I won't spoil it, except to say there is a chimpanzee involved. #8 : Opera (1987) When I first saw Opera , I actually didn't like it. I've re-watched it since, realized that most of my problems with it ...
• Lifestyle briefs -- Published Jan. 31, 2013 _{2013-01-30, 08:35 pm}
  Auditions for the chorus for Stockton Opera's production of "Le Nozze di Figaro " are scheduled for Sunday at the Recital Hall at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music.
• Evancho has loads of talent - and manners too _{2013-01-30, 07:02 pm}
  ... and manager have to agree on all of the songs, but I did bring up "The Music of the Night" from "The Phantom of the Opera" as my favorite of all. I just had to have it on the CD. Q. You sing a lot of popular classical opera, like "O Mio Babbino ...
• Philip Glass - The New Frontier in The Age of Aquarius _{2013-01-30, 08:06 am}
  ... from the man considered to be the contemporary world's "greatest living composer." Even though I had a career as an opera singer, my exposure to any kind of non-mainstream music was by self exploration. And when I first began my trek of foraging ...
• Vocal student brings home several honors from conference in Denton _{2013-01-30, 03:00 am}
  ... with Debbie Berry, voice lecturer; Laney, Lymer and Wall study with Deborah Dalton, associate professor of voice and opera; Garza and Hanna study with Scott Lagraff, associate professor of voice; and Mayfield studies with Nita Hudson, voice and ...
• The Hartt School Presents Die Fledermaus, Now thru 2/2 _{2013-01-31, 01:32 am}
  The Hartt School's Hartt Opera Theatre presents Johann Strauss II's frothy comic operetta, Die Fledermaus, tonight through Saturday, January 31 through February 2, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, February 3, at 3:00 PM, in Millard Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.

COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR THE LATEST OPERA NEWS

• Movie Review: 'Quartet' _{2013-01-17, 02:41 am}
  ... The plot, such as it is: three members of the titular foursome must convince an aging and reclusive prima donna of an opera singer, played by the inimitable Maggie Smith -- who was once the group's solo star and was briefly married to one of the two ...
• DiDonato luminous in Metropolitan Opera's 'Maria Stuarda' _{2013-01-17, 02:09 am}
  In this photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera, Joyce DiDonato plays Maria Stuarda and Matthew Polenzani is Leicester during a dress rehearsal of Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda." NEW YORK - The Metropolitan Opera may have pretty much turned opening night over to the glamorous Anna Netrebko, but New Year's Eve belonged to a very different diva - Joyce ... (more)
• Opera star home for talent search _{2013-01-17, 02:06 am}
  ... professionals in the field. Joining Madlala on the panel is South African-born British operatic lyric mezzo-soprano, opera director and educator, Sally Burgess, and pianist, William Vann. I spent a day with the remaining contestants at they ...
• Houston Grand Opera to show Valencia Ring Cycle _{2013-01-17, 01:58 am}
  The Houston Grand Opera plans to present the futuristic Fura dels Baus productions of Wagner's four Ring Cycle operas over four consecutive seasons starting with "Das Rheingold " in 2013-14. Sixty-seven-year-old Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade will come out of retirement for the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's "A Coffin in Egypt," the ... (more)
• EVITA Kicks Off Eight-City Tour in Israel Tonight _{2013-01-17, 01:51 am}
  ... For the first time in English in Israel, opening tonight, Jan 17th for an eight city tour. Evita is a musical theater opera, with some of the most haunting and evocative music Andrew Lloyd Webber has ever written. The lyrics by Tim Rice are sharp ...
• 'American Idol' Recap: Nicki Minaj & Mariah Carey Fight At Auditions _{2013-01-17, 01:12 am}
  ... will remain just that - dreams. The 25 year old sang/mumbled a disturbingly high-pitched version of "Phantom of the Opera." I was confused, scared and horribly entertained. Let's just say it was hard for both Nicki and me to keep the laughs ...
• Tons of Art and Music With Your WOO Card _{2013-01-17, 01:09 am}
  ... all his friends from Sesame Street for six shows. Let's make some music! Link Sunday, January 20th Greater Worcester Opera presents The Magic Flute at Briarwood 65 Briarwood Circle , Worcester Greater Worcester Opera presents a semi-staged concert ...
• Vesuvius Ensemble gives a blast from Italy's past _{2013-01-17, 01:06 am}
  ... it as a boy, and according to him, turned pro at age nine, singing at weddings every weekend. He later veered into opera, singing in the chorus and appearing in tenor roles at Milan's La Scala for five years. "I learned all this music with the ...
• Innovative Michigan-based Eisenhower Dance ensemble leaps back to Detroit Opera House _{2013-01-17, 01:00 am}
  Now in its 17th year, the Michigan Opera Theatre's dance season brings top companies from all over the world to the stage of the Detroit Opera House.
• Virginia Opera presents 'Camelot' _{2013-01-17, 12:26 am}
  ... Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet , three powerful performers who kept the focus on the music. When an opera company tackles a Broadway musical, the emphasis needs to stay on the music as well, says Greg Ganakas, stage director of ...
• DiDonato rules stage in Metropolitan Opera's 'Maria Stuarda' _{2013-01-17, 12:10 am}
  Never before performed at the Metropolitan Opera, "Maria Stuarda," the second opera in Donizetti's so-called "Three Queens" trilogy, portrays the lethal conflict between Mary, deposed queen of Scotland, and Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• 'Maria Stuarda' - Live from the Met, in select theaters, Saturday, January 19th _{2013-01-17, 12:04 am}
  San Francisco-trained soprano Elza van den Heever made her Metropolitan Opera debut as "Elisabetta" in the company's new David McVicar production of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda this past New Year's Eve alongside mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and tenor Matthew Polenzani.
• Far Away Places: Live at 54 BELOW _{2013-01-17, 12:00 am}
  ... LuPone: Far Away Places" Live From 54 BELOW CD and digital formats Broadway Records / 54 BELOW Bryan Hymel is one of opera's most in-demand tenors, but he remembers his days as a starving artist when studying music in Philadelphia. This week he ...
• Quartet _{2013-01-16, 10:53 pm}
  ... that made The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel such a hit. Newly arrived at Beecham House, a fictional retirement home for opera singers, legendary soprano Jean Horton (Maggie Smith) finds herself amidst old colleagues (Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins) ...
• Hexaphone and Via Choralis join up for Northern Reflections _{2013-01-16, 10:52 pm}
  ... Together the two groups will end the concert with the song Prayer and Temple Dance from Norweigian Edward Grieg's opera Olav Trygvason . The show takes place in Sidney on Sunday, Feb. 3 at St. Elizabeth's Church (10030 Third St.) Tickets are $15 for ...
• 'Pirates of Penzance' opens at Wheaton College _{2013-01-16, 09:52 pm}
  When Wheaton College's Opera Music Theater presents Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "The Pirates of Penzance" this week, theatergoers can expect a performance that sticks faithfully to the original, as performed in 1879.
• Theatrical music coming to a Prince Albert stage _{2013-01-16, 08:51 pm}
  ... scene while Burgess acted as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables and Caine acted as Christine Daae in Phantom of the Opera. "About a year-and-a-half ago it just tuned up among friends that we thought we might do some concerts together, and it's worked ...
• Houston Grand Opera announces impressive 2013-2014 season _{2013-01-16, 08:31 pm}
  While the Dallas Opera presumably will limp along with yet another three-production season, Houston Grand Opera has announced a pretty impressive lineup of eight operas for 2013-2014. The offerings include the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's "A Coffin in Egypt" and the North American premiere of Polish/Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg's ... (more)
• Staging An Exhibition _{2013-01-16, 08:02 pm}
  ... MVT and local favorite Rap's Hawaii (1/11) at HTY. Religious art always impresses. We select the interestingly titled opera Dialogues of the Carmelites (2/15) by modern French composer/librettist Francis Poulenc, at HOT. A group of nuns during the ...
• Elementary students experience their first opera _{2013-01-16, 07:28 pm}
  Sneakers shuffled along Maple Street and voices rose with excitement as more than 300 people lined up to see the Los Angeles Opera.

01/06/13 The Raw Opera News Feed

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• The Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera, December 18, 2012 _{2013-01-07, 01:23 am}
  That's right: not exactly Rossini's flawless Il barbiere di Siviglia, but the Met's new family-friendly shortened Barber in English.
• Museums step it up with diverse lineup of shows _{2013-01-07, 01:00 am}
  ... "The Design Show." The opening will also feature a fashion show with drawn from the costume room at the Michigan Opera Theatre. There's an emphasis on "Barber of Seville" and "Aida." Gallery manager Sarah Balmer anticipates up to 15 models strutting ...
• Goings on About Town: Classical Music _{2013-01-07, 12:00 am}
  Jan. 9 at 7:30 and Jan. 12 at 1: It's David McVicar month at the Met. In 2009, when the Met's new production of "Maria Stuarda" was just a gleam in his eye, he made a solidly traditional staging of "Il Trovatore" that rescued the opera from years of ignominy at the house.
• New CD Features Thematic Collection of Ricky Ian Gordon's Songs... _{2013-01-06, 11:22 pm}
  ... by a brilliant young soprano whose voice has been rapidly gaining recognition since her debut with the Houston Grand Opera as Beth in , at Lyric Opera of Chicago. This lead to a collaborative recital at the Chicago Cultural Center, and the birth of ...
• Lees: Barbara Poole remembered by favourite musicians _{2013-01-06, 10:53 pm}
  ... Cathedral, pianist Tommy Banks and saxophonist P.J. Perry played at a Winspear Centre reception, while the Edmonton Opera chorus sang. Friends of all ages, and representatives from the arts and business communities, paid their respects to a ...
• Placido Domingo visits Miami, mentors young artists _{2013-01-06, 10:51 pm}
  Hailed as the "King of Opera," Placido Domingo has carved a unique place in the entertainment world.
• Soprano tops local Metropolitan Opera auditions competition; advances to New York _{2013-01-06, 10:10 pm}
  A dazzling display of seemingly impossible high notes locked in the first place finish for a South Korean soprano at the annual Metropolitan Opera National Council's Gulf Coast regional auditions on Sunday afternoon.
• energy can come from motivation _{2013-01-06, 09:28 pm}
  Recently I had a very interesting experience involving Dustin Hoffman, James Lipton, opera and the new film "Quartet". Like most artists in there late twenties I am at a loss; a loss for direction, a loss for inspiration, a loss for passion, a loss for hope and for anybody who knows what that feels like, then you also know the kind of drain on your ... (more)
• a NZ Arts organisation making a name for itself _{2013-01-06, 08:17 pm}
  ... Hughes, Susan Boland and John Cameron got tired of singers complaining there was no work for them, so the trio of opera singers decided to make work for themselves and others. "We basically decided the world doesn't owe you a living so we formed ...
• Cinderella gets to go to the ball — in Seattle Opera production _{2013-01-06, 10:01 am}
  By Gioachino Rossini. With Daniela Pini and Ren Barbera , and Joan Font, director, and Giacomo Sagripanti, conductor; Saturday-Jan. 26, Seattle Opera, McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle; $25-$215 . A motherless child.
• Little Cinderellas go to the ball at McCaw Hall for a "La Cenerentola" open house _{2013-01-06, 12:32 am}
  Alyssa Stone, teaching artist in the education department for Seattle Opera, reads the story of Cinderella during the "La Cenerentola" Open House at McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center Saturday.
• Southern Rep's 3X3: the One Acts Set for 1/14 & 15 _{2013-01-06, 06:09 pm}
  ... created to get writers writing-and it works. The 6X6 Play Slam and DEBAUCHERY by Pat Bourgeois, a monthly NOLA soap opera, just celebrated their two-year anniversaries. Audiences are hungry for new plays in New Orleans!" --Aime Hayes, Producing ...
• This month's season concert by Symphony Parnassus _{2013-01-06, 06:01 pm}
  ... take the usual overture-concerto-symphony format, beginning with the overture composed by Gioachino Rossini for his opera L'italiana in Algeri (the Italian girl in Algiers). The symphony will be Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Opus 64 in E minor (his ...
• Seyfried desperate for 'Les Miserables' role - Indiatalkies.com _{2013-01-06, 04:46 pm}
  ... full circle if you want something badly enough," contactmusic.com quoted Seyfried as saying. The 27-year-old studied opera for five years before switching to acting and landing roles in "Mamma Mia" and "Mean Girls". Sut she feels her latest part ...
• A roller-coaster theatre ride: plenty of live theatre to look forward to in Edmonton _{2013-01-06, 04:45 pm}
  ... of blue-chip pedigree. And in the course of one character's efforts to better understand its mysteries, an entire opera will get written. Naturally, Eros and the Itchy Ant is de rigueur for anyone who has ever taken piano or voice lessons. The ...
• San Francisco Symphony Preview 2013 _{2013-01-06, 04:25 pm}
  ... beginner over the next six months: 1. Soprano Renee Fleming (above center, backstage at Lucrezia Borgia at the SF Opera) is singing a bunch of French songs this week, with Tilson Thomas conducting Debussy's La Mer. January 10-12. 2. Charles Dutoit ...
• Independent, experimental theater festivals fire up cold New York _{2013-01-06, 03:22 pm}
  ... catch the Nature Theater of Oklahoma's "Life and Times: Episodes 1-4," an 11-hour story of a life. Part I is a ukulele opera, but Russell isn't worried about the sound of that scaring anyone away. "Believe me, you'll be hooked and scream to get a ...
• Big budget approach certainly paid dividends _{2013-01-06, 01:31 pm}
  ... tone and impressive range to soar in the thrilling Act One climax. Meanwhile, in Australian soprano Nicole Car Opera Australia surely has a star-in-the-making. Her Mi chiamano Mimi had the spontaneous, open tone of an innocent at large, but her ...
• BBC makes Space for cultural history _{2013-01-06, 01:06 pm}
  ... having already sat on the advisory board for its first practical incarnation, The Space , in his previous job as Royal Opera House chief executive. Initially launched in May 2012 as a six-month pop-up service and extended until March 2013, The Space ...
• Crowe/Maltman/Johnson - review _{2013-01-06, 01:04 pm}
  ... him accompanying Lucy Crowe and Christopher Maltman in an exploration of the often vexed relationship between song and opera. Most 19th-century French composers aspired to write for the Paris Opera, an ambition in which very few succeeded. Their ...