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 ...