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.