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 ...