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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceBritish cellist Julian Lloyd Webber has […] The post Julian Lloyd Webber’s Record-Breaking Stradivarius Cello Listed for Sale appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Mus...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceThe Minnesota Orchestra has today announced […] The post Minnestota Orchestra Announces New Principal Double Bassist appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source .
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from ArtsBeat » » Classical MusicThe Lucerne Festival Academy, which Mr. Boulez helped found, will celebrate his 90th birthday with a concert marathon in August.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from ArtsBeat » » Classical MusicAnna Netrebko, the Russian diva, will step in for Elina Garanca, the Latvian mezzo-soprano, at a Carnegie Hall concert Sunday with the Met Orchestra.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from The Naxos Blog
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the piano music of Robert Schumann was under-appreciated – viewed as bitty, light and flighty, more like parlour music fare. But today it’s recognised as some of the most creative and... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
Antonio Vivaldi’s seminal piece The Four Seasons has been reimagined thanks to the brilliance of mandolin performer Avi Avital. As part of his new album release, Avital performed Summer with the Venice Baroque Orchestra. Vivaldi is reco... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICALWhen you think of an inventive and creative place to perform live, preferably in front of an engaging audience, several options can come to mind. An outdoor amphitheater or a baseball stadium in the off-season seem like great places to e...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Mozart concert is dedicated to the memory of the late Christopher Hogwood
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
Anyone who spent time in their childhood learning to play an instrument also spent time learning the basic essentials to music. This includes reading music, scales and elemental music theory. Even for people who no longer play the instru... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukBirsan/Banks/Opie/Bergen PO and Choir/Davis (Chandos, 2 CDs) Continue reading...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukThe frontcloth to ENO’s new production of The Mastersingers of Nuremberg features a collage of 103 of the most famous cultural figures from the German-speaking world. How many can you name? And no, Wagner himself is not there. Click to e...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICALEven the most highly studied and trained music performers require a little overview before sitting down to play a piece from a legendary composer. It would seem silly for one to attempt to play the works of Chopin without any teaching or...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
Over the past decade, amazing feats have been achieved by teenagers in the realms of music, sports, technology and beyond. A Denver, CO teen now joins the list of young people doing incredible things that many spend their lives trying to... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
The last time that the piano was one of the best selling musical instruments in the world was the early 1900s, when over 360,000 were sold. Current statistics have piano sales annually at less than 50,000. Instrument makers and the store... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
Ask anyone of a certain generation to hum Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, and they’ll probably imagine something like Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Orchestra version that was played at President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s funeral in 1945. But ... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Slipped Disc
This is Andrew Haveron, concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, projected last night out of his seat and displayed on the roof of the opera house. The event was a Visions of Vienna concert, promoted by the Austrian tourist author... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music: The London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall Photo © Benjamin Ealovega The London Philharmonic Orchestra 's 2015/16 season, recently announced, sees principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski extending his contract to 2018 a...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsBoston-based Project LENS wants better rap for classical music Daily Free Press (subscription) Project LENS co-founder Rainer Crosett speaks at an event. The Boston-based music collective will host “The Myth of Modern Violence” with psyc...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Arts Desk Carducci String Quartet, St George's Hall Concert Room, Liverpool The Arts Desk If anything, this concert – part of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Music series - was all about Shostakovich. Described at the ou...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
This is not the first venture of writer-director Bernard Rose into the world of classical musicians’ lives: in 1994 Rose was responsible for Immortal Beloved, the Beethoven biopic starring Gary Oldman. The Devil’s Violinist, starring sup... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Say what you like about Regietheater directors, but they do try to keep up with the news. These pics are from I Masnadieri in Weimar. photos: Matthias Horn Now, where’s the nearest ISIS opera? -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The international cellist, forced to retire last April with a neck injury, is putting his 1690s ‘Barjansky’ beauty up for sale. On a UK tour of ‘An Evening with Julian Lloyd Webber’, he told the Birmingham Post: &... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukAs Bryn Terfel returns to the Royal Opera House as Wagner’s cursed Flying Dutchman, we list our other favourite musical ghosts. Tell us what we’ve missed in the comments section below. It’s no surprise that so much music has aspired to t...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
It’s often believed that classical music is only made in the 1900s or before, from experts like Chopin or Mozart. With the younger generations now starting to appreciate the classics, more composers and musical groups are taking a modern... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Th German violinist has lashed out at the minister-president of Bavaria, Horst Seehofer, for backing down on his promise of a new concert hall in her home town, Munich. ‘Zweifellos ist Seehofer wortbrüchig geworden,’ she tol... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Slipped Disc
We hear that the Met conductor James Levine will return to Europe for the first time in eight years next summer to perform at the Verbier Festival. Also on the festival agenda is a conducting debut by the retired baritone, Thomas Quastho... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The conductor was approached after his Met performance last night by members of the anti-Putin vigil. They said (by their own account): ‘Shame on you for supporting war and killings!’ Gergiev replied: ‘Who’s payin... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicStephen Cleobury and the choir of King's College, Cambridge Plainsong Vespers, plus music from the Eton Choirbook and the Old Hall manuscript; Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury; Kings Place Reviewed by Robert Hugill on...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Moves are afoot to rename Helsinki-Vantaa airport after the nation’s most famous personality. The family have given approval and the prime minister has privately endorsed it. The final decision rests with the board of Finnish Avia... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from JDCMBI had a wonderful interview with Bryn Terfel last week and it is in today's Independent, here . Bryn sings the lead in Der fliegende Holländer at Covent Garden , opening tonight. Here are a few bonus bits of the interview. Bryn on...Andr...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsWestern Wheel Classical musicians hit a high note Western Wheel Classical music is bringing High River area residents together yet again with a high-calibre concert this weekend. The talented Kang Mercer Park Trio will perform a variety ...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsAlaskastar Music students receive rare treat from classical pianist Alaskastar Edvinas Minkstimas, a Steinway artist and accomplished pianist hailing from Lithuania, stopped by the University of Alaska campus in Eagle River Jan. 30 for a...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from PlaybillArts.com"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" "… Practice. Or join Pink Martini."
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalPreview: Wagner Returns to Longborough Festival Opera in 2015 With its successful Ring Cycle in 2013, the Wagner bicentenary, Longborough Festival Opera has positioned itself as a Wagner production house of great merit. Wagner had a mu...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukIn our weekly tout of the hottest tickets just released, book now to see the best of Australian fashion, little kids bashing the glockenspiel and London’s favourite dance party boy in action Continue reading...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalNew Director For Teatro Colón (JSJ) In what was a surprise announcement, Teatro Colón director general and artistic director, Pedro Pablo García Caffi issued his resignation, almost 6 years to the day of his appointment and just a month ...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) perform Johann Strauss' waltz, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, to thousands of people around the Sydney Harbour foreshore and across the world. Performing a program of Viennese classics inside the concert ha...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSchubert: Takács Quartet [Edward Dusinberre & Károly Schranz (violins), Geraldine Walther (viola), András Féjer (cello)], Wigmore Hall London, 31. 1.2015 (CS) String Quartet Movement in C minor D.703 String Quartet in A Minor D.804 ...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsIstanbul Classical Music Festival program announced Daily Sabah The program for the 43rd Istanbul Classical Music Festival, which will take place between May 31 and June 29, was announced on Tuesday. The festival's director, Yeşim Gü...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Music and VisionHans Werner Henze's love for Italy, and 'Gisella!' in Palermo, by Giuseppe Pennisi
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Sinfini Music
A superb recital disc from Mark Padmore and friends -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Sinfini Music
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsArizona Daily Star (blog) Violinist is Pied Piper for classical music with social media Arizona Daily Star (blog) In videos posted on Instagram and YouTube, the Taiwan-born, Australia-raised, Philadelphia-implanted violinist pokes fun at...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: Well, the critics are not being kind so far to David Garrett in "The Devil's Violinist," the story of Niccolo Paganini, written and directed by Bernard Rose and just released last weekend in the U.S. The reviews are kind...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from - Classical RSS FeedGods. Murderers. Dictators. Ghosts. Bryn Terfel is used to playing them all, and more. The towering bass-baritone from north Wales, who turns 50 this year, is probably the best-loved figure in British opera today: gigantic in stature and...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukWhy brave the cold and go to the theatre, comedy cellar or concert hall? These days, for a growing army of arts lovers, the performers come to you Continue reading...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from PlaybillArts.comWhat shapes the breadth and scope of Cal Performances' programming?
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalLeclair, Marais, Telemann, Rameau, Handel: Amid the Charms of Nature, Juilliard415, Elizabeth Blumenstock (concertmaster), Jordi Savall (director), Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, 31.1.2015 (SSM) Jean-Marie Leclair: Overture...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Jewish Week N.Y. Phil Puts Israeli Classical Music In The Spotlight The Jewish Week In what is being described as a first, the New York Philharmonic will present a program of contemporary Israeli classical music by some of that count...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from opera, innit?Today I thought I’d go for a bit of Janáček – From the House of the Dead. There’s nothing wrong with it, just not the most exciting writing for the voice. If it were a symphony I’d think “the orchestration i...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Opera TodayArizona Opera presented Eugene Onegin during and 1999-2000 season and again on February 1 of this year as part of the 2014-2015 season. In this country Onegin is not a crowd pleaser like La Bohème or Carmen, but its story is believable a...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from parterre box
Karita Mattila is a gift to this planet. -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from The latest articles from OperavoreA staging of Richard Strauss's Salome at Northern Ireland Opera is causing controversy after the company decided to add nudity to the climactic "Dance of the Seven Veils." The nude scene amounts to a 10-second change to a 95-minute show,...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from The latest articles from OperavoreIn my first article of the year I resolved to find ways to get more people to the opera. In the process, I hope to have more input from readers. Many of you (whether you work in opera or are members of the audience) write to me privately...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1919 Mary Pickford , D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks launched United Artists. -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet on Huffington Post
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet on Huffington Post
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Ballet on Huffington Post
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsWant to see Les Misérables for £15? There are ways to get hold of cheap tickets for West End shows - and for performances outside the capital too
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Classical Ballet News
2015 Prix de Lausanne is under way and it looks exciting! This year’s contestants arrived at Lausanne on Monday, February 2 ready to learn and share their dancing skills. The week is practically half way gone. Here are the first th... -
Thursday, February 5, 2015 from BarihunksNicholas Lester (left) & Peter Brathwaite (photos from English Touring Opera) The English Touring Opera is kicking off their new Spring season with some barihunks in key roles. Peter Brathwaite, who has been a regular on this site an...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from BarihunksDavid Shipley British bass-barihunk David Shipley was one of five applicants out of 370, who were chosen to join the prestigious Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Applicants from 59 countries c...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Boulezian
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from The Ballet Bag
Maia Makhateli, principal with the Dutch National Ballet, comes from a true dance family. Her father runs a ballet school in the United States and... The post An Interview With DNB Principal Maia Makhateli appeared first on The Ballet Bag . -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from parterre box
Mariusz Trelinski will direct Tristan und Isolde for Metropolitan Opera in a production that will premiere there on opening night 2016. -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Pointe MagazineBarak working in the studio, Courtesy Anderson Group Public Relations
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Opera TodayAnita Rachvelishvili recently performed the title role in Carmen broadcast by The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD. Here she drops by for a little chat with our Maria Nockin.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from opera, innit?Go get yours (Wigmore Hall and Barbican). I started with booking for ladies Roschmann+Uchida (twice!), Mingardo and Invernizzi, all at Wigmore Hall in May-July then St Matthew’s Passion (at Easter) and Il ritorno d’Ulisse (th...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from The Opera TattlerSopranos Kathryn Bowden, Glastonbury, Connecticut Cree Carrico, Detroit, Michigan Amina Edris, Christchurch, New Zealand Madison Leonard, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Meredith Mecum, Hershey, Pennsylvania Toni Marie Palmertree, Fleetwood, Pennsy...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Superconductor
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from BarihunksSoloman Howard in Approaching Ali Bass-barihunk Soloman Howard just wrapped up a reprisal of his performance as boxing great Muhammad Ali in DJ Sparr's Approaching Ali with the North Carolina Opera. Howard sang in the world premiere of t...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Superconductor
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from parterre box
"Don’t bother with The Loft or The Boy Next Door : the most spine-chilling thriller currently playing isn’t on the screen of your local multiplex but on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera." -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1968 Golden Rainbow , starring Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé , opened at the Shubert Theater. -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Adult Ballerina ProjectThe idea for this post and brainstorming session is pretty much completely stolen from Philly Love Notes, a local blog here in Philadelphia. But since I know that I really needed to go through a similar thought process here on ABP, I fig...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from operaramblings
There’s 20cm of snow on the ground and more forecast. The groundhog consensus is a long winter. So, here are a few upcoming concerts and other events that may help get you through the rest of the winter. On February … Conti... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from operaramblings
Yesterday’s lunchtime concert in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre consisted of early works by Olivier Messiaen written for his wife, the violinist and composer Claire Delbos. The first piece was the Theme et variations for violin... -
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from BarihunksDmitri Hvorostovsky onstage and backstage for The Demon We have photos and we have the video!!! Yes, we have this sexy backstage photo of über-barihunk Dmitri Hvorostovsky as he readied for his role debut in Anton Rubinstein’s 1871...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Joyce DiDonatoIn addition to her highly anticipated performances at The Met in La Donna del Lago, Joyce DiDonato can be seen in recital and in concert this winter around the New York City metro area, beginning with a performance at Carnegie Hall as pa...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from We left at the interval...Lyric Opera, Chicago, Monday February 2 2015, -11° C Conductor: Dmitri Jurowski. Production: John Caird. Designer: Bunny Christie. Lighting: Duane Schuler. Tosca: Tatiana Serjan. Cavaradossi: Brian Jagde. Scarpia: Evgeny Nikitin. Angelot...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from BarihunksDavid Adam Moore in Winterreise at the Anchorage Opera Some of the most popular barihunks in the world will be headlining in a number of performances in the just announced 2015-16 Atlanta Opera season. David Adam Moore, who is currently ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsLang Lang, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Rudolph Buchbinder head Fergus Linehan's inaugural line-up
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from The Eyes Have ItBBC Radio’s Opera on 3 has several recent offerings which may be of interest if you are in the mood. They have been archived. Mezzo Kate Lindsey as Nicklausse in “Tales of Hoffmann.” (Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Ope...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1960 La Dolce Vita , directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg , premiered in Italy. -
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Operagasmby Melissa Wimbish Here’s an ad from the back pag […]
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from The Eyes Have ItMany of us are experiencing a spell of really cold weather at the moment. TIps for keeping warm … Image from The National Trust Wear a woolen coat and huddle together. ~~Filed under: uncategorised
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Ballet on Huffington Post
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Superconductor
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from Neil KurtzmanOn January 20 The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden mounted its first new production in 30 years of Giordano’s opera Andrea Chenier. The reason for the opera’s reappearance was Jonas Kaufmann’s initial performance of the...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from BarihunksRyan McKinny in Flying Dutchman rehearsals at Hawaii Opera Theater (far left and right ) and Glimmerglass (center) Back in June 2013 we ran some sexy photos from photographer Karli Cadel of barihunk Ryan McKinny in rehearsals for ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from parterre box
Thanks to La Cieca's extensive network of spies, she is able to present for your perusal, cher public, the proposal for the revival of the New York City Opera presented by the higher bidder for the company. -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from Opera TodayFlorian Boesch and Roger Vignoles at the Wigmore Hall in Ernst Krenek’s Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen. Matthias Goerne has called Hanns Eisler’s Hollywooder Liederbuch the Winterreise of the 20th century. Boesch and Vignoles s...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BarihunksTom Forde in Tosca (left) Tom Forde has been doing a little bit of everything lately. The last time we posted about him, he was taking time off from his ensemble work at the Zurich Opera to play the 7-11 clerk Omar in a Doritos commercia...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from parterre box
Defying a computer breakdown and an online outage, I fled to a smoky Iranian Internet café to upload this performance of Don Giovanni . It was worth the trouble. -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from BarihunksMichael Adams at a Barihunks lunch in Ft. Worth (left) Barihunk Michael Adams took top honors at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Gulf Coast regional finals held in New Orleans. The 24-year-old Texas native wowed the jud...
