Latest and Breaking Opera and Ballet News and Top Stories - July 3
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So, if the opening of the Met season is canceled, Anna Netrebko can always find work as a replacement Yitzhak on Broadway.
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All hail the queen of GREAT music https://twitter.com/UKinGermany/status/484724383991476225 Filed under: Newsworthy Tagged: Katherine Jenkins, shabby
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Today we have announced three new artistic staff will be joining us to teach at the School from September 2014. Carol-Anne […] The post We announce three new members of our teaching faculty appeared first on Royal Ballet School .
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When I was coming up, my family schooled me in opera and classical music, but also made sure I experienced extraordinary performers in all fields. I saw most of the great Broadway stars of the 1960s and also heard many of the top musicia...
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Almost every professional dancer has paid her dues in the corps de ballet. It can be the most rigorous years of a dancer’s life, requiring strength and endurance to function as the backbone of the company. In this video of American Balle...
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Vanessa Bousay aka Erik Chalfant San Francisco's local classical music station KDFC held a contest called the "Star Spangled Sing-Off" with the winner performing the national anthem at the live simulcast of the San Francisco Opera's La T...
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by Christie Connolley Are you tired of paying fees to a […]
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by Melissa Wimbish Are you tired of paying fees to acce […]
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Four stunning operas. Four aspects of love. Some […]
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Whilst on a reading spree on Regie, or Not Regie? I came across a post about this book. You can imagine it took me about an eyeblink to order it (used but in excellent condition, from an independent seller, at about 1/2 the Amazon price)...
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Posted by Melissa Wimbish (via Madcap Review) 23 Questi […]
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by Melissa Wimbish Loving these pictures of composers c […]
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The most obvious feature of Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s Pelléas et Mélisande is the use of dummies to double up the characters. Much of the time these doubles are lying around or being pushed around the set wheelchairs by the singers. M...
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This was a search engine term that lead someone to my site the other day. As it’s so awfully specific, I thought I’d give it its own post. Especially since I last gave the wrong info on the subject and then was too lazy to re...
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Opening the treasure chest… As Minnie in Puccini's La Fanciulla del West As Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlo As Mathilde in Rossini's Guillaume Tell As Norma in Bellini's Norma As Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale As Aida in Verdi's Aida...
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What does it take to play Mozart's rakish seducer?
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With Cinderella opening in Adelaide tomorrow, we’re looking back to the immense creative forces that went into the making of this remarkable production. Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, Designer Jerôme Kaplan, the dancers and our wa...
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This was a problem I had during my years of training, and I know I’m not alone: You feel as if your knees are completely straight, yet your teacher keeps asking you to straighten them; they look bent! What do you do? How Do I Get M...
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Our Own Dawn Fatale (artist's conception) will take to the airwaves of Bloomberg Radio this evening at 9:00 pm to discuss the Met's current woes.
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*With a bonus mezzo. Because there should always be a mezzo. Thomas Hampson : Richard Strauss Orchestral Songs Gerald Finley : Schubert and Liszt Lieder Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender and his lovely daughter Brigitte, who is kind of an...
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‘Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,/ Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend/ More than cool reason ever comprehends.’
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Belgian soprano Sophie Karthäuser has a rich range of vocal resources upon which to draw: she has power and also precision; her top is bright and glinting and it is complemented by a surprisingly full and rich lower register; she can cha...
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Äneas Humm on his US/European tour Swiss television station SRF will feature a profile of Swiss wunderkind Äneas Humm at 21:40 on July 6th. If you're not in Switzerland, we'll be posting information about the recorded video, which will b...
