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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Erin Keefe, concertmaster in Minnesota and newly married to its conductor Osmo Vanska, has told the New York Philharmonic to take her off its search list. Erin’s telling friends: ‘I’m lucky and fortunate to have such fa... -
Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The betting’s open on the next chief of the NY Philharmonic, but even at 50-1 you’d get few takers on an American contender. First, the last two music directors, Maazel and Gilbert, have been made in the USA. Time for change.... -
Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalFranck, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Ravel: Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Gilbert Varga (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 06.02.2015 (SRT) Franck: Les Éolides Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 Fauré: Elégie R...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalJanáček, Beethoven, Ravel, Prokofiev, Anthony Marwood (violin), Aleksandar Madžar (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 5.2.2015 (RB) Janáček – Violin Sonata Beethoven – Violin Sonata in C Minor Op 30 No. 2 Ravel – Violin Son...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Alan Gilbert will step down in mid-2017, after eight years in the job. The official release says he has timed his departure to coincide with the renovation of Lincoln Center, allowing the next chief to start in 2019 with a clean sheet. G... -
Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalHaydn, Beethoven, Mozart. Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Søndergård (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 5.2.2015 (PCG) Haydn – Symphony No 28 in A (1765) Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 1 in C, Op.1...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalScriabin, Prokofiev: Alisa Kolosova (mezzo-soprano), Sergey Skorokhodov (tenor), Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Riccardo Muti (conductor), Duain Wolfe (chorus director), Carnegie Hall, New York, 1.2.2015 (SSM) Scriabin: Symphony...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classics TodayThe great Donald Francis Tovey one sagely observed that a vogue for Mahler “will do us more good than Bruckner, because his mastery will discourage the cult of amateurishness, which keeps us contented with ignorance and ready to be...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Schumann's fertile imagination is allowed to roam free through pianist Boris Giltburg, says Geoffrey Norris
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
In 1999, famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma mistakingly left his $2.5 million Stradivarius in the trunk of a taxi cab. The incident sparked a hunt for the historic instrument, which was later returned to him. In 2014 a similar situation transpired w... -
Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsFalkirk Herald Classic Music Live! invites a true prodigy Falkirk Herald Classic Music Live! Falkirk is thrilled that such a prodigy will be performing in the town hall in its winter series of concerts. Yuanfan began learning piano aged ...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3John Kitchen casts his net wide, including Widor, Bach and a cheeky Clifton Hughes, says Geoffrey Norris
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
Many in the modern era mourn, what they perceive to be, the death of “classical” music. The illustrious swells of symphony, orchestral and magnificent are often tossed aside in favor of the more economical synthesizers that p... -
Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Music Genre: ClassicalThe new opera Everest tells the story of a real-life expedition on world's highest mountain — and the unforgiving blizzard that interrupted it.
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3North Ireland Opera's new production of Salome shows panache
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicValentin Molitor Epinicion Marianum ; Basler Madrigalisten, Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci; Pan Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jan 30 2015 Star rating: 4.0 Conservative but quirky motets from a 17th century Swiss monastery Valentin...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classical Life
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Nicely done, I think.
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicSwingle Singers A Cappella Festival; Swingle Singers, Anuna, Accent, Alexandre L'Estrange; Kings Place Reviewed by Hilary Glover on Jan 31 2015 Star rating: 5.0 All things a cappella at Kings Place, with workshops and concerts curated by...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from JDCMBRoyal Opera House, 5 February 2015. **** (This is my review for The Independent. It's not online at the site yet, but should be soon.) Adrianne Pieczonka as Senta, with the chorus of ghost sailors Photo: Clive Barda Before the opening ni...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsGreensboro News & Record Correction: Classical Music Concert Yuma Sun A photo caption in Friday's Yuma Sun gave the incorrect style of music planned for a concert Sunday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The 5 p.m. concert, featuri...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classics TodayThe second release in the Naxos Geirr Tveitt survey comprises two orchestral suites drawn from A Hundred Hardanger Tunes Op. 151. There are not–and never were–a full hundred, but what survives are four orchestral sets of 15 p...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classics TodayGeirr Tveitt composed five orchestral sets of Hardanger tunes, each containing fifteen pieces. Whether or not there were in fact ever a hundred written we will never know, and the Third Suite was among the works destroyed in the terrible...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalPacific Northwest Ballet, “Don Quixote”: Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky and Alexei Ratmansky (choreography and staging); Dutch National Ballet (production); Elizabeth Murphy, Seth Orza, Otto Neubert, Jonathan Porretta, Sarah Ricard Orz...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsOur debut @LiedCenter is sold out! Thank you, Lincoln, #Nebraska! Happy 25th Anniversary to @LiedCenter! #lied25 (Back to Chi. tonight)
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classics TodayGeirr Tveitt (1908-81), one of Norway’s most distinguished 20th century composers of the Romantic Nationalist school, suffered the most horrible tragedy than can befall an artist: His manuscripts, most of them unpublished, were bur...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsReady for Beethoven’s Fifth @LiedCenter with @josh_males http://www.liedcenter.org/event/chicago-symphony-orchestra … #music #Iied25 #LNK
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classics TodayYou have to give Howard Griffiths and his fine orchestra props for lavishing such care on this music, and the performance rating reflects that. Same for the sonics, which are terrific. Whether or not the effort is worth it you’ll have to...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Arts Desk Classical CDs Weekly: Strauss, Aurora Orchestra, Valerie Tryon The Arts Desk Mostly though, the music fizzes with youthful joie de vivre, the occasionally terse phrases and frequent metre changes sounding much more like lat...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Music and VisionOrchestral works by the young Bartók, heard by Gerald Fenech. '... performances are consistently exciting ...'
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsThe masterclass with Eugene Izotov (principal oboist of the Chicago Symphony) was a success. Let the weekend commence!
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsHere's my article on the happenings with the @chicagosymphony this new year for @Chicagoist http://chicagoist.com/2015/02/06/cso_to_ring_in_a_new_new_year_feb_1.php …
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsJakarta Sinfonietta Enlivens Classical Music Scene Jakarta Globe “Though the chamber orchestra still harks to its roots in Baroque music, our repertoire ranges from composers like Bach and Handel, to 20th-century classical musicians like...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicJoyce DiDonato A few days ago, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato popped into the Stonewall Inn , in New York and performed Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas . Yes, you did read that right; one of the greatest singers around today p...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets.@katewearedance welcomes guests from #JuilliardDance for 10th Anniversary Season @BAM_Brooklyn, 2/19-22 http://buff.ly/1EGzwtl
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTBooki ng for the 20-15 Aldeburgh Music Festival starts soon. Plan ahead.?Serious music values, properly marketed. Benjamin Britten believed that good music could speak for itself, and that audiences had the intelligence to rise to ...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News SourceAn audience member, dubbed ‘The Phantom […] The post Man Arrested at Vienna Opera For Moving to More Expensive Seats appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News S...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsWest Side Story from @SFSymphony and @Mtilsonthomas is nominated for BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM @TheGRAMMYs http://ow.ly/IDf0r
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsMake sure your better half knows much you care this #ValentinesDay. pic.twitter.com/kXlOOYqx14
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert will step down in 2017 after eight seasons, according to the New York Times . Photo by Michael J. Lutch Gilbert, 47, said that he wanted to allow a new music director to ...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsMy favourite line in Whiplash: 'There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job"'. Amen - I HATE that expression!
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets"Bach St. Matthew Passion" by Rene Jacobs, @Akamus, RIAS Kammerchor is also up for BEST CHORAL @TheGRAMMYs! http://ow.ly/IDNBD #GRAMMYs
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsWatched Whiplash on the plane home. Gave me lots of ideas for teaching techniques in the classes I give...!!!
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsGoodnight everybody, have a good weekend! pic.twitter.com/ILpj7ZQqZv
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets.@ConspirareTweet's "Sacred Spirit of Russia" is nominated for BEST CHORAL ALBUM at @TheGRAMMYs on Sunday! http://ow.ly/IDPbs #Grammys
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets“Love Will Keep Us Together” is on TONIGHT at 8pm! Tickets: http://ow.ly/Imq2g #VSOpops
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsKarg nominated for award: http://wigmore-hall.org.uk/news/wigmore-hall-live-release-nominated-for-bbc-music-magazine-award …
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsYou may have missed our New video if you've been living under a rock. (We're looking at you, Patrick...) http://bit.ly/1zXrsmR #amfs2015
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSibelius, Nielsen, Frances-Hoad, Taylor, Nicolson, Powers, Knotts. Fenella Humphreys (violin), Nicola Eimer (piano) Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. 4.2.2015 (LB) Sibelius– Five Pieces, Op. 81 Nielsen – So...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsStudents broaden their horizon with classical music KSWO LAWTON, Okla._More than 40 sixth-grade students from MacArthur and Central Middle School's Gifted and Talented program spent the afternoon listening to classical music at Camer...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Singer Myleene Klass writes exclusively about that Instagram post, parents' reactions in the playground - and why she believes children's birthdays should be about fun and family, not showmanship
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from opera, innit?One day in the not so distant feature we will get a make-your-own-adventure type of opera webcast (and later DVD) – where they have set cameras around the venue and you can watch what you want (within limits but at least not just t...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Superconductor
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsBAFTAS prep, Royal Opera House, London. #baftas #royaloperahouse #london #coventgarden #redcarpet http://instagram.com/p/yzkFB4lu1R/
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsDid you miss MACBETH last fall? Tune in today at 1:00pm ET for @MetOpera's matinee radio broadcast! http://ow.ly/ICoLP
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet Tweets#OnThisDay in 1786, Mozart’s #opera “Der Schauspieldirecktor” had its premiere
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsOur soloist @xanderparish debuts in the role of Prince Désiré in tonight’s The Sleeping Beauty at the Mariinsky II: http://fb.me/4rYLbL1sL
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsMemory and Reckoning continues with events throughout February. For a full schedule & tickets, visit http://lyricopera.org/memory .
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsTONIGHT at the "Opera Tampa 20th Anniversary Gala" we will honor the incomparable Sherrill Milnes with the "2015... http://fb.me/3wPS3xCbd
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsCome on out to see us at @cobbenergypac! Our friendly staff will be happy to answer any qu… http://ift.tt/1C6Bcss pic.twitter.com/L7jY6qOdnM
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsCome on out to see us at @cobbenergypac! Our friendly staff will be happy to answer any questions.… http://instagram.com/p/yza95zSc3V/
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsAnxious little hands. #prix2015 #Pasdechat pic.twitter.com/0VoE3amHTt
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsAurora awaits. #prix2015 #Pasdechat pic.twitter.com/hbKrhxQXuB
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsLast performance in Beijing tonight! #ballet http://instagram.com/p/yzZNyCKm_q/
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet Tweets#OnThisDay in 1907, Massenet’s #opera “Therese” had its premiere
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsGiselle is with us in Lausanne! #prix2015 #Pasdechat pic.twitter.com/DqWoWwT8NZ
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsNEW on devantagepoint! Gen. Director @ddevan travels to @industryopera + to @TheDallasOpera! http://devantagepoint.tumblr.com/post/110168844749/opera-elsewhere … pic.twitter.com/n1xnc99yWy
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsVote for your favorite finalist of the #prix2015! https://prixdelausanne.wufoo.eu/forms/the-audience-favourite-prix-du-public/ … pic.twitter.com/WnIgckumBI
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from All4balletIt’s that time of year already where at The Royal Ballet School we start to prepare for our annual dance assessments. The exams will take place in just over a month and we will be appraised in classical, variation, pas … Continue r...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from parterre box
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsNorth Ireland Opera's new production of Salome shows panache
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Angela Gheorghiu fan blogFor the first time Down Under. Sydeny Opera House in Sydney, Australia, will welcome Angela Gheorghiu for a recital on October 8, 2015. She will be accompanied by pianist Alexandru Petrovici. Tickets will go on sale on February 16,...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Regie, or Not Regie?We can still see the Glyndebourne Rosenkavalier for a few more weeks at concert.arte.tv . It will be gone soon. Not today or tomorrow, but well...March 2. So if you haven't seen it, do make time to do so. Or watch it again—...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from BarihunksHonorary Barihunk Joyce DiDonato Joyce DiDonato is one of only three non-baritones to be bestowed "Honorary Barihunk" status and for good reason. The latest is her recent performance at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in honor of Mark...
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from BarihunksNathan Milholin, Anthony Schneider, Jared Bybee and Michael Adams (L-R) The Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia is kicking off a twelve day run of Puccini's La bohème featuring four barihunks who all recently shined in the Metropolitan...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Regie, or Not Regie?Another Clemenza di Tito ? YAY! It looks like an interesting production, in which I am certain " ...dans lequel on ne s'ennuie pas une seconde… " Of course, no opera lover I know could ever be bored w...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Superconductor
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Joyce DiDonatoCarnegie Hall Brentano String Quartet Zankel Hall
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Pointe MagazineBenjamin Millepied announced his first full season of Paris Opéra Ballet programming on Wednesday with a monumental coup: William Forsythe will join the company as associate choreographer. Lately, Forsythe has been largely absent from th...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from BarihunksBass-barihunk Chris Webb Chris Webb is new to our site and part of a group of young singers that the U.K.'s Opera Lyrica is taking on two tours of Britain. The singers will perform in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas , as well as Blow's Venus a...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Ballet on Huffington Post
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from The Eyes Have ItThe weather here in the deep south of England is typical of February. Freezing ( well, relatively, especially if you are reading this and live in parts of Europe or the US! ) in the morning, sunny spells throughout the day and the odd un...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from parterre box
" Aida to help bring an end to Sarasota Opera's Verdi Cycle" -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Opera TodayTristan first appeared on the stage of the Théâtre du Capitole in 1928, sung in French, the same language that served its 1942 production even with Wehrmacht tanks parked in front of the opera house.
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1649 the claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland was declared King of Great Britain by the Parliament of Scotland. -
Friday, February 6, 2015 from Operagasmby Melissa Wimbish Are you tired of paying fees to acce […]
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Adult Ballerina ProjectThis week’s profile is of Jessica Bloxom. Read on to hear why she picked up ballet in December! When did you start doing ballet as an adult? I’m 31, and I just started December 2014. Did you ever take lessons as a kid? I took...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsBryn Terfel and Andris Nelsons team up for a rewarding revival of Wagner's masterpiece, says Rupert Christiansen
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Friday, February 6, 2015 from Angela Gheorghiu fan blogThat's new x 3. New place, new company, new program. Angela Gheorghiu and guitar player Milos Karadaglić will be great together! Pieces by Dowland, Schubert, French songs, popular Italian, Spahish, Napolitan and Brazilian songs... Put it...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from singer for all seasonsAs it is really freezing outdoors, with patches of snow here and there and a white Sainte Victoire in the background, these two concerts on Saturday are fantastic. At 2pm on BR Klassik: Anja Harteros! ( Demanding programme, certain...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from Superconductor
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 from BarihunksKevin Thompson returns to the SF Bay Area as Osmin Bass-barihunk Aaron Sørensen just wrapped up a successful run singing his first Osmin in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Houston Symphony. Now it's Kevin Thompson's turn ...
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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
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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...
