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More Opera Singers Take The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
In case you missed the first round of opera folks taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, click here. Enjoy the new editions of Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ildar Abdrazakov, Deborah Sasson, and Katherine...
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First Look At BAM's Transgender Opera Featuring Husband And Wife
Stage director Kenneth Cazan, librettist and filmmakerKimberly Reed, and performers Sasha Cooke and KellyMarkgraf in rehearsal for As One.(Photo: Stefano Giovannini/Brooklyn Daily)"Opening minds is a...
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iTunes Festival Recruits Plácido Domingo As Closing Among Pop Stars
"Opera singer Placido Domingo has joined Kasabian and Kylie Minogue in the line-up for this year's iTunes Festival. The Spanish tenor is perhaps a surprising choice for the event, which tends to...
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"Zombieland" Rule #32: Genießen Sie die kleinen Dinge
"A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, and a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the Last Twinkie and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a...
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Patricia Petibon Gets Eccentric In A Very French Way For DG
"With this new record, soprano Patricia Petibon makes a welcome return to French repertoire on disc, exploring the fascinating world of French art song in this extraordinary new album, titled La Belle...
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Rock Opera Offers New Telling Of The Psyche And Eros Story
Cast members (left to righ): Katie Kitani, Ashley Ruth Jones, Benai Alicia Boyd, Cindy Sciacca and Michael Starr. (Photo: Barry Weiss)"For Western culture, the story of Psyche and Eros exists as a kind...
View ArticleDanish Symphony Orchestra Reacts To Fabio Luisi Announcement
"Fabio Luisi has been appointed Principal Conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, who died earlier this year. Luisi is currently Principal Conductor...
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Phase 4 Stereo Revival: Eileen Farrell, Marilyn Horne & Robert Merrill
Decca Classics is scheduled to release a 41-CD box set of its Phase 4 Stereo recordings that will feature 11 first international CD releases. Choosing from over 200 albums dating back as early as 1964...
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A Perfect Gift For The (Loud) Opera Singer In Your Life
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View ArticleRossini Has As Much "Go Power" As Cheerios Oats From GM
"Many television commercials for Cheerios have targeted children featuring animated characters (such as an animated Honeybee). Bullwinkle was featured in early 1960s commercials; being his usual...
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San Francisco Gala Beauty Captured By Photographer Jason Henry
With couture by Lela Rose, Tom Ford, Pierre Cardin, Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci, Badgley Mischka, Marchesa, Herve Leger, and Oscar de la Renta, dominating the scene at the 2014 San Francisco Opera...
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Operatic Connections Run Deep For "The Strain" On FX Networks
More menacing than Vincent Price: Jonathan Hyde as Stoneheart Group CEO Eldritch Palmer. But where did this character get his name?"The Strain is an American vampire horror–drama television series that...
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What The Deaths Of Magda Olivero & Licia Albanese Mean For Opera
The latin term trado has been translated into a multitude of definitions: to hand over, give up, deliver, transmit, surrender, impart, entrust, confide, leave behind, bequeath, propound, propose,...
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Pavarotti Slept Here: Purchase Luciano's New York Luxury Apartment
The late tenor seen here in 1996 leaving Hampshire House"A spacious two-bedroom co-op at the Hampshire House that captivated the Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti some 30 years ago with its treehouse...
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Callas And Tebaldi Still Rivals Thanks To Their Record Labels
In the 1950s, two sopranos reigned supreme at the premiere opera houses of the world: Renata Tebaldi and Maria Callas. There was overlapping repertoire between the artists and both sang in many of the...
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Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg Would Love To Be A Great Diva
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg marries Michael Kaiser, formerpresident of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and his partner John Roberts in August 2013."People seeking clues about how...
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Ildar Abdrazakov Gets His Close-Up In Vanity Fair Magazine
Abdrazakov in St. Petersburg (Photo: Jason Bell)"It could almost be the plot of an opera: a dark, dashing descendant of both Genghis Khan and Tamerlane appears and sweeps all before him. But in the...
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Renata Tebaldi Museum Open In Villa Pallavicino Stables
"After the great singer died in San Marino in 2004, her long-time factotum, Ernestina Viganò, destined her legacy to the Renata Tebaldi Committee (soon to become a Foundation) and its president,...
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"Don Giovanni" Gets Decoded In ABC's "Scandal"
Musical Scandal: Harrison (Columbus Short), Olivia (Kerry Washington),and Huck (Guillermo Díaz), decode the operatic message.Season 2 - Episode 6: "A man rushes down the sidewalk to hand over a package...
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