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2 hrs ago | BroadwayWorld.com

Broadway Couple Nikki Renee Daniels and Jeff Kready Welcome a Baby Girl

According to posts on their Facebook pages, Broadway couple Nikki Renee Daniels and Jeff Kready welcomed a baby girl, Lena Renee Kready, into the world at 6:58 this morning.

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Related Topix: Theater, Porgy and Bess, Arts, Musical Theater, University of Cincinnati, Red Bank, NJ

6 hrs ago | Brandon Sun

Renowned Newfoundland tenor heads home for Festival 500 choral showcase

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Tenor David Pomeroy's star is still rising on the international opera stage but he traces an already acclaimed career back to Saturday mornings at his grandfather's house in St. John's, N.L. "He would sit at the piano and I would sing 'I Dream of Jeannie ' and these old songs," said Pomeroy.

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Related Topix: Canada, Arts, Comedy, I Dream of Jeannie, Entertainment, Television, Luciano Pavarotti, Pavarotti, Classical

9 hrs ago | Scotsman.com

Tiffany Jenkins: Guerilla opera unexpected and special

FOLLOWING a suggestion from a woman handing out chocolate love hearts on the street, at the weekend a friend and I wandered into the foyer of the City Art Centre; an Edinburgh gallery with a strong collection of Scottish art and a rather nice exhibition of fashion photography.

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Related Topix: Arts, New Zealand Travel, Travel, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Travel, United Kingdom Travel, Pacific Travel, Edinburgh, New Zealand Travel, Europe Travel, Photography, Music, Entertainment

11 hrs ago | Gay Times

Review: Death in Venice

The world of classical music and opera is celebrating the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten - arguably this country's finest composer - with a year long festival, aptly entitled Britten 100.

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Related Topix: Arts, Britten, Classical, Benjamin Britten, Gay/Lesbian

15 hrs ago | Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Combined Sacramento Opera, Philharmonic hope to draw larger audience

An avant-garde classical concert at a nightclub, an opera production at the Crocker Art Museum – these are a couple of ways that the soon-to-be-merged Sacramento Opera and Sacramento Philharmonic are trying to draw in more families and a larger audience for the 2013-2014 season.

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, Arts

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Chicago Tribune

Lyric Opera signs off on busiest season ever

Lyric Opera's unprecedented effort this past season to make itself more generally relevant and to provide what general director Anthony Freud calls "a broader, deeper cultural service to more people around the city" appears to have paid off.

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater, Entertainment

BroadwayWorld.com

Photo Flash: First Look at Long Beach Opera's MACBETH

An overwhelming lust for power, a manipulative wife, and witches' prophecies spur a Scottish general onto a tragic path of betrayal, murder and madness.

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Related Topix: Arts, Classical, Ernest Bloch, San Pedro, CA

Danville Weekly

Using X-Rays, Scientists uncover 200-year-old opera ending

One of the biggest mysteries about the opera "Medee" by late 18th-century composer Luigi Cherubini is why its last few pages are blacked out with charcoal.

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Related Topix: Arts, Pop/Rock, The X-Rays, Cherubini, Opera, Classical, Luigi Cherubini, World News, Germany

East Anglian Daily Times

Aldeburgh Festival: Opera buffs treated to stunning sunset

Those lucky enough to get an early look at a unique outdoor production of an opera were given an extra treat - a stunning sunset backdrop to add an extra element of drama to the spectacle.

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Related Topix: United Kingdom, Suffolk County, England, Arts

A Fool in the Forest

Who'll Stop the Thane? [Ernest Bloch: Macbeth, Long Beach Opera]

The Scottish play.There is always occasion for another production of the Scottish play, and on this occasion the occasion is Long Beach Opera 's season-ending staging of the U.S. professional premiere of Ernest Bloch 's 1906 operatization of-let's just say it and have done- Macbeth .

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Related Topix: Arts, Classical, Ernest Bloch, Long Beach, CA

Bloomberg

Gershwin Fan Stages Limited Run of Mini Jazz Opera at Harlem's Cotton Club

Eric Einhorn at the Cotton Club, after a rehearsal for his co-production of George Gershwin's "Blue Monday."

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Related Topix: Arts, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY, Theater

Arts Journal

How to save opera from rogue directors, by Lorin Maazel

The venerable maestro has published two diatribes on his Facebook Maestro page against the spread of radical Regieoper.

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Related Topix: Arts

The Independent

Britten's Coronation tribute at last? A crowning moment for Gloriana at the Royal Opera House

Benjamin Britten's 1953 opera was a Coronation tribute that went badly wrong - but perhaps a revival at the site of its disastrous premiere could rescue it yet, says Jessica Duchen Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature.

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Related Topix: Arts, Elizabeth Ii, Europe, World News, United Kingdom

BlogTO

Radar: Verdi vs. Wagner, 2013 Trillium Book Award Readings, The Cave Singers, Get Your Fit Together

Luminato Presents: Evening Illuminations - Verdi vs. Wagner: A Love Story? A favorite TO festival, Luminato, is now in full swing! Tonight, as part of the festival's Evening Illuminations series, a special group discussion comparing and contrasting two composers: Verdi and Wagner.

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Related Topix: Giuseppe Verdi, Opera, Richard Wagner, Arts

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Examiner.com

A grand operatic design worthy of Hector Berlioz' epic treatment of Virgil

There is very little that French composer Hector Berlioz created that could not be characterized by the adjective "epic."

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Related Topix: Classical, Berlioz, Hector Berlioz, Arts

The Des Moines Register

Birdus Operatus

Last summer when the Des Moines Metro Opera announced its three shows for the 2013 season, you could almost hear the chatter spread to the opera world's outer branches.

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Related Topix: Arts, Indianola, IA, Des Moines, IA, Simpson College, Computers

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

SF Opera takes on provocative new work in 'Magdalene'

In this country, commissioning an opera offering an unconventional take on the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene might be seen as a bold move.

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Related Topix: Arts

Nova News Now

Opera performance coming to Wolfville

The Maritime Concert Opera will present a concert version of Donazetti's l'Elisir d'Amore or the Elixir of Love in Wolfville on June 18. Acadia music graduate Katie Cochrane will be taking part.

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Related Topix: Arts

The Des Moines Register

Des Moines Metro Opera's 41st season: At a glance

More than 200 artists and technicians flocked to the Simpson College campus last month to prepare for the 41st season of the Des Moines Metro Opera.

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Related Topix: Arts, Simpson College, Theater

GPB.org

Burning Down The House: Artistic Freedom Under Fire In Egypt

Egyptian employees of the Cairo Opera House and opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi hold placards during a demonstration inside the opera's compound in Cairo on May 30, following the dismissal of the head of the opera house.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Egypt, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Mohamed Morsi, Arts, Muslim Brotherhood, Theater