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updated: Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:56 am

Opera News

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2 hrs ago | Inside Bay Area

Lively Arts by Margot Abbott

LIVERMORE VALLEY OPERA is offering a challenging but fun season with two operas based on the same source, the 18th century play "The Marriage of Figaro." In October, you'll meet Figaro and Susanna, Rosina and ...

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Related Topix: Rossini, Arts, Opera, Classical, Mozart, Entertainment

Sat Jul 19, 2008

CBS 2 - KCAL 9

Calling Opera Afficionados! Free Show In Riverside

Classics by Bizet, Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan will sound throughout the Cesar Chavez Community Auditorium in Riverside today, as teenagers and adults who attended the city's first operatic workshop perform ...

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Related Topix: Gilbert and Sullivan, UC Riverside, University of California System, Riverside, CA, Arts, Opera, Austin (University of Texas System), University of Texas System

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Palm Beach Post

Palm Beach Opera satisfies starved fans with summer show

The opera season doesn't start for another five months. We're still in the midst of the summer doldrums, for heaven's sake.

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Related Topix: Palm Beach, FL, Theater, Arts, Opera, Puccini, Classical, Mozart

Country Life Online

Country mouse on country opera

The noise that you here in the countryside is almost entirely machine made except for this time of year when strains of Bizet and Puccini can be heard for it’s the season of country-house opera Thursday, ...

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Related Topix: Puccini

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Seattle Opera names Artists of the Year

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and set designer Thomas Lynch have been named Seattle Opera Artists of the Year.

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Related Topix: Bellini

Thu Jul 17, 2008

XtraMSN Real Estate

Paris Opera brings avant garde operatic productions to Japan

The Paris Opera is bringing modern productions of the Western operatic repertoire to Japan in a tour of unprecedented size set against the backdrop of 150 years of Franco-Japanese relations.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, Asia, Arts, Opera, Richard Wagner

Peoples Republic of South Devon

Opera - Donna-Marie Hughes

Donna-Marie Hughes adores singing. Lee Morgan talked to her about her voice, her career and Rigoletto, which kicks off with New Devon Opera tomorrow from the Royal William Yard, Plymouth - Singing is the ...

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Related Topix: Maria Callas, Callas, World News, United Kingdom, Arts, Opera,

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Lovely County Citizen

Opera in the Ozarks -- 'the perfect venue' for La Boheme

La Boheme's stage director at Opera in the Ozarks, Amy Axelson, received post-graduate training at the Second City Training Center in Chicago in Improvisational Comedy.

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Related Topix: Puccini, Arts, Opera

Inside Bay Area

Festival Opera dazzles with well-cast 'Il Trovatore"

It would seem obvious from the get-go that an opera called "Il Trovatore" would have to have a really talented singer in the title role to lay claim to any success at all.

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Related Topix: Giuseppe Verdi, Arts, Opera

Chicago Tribune

Alan Stone, founded Chicago Opera Theater

Alan Stone adored singers and singing and was in the thick of opera practically all his life.

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Related Topix: Meyerbeer, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Musical Theater, Arts, Hodgkins, IL, Lymphoma, Health, Entertainment

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Philly.com

Opera's looking good in Princeton this summer

For all of this community's affluence, superb venues, and ample IQ points, opera hasn't been the most dependable presence here, though this fifth season of Opera New Jersey may be a positive turning point.

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Related Topix: Rossini, New Jersey, Arts, Opera, Entertainment

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Los Angeles Times

Opera review: 'Carmen' at the Hollywood Bowl

'Carmen' is not new to the Hollywood Bowl . On July 8, 1922, three days before the first season of 'Symphonies Under the Stars,' the Los Angeles Philharmonic, itself only 3 years old, mounted a lavish ...

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Related Topix: Denyce Graves, Arts, Opera, Entertainment

National Public Radio

Death in Venice: Verdi's 'I Due Foscari'

The plaza of San Marco in Venice, seen from the Grand Canal, is a setting for both Verdi's opera, and the dark bit of history that inspired it.

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Related Topix: Giuseppe Verdi, Arts, Opera, Italy, World News,

Sun Jul 13, 2008

Whittier Daily News

It should be a hot night with Pasadena Pops

Pasadena Pops Orchestra Descanso Gardens 1418 Descanso Drive La Canada Flintridge 7 tonight; gates open at 5:30 p.m. $20-$90 793-7172, Ext.

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Related Topix: La Canada Flintridge, CA, Classical, Chopin, Pasadena, CA, Wagner

Sat Jul 12, 2008

The Norman Transcript

Cimarron Circuit Opera Company's 'Rogues, Rhythm and Romance' takes...

Cimarron Circuit Opera is trying something new with its summer production of "Rogues, Rhythm and Romance: An Evening of Grand Operetta." "This is the first time CCOC has tried anything like this," said director ...

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Related Topix: Musical Theater, Theater, Arts, Victor Herbert, Entertainment

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Philip Hensher looks at opera's obsession with witches

From Purcell to Wagner to Sondheim, opera-makers have never been able to resist a witch.

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Related Topix: Purcell, Classical, Wagner, Arts, Opera

Boston Globe

From Germany, an opera engulfed by shadows of war

In Theodor Adorno's famous dictum, writing poetry "after Auschwitz" was a barbaric notion, but what about opera after the war? The genre was pronounced dead by modernists who wanted a clean break from the past.

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Related Topix: Classical, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Alban Berg, Arts, Opera, Music, Entertainment

Fri Jul 11, 2008

Pacific Sun

Golden Gate Opera to perform Mozart at AMADEUS opener July 19

Marin Shakespeare Company opening of "Amadeus" The music of Mozart will be celebrated Saturday, July 19 at opening night festivities of Marin Shakespeare Company's production of AMADEUS, Peter Shaffer's ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Classical, Mozart, Salieri

USA Today

Critic's Corner weekend

Here's yet one more thing we can blame on the writers' strike. Surely had CBS not been terrified that it would run out of product, it would not have imported the Canadian cop show Flashpoint , a cut-rate ...

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Related Topix: Gilbert and Sullivan

Scoop

Southern Opera Getting Ready To Tour Again

Friday, 11 July 2008, 3:08 pm Press Release: Solid Energy NZ MEDIA RELEASE – July 2008 Following a highly successful inaugural tour, the Solid Energy Ensemble of Southern Opera is gearing up for its ...

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Related Topix: Puccini, Arts, Opera, Symphony, New Zealand, World News

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