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Under a brilliant Texas sun, Dallasa s wealthiest arts patrons -- among them oilman Bruce Calder, mergers and acquisitions super-lawyer Hal Brierley and art collector and philanthropist John Dayton -- thronged the citya s fantastic new opera palazzo on Friday night for the premiere of its inaugural production, Verdia s a oeOtello.a Many women wore ...

SINGING Handel's Messiah with a shocking mohican haircut perhaps isn't the typical path towards a successful career in opera, but Alice Coote's punk phase did give her a taste for the theatrical.

It's the American dream for any girl who craves the spotlight - a rags-to-riches story, an overnight success, a star is born on the Great White Way in one transcendent performance.

Late in the second act of Rossini's "Tancredi," Ewa Podles lets forth a prolonged F below middle C - a note of such visceral power and purity that its resonance seems to pin the audience back in their seats.

West Wittering soprano Lisa Swayne will be helping Opera South celebrates its silver jubilee at its Trafalgar Night extravaganza, Sing A Song Of Empire on Saturday, October 24 at Branksome Place, Hindhead Road, Haslemere.

Craig Revel Horwood has taken some liberties with Gilbert and Sullivan's hit musical, but his new version of the Hot Mikado provides an evening of great fun and delightfully zany routines.

The return of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine after back surgery has been delayed a second time.

Verdi saw the stuff of great literature for an opera when he first encountered Victor Hugo's failed play, 'Le roi s'amuse.' For a near-capacity audience Saturday night at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, the mournful opening notes of the trumpets probably tempted viewers to surmise that it was not going to turn out warm and fuzzy, and ...

A dramatic performance of Verdi's Otello opened the Dallas Opera's season on Friday night.

ROSSINI was only 21 when he wrote The Italian Girl in Algiers, a heady will-they-won't-they saga centred on the love life of the rich and powerful Mustafa, a story ripe for modernisation.

By ALAN PEPPARD / / The Dallas Morning News / apeppard@dallasnews.com apeppard@dallasnews.com Though the late Bill Winspear would have loved last week's grand opening at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, he wrote that $42 million check because he was an opera fan who wanted to liberate the Dallas Opera from Fair Park Music Hall.

The Young People's Opera Society of B.C. - " which, in earlier presentations, has explored the realms of fantasy and celebrated B.C. history - " will take audiences on a trip to the early days of the opera with its upcoming production, The Faerie Queene, at Surrey Arts Centre Oct.

Mark Kanny can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7877. Everyone ends up laughing in Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff." One of opera's mere handful of genuinely funny comic operas, it was the improbable farewell to the stage of the master of Italian operatic tragedy.

At 68, he's past the usual retirement age, but Placido Domingo is still adding to a remarkable resume that includes tenor, conductor and opera administrator.

At a time when many arts and performance organizations are contracting, Rochester Aria Group is expanding as it prepares for an 11th season of presenting opera selections in Rochester.

Ewa Podles, here at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, finally makes her Boston operatic stage debut this week in Rossini's "Tancredi.'' When Ewa Podles sings, people listen.

When the Michigan Opera Theatre opens its season with Giuseppe Verdi's "Nabucco" on Saturday, an Ypsilanti native and and Ann Arbor native will be part of the cast.

The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Friday 16th of October 2009 DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT - " A Hit for SF Opera 15 October 2009 By SeA n Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment is not among the great ...

The return to the podium of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine has been delayed about a week.

Meredith Arwady plays The Marquise of Berkenfeld in the San Francisco Opera's production of Donizetti's "The Daughter of the Regiment" at the War Memorial Opera House in San Franicsco, Calif.

Conductor David Stahl is leaving daily direction of South Carolina's Charleston Symphony Orchestra after 25 years as music director.

Spanish tenor Placido Domingo on Tuesday received the first ever $1 million dollar Birgit Nilsson award at a formal award ceremony in Stockholm.

Giuseppe Verdi's opera classic "Macbeth" was chosen as the opening performance for the 12th Beijing International Music Festival over the weekend.

Operating on a tight budget, it must be difficult for opera companies to come up with economic ideas for staging Rigoletto ; Renaissance settings don't come cheap, and young singers usually require a decent rehearsal period if their body language and mannerisms are to be believable in the period setting.

Indiana University Opera Theater continues its 2009-10 season with the timeless Romo et Juliette, by Charles Gounod , opening Oct.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2009. There are 82 days left in the year.

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Richard Wagner began work on his opera Die Meistersinger von N in 1845. The libretto went through many drafts and was not completed until 1862, while the opera did not premiere until June 21, 1868 in Munich.

In a city whose music scene is best known for grunge, these days it's the sweet sound of opera that is filling the streets.

Silverman, Mike - This Sept. 17, 2009 file photo shows Marcelo Alvarez, center, performing as Caravadossi alongside Karita Mattila, right, performing the title roll and George Gagnidze, left, performing as Scarpia during the final dress rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Singer and songwriter Rufus Wainwright is known for navigating the border between classical and pop.

THE HOGHTON Players Gilbert and Sullivan Society is looking for new members. The group, who are preparing for their forthcoming production, 'HMS Pinafore', will host a special introductory evening on Monday, October 12 at the Scarisbrick New Road Baptist Church Hall from 8pm.

In this Jan. 16, 2006 file photo, Beverly Sills smiles during a ceremony at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Saturday October 10 2009 TOSCA Luc Bondy in his house debut, starring Karita Mattila in her first performance of the title role outside her native Finland, and Marcelo A lvarez as Cavaradossi.

SHE will be going on tour with some of the world's top opera stars - " joining a cast thrilling high-brow audiences from London to Belfast in a new version of a tragic love story sung entirely in French.

Italian conductor Daniele Gatti arrived in New York from Japan 1 1/2 weeks ago to lead "Aida" at the Metropolitan Opera, his first appearance there since 1995.

DERBY Gilbert And Sullivan Company will be presenting two of the most popular operettas from the duo's back catalogue at Derby Theatre.

The estate of famed soprano Beverly Sills is headed to the auction block in New York City.

YEOVIL Amateur Operatic Society will be taking to the stage of the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil on Monday with its latest production - " The Gondoliers.

Bourbon Street _ where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock 'n' roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes _ is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard.