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Italy has long been a part of celebrated Korean soprano Sumi Jo s life. Now, Italy has recognized Jo for her contributions to opera with the International Puccini Prize Italy is where I studied opera and also ...

Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer, who made her career at Italy's La Scala, has died in Milan, two opera houses said Saturday. via PR-inside.com

“Even if in her finals years she was not able to go on stage, she became a leader for Turkish opera stars and trained them”

Soprano Leyla Gencer, who made her career at Italy's famed La Scala opera house, has died in Milan, officials said Saturday. via MyTELUS

“I shall never forget the beauty of that sound”

How could he? , they seem to say. In obituary after obituary, one reads how tenor Guiseppe di Stefano squandered his voice. via Stereophile

“I am so chuffed with this because it is a case where the winemaking served the vineyard. But the amount of bloody heartache that went with this wine...”

Bannockburn's new winemaker aims high, writes Jane Faulkner. COLLECTING shoes and listening to opera. via The Age

“The effect was stunning. I like those kinds of ideas, where you touch an audience in unexpected ways.”

Chris Alexander has spent a lifetime in the straight and lyric theater but never staged Puccini's great melodrama "Tosca" until Speight Jenkins, general director of Seattle Opera, asked him to. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

VERDI'S wondrous opera "Otello" grabs you by the throat from the start and never lets go until those immeasurably moving, final tugs at the heart as the Shakespearean tragedy of murderous yet heroically ... via New York Post

Under Byen, which translates to "under the city," is a band from Denmark. Their sound is hypnotic and drifts into a dreamy stratosphere, simply beautiful. via The Huffington Post

Soloist Cheryl Barker studied in Melbourne with Dame Joan Hammond and in London with David Harper. via Music and Vision Daily

La Cieca was franky overwhelmed by both the volume and the quality of the "Season Brochure" contest entries, so she's decided to ask you, her cher public, to help decide the winner. via Parterre box presents La Cieca

“Next week we have the UK release of Kenneth Branagh 's The Magic Flute : very different from Bergman's, possibly a candidate for smacking, but with moments of giddy grandeur.”

"Director of stage and screen, Robert Lepage is criminally little-known by name in the US and yet he is arguably the most imaginative and talented multi-hyphenate of his generation," writes Jonathan Marlow , ... via GreenCine Daily

The Metropolitan Opera and Rhapsody launched an on-demand digital music service Tuesday in which 100 operas from 1937-2006 are available for purchase. via Contra Costa Times

FILIPINO MUSIC lovers were exchanging endless text messages when they learned about Pavarottis recent death. via Customer Interaction Solutions