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Will Flight Time leap from 'The Amazing Race' to 'DWTS'?
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... Swedish farmer dance? And those awesome arm extensions he showed off to the music of "Don Giovanni" during the recent opera challenge? Methinks he and Edyta could make a good team -- no offense to Big Easy, of course. (Though she, being Polish, ... Comment?
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Buzz on electro hip-hop's 30H!3
... Miss Congeniality award and a college scholarship. This year's Miss Alaska pageant winner was another diva - she sang opera in the talent portion of the competition. For a chance to win a copy of the former Alaska governer's autobiography, "Going ... Comment?
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... Miss Congeniality award and a college scholarship. This year's Miss Alaska pageant winner was another diva - she sang opera in the talent portion of the competition. For a chance to win a copy of the former Alaska governer's autobiography, "Going ... Comment?
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Mezzo Jamie Barton gives first Kennedy Center recital 12/10 before Met debut
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... Kennedy Center on December 10. Photo courtesy of www.jamiebartonmezzo.com American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton , whom " Opera News " calls "a rising star with fine acting skills and a sumptuous voice", performs her first Kennedy Center recital on ... Comment?
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MLHS Junior High music department to present Holiday Concert
... and Feliz Navidad. The selection Christmas of the Toreador mixes Christmas tunes with familiar melodies from Bizet's opera Carmen. Holiday Hoedown is a fun instrumental treatment of Up on the Housetop. The band will close its portion of the program ... Comment?
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Women Hotel Workers Suffer Higher Injury Rates; A Hole on Park Avenue / Stanley Turkel
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... we featured fashion shows with live models. And one day a week, the famous coloratura soprano from the Metropolitan Opera, Mimi Benzell, hosted a talk show on WNBC radio. Sometimes, I was asked to fill in for an invited guest who failed to appear. ... Comment?
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... Sydney Theatre Company is coming in February, Twelfth Night by the Bell Shakespeare Company in July, La Traviata by Opera Australia in August and on October 15 and 16 a real coup, Queensland Theatre Company's Betrayal starring Sibylla Budd, with the ... Comment?
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Had it come from the lips of any other songbird we'd toss it off as a PR or negotiating ploy, or a for-the-moment whim, but coming from the always bluntly honest Anna Netrebko it has the ring of plain intention, and bodes nothing but ill for opera generally as Ms. Comment?
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Tenor Jonas Kaufman If you're free at noon next Monday, how about a quick trip to Italy? That is, to drop in on opening night - yes, night - at the world's most famous opera house, Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Comment?
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... as we have done the past two years at the Dunkina Donuts Center, the next best thing is listening to their rock-opera style music. There are 26 songs in the two-CD package, running the gamut from hard rock to classical and including a 68-page ... Comment?
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Weekly Us CD releases: Andrea Bocellia s Christmas duets with Mary J. Blige and The Muppets
In one of the year's big Christmas releases, Italy's renowned opera tenor Andrea Bocelli sings classic holiday favorites with some surprising guest singers. Comment?
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Synth-pop pioneer, Oscar-winning soundtrack king, bossa nova obsessive, opera composer and pioneer of a futuristic take on world music dubbed "neo geo", Ryuichi Sakamoto has also found time in the last three decades to record several albums of piano music, which provide the basis for this tour. Comment?
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Rare Opera Staged by Expert Maestro
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Hasmik Papian and Richard Margison in Vancouver Opera's staging of Bellini's famous opera, Norma. Comment?
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... "Mania," for solo cello and ensemble. Mezzo soprano Theodora Hanslowe, who performs regularly at the Metropolitan Opera; and Andrew Drost, a tenor appearing frequently at New York City Opera, will be the soloists for Gustav Mahler's symphonic "The ... Comment?
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Riverdale musicians invite famed composer to hear his own work
Riverdale has a history with classical musicians, conductors and composers. Composer Bla Bartk lived on Cambridge Avenue and Arturo Toscanini - the famed conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and the NBC Symphony Orchestra - made his home at Wave Hill and in a mansion where SAR Academy now stands. Comment?
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The Nutcracker and pirates at Halton Theater
... 15, 2010, when performances of The Pirates of Penzance kick off. This comedy-driven production, presented by CPCC's Opera Theatre, follows a young pirate, Frederic, who after leaving his hardy har har lifestyle falls in love with Major-General ... Comment?
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American baritone Thomas Hampson has more than made his mark on the opera and symphonic vocal stages, and for the past several years he has chosen to also focus attention on what may seem the simplest of art forms - the solo song. Comment?
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Kazan Writer's Festival -- Giving Life Back Its Meaning
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... nostalgia for Kazan, "for me the most beautiful city in the world," and the one where he first fell under the spell of opera. The 28th Chalyapin festival opens in Kazan in February 2010, followed in May by the 23rd international Nureyev ballet ... Comment?
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Singers set to raise the roof in Othello
... part of a 200-strong community cast taking part in the production that opens on Saturday December 5, by the Birmingham Opera Company - which is renowned for its contemporary operas set in unique locations. For Tim Robbins, of Parkfield Road, it will ... Comment?
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William X Smith obituary
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My friend William X Smith, who has died of lung cancer aged 47, worked in theatrical lighting and was chief electrician at opera houses in Belfast and Buxton, Derbyshire, in the 1980s. Comment?
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