Still, New York's operatic startups—some others are Heartbeat Opera, On Site Opera, Amore Opera, Apotheosis Opera, Floating Opera, Opera Noire, Utopia Opera, the long-running Bronx Opera, and the semi-resurrected New York City Opera—play a crucial role.
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Mr. Van Horn has performed with opera companies across the globe, including the Met Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the Bavarian State Opera and the Netherlands Opera.
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On Android, you can download Opera, Opera Mini and Opera Touch.
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Her opera conducting career included performances at the Aspen Music Festival, Anchorage Opera, Chicago Opera Theater and the San Francisco Opera.
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OPERA SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Opera Australia Each year in the Australian autumn, Opera Australia stages a large-scale opera outdoors at the foot of the Sydney Opera House, overlooking the city's harbor.
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On Android, Opera offers both its regular fully featured Opera browser and Opera Mini.
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Miller also directed opera for companies including La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bavarian State Opera and Los Angeles Opera.
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Miller also directed opera for companies including La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bavarian State Opera and Los Angeles Opera.
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"A lot of opera directors are making opera for other opera directors, and quite a few opera composers are writing for their peer group," he said.
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His opera career has taken off in recent years, with engagements at the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera and the Dutch National Opera, among others.
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The New York City opera performed Morrison's "Margaret Garner" in 2007, though it was initially a co-commissioned project from the Michigan Opera Theatre, the Cincinnati Opera, and the Opera Philadelphia, and was first performed in 2005 at the Detroit Opera House.
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When major figures in opera die, the Metropolitan Opera sometimes pays tribute to them with memorials at the opera house.
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Mr. Botha appeared at the world's major opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London and the Vienna State Opera.
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Not just any opera house but the Metropolitan Opera House.
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My opera coach was [the late opera singer] Nico Castel.
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Ms. Curtin also sang at the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden and La Scala.
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Mr Domingo sang at the Royal Opera House Muscat's opening gala, too, and since then the opera house has featured most opera classics.
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Until the Muscat Opera House's inauguration, the only opera house in the Middle East was the Cairo Opera House, which opened in 1988.
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"Trump in Europe" could be the biggest opera, the best opera.
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PATCHOGUE "Der Rosenkavalier - Opera in Cinema," screening of comic opera performance.
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Giordano's opera will be showing at Milan's opera house from Dec.
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Other things I like about Opera: Things I don't like about Opera: Since I've switched, Opera feels like the only logical web browsing option.
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If the musical stylings of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" don't do it for you, perhaps this four-part Australian opera — as in, opera opera — will.
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She sang as a guest artist with the San Francisco Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Vienna Volksoper, the Zurich Opera and other companies.
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HONG KONG "Turandot," Opera Hong Kong and New York City Opera Oct.
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They are opera lovers, yes, but opera is merely a second love.
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Daniel Kramer, an American theater and opera director, has been appointed the artistic director of English National Opera, one of London's two major opera companies.
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But his directing took him all over the world, to the Houston Grand Opera, the Washington Opera Society, the San Francisco Opera and many others.
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Exposure to opera in his early 20s led him to start working as an assistant director at English National Opera and at the Royal Opera House.
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In Campra's ballet-laden comédie lyrique "Le Carnaval de Venise," a sort of opera-within-an-opera within an opera, the composer himself supplied the mayhem.
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His work has been seen at the Metropolitan Opera, the National Operas in London and Tokyo, the Paris Opera and the Vienna State Opera, among others.
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Think an Opera House is just for pearls, and opera and silk gowns?
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Many, including San Francisco Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, are eliminating extra intermissions.
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On Site Opera has been taking opera out of traditional venues since 2012.
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Instead, opera — and especially classical opera — is about aesthetics and pure, throbbing emotion.
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He made his reputation primarily at German opera houses: first at the Meiningen Opera, then at the Komische Opera, in Berlin, and, most recently, at the Bavarian State Opera, in Munich, where he will remain the music director until 2021.
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Opera's remaining business that is not part of the sale will include Opera Mediaworks, Opera Apps & Games (including Bemobi) and Opera TV, along with about 560 employees.
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He also performed in other major houses, including the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Zurich Opera.
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Glyndebourne Festival Houston Grand Opera Los Angeles Opera The Metropolitan Opera Royal Belgian Opera House Salzburg Festival San Francisco Opera Magical Designs for Mozart's Magic Flute continues at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center (40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan) through August 27.
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Opera later offered the same compression feature, branded Opera Turbo, in its desktop browser.
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More and more opera companies are presenting classic musicals with casts of opera singers.
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Also in opera news, Rufus Wainwright's new opera, "Hadrian," opens next weekend in Toronto.
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As opera czar, Mr. Bergé coordinated the Bastille Opera; the Palais Garnier, the famous older opera house; and the Salle Favart, the traditional home of the Opéra Comique.
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One was "Margaret Garner," commissioned by Michigan Opera, the Cincinnati Opera and Opera Philadelphia and based on Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved," with a libretto by Ms. Morrison and music by Richard Danielpour; it had its premiere at the Detroit Opera House in 22017.
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There were a number of well-known British opera directors who would have been well-suited to the position at English National Opera, said Matthew Epstein, a former artistic director of Lyric Opera of Chicago and general director of Welsh National Opera.
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Opera selections curated by Neal Goren, the founding artistic director of Gotham Chamber Opera. Feb.
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"It's not a protest opera, it's not an opera about police brutality," Mr. Thompson said.
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He didn't look like an opera singer, but I had never met an opera singer.
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The opera singer Audrey Luna, above, sings the highest note ever at the Metropolitan Opera.
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THE PARIS OPERA Frederick Wiseman already went behind the scenes of the Paris Opera Ballet.
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With this year's festival, Opera Philadelphia showed us again the many things opera can be.
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Fred Plotkin, who wrote "Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera" and writes about opera for the classical music radio station WQXR, said that the rising chandeliers signaled the moment to put aside thoughts of the day and focus on opera.
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And he strengthened the two opera companies he ran: Houston Grand Opera, which he led for 21996 years, and San Francisco Opera, where he has been for the last decade.
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That bleary-eyed opera, in a new production by Opera Ventures and Scottish Opera, arrives at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this week as part of the Next Wave Festival.
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OSLO (Reuters) - More than 90 percent of Norwegian online browser and advertising company Opera Software's OPERA.
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"Breaking the Waves," her first evening-length opera, buffeted audiences at Opera Philadelphia two seasons ago.
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"Tosca" will be its seventh staged opera, not counting nights devoted to lieder and opera scenes.
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First performed in 1863, the three-act opera recently completed a run at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Mr. Blanchard has said his score is not a jazz opera, but an opera in jazz.
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The Metropolitan Opera continues to dominate the city's opera scene, attracting superstars and mounting opulent productions.
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"The standard American opera rep wouldn't exist if not for New York City Opera," he notes.
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If you think about her opera, I remember going to the first opera she put on.
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No previous American opera — perhaps no opera, ever — had so boldly dealt with recent political history.
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They patiently walked me through History of Opera 101: "Das Rheingold" is a one-act opera.
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Opera (Android) and Opera Mini (Android, iOS)Opera app size: 71.0MB (Android), n/a (iOS)Opera Mini app size: 21.3MB (Android), 40.6MB (iOS)Opera is the plucky, innovative underdog for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and just about every other platform out there, though for now it seems its engineering resources are focused on Android rather than iOS as far as mobile goes.
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Frustrated with the situation, Ms Fjellander and several opera singer friends have started a tiny opera company called Pop-up Opera, in which women make up the bulk of the cast.
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Before starting the Foundation, he was a world-renowned opera singer who performed at London's Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Vienna Staatsoper and La Scala in Milan.
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H er best-known piece may be her opera "Alice in Wonderland," which was given its premiere at the Bavarian State Opera in 2007, when it opened the Munich Opera Festival.
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But since 19853, when Houston Grand Opera brought it back to the opera house, it has often been claimed — you can almost hear the capital letters — as the Great American Opera.
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Related Preview the Epic Dance Opera Filmed Inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider Live Film Performance Combines Opera, Video Games, and Russian Architecture In Brooklyn, Opera Makes Its Appeal to an Edgier Audience
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LONDON — Oliver Mears, the artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera, will take over as the head of opera at the Royal Opera House in March 2017, the London theater announced on Monday.
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Almost overnight, Operalia launched him onto the world's great stages, from La Scala in Milan and London's Royal Opera House to the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Los Angeles Opera.
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Details: 8 singers and a dancer alleged to AP that he sexually harassed them at venues including the Washington Opera, Los Angeles Opera and other opera companies where Domingo held top positions.
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We love the opera (and boy, does living legend Rita Moreno's Alvarez matriarch Lydia love the opera).
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Opera received $80 million cash and preferred shares equivalent to 30 percent of Opera TV's common equity.
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The Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera canceled performances, as did the New York Philharmonic.
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GARRISON Opera selections curated by Neal Goren, the founding artistic director of the Gotham Chamber Opera. Feb.
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Opera di Roma's Young Artists also perform as part of another Fuortes initiative, the OperaCamion ("lorry opera").
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Fure calls it an "opera for objects," yet it is hardly an opera in the conventional sense.
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The nearby Opera Bar and Opera Kitchen have hired a team of dogs to chase away gulls.
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So to me, a Handel opera is more accessible to a nonclassical listener than a Wagner opera.
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones Through June 29 at Opera Theater of St. Louis; opera-stl.org.
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Opera Theater of St. Louis The season continues through Sunday at the Loretto-Hilton Center; opera-stl.org.
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Otherwise, it's not you who will be deciding to abandon opera, it's opera that might abandon you.
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Mr. Schultz has gone on to sing with Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera and other companies.
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It was Washington National Opera, in January, not Opera Omaha, which gave the second performances in April.
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The opera also fit into the Teatro Massimo's vision of what an opera theater can be today.
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In its 136-year history, the Metropolitan Opera has never staged an opera by a black composer.
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Part-opera house, part-sculpture, the Sydney Opera House is the No. 1 tourist destination in Australia.
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Hall, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2011, was also an internationally renowned opera director and worked at many of the world's leading houses including The Royal Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and Bayreuth.
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Phelim McDermott's take on Philip Glass's opera, originally produced by the English National Opera and the L.A. Opera, arrives in New York, with the superlative countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo in the title role.
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But for those of us who have enjoyed opera after opera after opera at the Met because of his conducting and leadership, it is sad to see him step down as music director.
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Opera Australia last premiered a new Australian opera on the main stage at the Sydney Opera House in 2010; that work, "Bliss," was based on the Peter Carey novel of the same name.
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There have been pioneers in leadership positions at opera companies, including Sarah Caldwell, who founded the Opera Company of Boston and made it a force through innovative programming and big stars; Eve Queler, the music director of the Opera Orchestra of New York; Simone Young, who was artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera; and Lidiya Yankovskaya, who is the music director of Chicago Opera Theater.
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What challenges do you have launching a big space opera after being known for a big space opera?
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" The Canadian Opera Company also tweeted that Norman's death was "a great loss for the world of opera.
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Soon, however, Opera will offer the free VPN service again, as part of its Opera browser for Android.
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Earlier this year, Opera launched a new experimental browser called Neon, which imagined a complete redesign of Opera.
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"We're only going to produce the next generation of great opera if we create great opera," Patterson says.
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Opera has rolled out a set of privacy features to its data-saving proxy for Android, Opera Max.
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"Opera singers spend their whole life occupying other characters," said David Devan, the general director of Opera Philadelphia.
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The small but respectable Hong Kong Opera has "Turandot," a coproduction with New York City Opera, next month.
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Ms. Miskimmon, 45, has been the director of opera at Norway's National Opera and Ballet since August 2017.
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The artist's production of Berg's brutal opera, updated to World War I, has come to the Metropolitan Opera.
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And opera lovers, especially those wary of updating, should not miss this inspired production of Verdi's final opera.
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It is not an easy subject for the opera stage, especially given the dearth of indigenous opera singers.
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Mr. Muhly said he knew Britten's opera "incredibly well," and that it was a key reference point for his own opera "Two Boys," which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2013.
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NEW YORK "Cendrillon," Metropolitan Opera April 12-May 11 The Metropolitan Opera mounts Massenet's "Cendrillon" for the first time.
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Like an opera company facing the improbable popularity of sitcoms they figured the right people would still love opera.
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Opera CEO Lars Boilesen Opera CEO Lars Boilesen The elephant in the room, though, was obviously the proposed sale.
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Opera Roma—Rome's opera house—is trying to reverse the decline, and last month launched a young artist programme.
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The Royal Opera House (ROH), London's most prestigious opera-and-ballet venue, keenly targets students with cut-price tickets.
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Critic's Notebook For 34 seasons, the Center for Contemporary Opera has been grappling with what opera can be today.
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In 250, the New York City Opera—the city's second largest opera company—even filed for chapter 230 bankruptcy.
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The plucky Amore Opera mounts Verdi's opera in a production directed by Nathan Hull and conducted by Douglas Martin.
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A "passion for the human voice" drew Mr. Capobianco to opera, he said in a 22000 Opera News interview.
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Editor's note: This article has been updated with reaction from San Francisco Opera, LA Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Actually it's not even a French opera, it's an operetta that turns into an opera in the fourth act.
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The Prototype festival's tagline is "opera, theater, now," and it is usually described as a presenter of new opera.
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In a rebuke of Nazi oppression, "Fidelio" became the opera of choice to reopen Germany and Austria's opera houses.
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For a good portion of the domestic opera audience, the idea of American opera is a contradiction in terms.
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The main difference between directing theater and directing opera is the opera audience and its knowledge of the text.
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"She went beyond opera and classical music showing that opera singers are not just limited to the opera houses but go way beyond that," Christina Sheppelmann, the Liceu's artistic director, told reporters on Saturday in Barcelona.
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In recent years opera has grown scarcer in movies — not counting the simulcasts of real operas that companies like the Metropolitan Opera regularly screen at multiplexes around the world, which generally appeal to existing opera fans.
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On Wednesday evening, Juilliard Opera and Juilliard415 presented a production of Francesco Cavalli's 1651 opera "La Calisto" in the space.
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Billed as a chamber opera, the work, which features a spoken narration, straddles the boundary between musical theater and opera.
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The work is a coproduction with the Dallas Opera, Amsterdam's Dutch National Opera and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
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Big news for opera fans: The Metropolitan Opera named a successor to James Levine, its first leadership transition in decades.
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He appeared on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera, the Mostly Mozart Festival, Carnegie Hall and elsewhere.
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Mr. Nagano has been a leading opera conductor in Europe and is the music director of the Hamburg State Opera.
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Last fall, Opera introduced Opera Touch for iOS — a solid alternative to Safari on iPhone, optimized for one-handed use.
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Related: "Hyper-Opera" Programs the Drama of Performance Online Karen O in Stop the Virgens The Polygamy Opera Hits Vancouver
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"It's just a massive soap opera — a soap opera with dragons," she said, and viewers could identify with the characters.
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Previously, she was general manager and artistic director of the Danish National Opera and the Opera Theater Company of Ireland.
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And the set was lent to me by the Met Opera; I did a series of Opera pictures for them.
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In December, Neuwirth's opera "Orlando," based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf, will open at the Vienna State Opera.
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After I went to my first opera in 1999, one of our mutual friends told me Terry really loved opera.
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For a future leader of the Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin does not perform opera in concert all that frequently.
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The Metropolitan Opera in New York will present its first opera composed by a black artist, the company announced Thursday.
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There were no opera houses in Palestine then: What local opera companies there were had to perform in movie theaters.
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Though Mr. Dudamel is best known for his visionary leadership at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he has actually conducted quite a bit of opera, including appearances at La Scala, the Berlin State Opera and the Paris Opera.
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the company that gave the premiere of Missy Mazzoli's opera "Proving Up." It was Washington National Opera, in January, not Opera Omaha, which gave the second performances in April.
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San Francisco tapped her just as her American career is taking off: She made her Washington National Opera debut last month with "The Magic Flute," and has debuts coming up with Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera, where she is scheduled to conduct "La Bohème" in the 2021-22 season.
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The Guthrie was the site of the 1964 premiere of "The Masque of Angels," Mr. Argento's breakthrough opera, commissioned by the Walker Art Center in the same city through Minnesota Center Opera (which grew into the Minnesota Opera.) Center Opera also presented the 1971 premiere of "Postcard From Morocco," which brought Mr. Argento international attention.
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