None of this would automatically disqualify "Nebuchadnezzar" as opera: There are wordless operas, spoken operas, unclear operas.
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At the same time, to paraphrase Walter Pater, opera is a condition toward which all pop culture aspires: there are soap operas, rock operas, space operas, horse operas.
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Unfortunately, often, the opera crowd always wants to hear the same things: the same Verdi operas, the same Mozart operas.
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The program, "Mark Morris: Two Operas" (March 15-19), is the first time the operas have been performed together in New York.
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Then, there are operas created in the past few years so alien that you'd be hard pressed to call them operas at all.
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"Makeup channels are like soap operas on steroids," Een said.
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"We watch Chinese soap operas and eat ramen," she said.
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She's been on sitcoms, dramas and, of course, soap operas.
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Here again, you sense the strong influence of Mozart's operas.
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Considered as operas, the Andriessen works may be very unconventional.
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He has staged operas in train stations and on highways.
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And he's innovatively presented operas at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Presenting operas in nontraditional settings is becoming a new tradition.
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Our critic Anthony Tommasini will review both operas next week.
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You hear in the score many later operas, particularly Verdi's.
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We have soap operas and songs being made about them.
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I only know a few operas — perhaps four or five.
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Beacham appeared on soap operas like "The Colbys" and "Dynasty."
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Some critics argue for retiring problematic operas from the stage.
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Because that's what rich parents do in overheated soap operas.
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I had written operas and all kinds of other orchestra music.
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But there are lots of soap operas and dramas and comedies.
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There are Baroque music festivals, operas, exhibitions, and many other projects.
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Some people have even been detained for watching foreign soap operas.
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One of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas is set in a seraglio.
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He put on free, fully staged operas outdoors, which drew thousands.
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That season, he conducted seventeen other operas with the same company.
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Let's hope there are more staged operas in Mostly Mozart's future.
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Directors scouted filming locations in Alemão for scenes in soap operas.
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Or are you just a lover of cyberpunk and space operas?
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These are but two of the operas that allude to dining.
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Over the subsequent operas, these characters fight and collaborate, by turns.
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The shift has begun to change how and what operas program.
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It was also standard to perform his operas with substantial cuts.
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But musically 'Demon' is one of the most popular Russian operas.
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Many of his operas were thinly veiled appeals for a homeland.
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The minister is regularly booed when she attends plays or operas.
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He made a mark singing in Bach oratorios and Mozart operas.
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We have tea, biscuits, soap operas, austerity, and small-town mentalities.
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On television, Long March soap operas, documentaries and variety shows abound.
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Ashley's operas are so dissimilar to conventional works in the genre.
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He added that it was too early to provide definite plans for his tenure, but that he wanted to expand the company's work on 21st-century operas and new commissions, and also to explore French operas.
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We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially 'Days of our Lives.
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That kind of furor is what soap operas were built off of.
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The two wrote letters and met on occasion to see operas together.
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For me, these are like little operas that I want to produce.
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Assassin's Creed does the same work for us that soap operas do.
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But both operas, small or large of scale, deal in ambitious ideas.
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Nearly 30 operas followed the initial trilogy, depending on how you count.
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She and conservative justice Antonin Scalia were often seen attending operas together.
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It certainly doesn't automatically come up in discussions of great modern operas.
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Both operas are directed by Nathan Hull and conducted by Daniele Tirilli.
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BAYREUTH, Germany — Articles about 19th-century operas typically don't require spoiler alerts.
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"Carmen" has become one of the world's most popular and performed operas.
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But she has expressed interest in performing new operas in the future.
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Not in Berlin, where four new operas are opening in four months.
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She collaborated with her mother and Robert Wilson on two original operas.
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What, then, will he make of the first of Wagner's canonical operas?
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"He can come back to act in soap operas," Mr. Valente said.
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Gaspare Spontini, once celebrated for operas like "La Vestale," is largely forgotten.
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Mr. Thae himself was an avid fan of South Korean soap operas.
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Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" is one of the most popular operas ever written.
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The plots of most operas are absurd, and the audiences know it.
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To present worthy operas that were written before and after is important.
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Later, they serve as guides for revivals of those operas and ballets.
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It&aposs better than watching soap operas in the middle of the day.
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George Lucas' space fantasy gave rise to a whole explosion of space operas.
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Another bad stereotype from movies and soap operas is that everyone needs chemotherapy.
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As if all that were not enough, he directed operas too; and painted.
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In general, dances in operas are tacked on: divertissements unrelated to the story.
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This, for most of TV history, was space reserved exclusively for soap operas.
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But there's a lot more to film and TV than just space operas.
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Next year the Kaufmanns-to-be will perform two operas at Opera Roma.
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The company also plans to offer a pair of chamber operas next season.
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Many operas that have become favorites had disastrous premieres owing to local prejudices.
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Some new operas are exasperating because they fall far short of their potential.
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Three operas are on show this year, the first being Rossini's first hit.
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Naples is a city of masquerades, of staged operas and tromp l'oeil pomp.
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Perhaps in 10 years I'll learn Russian and do all the Russian operas.
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I went to Bayreuth, and I saw four Wagner operas in five days!
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Of his operas, "Die Tote Stadt" may be the safest bet for programmers.
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It is a briefing, not a news event that supplants daytime soap operas.
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The siblings' turbulent relationship is one of the league's long-running soap operas.
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Shows filled with stand-up sets get less respect than even soap operas.
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People don't go to operas to view historical artifacts through a glass case.
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The stories are the standard stuff of television dramas, sitcoms and soap operas.
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I've started exploring the same themes by working with actors and making soap operas.
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The service will look to develop new Arabic content, including films and soap operas.
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You can go from cartoons, to soap operas, to the news, to science fictions.
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But this year there is no overlap between the casts of the these operas.
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Musically, these operas unfold as precisely written suites, dances, sonata forms, canons and more.
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Conservative commentators decry its foreign soap operas, dubbed into Amharic, for corrupting Ethiopian culture.
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The internet of the 1990s offered us both C-Span and soap operas. We
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This leads to the kind of nasty argument that soap operas were made for.
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Take, for instance, the horned "Viking" helmet popularized in 19th century dramas and operas.
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I have a whole string of operas after that, some more successful, some less.
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They fill thumb drives with news—as well as soap operas and baseball games.
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His pencils and spectacles lay on the desk; his operas played in the background.
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And as daytime audiences shrunk, talk grew, while higher-priced soap operas were cancelled.
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It is among Britain's most popular soap operas, with millions tuning in each week.
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As he talked, he played virtually interchangeable extracts from both operas at the piano.
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In both operas, Mr. Iannelli said, Gnecchi's use of the chorus is especially visionary.
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His works include more than 30 original plays, two feature films and four operas.
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At home, he likes to put on the meditative loops of Philip Glass operas.
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Recent American operas have not shied away from using history to explore current controversies.
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Operas fare well in concert performances because the drama and music are so intertwined.
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"We drew from 224 different operas, maybe 27 pieces of music," the director said.
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I also design exhibitions, which has led me to designing some plays and operas.
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By contrast, Guo's mother starred in revolutionary operas after her factory shift was over.
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By all means go to the major opera houses and hear big, grand operas.
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Mr. Giaiotti went on to sing 29 roles in 28 operas at the house.
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"In most Orpheus operas, we tend to just see the superhuman side," he said.
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New operas by two eminent American composers crossed paths in New York this week.
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With quotation marks, that is the name of one of Verdi's best-known operas.
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I didn't want to be reduced to nine operas a year and have rentals.
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Critic's Notebook After centuries of relative neglect, Handel's operas have come into their own.
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" Ms. Drummond played recurring characters on the soap operas "Dark Shadows" and "Ryan's Hope.
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Frustrated that you cannot watch the latest British dramas or soap operas on television?
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The operas of "Licht" are named, in German, for the days of the week.
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All the same, the operas keep coming—there have been thousands since Fry's time.
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In 1991 he staged six operas in six cities, including Tel Aviv and Vienna.
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Televisions are tuned to the Golf Channel or Korean game shows and soap operas.
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When you were studying in Cape Town, were there Zulu operas that you sang?
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But I remember the soap operas on television that were on all the time.
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Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is one of the most beloved operas in the repertory.
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In the days before operas were available on recordings, audiences had insatiable hunger for new works and whole swaths of the repertory were allowed to essentially disappear — for example, most of the operas of the bel canto era of the early 19th century.
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Its bundles of channels include Chinese Super League football, kung-fu movies and soap operas.
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Still, few operas could require a greater suspension of disbelief from a contemporary American audience.
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But I always remind myself this is nothing compared to the pace of soap operas.
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With operas, in particular, it is easy to take the audience on an emotional journey.
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Vienna's 1.7 million inhabitants benefit from the city's cafe culture and museums, theaters and operas.
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"We used to watch soap operas, which are highly exaggerated versions of reality," he said.
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Yeah, and so many operas are dependent on not just mythologies, but specifically Nordic mythology.
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Klan-like costumes, babies, and painted penises: Burning Man's operas are the stuff of legend.
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Sunday afternoon brought another adventurous offering: a double bill of recent one-act chamber operas.
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Soap operas don't make sense, and neither does the current state of the U.S. government.
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Many operagoers find weeknight performances difficult, especially for operas that last three hours or longer.
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Ticket revenues account for an increasingly small percentage of the cost of actually mounting operas.
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"In terms of entertainment, soap operas and movies, they can go ahead," Prayuth told reporters.
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They're fables, not operas—undeveloped vignettes with plot twists that slam the door on ambiguity.
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And impresarios who commission new operas often ask for works in the two-hour range.
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Radical rethinkings of Wagner operas by theatre artists of various European nationalities have become routine.
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The main guy in it, the father, he's a known for acting in soap-operas.
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Each of its four operas, one performed per year, will be recorded live for Naxos.
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"I didn't go to the Kennedy Center to see operas with him," Justice Thomas said.
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All the Wagner operas to me are real abysses: You can work on them forever.
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"During my two years there I did my first productions of many operas," he said.
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By the time I was an adolescent I had attended several operas with my mother.
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Over the decades he appeared in practically every televised genre, from sitcoms to soap operas.
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There is no strict order for the operas, or even for the scenes within them.
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The pain of both operas was seeing that strategy in action, and seeing it work.
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For the first time in its history, the Metropolitan Opera is commissioning operas by women.
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The vast Verdi canon still contains operas that can afford aficionados the pleasure of discovery.
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Ditto the Met's Sirius XM satellite radio channel, which no longer broadcasts Levine-led operas.
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Her mother, an actor, has appeared in soap operas, movies and live theater in Mexico.
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Mr. Mears pointed to the theatrical immediacy of operas as one reason for their appeal.
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The interconnected series of "Trillium" operas place him in the lineage of Wagner and Stockhausen.
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Her mother is an actress who has appeared in movies, television commercials and soap operas.
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"Orlando" was the most ambitious of the three operas, and, perhaps inevitably, the most problematic.
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He also became known as a composer, writing chamber music, operas, a ballet and symphonies.
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This musical ensemble, based in France, is best known for its renditions of Baroque operas.
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They are the first two women commissioned to write operas for the Met, which has only performed two operas by female composers in its history: Kaija Saariaho's "L'Amour de Loin" in 2016 and Ethel M. Smyth's "Der Wald" in 1903, which were both written elsewhere.
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Lyle starred on the Mexican soap operas Mi adorable maldición and Corazón que miente, among others.
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And theaters are mounting exciting productions of operas whose styles range from bel canto to modernism.
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Even in the technical categories, Wonder Woman faced tough competition from two space operas from Disney.
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London's Royal Opera House, for example, will present 20 operas and ballets in emoji form online.
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They launch balloons carrying anti-regime messages, South Korean soap operas and money across the border.
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"Unfortunately I think sometimes people turn morning shows into soap operas that they're not," she explained.
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American soap operas have a bit of glamour, but George loved it, he couldn't miss it.
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Really, who needs soap operas, these days, when modern fighting games are so deliriously, intoxicatingly extravagant?
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Television soap operas were an offshoot of 1930s radio dramas, which were sponsored by soap companies.
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"I've watched a lot of soap operas, and I've seen actors before," Jones said in 85033.
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Early hits: Numerous cantatas, both sacred and secular, and the operas "Agrippina" (1709) and "Rinaldo" (1711).
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Seduced by the country's soap operas and K-Pop teen bands, many will visit South Korea.
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"I've watched a lot of soap operas, and I've seen actors before," Jones said in 2016.
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The ever-churning arcs of soap operas also provide Smith yet another analogy for his job.
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She found her way into soap operas serendipitously, knowing about them only as a onetime viewer.
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Hasselhoff continued to act in soap operas, plays, and even appeared in a few reality shows.
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He has explored the entire gamut of early music, from English lute songs to Handel operas.
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Though soap operas have introduced characters who are trans, no prime-time show has followed suit.
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But unlike American soap operas, whose viewership has plummeted in recent years, telenovelas remain immensely popular.
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It becomes more melodious, and the Venetian operas, as they become public entertainments, have more dances.
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As Halep's trademark on-court soap operas go, the stunning upset was still swift, almost routine.
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Every evening, she watches one to two hours of South Korean soap operas on her phone.
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The only problem is, I've watched a lot of soap operas, and I've seen actors before.
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Dr. DiChiera was known for his willingness to present contemporary operas; he programmed two every season.
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Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" came in 24th in a list of the 25 most popular operas.
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Mr. Muhly's first two operas, "Dark Sisters" and "Two Boys," were based on real-life events.
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And a no-cuts policy ensures that even operas with ballets are performed in their entirety.
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They chat, play cards and watch soap operas on TVs mounted near headstones or ornamental crosses.
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It's unfortunate, since the Beaumont stage would be perfect for a wide range of contemporary operas.
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Grand operas by Meyerbeer are now treated as curiosities, yet during his lifetime they were ubiquitous.
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On some days, soap operas were pre-empted to carry the White House news briefing live.
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Operas, while fantastical and fictional, still affect the way we perceive the people portrayed in them.
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This doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive to diversify operas, both in composition and in casting.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — What unifies the deeply dissimilar operas playing this year at Santa Fe Opera?
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The music is Vittorio Rieti's arrangement of melodies from five of the operas by Vincenzo Bellini.
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JOSHUA BARONE New works premiere every week, from brief curtain-raisers to lengthy symphonies and operas.
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Salieri's operas are tuneful, excellently crafted, inventive in their orchestration, and sometimes startlingly progressive in outlook.
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He became part of a group of favoured musicians working on her state-approved model operas.
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He spent his last days listening to his favorite operas and thanking anyone who came near.
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Composers have just recently started to really show interest in composing South African stories and operas.
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Since many operas were composed 150 years ago, they obviously reflect the prejudices of the era.
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And it will present some chamber operas: a scaled-down version of "Dolores Claiborne" by Tobias Picker, who was named the company's composer-in-residence, and a double bill of two short operas based on the Pygmalion myth — one by Donizetti and the other by Rameau.
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Knocking down walls isn't that easy Soap operas have kissing scenes and action movies have car chases.
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I watched 6 operas and a ballet for a total cost of 15 Euros in cash ($22.47).
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He's directed 27 operas, acted in over a dozen films, and participated in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
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He continued to sing, as well as coach and, in later years, direct operas, through his 70s.
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Broadly speaking, it's how soap operas are structured, particularly daytime ones that inch glacially toward their climaxes.
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Like clockwork, every weekday late afternoon, she can be found on the couch watching her soap operas.
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Ms Haque believes that popular Indian soap operas have helped to propagate a more liberated world view.
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"They shared an interest in baseball and soap operas," Raissman wrote in the Daily News, in 2012.
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There's usually just one shared television in the marketplace that shows championship football or Nigerian soap operas.
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For me, it also revealed the connections between the two operas, especially in the two female leads.
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Not a lot of operas, perhaps, could benefit from such intimate treatment, but these two fared beautifully.
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Its yearly Prelude to Performance program presents chosen artists in carefully prepared staged productions of two operas.
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It's a widely-known, weird fact that British people love Australian soap operas more than Australians do.
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" NBC used to commission and televise new operas, including Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors.
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Other operas in the lineup include "Hamlet," directed by Olivier Tambosi, and "Don Giovanni," by Barbara Wysocka.
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Telemundo actors say their pay is generally not as high as their counterparts in American soap operas.
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Back upstate, Glimmerglass Opera's own Bernstein component, "West Side Story," runs alongside operas by Rossini and Janáček.
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Soap operas that reveled in the split personality — not actually a real disorder — as a plot point.
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The guiding principle of its style — simplify, then exaggerate — suits writers of polemics, operas and much else.
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In the "Licht" operas, Stockhausen wrote some of the finest choral music of the past half-century.
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And MacMillan's ballet — to some his masterpiece — is performed more than either the Massenet or Puccini operas.
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And Tri-Centric also has ambitions to produce more recordings of various projects, including the "Trillium" operas.
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It's the stuff of a million space operas, and all you see of it are numbers, incrementing.
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These purely instrumental works — "studies for operas," Mr. Little suggested in an onstage interview — nevertheless tell stories.
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ARTS & LEISURE An article on Page 2698 about new operas in Berlin misspells a composer's given name.
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ARTS & LEISURE An article on Page 2800 about new operas in Berlin misspells a composer's given name.
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His comic operas, meanwhile, do not have a strong tradition of translation for the English-speaking world.
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Individual acts came first, then full operas, including a ravishing "Parsifal" at the BBC Proms in 2013.
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Still, Mr. Herheim does not view himself as lording his own ideas over the operas he directs.
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And then you consider how many other operas of the 20th century have never been performed there.
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I mean, the networks stopped doing soap operas and ran the Senate Watergate hearings back to back.
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The group traded rapid-fire barbs about recent or coming operas and the singers cast for them.
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I think many operas are about the identity of the person at the center of the story.
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Fittingly, the musical changes the setting from the world of soap operas to that of Broadway musicals.
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He began incorporating film and other multimedia elements into his operas, sometimes to the consternation of critics.
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He grew up watching Spanish-language soap operas, which were must-see TV in traditional Hispanic households.
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The collaborative approach that is necessary in Ashley's operas can be seen as flowing from Fluxus practices.
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Charpentier's opening quarrel was followed by an extract from Lully's "Atys," one of the king's favorite operas.
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The story has been told for decades that intimate Baroque operas will vanish in the vast Met.
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From Freud's time, his operas have been seen as stagings of the dramas that dominate psychoanalytic theory.
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As I grow older, however, operas that I adored as a child have become harder to stomach.
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But do we need five Puccini operas in a single Met season to keep him on top?
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At its founding in 1980, there were no commercials, and programming included classic films, ballets, and operas.
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John Adams is the composer of, among other works, the operas "Nixon in China" and "Doctor Atomic."
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After her Miss Universe win in 2010, Ximena Navarrete went on to star in Spanish soap operas.
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Two operas will be performed, Rossini's "Tancredi" and "Medea in Corinto" by Johann Simon Mayr, Donizetti's teacher.
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Last year was a little bit tricky, because we did two operas that have big violin solos.
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Last year was a little bit tricky, because we did two operas that have big violin solos.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI Janacek's earthy, poignant, sophisticated but accessible operas have been Met highlights almost whenever they've appeared.
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Hawkins had roles in soap operas like "Ryan's Hope" and "As the World Turns" in the '70s.
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But do any of these operas rival Mozart's, as the conductor Thomas C. Crawford would have you believe?
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"Publishers started snapping up space operas, leading to a huge demand that needed to be filled," she says.
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TV doesn't get much more dramatic than on classic soap operas like All My Children, which Burnett adored.
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The Met has always been a miracle, keeping a number of operas in rotation at any given time.
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Back in the mid 90s, the BBC commissioned six adaptations of famous operas, in six unique animation styles.
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It's a dour security bot that likes to watch steamy soap operas, and would rather be left alone.
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Last night on The Late Late Show, he tried his hand at soap operas with a musical twist.
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"My connotation was 1980s ladies with long red fingernails sipping blush wine and watching soap operas," she says.
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These operas aren't just about the people involved in the space race, but the technologies as well, right?
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In Neronian America, such undeceived realism seems more modern than the idealism of so many Romantic-era operas.
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Reassessment in 20th century of his operas found a master of technique and command of many musical styles.
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"Two Boys" and "Dark Sisters," his first two operas , offered magical set pieces but suffered from dramatic deficiencies.
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Meyerbeer's operas have been experiencing a gradual comeback in Europe, but they are still rarely staged in America.
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He has written and directed dramas, presented documentaries, composed operas and penned short stories, as BAFTA Cymru noted.
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I loved her because she reminded me of Eurydice from one of my favorite operas, 'Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Short of that, a series of concert operas from the Freiburg players and Mr. Jacobs would be great.
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Ballet and contemporary dance run alongside operas like "La Traviata" and "Fidelio" to round out the autumn season.
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ERIN COURTNEY wrote the scripts for two Swados operas, "Kaspar Hauser" and "The Nomad": She worked very quickly.
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The sobs and drama nonetheless did keep flowing, first in daytime soap operas and later in nighttime soaps.
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Fago's "Confitebor" and "Tam non splendet" unfold like miniature operas, with vivid melodic writing and propulsive dance rhythms.
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Soap operas with their repetitive, open-ended structure reflected the rhythms of women's housework—and so did baseball.
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The stories of the old myths and legends, including Wagner's "Ring" operas, have been told many times before.
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You know, my husband won't go to see any Wagner operas because he was an anti-Semite, right?
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"There are many great, forgotten, unknown operas and I would like to revive some of them," he said.
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" Cage described his "Europeras" with similar concision: "For 200 years the Europeans have been sending us their operas.
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"Yes, because the roles and personalities in Puccini's operas are so natural, they have direct emotions," she said.
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It was hard not to wonder, though, about the Monteverdi operas lost to us, maybe seven or more.
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Do you go around singing Bach in churches and do all the Baroque operas you can in Europe?
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Chester's infidelities were among the more mundane events on "Soap," a prime-time sendup of daytime soap operas.
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An earlier version of this article described incorrectly the dates and order of two of Poul Ruders's operas.
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The arts grants would support operas, theater productions, painting and sculpture exhibitions, works of literature and music compositions.
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Moving back into the public spotlight, he reappeared in television movies, soap operas, game shows and episodic series.
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Sensitive, emotional men aren't new in movies; a lot of war movies are soap operas with heavy artillery.
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"Operas like this are strengthened by adaptation because it lets new generations engage with them," Mr. Schlosberg said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — It could have been the plot of one of Brazil's hugely popular nighttime soap operas.
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Christophe Rousset, the founder of the early-music group Les Talens Lyriques, has campaigned for Salieri's French operas.
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At first, the Holland Festival had hoped to stage all seven operas, but the logistical challenges proved insurmountable.
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The reactionary outlook of these institutions is evident in the fact that operas by female composers remain unusual.
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JOHNSON After you guys finished "Improvement," all of the other operas Bob made in a completely different way.
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And then, even as operas and ballets rotate on the calendar, La Scala will prepare for its Dec.
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We try to answer that with a top 10 featuring everything from space operas to near-future dystopian tales.
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But remember that Indians often distrust politicians and public officials, says Shoma Munshi, an expert on Indian soap operas.
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How much did they ever matter in opera, a form that subsumed masques, semi-operas, singspiels and the like?
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He's also written contemporary operas based on classic films like The Shining, The Manchurian Candidate, and Dinner at Eight.
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Singers and a youth orchestra travel to public squares around Rome, where they perform shortened versions of famous operas.
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Today Taiwan sends Paraguay money, police vehicles and soap operas dubbed into Spanish, and trains students and army officers.
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It silences the "soap operas" to a degree, but raises a whole slew of other weird and intrusive questions.
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And he is scheduled to return to the Met next season to conduct several operas — as music director emeritus.
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DAVID ALLEN The holiday presentations of family-friendly operas — shorter, and in English — should be expanded across the season.
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Many of them like to see three different operas in three days, a pressure some say has hurt innovation.
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In March, Mark Morris and his dance troupe present a double bill of operas with choreography by Mr. Morris.
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He has led more than 2,500 performances, conducting more than 85 different operas ranging from classical to contemporary works.
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Some are content to sing the same five or six operas over and over, never bothering to learn another.
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Everything is accomplished in the course of multitasking: The Met is giving 225 performances of 25 operas this season.
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They announced Wednesday that they would continue to team up to stage contemporary operas over the next few years.
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The operas combine colourful costumes, elaborate sets, with dialogue and singing that tell tales of tragedy and comedy alike.
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"Tommy" and "The Wall" are both rock operas, but "The Wall" seemed destined to be a fully staged opera.
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Redemption of a suffering male through the love of a virtuous woman is a motif in many Wagner's operas.
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When Mr. Lepage first began unveiling his high-tech "Ring" operas, Apple had only recently released the iPhone 4.
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The overtly political themes in Mr. Adams's operas, in fact, might well make them uniquely appealing to audiences today.
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The baritone Thomas Buckner — a veteran of Robert Ashley's operas — brings abstract, ghostly exhalations to the mix, later on.
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"Europeras" — which suggests the phrase "your operas" — amounted to a rejection of European art, returning it whence it came.
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Now he is extending his iron grip to a new corner of Egyptian society: the country's cherished soap operas.
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It bundles and delivers 203 niche online channels, including Cartoon Hangover and DramaFever, which focuses on Korean soap operas.
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Since his return, Mr. Villazón has been more cautious, opting for Mozart operas and recitals over heavier Verdi roles.
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She appeared in "Scarface" and the first two "Lethal Weapon" films, and in soap operas and other television shows.
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I'm just at the early stages of my theatrical career, though I'm probably only going to write three operas.
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"In older operas there would be an illegitimate child or difference of social classes," Mr. Wuorinen told The Guardian.
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Where else in four days can you see four Verdi operas so rare the most popular one is "Attila"?
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At first the music seemed insubstantial compared to his operas — unsurprisingly, given the work's frothy sweet-shop subject matter.
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And, for the most part, these operas are etched in a searing chromatic language that suits their wrenching emotions.
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"There's always Cambodian operas or amazing, yearlong festivals that really add color and depth to the community," she said.
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Her jobs abroad, such as choreographing for operas, are "the kind of challenges that I find irresistible," she said.
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Some operas are faulted for scores that lack melodic richness, relying too much on long stretches of dramatic recitative.
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Nézet-Séguin, when asked, by the Times , which operas he might add to the repertory, seemed at a loss.
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His operas have made up most of the contemporary fare offered at the Metropolitan Opera House in recent years.
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By the time she was 19 and auditioned for the Met, she knew the scores of 20 operas cold.
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The Metropolitan Opera frenziedly prepared to open its own season next week, rehearsing a slew of operas at once.
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Some think "Vexations" is a rebellion against everything Péladan stood for, especially the Romantic grandeur of Richard Wagner's operas.
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If I have a concern about some operas these days, it's that the texts are just not good enough.
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On Pro Basketball HOUSTON — DeMarcus Cousins used to watch soap operas with his grandmother when he was growing up.
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If Mr. Crawford's point about Mozartean quality has merit, perhaps he can find more convincing proof elsewhere among Haydn's operas.
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Turkey has also made some inroads with cultural exports, with some of its daytime soap operas becoming hits in Chile.
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"TV is not just entertainment—it is a big source of education," says Purnendu Shekhar, a writer of soap operas.
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TC: You'd gone to film school and were producing daytime soap operas when the idea of Emagispace came to you.
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And as with all the greatest operas, it is a tale of humanity struggling with love in all its forms.
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At the time, he aspired to be a director and put on "crazy intellectual productions" of operas by Richard Wagner.
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Families like the Lalekas, and 101 others listed in one catalogue, still pop up frequently as villains in soap operas.
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Just because she's fashion obsessed and loves her soap operas doesn't mean she can't get a 179 on her LSATs.
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After years of attending operas, the true opera lover is encouraged to announce her preferred lineage — does she love Italian?
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How do operas in early 19th-century Italy provide a natural experiment in the impact of copyright law on creativity?
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Suffering from diminished lung capacity, she spends her days under a red blanket on a thin couch, watching soap operas.
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According to the German foreign office, in recent years numerous outstanding German orchestras, operas and ballet companies have toured China.
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ON A TYPICAL night in India the family television set might be tuned to one of countless dowdy soap operas.
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I'd discovered a whole new world, like a stay-at-home-mom discovering daytime soap operas for the first time.
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After dinner, I would make us a pot of English tea, and we'd watch his Pakistani soap operas on YouTube.
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As part of its mission, the Experiments in Opera initiative commissioned five video operas from five composers and their teams.
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From immersive art in pop-up storefronts to operas at the Met, performances in New York come in many forms.
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Heartbeat Opera, a relatively new, relatively small, categorically imaginative company, has made its name with vital reshapings of repertory operas.
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His own output included nine operas, eight symphonies and 12 instrumental concertos, as well as chamber music and choral works.
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As in the operas, though, the most potent passages are those in which ceremony falls away to reveal raw emotion.
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"If you know and love Mozart operas, then all the instrumental music of Mozart becomes immediately more accessible," he observed.
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But while most networks rotated coverage to make space for soap operas and game shows, PBS televised all 250 hours.
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While an unwavering fan of the skill and artistry of the operas, he is anxious that their appeal may falter.
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I worked at a restaurant in the California Adventure Park at Disneyland that was based on different ABC soap operas.
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This is probably an unoriginal insight, but I came to recognize that these programs are basically soap operas for millennials.
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I've learned, after three operas, what sorts of things require my intervention and what will get better on their own.
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If you think more operas should have an occasional "Twin Peaks" vibe and be sung from spinning teacups, watch this.
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It's not that everyone does operas in cars — that's not the point — but maybe opera companies think beyond the proscenium.
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Mr. Girard has become the Met's go-to director for Wagner operas, with a new "Lohengrin" production on the way.
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Today, most ballets are performed at the Palais Garnier and most operas at the larger Bastille, with its 243,20193 seats.
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Debuting in Brooklyn in 2014, the piece is another example of operas taking on timely and socially conscious subject matter.
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A highlight of several recent Carnegie seasons has been the English Concert's ongoing progress through operas and oratorios by Handel.
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It is a rarity among operas of that era: firmly established in the repertory, beloved by musicians and audiences alike.
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Later, after retiring from dancing, she became a supernumerary with the company, taking part in the stage action during operas.
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There are plenty of last-minute inexpensive tickets available there, or to operas and outdoor concerts all over the country.
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Most operas would milk the final scene when Laurentino's first son, Rafael, appears at the old man's deathbed and reconciles.
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A single grumpy security unit — Murderbot — fights for life, liberty, and the pursuit of hours and hours of soap operas.
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Il Club dei 27 is limited to 27 people, 27 being the number of operas that members say Verdi wrote.
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Whether you're a fan of show tunes, operas or classical music, the name Leonard Bernstein likely rings a familiar melody.
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Is it just a coincidence that the three operas you've done at the Met are all modernist, quite spiky scores?
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Early on in her career, she sang Cherubino in Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro," and had travesty parts in Rossini operas.
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The poetry itself was a primary focus and remains so as they brush up for coming performances of the operas.
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His career grew steadily, with performances in leading houses of Europe in operas by Rossini, Massenet, Strauss and, especially, Mozart.
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Of the 25 operas the Met is presenting this season, five are by Puccini; not a single offering is new.
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I've done quite a few operas, and probably close to a third to a half of them have political themes.
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After dinners of fish or pork and homegrown vegetables, her family often sits down together to watch Thai soap operas.
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"The Exterminating Angel" is a huge, hyper-complex creation, one that will not travel as easily as Adès's previous operas.
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I was groomed to care — our mother raised my brother and me while CBS soap operas played in the background.
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Soap operas are also being used to reach teenagers, with plot lines tackling the issue of teen pregnancy and safe sex.
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He landed roles in daytime soap operas, including NBC's Another World and ABC's Loving before getting his big break on 90210.
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Rae Smith's handsome sets, depicting the same Sicilian village square before and after the world wars, pull the two operas together.
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What do you get when you strap a full orchestra onto one of the most high octane rock operas in history?
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It had higher ratings than the afternoon soap operas and became a national news story about sex, violence, and heavy metal.
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I've even started renting movies on Amazon, because I blew through the free catalog of space operas in a few weekends.
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Television is perhaps the most enthusiastic adopter of the drink-slap, and soap operas, in particular, are associated with the act.
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As part of that hype, Hong Kong-based artist Tik Ka recreated the superheroes in the style of traditional Chinese operas.
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Expect, of course, experimental noisemaking, rather than the pop songs and operas that once broadcasted from these remnants of vintage radios.
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She gave up her royal titles after marrying an American and she has starred in soap operas and an action movie.
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The law was often flouted by entertainment channels and cable operators airing Indian films and soap operas wildly popular in Pakistan.
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When not working on novels Mr Eka blogs and writes for television—"soap operas, and whatever else they order from me".
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It knows the legacy of Archie Comics, and it knows the legacy of the teen soap operas that came before it.
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Another factor, some sociologists argue, is Turkish soap operas, which are very popular and often depict men treating their wives romantically.
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It will celebrate its centennial next summer with more than 200 performances in 44 days of operas, symphonies, concerts and plays.
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Photograph by Moises Saman / Magnum for The New Yorker In a camp outside Qayyarah, internally displaced Iraqis watch Indian soap operas.
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It is not easy to find new operas that command attention, tell their story lucidly and create a powerful, permeating mood.
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In retrospect, this was a mistake because the daily briefing was not supposed to be an alternative to daytime soap operas.
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He sees Wagner as always "essentially talking to himself," and the voluminous philosophical speculations as a necessary preparation for the operas.
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Some classic operas are being trimmed in an effort to attract new audiences turned off by three- or four-hour performances.
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And myriad other sites — focusing on Asian soap operas, animation, Bollywood films, horror, documentaries — are going after the same discretionary dollars.
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ENGLEWOOD "Verismo Opera Fall Open House," Verismo Opera 28th anniversary celebration concert with arias, duets from "Rigoletto" and other operas. Sept.
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" But it is, Mr. Jacobs asserted recently in a phone interview from Germany, "the masterpiece of all the operas of Mozart.
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But the biggest debt the Fast and the Furious movies owe to soap operas is the shifting alliances of its characters.
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We were a group of improv actors that would come in once an hour, dressed like characters from these soap operas.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ne of the most extraordinary operas of the 21st century is playing at Opera Philadelphia.
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The canonical work of feminist art served as inspiration for 11 mini-operas written, composed, developed, and designed by NYU students.
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But it was Russian fairy tales that exerted the most lasting pull on Rimsky-Korsakov and inspired most of his operas.
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Born in England in 1858, she was a prolific composer of operas as well as chamber music, chorals, and instrumental music.
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The striking structure hosts everything from operas and Latin American art house films to the Oaxacan symphony orchestra and book festivals.
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During those decades, as cinema was gradually fading away, Pakistan's television soap operas boomed and provided entertainment for the middle classes.
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The novel has spawned at least 24 movies, 15 TV series, 13 radio plays, two operas, four musicals, and a symphony.
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Mr. Li, 64, is a feng shui master who once worked as a screenwriter and began writing operas a decade ago.
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Not only was I clueless about how challenging the work on soap operas could be, I thought I was above it.
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" Mr. Robinson regards "Regina" as one of the great American operas, alongside Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah" and John Adams's "Nixon in China.
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Then there was the president's frustrated bromance with Mr. Putin, one of the other mini-soap operas that flavored the meeting.
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" Like the title character, Due "grew up watching soap operas" and still is a fan of "The Bold and the Beautiful.
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Large inscriptions on blackboard-like walls list the various historical milestones that lead up to each of the operas in focus.
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I just returned from Opera Philadelphia's new festival, where over 72 hours I took in five operas, including three world premieres.
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This made the Turkish military seem less fearsome than before, and European opera houses rather suddenly began staging operas about Turks.
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In the decades since, Bayreuth has moved toward increasingly avant-garde reinterpretations of the Wagner canon (the only operas done here).
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Another set, called "La Nilsson," is being released by Decca and features 79 CDs and 27 operas, including two "Ring" cycles.
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But in a piece where the words matter even more than for most operas, the Engelhard Court was a problematic choice.
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While newer operas written by people of color tell their stories responsibly, they aren't going to replace the classics anytime soon.
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But bringing these Baroque works to the enormous Met, which was designed — and supersized — for later operas, can be a challenge.
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Let's take a look at the stars of the early 20th century, whose repertories were dominated by new and recent operas.
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This yearning seems especially keen in China, where state television serves up feudal soap operas with the regularity of daily meals.
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Couples posed with mannequins in costumes designed for classic Russian operas and ballets but featuring Central Asian fabrics, hats and jewelry.
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The rights for these soap operas were cheaper to buy than those for United States shows, so networks snatched them up.
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Released roughly six months before Tommy, The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow is generally recognized as one of the first rock operas.
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Several shopkeepers in Dandong were watching Chinese soap operas, not the news, although other residents said they were paying close attention.
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It is shot and produced in Mexico City, by a Mexican firm that has made a string of successful telenovela soap operas.
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Keeping her protected isn't enough if he's letting her live on Eggos, TV dinners, and soap operas during her crucial development years.
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Over the years, Zeffirelli went on to direct many notable operas, plays and movies, including his 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
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Not only had Geo News disappeared, but so had sports and entertainment channels (upsetting fans of the Indian soap operas they carry).
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GIRL meets boy, they fall in love, girl dies: the morbid plots of many operas are an obvious target for feminist revisionism.
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This first-person shooter successfully transplanted the genre from historical battles and sci-fi operas to more immediate and often mundane venues.
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As the newly appointed music director of the Opéra National de Lyon, Mr Rustioni will also conduct German, French, and Russian operas.
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As a franchise, Assassin's Creed often sells itself as meta-textual historical intrigue, but the games themselves are more like soap operas.
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Pickup trucks are replacing bullock-carts, karaoke bars dot lonely two-lane roads, fishermen can catch up on soap-operas at night.
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Elsewhere, he has led operas from Monteverdi to Janacek, but his work at the Met has been squarely in the standard repertory.
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Not long ago, while researching Cather's lifelong love of Wagner's operas, I came across a hitherto unseen trace of Red Cloud's Europeanness.
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The abiding regret is that there is not more of it: Bernstein owed us more than four musicals and three operas. ♦
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Of Philip Glass's many, many operas — 30 or so, depending on how you count — "Akhnaten" may be the most ritualistic and mystical.
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Other institutions turned their backs on the opera star: The Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco and Dallas Operas all canceled scheduled concerts.
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Although it is one of countless operas that end with ritual female death, it is something other than a monument to patriarchy.
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The grand summer event in Austria will mark its centennial with 44 days of operas and concerts, and a dose of modernism.
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All three operas were slated for inclusion in the Met's popular "Live in HD" program, which broadcasts to cinemas around the world.
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The company recently signalled that it will begin to correct this dismal record by commissioning operas from Missy Mazzoli and Jeanine Tesori.
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It was the operas, with their difficult-to-pinpoint emotional ambivalence, that turned Mr. Morris on to Mozart as a young dancer.
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"El Patrón del Mal" joined a wave of narconovelas—soap operas featuring drug traffickers—that are notably less concerned with ethical implications.
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And for people who are interested in the difference between operas and musicals, it ought to be an enlightening and provocative study.
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Daytime soap operas would go dark next, with the impact on scripted comedy and dramas felt later if a strike is prolonged.
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I thought of the soap operas I often heard unfolding on the TV in the apartment next door, the clatter of clichés.
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A single steady salary also didn't seem to hold back a busy cultural life, including frequent trips to Lincoln Center for operas.
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" It would feature history, culture, food, lifestyle, education, arts, sports and music programs, along with soap operas and films — "but nothing political.
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But because the number of operas is comparatively limited, it's as if we're telling stories to children who already know the stories.
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Her sensual, even elemental presence makes her particularly ideal for the daunting mezzo roles that anchor some of Verdi's most important operas.
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Egypt: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is extending his iron grip to a new corner of society: the country's cherished soap operas.
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Mr. Davies attributed that to being freed from the burden of acting, normally part of his responsibility when singing in full operas.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Matt and Becca Hamilton, Olympic curlers from Wisconsin, had a bad habit of turning their matches into soap operas.
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Interspersed are "channel flips" between shorter single-gag clips that take your avatar into sit-coms, soap operas, action movies and infomercials.
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Beyond radio, smuggling USB drives loaded with soap operas, books, and movies into North Korea could reduce dependence on official regime propaganda.
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Still, Americans tuned into Mr. Spicer's pressers in such numbers that their ratings topped the soap operas that shared the time slot.
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"Soap-making ingredient" can be TV CAMERAS if you don't think about the clue as referring to actual soap, but soap operas.
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Those not on cooking or cleaning duty can usually be found lounging across felt-carpeted floors, watching soap operas or doing needlework.
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Glyndebourne is by and large known for top-flight renderings of classic operas, and there is also plenty of that this season.
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Noelle Beck, who has appeared in several soap operas and prime-time television shows, and her husband sold their Gramercy Park townhouse.
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He wrote his Requiem, which had its premiere in 6853, but no operas, to the increasing anxiety of those close to him.
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The Rose+Croix artists' other deity was Wagner, whose long operas, especially the late "Parsifal," treated art itself as a religious practice.
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That goes for Ms. Netrebko, too, who won praise early in her career for taking on some 20th century operas by Prokofiev.
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Franz Liszt did not just write deliciously florid operatic piano transcriptions, but tried his hand at a couple of operas as well.
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" atlas " is one of the great operas of the late twentieth century, and it deserves to travel as widely as its heroine.
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I took my son, then 10 or 11, to see a double bill of short operas at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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These operas are not the types of performances seen at traditional opera venues with their generous budgets, megastars, and perfect-pitch performances.
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It's not often that a late-night fixture gets facetime during the afternoon lineup alongside soap operas and other would-be TV judges.
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In the 1730s the Shakespeare Ladies' Club, a group of aristocratic women, petitioned theatre owners to stage his plays rather than foreign operas.
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While roughly translated in English to 'an opera village in Africa,' within the confines of the space, no operas have taken place—yet.
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Last year, art historian Camille Paglia told Salon that campy, "tear-jerker 'women's pictures' during the Lana Turner era" influenced 1950s soap operas.
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For those who don't track the soap operas of New York State politics, here's a quick recap: Mr. Cuomo was elected in 2010.
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This leads to Riverdale utilizing one of the staples of the best teen soap operas: a slow motion walk through the school hallways.
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And, at one point early in the administration, the press briefings were drawing bigger ratings on some cable channels than daytime soap operas.
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It's a dozen soap operas playing at the same time on a dozen different screens, and you are the star of them all.
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Even after the network lost its government funding after structural economic adjustment, corporate brands continued to sponsor the production of popular soap operas.
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Inside, one encounters articles on Canadian soft power, Latin American soap operas, and Finnish domestic architecture: the casual reading of an armchair diplomat.
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The tenor Antonio Figueroa and the baritone Javier Arrey offered confident portrayals of some of the often agonized male characters in these operas.
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And his long battle to commission more melodic, less esoteric operas — which has sometimes met with resistance from composers and disdain from critics.
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But when you have only a cultural offering for middle-aged people, people from 40 and upwards, with big operas and theaters, etc.
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Even more astounding are the one-act operas "Der Ring des Polykrates" (1914) and "Violanta" (1916), which overflow with effortlessly effective vocal writing.
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As a theater graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. Light announced to her parents that she would not consider working in soap operas.
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The composer-pianist Daniel Schlosberg, who led the "Lucia" in 2016, has a flair for cutting and repurposing famous operas without mangling them.
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All the elders of the neighborhood around Yaowarat Road, Chinatown's main thoroughfare and often referred to as the Golden Road, attend these operas.
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Carl Raymond, a chef and opera buff, will cover the culinary moments depicted in these and other operas in a series of classes.
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We all know, according to soap operas and movies, that real love is all about drama — and liars are drama kings and queens!
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Televisa shares have come under pressure this year as the broadcaster best known for its high-drama soap operas searches for new revenue.
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"Fanciulla," a tale of hardscrabble miners during the California Gold Rush, is, I'm more convinced at each encounter, one of Puccini's finest operas.
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"Written on Skin" was the fruit of a new partnership formed by Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic to mount staged operas.
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