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‘All the World’s an Opera Stage!’ — ‘Rigoletto’ and ‘Falstaff’ at the Met:...

“Is This an Opera Which I See Before Me?”Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Rigoletto in Vegas (nytimes.com)December 7, 2013 marked the start of the Metropolitan Opera’s... Read more

The 20 December 2013 by Josmar16
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Villa-Lobos’ ‘Magdalena’ — How to Succeed With a Modern Brazilian Musical by...

“Plan It by the Planets”Magdalena poster art (movimento.com)One weekend in April 2011, I happened by chance to be listening to Heitor Villa-Lobos’ beautiful... Read more

The 14 December 2013 by Josmar16
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Brazil’s Fat Lady Can’t Sing, But She Can Still Do the Bossa Nova (Part One)

An Introduction to my “Personal and Cultural History of Opera, Popular Music, Soccer, Musical Theater and the Cinema in the Land of Carnival and... Read more

The 29 December 2013 by Josmar16
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‘Noël, Noël, Noël’ — It’s the Christmas Opera, Charlie Brown!

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The 27 December 2013 by Josmar16
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Review: Annie Get Your Gun (Light Opera Works)

Cleverly mounted, fast-paced, and plucky as its success story, Light Opera Works’ Annie Get Your Gun is a happy contest between spectacle and sentiment. Read more

The 22 December 2013 by Chicagotheaterbeat
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Review: Winter Pageant (Redmoon Theatre, 2013)

Even with the delightful and not inconsiderable talents of the many youth-oriented amateur dance troupes and The San Andreas Fault providing live music, the... Read more

The 18 December 2013 by Chicagotheaterbeat
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Interval Adventures: Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Staatstheater Wiesbaden Mentioning my passion for opera to new acquaintances has elicited a near-universal comment on how fortunate it is that there are multipl... Read more

The 22 December 2013 by Singingscholar
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Metropolitan Opera Preview: Die Fledermaus

The Met pops the cork on a new production of the Johann Strauss operetta. by Paul J. Pelkonen Susanna Philips and Christopher Maltman lift a glass in Act II of... Read more

The 20 December 2013 by Superconductor
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Review: The Little Prince (Lookingglass Theatre and The Actors Gymnasium)

With an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic tale, Lookingglass joins the melange of Chicago holiday theater fare. The only problem? Read more

The 17 December 2013 by Chicagotheaterbeat
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A Night Divine with James Valenti

James Valenti is a soloist at tonight’s Midnight Mass at St. Patrick’s CathedralHey, New Yorkers, the world-renowned tenor James Valenti will be performing... Read more

The 24 December 2013 by Galegirl
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