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• An Angel Or a Demon? Both.

  

  imgIt's hard not to notice her flaming red hair and amazingly capable body when she floats over the stage defining all the rules of gravity and human... Read more

  The 29 October 2012 by   Livingnotes
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• The Wedding's Off

  

  Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall shut doors for Hurricane Sandy. Monday night's performance of Le Nozze di Figaro starring Ildar Abrazakov (top) in the title... Read more

  The 28 October 2012 by   Superconductor
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• Metropolitan Opera Preview: Le Nozze Di Figaro

  

  The Met revives Jonathan Miller's production. by Paul J. Pelkonen Ildar Abdrazakov as Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro.Photo by Karin Cooper © 2010 Washington... Read more

  The 25 October 2012 by   Superconductor
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• Opera Review: Practical Magic

  

  Thomas Àdes' The Tempest opens at the Met. by Paul J. Pelkonen Ariel--aerialist: Audrey Luna flies high in The Tempest.Photo by Ken Howard © 2012 The... Read more

  The 24 October 2012 by   Superconductor
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• AUDIO - Concert in Chicago, Oct 21

  

  I listened to the entire radio broadcast (including Bartok's Concert for orchestra that I don't get to listen to very often) of Solti's Centennial Concert that... Read more

  The 22 October 2012 by   Irinastanescu
  

• Happy 100th! Celebrating Solti with the World Orchestra for Peace

  

  Friday night at Carnegie Hall featured an all-star lineup in the imposingly named Solti Centennial Celebration, with commentary by Lady Valerie Solti, a note... Read more

  The 20 October 2012 by   Singingscholar
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• Review: The Arsonists (Trap Door Theatre)

  

  No doubt, their latest production of The Arsonists is important, and impressive. But this bourgeois parable reimagined with European Clowning technique isn’t al... Read more

  The 16 October 2012 by   Chicagotheaterbeat
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• Lisa Macuja's 'Swan Song Series' Continues with Giselle and Carmen

  

  After portraying the fiery Kitri in “Don Quixote”, prima ballerina Lisa Macuja Elizalde continues the second year of her Swan Song Series with her last... Read more

  The 15 October 2012 by   Gibbs22manila
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• Wagner and Strauss with the Met Orchestra: Sausendes, Brausendes Rad Der Zeit

  

  Der Saengerkreis, Moritz von Schwind (c. 1845-55)The Met Orchestra's generous matinee concert at Carnegie Hall could have been (cheekily) subtitled "A Shor... Read more

  The 15 October 2012 by   Singingscholar
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• Orientale: Orientalism Goes Meta with Monteverdi

  

  Gotham Chamber Opera's advertisement of "an evening of music at the intersection of East and West" had me concerned as well as intrigued. Who would be... Read more

  The 02 October 2012 by   Singingscholar
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