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• Missa Solemnis: BSO at Carnegie Hall

  

  For a work of its vast scope and profound subject, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis seemed surprisingly tame in Tuesday night's performance at Carnegie Hall. The... Read more

  The 07 March 2012 by   Singingscholar
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• Opera Review: Everybody Dies

  

  Khovanshchina at the Metropolitan Opera. Olga Borodina tells the future as Marfa in Act II of Khovanshchina On Monday night, the Metropolitan Opera brought... Read more

  The 28 February 2012 by   Superconductor
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• Stark, Stylish, Daring--an Un-tragic Lear

  

  Philippine Daily Inquirer, 02.27.2012 Peta’s production is rendered in brilliant, exceptionally vivid Filipino prose by National Artist for Literature... Read more

  The 26 February 2012 by   Gibbs22manila
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• La Gente Paga: Operas and Their Audiences

  

  Parsifal and Gurnemanz (c) Pach Brothers, NYC, 1903Whether through reports on peanut-eaters at an early twentieth-century Parsifal or on bean-counters at today'... Read more

  The 26 February 2012 by   Singingscholar
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• Review: The 39 Steps

  

  Director Maria Aitken's interpretation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy farce is the most self-aware show I have ever seen.And I mean that in the best... Read more

  The 23 February 2012 by   Antipodeanblog
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• Metropolitan Opera Announces 2012-2013 Season

  

  A slate of six new productions--and no Strauss. Your guide to the coming Metropolitan Opera season: Mr. Roboto.Image from the video for 'Mr. Roboto" by Styx, ... Read more

  The 23 February 2012 by   Superconductor
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• Opera Review: Sin City, Part Two

  

  The second cast takes over in the Met's Don Giovanni. Good old-fashioned lover boy: Gerald Finleyin the Met's 2005 Don Giovanni.Photo by Marty Sohl © 2005... Read more

  The 22 February 2012 by   Superconductor
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• È'un Fior Che Nasce e Muore: NYCO Traviata

  

  David Pomeroy (Alfredo) and Laquita Mitchell (Violetta) Photo (c) Pavel AntonovNew York City Opera, now peripatetic, but at least functioning, has started its... Read more

  The 17 February 2012 by   Singingscholar
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• Enrico Caruso, The Pop Idol

  

  image credit Enrico Caruso (1873 - 1921) was an Italian tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America,... Read more

  The 15 February 2012 by   Gerard
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• Opera Review: Blood, Breakfast and Broken Hearts

  

  Opera Manhattan presents Women on the Verge. Francois Poulenc's La voix humaine was featured at Opera Manhattan. With the vast and diverse opera scene in Ne... Read more

  The 13 February 2012 by   Superconductor
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