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  • Concert Review: The Emersons' Endgame

    Concert Review: Emersons' Endgame

    At Mostly Mozart: Final quartets from four composers. String theory: Philip Setzer, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton and David Finckel. Ladies and gentlemen,... Read more

    The 16 August 2011 by   Superconductor
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  • Tosca: La Cosa Bramata Perseguo

    Tosca: Cosa Bramata Perseguo

    Il convegno: Hempstead House The Tosca I attended on Saturday evening was the first performance in the North Shore Music Festival's inaugural season. I enjoyed... Read more

    The 14 August 2011 by   Singingscholar
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  • Metropolitan Opera Preview: Götterdämmerung

    Metropolitan Opera Preview: Götterdämmerung

    Boy leaves girl. Boy forgets girl. Girl gets boy killed. World ends. Torch song tetralogy: Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde in Götterdämmerung. Photo by Brigitte... Read more

    The 14 August 2011 by   Superconductor
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  • Merola Opera: Where Future Stars Get Loads of Training and TLC

    Merola Opera: Where Future Stars Loads Training

    25 Young Artists. 7 Performances. And individual training, training, training galore. The Merola Opera Program is the training and performance program for... Read more

    The 10 August 2011 by   Galegirl
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  • Mozart, Beyond: "Jupiter" and Vesperae Solennes De Confessore

    Mozart, Beyond: "Jupiter" Vesperae Solennes Confessore

    Iván Fischer, in a recent interview, offered the following paradoxical definition of Mozart's work: that it lies beyond categorization. This might seem closer t... Read more

    The 10 August 2011 by   Singingscholar
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  • James Bond Vs. The Philharmonic

    James Bond Philharmonic

    Roger Moore as 007, getting ready to commute across the Piazza San Marco in an inflatable gondola. Photo © 1979 EON Productions/DANJAQ S.A./MGM Studios/United... Read more

    The 09 August 2011 by   Superconductor
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  • Don Giovanni

    Giovanni

    The man, the myth, the opera: approaching Don Giovanni is no easy task.  But "approach" is too timid a verb for what the Budapest Festival Orchestra... Read more

    The 08 August 2011 by   Singingscholar
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  • The 2011-2012 Metropolitan Opera Season Preview

    2011-2012 Metropolitan Opera Season Preview

    After spending the summer in deep negotiations with the various unions that make up the staff of the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center' sole remaining... Read more

    The 07 August 2011 by   Superconductor
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  • Manahan Overboard!

    Manahan Overboard!

    City Opera Drops Music Director Former City Opera music director George Manahan. Photo by Nan Melville courtesy Columbia Artists Management (CAMI) The New Yor... Read more

    The 03 August 2011 by   Superconductor
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  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

    Guess Who's Coming Dinner?

    The Strange Case of Don Giovanni. "A work without blemish, of uninterrupted perfection." --Søren Kierkegaard, on Don Giovanni Il dissoluto punito. Act II of... Read more

    The 02 August 2011 by   Superconductor
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