Opera

=== News - 25 new results for [Opera] ===

Santa Fe Opera's chief conductor resigns
Wall Street Journal
Opera General Director Charles Mackay said Tuesday that Chaslin was leaving
because he wants to focus on composing, and has a busy schedule of concerts
and a recording project as music director of the Jerusalem Symphony
Orchestra. The opera has ...
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MTA bus driver Christopher Dolan sings opera for passengers - at their 
request
New York Daily News
The $2.25 fare to ride on Christopher Dolan's bus might also buy you a bit
of opera. The 30-year MTA veteran studies sheet music during breaks and
performs for passengers upon request. "I always have some music out when
I'm stopped at the end of the ...
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Miami-based Florida Grand Opera names Susan Danis as CEO
MiamiHerald.com
"Susan knows opera and opera management as well as anyone I have ever
spoken to," he said. "She exudes enthusiasm for opera, she has a
contagious love of the arts and she knows the management side so well and
speaks so eloquently about the issues ...
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The Dicapo Opera Theatre and "The Miracle of E. 76th Street"
Huffington Post (blog)
In a city that has less and less truly artistic venues, The Dicapo Opera
Theatre is an example of the finest New York has to offer for both the
uninitiated and the connoisseur. The size of the theater is intimate and
comfortable, yet spacious enough ...
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Opera review: 'The Face' raises pertinent questions
Los Angeles Times
It took seven years for "The Face," a new opera by composer Donald Crockett
and poet David St. John, to get from its inception to its world-premiere
staging at the Aratani/Japan America Theatre on Saturday night — and when
three of its characters sing ...
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Review: Stockhausen's 'Mittwoch' is otherworldly in Birmingham
Los Angeles Times
BIRMINGHAM, England — Who would be crazy enough to write an opera called
"Wednesday" and require for one scene that four noisy helicopters — real
choppers like the ones that drive us to distraction at the Hollywood Bowl
— fly over the theater with ...
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Arias for the Opera Virgin
Huffington Post
Opera can seem intimidating to some. Then again, anything unfamiliar can
sometimes be off-putting. At one point in life, tying shoelaces probably
appeared to be highly complex -- an impossible feat, even -- but now it's
something you find natural and ...
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Apes on helium sound like opera singers, scientists discover
Fox News
Gibbons effortlessly use the same techniques as professional opera singers
when calling out to other animals, scientists found by listening to the
squeaky songs of one of the apes on helium. The Japanese study provides
evidence for an unusual ...
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LA Opera holding Twitter contest to honor Placido Domingo
Los Angeles Times
Plácido Domingo will create his 140th operatic role when he debuts next
month in Verdi's "The Two Foscari" at Los Angeles Opera. To note the
occasion, the company is hosting a Twitter contest in which it will give
away a performance package that ...
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SF Opera replaces Rigoletto's Lomeli with Demuro and Chacon-Cruz as the duke
Examiner.com
San Francisco Opera's season opener and Opera at the Ballpark feature,
Verdi's Rigoletto, will feature tenors Francesco Demuro and Arturo
Chacon-Cruz as the Duke of Mantua, replacing David Lomeli who has withdrawn
for personal reasons. Each tenor ...
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Opera singer faces death while deep sea diving for gold in the Bering Sea
Fox News
What do you do when you are a 24-year-old, struggling female opera singer?
If you're Emily Riedel, you risk your life diving and digging for gold in
the harrowing Bering Sea outside of Nome, Alaska. One moment Riedel was in
Vienna pursuing her passion ...
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Opera Saratoga announced 2012 season
Albany Times Union (blog)
The 2012 season ended just weeks ago, but Opera Saratoga is already looking
ahead. The company announced their 2013 season with offerings including new
productions of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" and Gilbert &
Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore." ...
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SF Opera season study guide
San Francisco Chronicle
Compared with previous seasons, the San Francisco Opera's fall schedule is
foreshortened in terms of repertoire. As a cost-cutting strategy, general
director David Gockley has divided the usual number of performances over a
mere five productions - two ...
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To The Opera House — And Beyond!
NPR (blog)
I don't typically expect to read stories about classical music on iO9, the
Gawker-owned website dedicated to science and science fiction. After all,
their tagline is WE COME FROM THE FUTURE. But I found an intriguing post by
Joe Drew that posits the ...
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Lori Harrison, SF Opera prop master
San Francisco Chronicle
In the Opera's armory property room, Harrison recalls the making of a prop
sword years ago. Harrison and her team of 16 workers acquire props or
create them by hand. Photo: Brant Ward, The Chronicle / SF. In the Opera's
armory property room, Harrison ...
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Met Opera to Preserve Rush Tickets
New York Times
When Agnes Varis, a Metropolitan Opera board member and benefactor, died a
year ago, the company lost the person who paid for its heavily discounted
rush ticket program. ArtsBeat · Breaking news about the arts, coverage of
live events, critical reviews ...
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Opera singer raised in Ferndale to sing at Republican National Convention
TheNewsTribune.com
Ferndale-raised opera singer Frank Hernandez will set foot on one of the
summer's largest stages this week when his vocal ensemble SEVEN performs
both the opening and closing songs on the final day of the Republican
National Convention. Hernandez ...
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Operas about pop-culture figures don't delve deep
Philadelphia Inquirer
Anna Nicole, premiered last year by the Royal Opera at Covent Garden with a
first-class score by Mark-Anthony Turnage and a cast featuring such stars
as Eva-Maria Westbroek and Gerald Finley, is a fantasia on America's
excessive pop culture, ...
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Classical Music and Opera Listings for Aug. 24-30
New York Times
Full reviews of recent classical performances: nytimes.com/classical.
Opera. ☆ Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble (Friday through Sunday) This scrappy
company matches a repertory standard with something a little rarer for its
summer season: Bizet's "Carmen" on ...
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'Dialogues des Carmélites,' by Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble
New York Times
Poulenc's solemn, shattering 1957 opera "Dialogues des Carmélites" is
about a novice in an order of Carmelite nuns doomed by the anticlerical
extremism of the French Revolution. The young woman, Blanche, struggles
mightily with the rigors of the life ...
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Opera Tampa converts upcoming season into Florida Opera Festival
Tampabay.com
That's just one of the enticements Opera Tampa has in store for its
inaugural Florida Opera Festival, scheduled for January through March. For
its 18th season, the opera will expand its range of events with open
rehearsals, a holiday concert, opera ...
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Operatic Clarinet and Episodic Mass at Mostly Mozart
WQXR Radio (blog)
As David Wright notes in his program notes, Mozart's Concerto for
Clarinet—written in 1791, the final year of his life and carrying similar
tonal qualities to the same year's La Clemenza di Tito—bears "the
dramatic timing of an opera master," and ...
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Lyric Opera's new general director relishes KC's flourishing arts scene
Kansas City Star
But the reason they are, in the view of the new general director of the
Lyric Opera of Kansas City, may be the most significant thing about this
sunbaked prairie town: Its determined support of its arts institutions and
utter defiance of a tattered ...
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Opera singer Andrew De Leon stunned by Sharon Osbourne on 'America's Got ...
Examiner.com
Andrew De Leon's individuality, including his make up and seeming goth
look, came into question on "America's Got Talent" Tuesday. Following a
standing ovation and praise from judges including Howie Mandel, Sharon
Osbourne stunned De Leon and ...
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Opera singer denies rumours of affair with Beckham
AsiaOne
Opera singer denies rumours of affair with Beckham. Tweet. Katherine
Jenkins, British singer. The New Paper Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012. I did not
have an affair with Becks. Opera singer Katherine Jenkins made sure that
everyone understood that on Thursday.
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=== Blogs - 10 new results for [Opera] ===

Santa Fe Opera's Chief Conductor Suddenly Resigns - ArtsJournal
Santa Fe Opera's Chief Conductor Suddenly Resigns "[Frédéric] Chaslin's
departure did not appear to have been anticipated. ... Chaslin informed the
company of his decision shortly after the summer opera season ended on
August 25, and ...
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ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News - Music
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Talent Pool: Symphony and opera chorus, dance and theater ...
Salt Lake Symphonic Winds The Salt Lake Symphonic Winds will hold auditions
for its 2012-13 season, which runs from September to May.
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All - The Salt Lake Tribune
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Strange Issue in Wikipedia - Opera browser - Opera Community
Strange Issue in Wikipedia. Wikipedia has, in some articles, a small globe
icon to the right that expands a small map below it. In Opera, and only on
some articles, the map is shown at the bottom of the page (at first I
though it didn't worked), but ...
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My Opera Forum: Opera browser
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help me. I can't use input method in opera - Opera for *nix - Linux ...
[yhy@IrLap ~]$ pmap $(pidof opera)|grep im b60c0000 24K r-x--
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so b60c6000 4K r----
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so b60c7000 4K rw---
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so ...
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Option to close misbehaving tab if Opera freezes - Desktop wish-list ...
Sometimes, Opera is not responding, and it's usually because of some
heavily laden Javascript page, like Facebook, or others doing updates in
the background. It would be nice if Opera could tell you which tab was
having the problem, and ...
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My Opera Forum: Desktop wish-list
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Shift of Power an Electro Opera | Elektro
By Jessikah Smith
With EDM becoming so popular in the last year, there is literally not one
category of entertainment that electronic music hasn't infiltrated, except
for.
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Len Lye: The Opera, by Eve de Castro-Robinson and Roger ...
By Morgan.J
Len Lye: The Opera is as striking and original as the artist deserves, says
librettist Roger Horrocks.
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New Zealand Listener
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Re: The future of opera - LISTSERV 15.5 - OPERA-L Archives
By Lloyd William Hanson
Paragraph One; Have you ever found a coach who actually coached singers in
a real live opera house? They exist and they are a great resource but their
"expertise" is primarily in the roles they have coached and few coaches
have ...
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Opera 10.52 + Flash 10.3 + KernelEx - MSFN Forum
Hello. Well, I'm using the last version of KernelEX, Opera 10.52 and Flash
Player 10.3 in order to get Youtube videos running. I Can run it unde...
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Virtual Opera Rehearsals with Bandcamp
By Sabrina Pena Young
Libertaria: The Virtual Opera is wrapping up its final stage of music
production. The talented cast members have worked on two virtual rehearsal
albums for the sci-fi animated opera, and I am finishing up the final
rehearsal album for the cast.
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Contemporary Classical Composer...
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=== Web - 10 new results for [Opera] ===

Opera Desktop Team - 12.02 RC1
The final release of Opera 12.02 is almost upon us. In fact this might just
be it! wink. Since we are at Release Candidate stage now, we are only
interested in ...
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The Speight Age (and after) at Seattle Opera | Crosscut.com
Speight Jenkins, who has creatively shaped Seattle Opera for 29 years, will
retire in 2014. What might his successor look like?
<http://crosscut.com/2012/08/23/arts/110146/seattle-opera-speight-jenkins-retire-successor/>

Taking opera's pulse - Classical Beat - The Washington Post
A discussion on NPR about the current state of opera is also a reminder: it
takes vocal ...
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Opera Desktop Team - Even more new Core features in 12.50
Even more new Core features in 12.50. By Haavardhaavard. Tuesday, August 28
, 2012 12:00:00 PM. We've finally got another 12.50 snapshot for you, and
once ...
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Seattle Opera Contemplates A Major Transition (And Its - ArtsJournal
"Alas, looked at long term, one finds that Seattle Opera has not just one
shortfall year to weather this year but chronic, structural problems that
began seven ...
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Venice Opera
Immerse yourself in the culture of this fabulous city with a night of
Opera. Small, intimate, or grand, choose from the list of recommended
performances below.
<http://www.classictic.com/en/special/venice-opera/>

B&B's Flannery Staying! | Soap Opera Digest
Original cast member Susan Flannery (Stephanie) reportedly asked to be
written out of B&B after 25 years, but the show managed to work out a new
deal with ...
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Obituary: Ex-opera singer Emogene Turtle was devoted to music ...
Emogene Marjorie Turtle, who taught music in Sacramento after an exciting
but demanding career as an opera singer, died Aug. 13 of age-related
complications ...
<http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/24/4753420/obituary-ex-opera-singer-emogene.html>

Gibbons on helium sing like opera stars - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: LONDON (Reuters) - Gibbons are jungle divas. The small
apes use the same technique to project their songs through the forests of
...
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YouTube - Mozart Opera Rock - YouTube
Quand le rideau tombe - Mozart L'opera Rock (Chanson AG Pascal Gymnasium)
NEK1970 297 views 6 months ago (Denise als Engel) Aus dem Musical ...
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