Topic: OPERA
He's a terrible old rogue - but to opera composers, he's irresistible. THE GUARDIAN's Tim Ashley on the deathless appeal of Falstaff
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Monday, 13 February 2006
Topic: OPERA
When the appointment of Peter Gelb as the next general manager of the Metropolitan Opera was announced in 2004, die-hard opera buffs who knew of him as a crossover king in the recording industry were predictably dismayed. What would he do at the Met? Commission an opera from James ("Titanic") Horner? Cast Charlotte Church as Lucia di Lammermoor?
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Saturday, 28 January 2006
Topic: OPERA
Sheep Reared on Diet of Italian Opera Produce World's Finest, Most Expensive, Wool ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
Topic: OPERA Birgit Nilsson will be honored at a memorial tribute presented by the Metropolitan Opera Guild at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on May 23.
Nilsson, who sang at the Met from 1959-83, died Dec. 25 at age 87. She sang 222 performances of 16 roles at the Met
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Monday, 23 January 2006
Topic: OPERA
My son is five years old and has started to take a real interest in opera. Although he's never seen any we listen to it on the radio and on CD together and he's seen bits on TV; but what really seems to have triggered it was a singing lesson at school. He came back from school trying to sing in an "opera-style" voice and sang like that for a week or two and proclaimed his love of opera! Maybe it sounds absurd, but it's true and I am very keen to take him to see an opera as I really love it myself. So I am wondering if there is any opera suitable for him. Can you help, please?
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Sunday, 22 January 2006
Topic: OPERA
Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado premiered at London's Savoy theatre on March 14 1885. With songs such as Three Little Maids, Tit-Willow, and A Wand'ring Minstrel and characters including the lovelorn hero Nanki-Poo and the lovely Yum-Yum, it's still one of our best loved comic operas, but it's the hapless Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner of Titipu, and his little list of citizens marked for speedy dispatch to a better place that we remember best today. ...LINK to complete news story
Friday, 13 January 2006
Topic: OPERA
New S.F. Opera Chief Gockley Announces Ambitious '06-07 Season; Glass World Premiere; American Ring ...LINK to complete news story
Saturday, 7 January 2006
Topic: OPERA
Metropolitan Opera Receives Record $25 Million Gift from Board's Managing Director, Mercedes Bass - Marks Single Largest Gift From Individual in Company's 123-Year History ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: OPERA A poet, priest and womaniser, who ended his days as a grocer, he also wrote the words to some of the greatest operas. On the eve of Mozart's 250th anniversary, Anthony Holden looks at the colourful life of his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: OPERA
Boston Lyric Opera has been forced to cancel two free performances of Aida, which it had planned to stage in September 2006 in Boston Common, after the company was unable to secure sufficient corporate support to cover the costs of showing the opera. The announcement comes three years after Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Carmen, also shown in the Common for free, drew some 140,000 people.
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Saturday, 17 December 2005
Prominent Arts Figures Call for Resignation of English National Opera Chairman Martin Smith Topic: OPERA
English National Opera chairman Martin Smith, a contentious and widely-disdained figure at the helm of the long-embattled company's administration, has reportedly faced an onslaught of calls for his resignation following the ousting two weeks ago of artistic director and chief executive Sean Doran. ...LINK to complete news story
Saturday, 10 December 2005
Topic: OPERA
Following a week in which English National Opera's board of directors severed ties with its much-maligned chief executive officer/artistic director Sean Doran after two tumultuous years at the helm of the opera, the organization is facing another possibly crippling crisis as it finds its staff currently threatening to strike after condemning what they perceive as an insufficient pay offer. ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 6 December 2005
Topic: OPERA
On December 10, the Lyric Opera of Chicago will audition non-speaking supernumeraries for its new production of Verdi's Rigoletto. On the company's ambitious wish list: "Adonis-like" men, attractive young women with no objection to appearing topless, and "men of short stature" with "gymnastics or tumbling skills." ...LINK to complete news story
Sunday, 4 December 2005
Now Playing: Opera Casting Call Lists Odd Requirements Topic: OPERA
An unusual want ad circulated in Chicago this weekend, seeking "courtesans, kidnappers, guards, society women, a nobleman's daughter, and others." ...LINK to complete news story
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Birgit Nilsson will be honored at a memorial 
A poet, priest and womaniser, who ended his days as a 
