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Which beloved American opera company is urging patrons to keep the faith by hiring a controversial artist as its next General Director?
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Happy 90th birthday tenor George Shirley
In advance of her Metropolitan Opera debut, Chris’s Cache showcases Asmik Grigorian’s versatility with broadcasts of Halévy, Giordano, and Korngold
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Happy 84th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Anja Silja
When my press invite came for the Book of Mountains and Seas, the collaboration between Chinese born contemporary composer Huang Ruo, the vocal ensemble Ars Nova Copenhagen, and master puppeteer and production designer Basil Twist, I was in.
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MET Opera Legend Leona Mitchell Live in Concert
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Opera premieres on this day:
A performance recorded last month from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées conducted by Cristian M?celaru featuring Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, and Jean Teitgen
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Over the weekend, Opera Parallèle, San Francisco’s contemporary opera company, stayed true to their mission of “merging tradition and innovation to re-invent opera for a modern world” as they presented a world premiere double-bill cheekily titled Birds & Balls at SFJazz Center’s Miner Auditorium.
On this day in 1738 Handel‘s Serse premiered in London
Happy 68th birthday soprano Barbara Bonney
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Celebrating 150 years of Strauss‘s opera with a 1986 performance featuring Kiri Te Kanawa, Håkan Hagegård, Judith Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos, David Rendall, and Michael Devlin conducted by Jeffrey Tate
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Nicola Luisotti conducts Alex Esposito, Piero Pretti, Maria Agresta, Kamelia Kader, and Maria Teresa Leva in a live opening night broadcast from Venice
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After a century of searching, the world has perhaps finally found a definitive Magda in ethereal soprano Ailyn Pérez.
By KJ Velz
