A funny thing happened on the way to the convent. Manon Lescaut, a pretty little girl with a taste for pretty things, became sidetracked by a pretty young man.
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Stunning victory for long-awaited War and Peace
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Vienna director sick, but good music saves opera
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New Opera? Great Idea. Good Luck!
The following are performances of major operas by W. A.
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Works of W.A. Mozart
It is with a heavy heart that we leave the theater, knowing all too well its incendiary concerns are still very much with us.
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Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: Doctor Atomic: Opera Goes Nuclear (HuffingtonPost)
Among the recent releases on DVD of Rolf Liebermann’s productions of operas from the Hamburg Opera conceived for television in the late 1960s, Beethoven’s Fidelio is impressive for the use of the medium of film to bring out the personal aspects of this intensive opera.
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Some said the spacey-sexy, rock-soul trio was ahead of its times in the ’70s, but a new album, ‘Back to Now,’ from Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash may find its audience in ‘08. THE METROPOLITAN Opera House in New York was invaded by aliens on Sunday, Oct. 6, 1974.
Some said the spacey-sexy, rock-soul trio was ahead of its times in the ’70s, but a new album, ‘Back to Now,’ from Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash may find its audience in ‘08. THE METROPOLITAN Opera House in New York was invaded by aliens on Sunday, Oct. 6, 1974
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Labelle’s future is ‘Now’ (Los Angeles Times)
For the opening of the 2008/09 season at ENO, Richard Jones has teamed up with two separate theatrical writers, Sean O’Brien and Lee Hall, to create unique new versions of the repertoire’s most famous double bill.
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Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci — English National Opera, London Coliseum
