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Metropolitan Opera presents semi-staged `Turandot' after stage malfunction: NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera was forced to stage a semi-staged ...
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Metropolitan Opera presents semi-staged `Turandot' after stage ...
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Four Years After Covid-19 Shutdown, Are Audiences Back?: Covid brought live performance to a halt. Now the audience for pop concerts and sporting events has ...
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Four Years After Covid-19 Shutdown, Are Audiences Back?
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James Conlon to exit as L.A. Opera music director in 2026: James Conlon will step down as music director of L.A. Opera in 2026, the year Gustavo Dudamel leaves L ...
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James Conlon to exit as L.A. Opera music director in 2026
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Kate’s taking opera to the last place on Earth anyone expected: Brisbane-based Eurovision star Kate Miller-Heidke, who began her career as an operatic soprano ...
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Kate’s taking opera to the last place on Earth anyone expected
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30 years after firing, a soprano returns to the Met Opera for a recital: NEW YORK (AP) — Soprano Kathleen Battle is returning to the Metropolitan Opera for a ...
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30 years after firing, a soprano returns to the Met Opera for a recital
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On This Day, March 13: Pope Francis selected to lead Catholic Church - UPI.com: On March 13, 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, a Jesuit ...
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Singer returns to Detroit Opera House stage to rouse memories with music: Lauren Wagner, who has dementia, revealed glimmers of her old self with each song ...
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Singer returns to Detroit Opera House stage to rouse memories with music
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Opera Review: The Metropolitan Opera’s La Forza del Destino: Under Mariusz Treliński’s direction, the Met’s new production of Verdi’s ‘La Forza del Destino’ ...
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Opera Review: The Metropolitan Opera’s La Forza del Destino
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Seiji Ozawa, a captivating, transformative conductor, dies at 88: Seiji Ozawa, the high-spirited Japanese conductor who took the Western classical music world by ...
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Seiji Ozawa, a captivating, transformative conductor, dies at 88
Quick Glance: Conductor Seiji Ozawa Passes Away at Age 88
  • Served as music director of Vienna State Opera from 2002 to 2010.

  • Founder of Japan's Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival.

  • In 2022, conducted festival after three-year hiatus.

  • Instrumental in Boston Symphony Orchestra's global stature.
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Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, soprano who starred in ‘Diva,’ dies at 75: Her performance in French director Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 film entranced ...
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Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, soprano who starred in ‘Diva,’ dies at 75
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Review: ‘Matchbox Magic Flute’ is a chance to see Mary Zimmerman’s magic up close
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Superstar Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu releases new Puccini album: Opera star Angela Gheorghiu released a new album to mark the 100th anniversary of the ...
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Superstar Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu releases new Puccini album
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A Pulitzer Prize Winning Opera Composer Shares His Creative Process: From the seed of an idea to the stage at The Met.
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A Pulitzer Prize Winning Opera Composer Shares His Creative Process
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Famed South Philadelphia soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, star of ‘Diva,’ dies at 75
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Famed South Philadelphia soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez ...
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At 90, Palos Verdes Peninsula opera legend Marilyn Horne recalls her local youth and global fame
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At 90, Palos Verdes Peninsula opera legend Marilyn Horne recalls her local ...
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Review: ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ at Seattle Opera is unflinching: Anthony Davis' opera puts authentic Black culture front and center ...
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Review: ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ at Seattle Opera is ...
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Review: ‘Champion’ at Lyric Opera delivers the full force of a boxer’s painful story
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A Frugal Opera Superfan’s Surprise Gift: $1.7 Million for the Arts: Lois Kirschenbaum, who died in 2021, made the donations to cultural groups from unexpectedly ...
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A Frugal Opera Superfan’s Surprise Gift: $1.7 Million for the Arts
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Malcolm X production marks a first for Seattle Opera’s mainstage: Newly revised, Anthony Davis’ 1986 epic "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" is the ...
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Malcolm X production marks a first for Seattle Opera’s mainstage
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A ‘hidden figure’ no more. Meet NC native who founded nation’s first Black opera company
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A ‘hidden figure’ no more. Meet NC native who founded nation’s first Black ...
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Patt Morrison: Was L.A.'s Ellen Beach Yaw the proto-Taylor Swift?: She toured the world wowing audiences, and she captured the public's imagination for decades ...
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Patt Morrison: Was L.A.'s Ellen Beach Yaw the proto-Taylor Swift?
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, boygenius, and Tye Tribbett are Philly-connected Grammy winners
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, boygenius, and Tye Tribbett are Philly-connected ...
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Passing the torch: Calgary Opera will offer two versions of light comedy, The Elixir of Love
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Q&A: Voices of Rodolfo and Mimi in ‘La Bohème’ make their debut in Atlanta: This story was originally published by ArtsATL.
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Q&A: Voices of Rodolfo and Mimi in ‘La Bohème’ make their debut in Atlanta
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Courtney Garland Iglehart, educational administrator and opera aficionado, dies: Courtney Garland Iglehart, an educational administrator and opera aficionado ...
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Courtney Garland Iglehart, educational administrator and opera aficionado ...
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One of the greatest successes in opera history: “Carmen” live and directly from the Met on Star Movie - Ste
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One of the greatest successes in opera history: “Carmen” live and directly ...
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Opera Review: A Maybe-Midwestern Carmen With No Ticket Out: Review of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bizet’s ‘Carmen,’ starring Rafael Davila and ...
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Opera Review: A Maybe-Midwestern Carmen With No Ticket Out
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On this day in 1955, Marian Anderson became the first African American soloist to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City ... Show more
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23 Classical-Music Performances We Can’t Wait to Hear in 2024: Critic Justin Davidson recommends the most exciting classical music programming at a variety of ...
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23 Classical-Music Performances We Can’t Wait to Hear in 2024
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'The Gilded Age' Could Be America's Premier Period Drama. Here's What It Needs.: The HBO series has so much potential, but it falls short when compared with ...
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The Price Of The Good Life: Here’s How Much More Expensive It’s Gotten To Live Like A Billionaire
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5 Operas You Can Stream at Home: This selection of works, available to rent and purchase, features some of today’s boldest directors and greatest vocal talents.
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5 Operas You Can Stream at Home
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Fireworks at the Opera House: Inside the Metropolitan Opera’s New Year’s Eve Gala
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New Trier alumnus sings with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera: New Trier Township High School graduate Matthew Polenzani has come a long way as a ...
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Teen shot outside Upper West Side NYCHA building steps from Lincoln Center: The 15-year-old boy was shot outside the Amsterdam Houses on W. 62nd St ...
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Teen shot outside Upper West Side NYCHA building steps from Lincoln Center
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Trinity Church’s ‘Messiah’ Is Still the Gold Standard: The church’s urgent and eloquent version of Handel’s classic oratorio remains an inspired communal rite.
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Trinity Church’s ‘Messiah’ Is Still the Gold Standard
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Maria Callas: The soprano of the century: One hundred years after her birth, Maria Callas still commands attention in the world of opera ...
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Maria Callas: The soprano of the century
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Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ shines at Budapest’s restored opera house: Budapest’s Opera House completed years of restoration in 2022 and now stands in its original 1884 ...
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Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ shines at Budapest’s restored opera house
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January Is Experimental-Theatre Month: Also: New Year’s Eve at the Met Opera, Noche Flamenca, Frankie Cosmos, and more.
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January Is Experimental-Theatre Month
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Renée Fleming uses her soprano to amplify the healing power of music : Renée Fleming, “the people’s diva,” will receive the Kennedy Center Honors for a legacy ...
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Renée Fleming uses her soprano to amplify the healing power of music
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»Tannhäuser« by Wagner: Climate activists interrupt performance at the Metropolitan Opera
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»Tannhäuser« by Wagner: Climate activists interrupt performance at the ...
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor: ‘Opera bores you at first, but in return, it offers you deeper pleasures. It’s like tantric sex’
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From 'Tár' to 'Maestro,’ a surge of movies about classical music: Over the past year, composers and conductors such as Leonard Bernstein have become favored ...
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From 'Tár' to 'Maestro,’ a surge of movies about classical music
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Top Seattle-area classical music picks for early 2024: Here's a range of classical music events to choose from for the first few months of the year.
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Top Seattle-area classical music picks for early 2024
Quick Glance: Seattle's Best Classical Music Early 2024
  • Recognized as the top music presenter in the region for 2023, the Seattle Chamber Music Society impresses.

  • Jan. 26-28 and Feb. 2-4; Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle; Tickets $30-$65; Subscriptions and streaming options available; Free prelude recital precedes each concert; seattlechambermusic.org

  • Cappella Romana has established a solid niche with their unique performances of Byzantine chant and Greek and Russian Orthodox sacred music.

  • Feb. 24-March 9; Seattle Opera at McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle; Tickets starting at $35; Visit the website for related events, including a discussion with Davis; seattleopera.org
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Finding a place at the Met, this opera sings in a language of its own: Florencia gives star Ailyn Pérez a rare chance to sing in Spanish. As the bilingual ...
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Finding a place at the Met, this opera sings in a language of its own
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Finding a place at the Met, this opera sings in a language of its own: Florencia gives star Ailyn Pérez a rare chance to sing in Spanish. As the bilingual ...
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Finding a place at the Met, this opera sings in a language of its own
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www.facebook.com/jjorlinski/videos/1319336838767363 In a light-hearted promotion of its new release Maestro starring Bradley Cooper, Netflix has enlisted the help of Polish opera star Jakub Józef Orliński ... Show more
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‘Dirty Dancing,’ Religious Dramas and Opera Singers Are Saving the Movies: Theaters embrace alternative content from old films to musicals to fill seats as ...
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‘Dirty Dancing,’ Religious Dramas and Opera Singers Are Saving the Movies
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Artist of the Year: Superb soprano Pretty Yende hits a high note: Pretty Yende is an artist at the height of her powers, crooning for no less than a king.
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Artist of the Year: Superb soprano Pretty Yende hits a high note
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New York's Met stages Spanish opera for first time in nearly a century. "Florencia en el Amazonas" is a magical realist telling of an opera diva's ... Show more
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24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023: Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual ...
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24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023
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Year in review: 5 music highlights 2023: Beyonce, Anthony Davis, blink-182, Laura Chavez and Earl Thomas
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This Ballet Dancer Needed a Side Hustle When the Pandemic Stopped Performances. So She Spun Her Unique Skill Set Into a 6-Figure Business.
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'The Gilded Age': Kelley Curran Says Turner Would be "Devastated" Knowing George Switched Her Opera Box But Morgan Spector Says Turner "Doesn’t Matter" to ...
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'The Gilded Age': Kelley Curran Says Turner Would be
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How 'The Gilded Age' Season 2 Finale Pulled Off Its Massive Metropolitan Opera House Reveal
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How 'The Gilded Age' Season 2 Finale Pulled Off Its Massive Metropolitan ...
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The Worst Show on Television Is Back on HBO. I Can’t Wait to Watch It All.: The Gilded Age’s first season was excruciating. Viewers loved—and loved hating—it ...
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The Worst Show on Television Is Back on HBO. I Can’t Wait to Watch It All.