Opera News

Is he planning to move into the more diva-esque world of opera ? Is he hoping to replace Pavarotti in our collective conscious?...No, he's doing it as "a tribute to the Lavazza brand values"...The reasoning is all rather convoluted: we...

Opera — aim to ensure that Microsoft does not unfairly influence the decision, said Hakon Wium Lie, the chief technology officer of Opera, based in Oslo. In October, the European Commission tentatively accepted Microsoft’s proposal to give consumers a choice...

Google Chrome and Opera are quietly earning more marketshare.  Norwegian-based Opera recently debuted a new browser, Opera 10 , which brought improved speed compatibility, and some innovative built-in features. Among the most popular of the new browser's features is Opera...

The Firefox browser is hugely popular with Mac computer users and is Microsoft's biggest threat in the tussle for browser supremacy. Firefox software is open source -its software code is publicly available, so developers are free to customise and improve...

Suspecting that their viewership would be down on Thanksgiving, while people watched football games, or inspirational TV movies on The Hallmark Channel, or just screamed at their ungrateful children, last night's show did not advance the game, but was rather...

Last updated on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 3:09AM EST V ancouver Opera's Norma debuts at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Saturday. It's fair to say that in 1963, Vancouver was an operatic backwater. That changed when Vancouver Opera staged what...

Being there...Jan Utzon and the Opera House chief executive, Richard Evans, tour the new wing...Utzon's challenge at Bennelong was to manifest occasion not just without the classical props but within modernism's puritanically anti-grandeur mindset.

The opera's unwieldy and outlandish story, a sprawling pastiche of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, combines almost magically with Offenbach's music to create an enthralling and transporting whole. Opera Colorado will present its first production of this repertory staple in...

Last updated on Monday, Nov. 02, 2009 5:00PM EST I phigénie en Tauride Opera Atelier At the Elgin Theatre in Toronto on Saturday Sometimes second thoughts are better. Opera Atelier has made some changes to its 2003 production of Gluck's...

Any time a new Coen brothers movie opens, it's reason to celebrate. Joel and Ethan Coen's "A Serious Man" is a dark comedy that's now showing at the Miracle 5. The Coens' brilliant career has had but a few missteps,...