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Elisabeth Soderstrom, Revered Swedish Soprano, Dies at 82
Stockholm :: Sweden | about 2 hours ago
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Her death came after several years of complications from a stroke, said the Swedish mezzo-soprano Kerstin Meyer, her friend and colleague, speaking by phone from Stockholm...Soderstrom was admired by opera lovers around the world, notably in Sweden and...
Tags: Ms. Soderstrom, Mozart, Stockholm, Marschallin, der rosenkavalier, Strauss, Sweden, Elisabeth Sￃﾶderstrￃﾶm, Soubrette, Opera, Mezzo-soprano, Singing, Voice types, Vocal music, Entertainment Culture
Between Two Worlds Festival and Rumpelstiltskin | Classical review
Birmingham :: United Kingdom | about 6 hours ago
Credibility David Sawer's Rumpelstiltskin. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Mind-blowing is one of those expressions best allowed out every five years at most. This quinquennial airing greets the UK premiere of Alfred Schnittke's extraordinary The History of D Johann...
Tags: Alfred Schnittke, Rumpelstiltskin Royal Festival Hall, United Kingdom, Birmingham, Vladimir Jurowski, David Sawer, Opera, Entertainment Culture
The Phantom of the Opera: A timeless story of seduction and despair
Opera :: Italy | about 11 hours ago
Credibility A timeless story of seduction and despair �Simply spectacular!�, �It takes your breath away!�, �Moving and dramatic!�, �I�ve never seen anything like it!�, �Phantastically magnificent!�, and �Breathtakingly beautiful!� -- Zena Sultana Babao, Light and...
Tags: Italy, Opera, Phantom, Despair, The Phantom of the Opera, Phantom of the Opera, SS Sultana
Renee Fleming: a diva for the masses
Rochester :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Fleming has been described as "the Great American Soprano" and "the people's diva," heavy monikers. But then, over the past two decades, few singers have combined majesty of voice and true charisma as has Fleming...She has a sumptuous new recording, "Verismo"...
Tags: Renee Fleming, Rochester, Renￃﾩe Fleming, Q, Opera, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
Agony and ecstasy: the art of the castrati
Naples :: Italy | 1 day ago
Credibility Last updated on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 3:00PM EST Y ou're a young boy living in poverty, and your parents don't know how they're going to keep you fed. If you're growing up in the Dominican Republic in 2009, they may pray that a baseball scout will notice...
Tags: Porpora Arias, Nicola Porpora, Farinelli, Cecilia Bartoli, Karina Gauvin, Handel House Museum, Italy, Naples, Castrato, Vocal music, Opera, Castrati, Singing, Voice types, Entertainment Culture
Soprano masters Czech list
Helsinki :: Finland | 1 day ago
Credibility A stir begins in a corridor near the Civic Opera House's stage door. A tall blond in a chic white wool coat and matching brimmed hat rushes in, hugging Lyric staffers she meets along the way. She is bubbling about her new knee-high suede boots, a recent...
Tags: Karita Mattila, Katya Kabanova, Yveta Synek Graff, Luc Bondy, Lyric, Leos Janacek, Tosca, Finland, Helsinki, Opera, Entertainment Culture
Novel examines bonds in a crisis
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 days ago
Credibility While set in an unnamed South American country, the book is based on the "Lima Crisis," a hostage situation that lasted several months in the Japanese ambassador's home in the late 1990s. The book weaves together a story about a group of terrorists who...
Tags: Ann Patchett, Japanese, hostages situation, Japan, Tōkyō, Run, Japanese embassy hostage crisis, Carmen, Opera, Bel Canto, Hostage taking, Entertainment Culture
Ballet and Opera - The odd couple
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 days ago
Credibility It's not that the loos at the Royal Opera House are necessarily an ideal barometer of public taste, but attending Wagner's Tristan und Isolde recently, I had a startling experience: it was the only time I have ever noticed a longer queue for the men's...
Tags: Royal Opera House, ENO, Royal Ballet, Tsarina, Wagner, royal ballets, Tchaikovsky, Duke Bluebeard, Denmark, Copenhagen, The Royal Ballet, Marius Petipa, Ballet, George Balanchine, Opera, Human Interest, Ballet choreographers, Ballet companies in the United Kingdom, Ballet composers, Entertainment Culture
One idea for shooing Sarasota's homeless: Pipe in an opera or some classical
Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility As a downtown group pushes for the city to solve problems with some of the homeless people who congregate at Five Points Park, a city commissioner is recommending a few symphonies, and maybe an aria or two. Commissioner Kelly Kirschner, citing similar...
Tags: Sarasota Opera, Kelly Kirschner, Jeff Karr, classical music, Sarasota, Opera, Kirschner, KARR, Sarasota Florida, Homelessness, Entertainment Culture
Basics: Building an Online Bulwark to Fend Off Identity Fraud
New York :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility A clotheshorse racked up thousands of dollars in mystery charges on a friend’s credit card ...Someone took out a car loan in your colleague’s name and stuck her with the bill. Identity fraud has been on the rise, as criminal cunning may be mixing with...
Tags: credit cards, LifeLock, identity fraud, identity theft, Kemesa, cards number, New York, Phishing, Opera, Online shopping, Antivirus software, Credit card, Malware, Technology Internet
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