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Patricia Racette had just sung her moving final notes in "Suor Angelica" and fallen to the stage. Complete Story...
The world ended on a stage devoid of scenery or special effects, just a soprano in a dark sequined dress singing of redemption and love.
Jackie Chan didn't take acting lessons or attend a fancy conservatory. The biggest star in kung fu cinema learned his craft from a retired Peking Opera star who turned his apartment into a performing arts boot camp for working-class Hong Kong children in the 1960s.
Launching its comeback in perilous financial times, the New York City Opera might well have played it safe with a surefire crowd-pleaser, like its production of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly."
Late in the second act of Rossini's "Tancredi," Ewa Podles lets forth a prolonged F below middle C — a note of such visceral power and purity that its resonance seems to pin the audience back in their seats.
The notes were all there. The voice had its familiar warm and muscular sound. The technique remains rock-solid. And yet ...
Two U.S. Supreme Court justices are taking theatrics out of the courtroom — and into to a more suitable venue.
Soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna are ending their marriage on a low note.
Residents of pastoral Mora County have been watching records in the county clerk's office ever since the oil and gas industry began eyeing a big swath of land in the area.
Less than a week after the boobirds perched at New York's Lincoln Center for the season opening of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its own 2009-10 season Saturday night with the same opera, Puccini's "Tosca," and drew only cheers and applause.
Long before botched plastic surgery ruined a movie star's career, they were the original showbiz victims.
The Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Puccini's "Tosca" has run into more bumps.
Normalcy returned to the Metropolitan Opera with a charming second-night revival of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro," one night after a new production of Puccini's "Tosca" left a significant segment of the audience booing one of the company's biggest failures in decades.
When was there last an opening night quite like this at the staid old Metropolitan Opera?
The royal opera house at the palace of Versailles has reopened after two years of renovations to make the gilded hall more fireproof.
Tristan and Isolde, Wagner once wrote, was meant to be a "monument to that most beautiful of dreams" — love.
Jackbooted Nazi storm-troopers. A mad magician in drag. And a German history lesson from the days of Bismarck to the time when the vanquished nation rises from the ashes of Hitler and World War II.
The New York City Opera and the union for its singers have reached a contract agreement.
Riccardo Muti has agreed to lead Rome's opera house as the Italian capital tries to raise its music profile in a country where Milan's La Scala dominates the field, the city's mayor said.
The Metropolitan Opera was singing a happy song about the first day of individual box office sales for the upcoming season.
Like a towering fir tree that survives after the primeval forest around it has vanished, the Seattle Opera's production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle now stands alone as the only traditional depiction of the epic music drama on an American stage.
Blood. Glitzy costumes. Magnificent voices and gorgeous soloists. Clever directing.
Soprano Angela Gheorghiu has pulled out of the first six performances of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bizet's "Carmen," which opens New Year's Eve.
Soprano Anna Netrebko (nuh-TREHB'-koh) has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's "La Traviata" scheduled for the 2010-11 season.
Browser turns any PC into server The 3rd-party browser Opera unveiled Opera Unite. A browser that will allow any PC to act as a small-scale web server.
September 2009 browser stats: IE sees biggest drop yetAnother month, another set of data that shows the main browser usage trend is unchanged: though its lead remains large, Internet Explorer is still losing ground to all other browsers.
'Aida' - At the Metropolitan Opera, Might as Well Boo (a Conductor Gets No Respect)Well, it's come to this. In chronicling the descent of our politics I never thought that I would learn that Americans and British audiences are now booing at the OPERA!
Opera 10 Downloaded 10 Million Times In Its First WeekIn the first week after its release and after many favorable reviews – including our own – Opera Software has announced that its revamped desktop browser has been downloaded 10 million times and is now in use by millions of users around the world.
Over 900 contribute to the world's first Twitter opera(this is a video, not text, but only three minutes long) The world's first opera story written by the social network, Twitter. Very funny, incredibly novel, and possibly a way to change the world's collective view of opera?
Opera 10 is Here!The Opera 10 browser is now ready to download for Windows, and Mac, and Linux, three months after the beta first emerged (hands-on Opera 10 beta review).
Strangers gather on Web to make collective art - CNN.comThis is very interesting. It just goes further to prove how social networking can have a positive and powerful impact on the world.
Opera singer Hildegard Behrens dies in Tokyo - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsWhat a tragic loss for the opera world. I first heard Hildegard Behrens in Salome and was extremely impressed. When she turned her attention to Wagner I was hooked. Just thinking of her performing the final Immolation Scene from Wagner's Ring gives me chill bumps.
Opera star's son may face death penaltyA prosecutor says he may seek the death penalty against the son of a Metropolitan Opera star who is accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a camp counselor 18 years ago.
Beijing has thing for Puccini opera set in ChinaPuccini's 'Turandot,' set amid a bloody royal court, was once reviled as insulting. But as economic powerhouse China seeks to create an audience for Western opera, the work has seemed a natural.
Asian male soprano hijacks political speakers forum to do operaRhodd is an angry national anarchist who appears every Sunday outside the State Library of Victoria to broadcast extremist views which are founded on a somewhat shaky foundation of Australian History.
Opera updates beta, but Unite still separateOpera 10 continues to chug along, and the beta build of the browser has updated for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The publisher has declined to put its proprietary Web server service, Unite, in the build, indicating that it's not yet ready for beta consideration.
HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, a …
Next Week, Opera Claims It Will "Reinvent The Web"We've heard the phrase 'reinventing the web' too many times already, so we're wary of Opera's claims, but this made us curious anyhow.
Workampers at the OperaWorkampers Lee and Arline Smith travel across America in their motorhome, taking interesting positions like helping with an opera camp in the Arkansas Ozarks and working in a distribution center for Amazon.com.
Speedy Opera 10 beta reconfigures as Web suiteOpera 10 has entered beta with the unstated goal of becoming more than a mere browser.
Opera passes iPhone to lead mobile-browser marketNorway's Opera Software overtook Apple's iPhone browser in May as the most popular mobile browser in the world, Web analytics firm StatCounter said on Tuesday.
Your browser used to have a 'serious' security flawMaking Internet communications secure means shutting off ways for an unauthorized person to access secret information. This is easier said than done.
Theft of Abusive German Parrot Saddens MunichA parrot who sings opera songs and once famously called the mayor of Munich an @!$%# has been stolen. The disappearance of Koko has upset the entire neighborhood which had grown fond of the hot-tempered feathered diva.
Opera singer serenades cow herdA herd of Lancashire dairy cows is being serenaded by an Italian opera singer to help improve their milk production.
College Students - Lyric Opera of ChicagoThe best thing in the world that everyone deserves to enjoy.
Mozilla, Opera blast Microsoft over IE8 upgrade practiceBrowser makers Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft yesterday of force feeding Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to users with Windows Update and silently changing the default browser on PCs.
Apple, Opera Slammed Over Browser Patch Regimes"All in all, the poor update effectiveness of Apple Safari and Opera gives attackers plenty of time to use known exploits to attack users of outdated browsers," the researchers wrote.
Music Review - Vox 2009 - From New York City Opera, a Sampling of New DishesReview of new operas performed by New York City Opera including "Invisible Cities," with music and libretto by Christopher Cerrone, adapted from the novel by Italo Calvino.
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