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Popstar to Operastar: Call that opera?
As celebrities are taught the basics in ITV's latest reality show, devotees say the programme cheapens and exploits the genre
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Premiere for Prokofiev pre-Stalin opera
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Jonathan Brown: Adaptation of War and Peace must have seemed a patriotic response to the horrors engulfing his homeland. But it didn’t work like that in Stalin’s world.
Chopin's 200th anniversary around the world
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
For the bicentennial of Frederic (Fryderyk) Chopin's birth, many cities are paying tribute to one of the most well known composers of romantic music in the world with hundreds of events organized throughout 2010.
The Met to broadcast 'Der Rosenkavalier,' 'Carmen' in cinemas worldwide
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
In January, the Metropolitan Opera will present its fifth and sixth Live in HD broadcasts of the season, transmitting live performances of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and Bizet's Carmen in high definition to theaters around the world. Der Rosenkavalier is scheduled for January 9 at 1:00 pm EST; Carmen follows on January 16 at the same time.
They stood and clapped...for 20 minutes
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Even La Scala's notoriously particular audience held their boos as Domingo said goodbye to Milan
'Messiah': ENO / Independent special offer
Friday, 27 November 2009
Handel's masterpiece in a mjor new staging by Deborah Warner
Great composer, shame he couldn't play
Friday, 20 November 2009
Letter uncovered in museum reveals how Edward Elgar was so bad at the trombone it made people laugh
Edward Seckerson: The Age of Aquarius dawns again
Monday, 2 November 2009
It's been pretty scary returning from the Big Apple eager to share one's excitement over the glorious revival of the 'American Tribal Love-Rock Musical' "HAIR" and finding yourself confronted with a series of puzzled faces - "What's 'Hair'?"
McCall Smith makes monkey out of Macbeth
Monday, 19 October 2009
Author's first foray into opera recasts Shakespearean characters as baboons.
Overtures, arias and... tweets: The world's first Twitter opera
Sunday, 9 August 2009
The libretto has been taken from the sublime to a ridiculous conclusion. Instead of a "little book" - its literal meaning – the latest, and most avant-garde, of operas will feature little "tweets".
Stressed-out listeners turn to classical
Friday, 7 August 2009
Radio audiences are turning to the soothing properties of classical music as a means of coping with the traumas brought on by the economic downturn, gloomy weather and summer exams, according to official listening statistics released yesterday.
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