Music strikes up at Venice opera
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Venice's Fenice Opera House hosts its first performance since it was gutted by fire in 1996.
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The âOpera-for-Allâ concert at the New York State Theater on Thursday read like a tasting menu for City Operaâs fall season, with bits of Mozart, Massenet and Mascagni.
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La banda operava soprattutto in Campania, Abruzzo e Calabria
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A chorus of boos is rising in San  Francisco against the city's opera company, which is accused of  lavishing money on its musical director while pleading poverty  during contract talks with its musicians.
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Composer Thomas Ades has scored the  pounding beat of a dance club for orchestra, got a soprano to  sing a breathtaking 17 high E&#39;s in her first minute onstage and  ended a concerto by slamming down a piano lid.
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Let the news ring out from Lincoln Center. Send word by satellite radio. Trumpet it in Times Square. An exciting new era was born at the staid old Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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Enthusiasts filed into their seats wearing jeans and T-shirts for the Metropolitan Opera's opening night performance.
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The Metropolitan Opera is getting back into the DVD business.
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Patrons of Berlin's Deutsche Oper were greeted by metal detectors, police and the media on Monday at an opera previously canceled over fears Muslims may be offended by a scene featuring Prophet Mohammad's severed head.
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Staging Puccini's 'Il Tabarro' on a docked tanker proves rewarding and challenging (mind the rolling swells).
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Periodically, St Mark's Square in Venice is flooded by spring tides. On Friday night it was inundated with Hollywood executives and movie stars for the first film premiere to be staged in the historic piazza.
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In Jordi Savallâs hands virtuosic passages from both bowed and pizzicato form were equally vivid and brisk in his performance of works by Tobias Hume on Wednesday.
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Da ottobre sessantuno appuntamenti con musica e teatro
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The ads posted around town promised "Summer Passion," and there was no shortage of emotion at the San Francisco Opera's just-completed June season &#151; either onstage or off.
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Itâs always an event when a tenor takes on Otello for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera.
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A British audience will be the first in  nearly 300 years Friday to hear a series of arias by Italian  composer Antonio Vivaldi, which were recently found at a castle  in western England.
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L'opera musicale ricorda il 27/o anno della strage