Music Review: A Grand Opening at the Opera
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Natalie Dessay thrived under pressure in the title role of âLucia di Lammermoorâ at the Metropolitan Opera.
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The Met hosts a season-opening gala, dripping with wealth and celebrity, that nearly upstages its own opera.
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Milan's La Scala opera house is set to reopen its doors to the public on December 7 with a gala event after undergoing two and a half years of renovations often mired in controversy.
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, led by its new artistic directors, the pianist Wu Han and the cellist David Fincke, opened its 39th season on Thursday with a classical sampler.
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestraâs first concert of the season at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday was a solid if commonplace program that danced around late Romanticism and the first rumblings of modernism.
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By Craig Jarvis, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 17--Opera Company of North Carolina is opening its doors again during rehearsals for "Don Giovanni" in a Cameron Village storefront.   Opera-lovers and the curious can drop in at the former Figs building, 2018 Clark Ave.
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The composer belts out an impressive concert.
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The Estonian National Opera is on the eve of its centennial anniversary a ' and the staff can hardly wait.
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The audience certainly enjoyed the Gilbert & Sullivan Players production of âPrincess Ida,â which opened its 2008 season.
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Opera is no stranger to sensitive singers and demanding divas.
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An opera inspired by the 1995 massacre of Muslims by Bosnian-Serbs at Srebrenica is due to open in Sarajevo.
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A Russian revolution has shaken up Wagner's "Die Walkuere" at the Metropolitan Opera this season, with a new conductor and leading singers infusing fresh life into the company's 18-year-old production.
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For the first time in nearly 20 years the Metropolitan Opera presented Verdiâs breakthrough early masterpiece in a stylistically eclectic, grimly effective and, at times, intriguingly playful production.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs high-definition transmissions to movie theaters add crucial elements of live theater and collective excitement to the experience of opera on screen.
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A controversial new opera about Libya's  flamboyant leader Muammar Gaddafi blasted opera buffs out of  their seats at its world premiere, but music critics asked --  Where was the singing?
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Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" unfolds with the intensity of an uninterrupted nightmare in the dark new production that premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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Opera is revolutionary. It thrills the elite and masses alike, bops to Indian drums and grooves to glass-shattering Wagnerian arias in a mosh pit filled with British rockers.