U.S. opera looking for new audience
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Keeping opera alive in the age of the Internet and hip hop is no easy task, so when Donna Walker-Kuhne seeks to convince black Americans to come to a show, she dares not open conversation with the "O" word.
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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.
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A company strives to persuade dancers and audiences alike that Baroque dance has an appeal that is broader than its historical niche.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs new strategy of plugging sudden holes in its casts with big names has its beneficiaries.
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The opera, as seen at Montclair State University in New Jersey, is a tunefully entertaining and thoughtful piece of theater.
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The symphony has taken up a prominent residency in a Maryland suburb in an attempt to find new audiences and plow new fund-raising territory.
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Vivica Genaux, an international star, particularly in the early-music world, is making her return to New York opera.
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The company opened its season on Wednesday with a new, surely paced and essentially well-played production of Strauss' seldom heard opera "Daphne."
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Verdiâs opera has two faces. It is spectacle on a royal scale, but also a love story wedding jealousy, honor and revenge to regime change.
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The Los Angeles Opera is to stage  its first "Ring" cycle of four classic Wagnerian operas, thanks  in part to a $6 million gift from businessman Eli Broad who  wants to boost the city as cultural destination.
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James Kudelkaâs âCinderella,â on show this week at the Metropolitan Opera House with American Ballet Theater, would be a good idea for a ballet.
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After the buildup to the opening night of the season, you can expect a certain falloff. But the second night of the Metropolitan Operaâs season on Tuesday was terrific.
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Legal debate and lyricism in âMargaret Garner,â an opera imbued with gospel and spirituals.
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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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The New York City Operaâs announcement this week that it had landed Gerard Mortier as its new leader was hailed as the beginning of a new era for the company.
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The Metropolitan Opera said on   Wednesday it would broadcast six live performances to movie   theaters in North America and Europe starting on December 30 in   a bid to broaden its audience.
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Opera&#39;s latest browser release (Opera 8 Beta) features some new things like speech recognition and support for RSS: While the next release had been on track to be Version 7.60, the Oslo, Norway, company announced a change in plans.