Met Has New Rival in Operas at Movies
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The San Francisco Opera on Tuesday announced its own plan to transmit operas to movie theaters using a system it says is superior to that of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Taking a step beyond the Metropolitan Opera's recent live broadcasts in movie theaters, San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants will partner in a live simulcast of Camille Saint- Saens' "Samson and Delilah" at AT&T Park on Sept. 28.  The 8 p.m.
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The motivation for a new Philip Glass opera echoes that of a much older one, and both works loom large in the new season.
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Mozart's "The Magic Flute" plays out   amid the horrors of World War One in Kenneth Branagh's striking   new film, which premieres later on Thursday in the canal city's   famed Teatro La Fenice opera house.
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Opening night at the Metropolitan  Opera will be open to all this year -- in a live broadcast at  New York's Times Square.
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Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida" fits the cliched concept of grand opera: a visual feast with big emotions, majestic scenes and an exotic touch like this love story set in ancient Egypt.
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The Royal Opera House in London revived Francesca Zambelloâs grippingly spare and psychologically probing staging of âDon Giovanni.â
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Opera is no stranger to sensitive singers and demanding divas.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs affecting revival of its 1997 production of Tchaikovskyâs âEugene Oneginâ is all the more impressive because it might have turned out so differently.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Not long after former Sony Classical   chief Peter Gelb was named the general manager of New York's   Metropolitan Opera, he hinted that the house was pursuing ways   to expand its audience.
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The Metropolitan Opera plans to have video simulcasts of its opening-night production of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" on Sept. 25 at Lincoln Center Plaza and in Times Square, the company said Thursday.
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The fourth Handel opera in the Metropolitan Opera's history, which opened Thursday, is a landmark production including the radiant RenÃ©e Fleming.
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Two of the greatest actors  in   world cinema  met  up  last week.
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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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Even for those who embrace opera as a celebration of excess, it seemed almost a provocation to open the Teatro alla ScalaÂs season on Thursday with an extravagantly lavish new production of ÂAida.Â
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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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Gerard Mortier noted a coincidence when he was being courted to become boss of the New York City Opera.