Star Soprano Coaxes a Puccini Role From the Vault
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There was basically one reason the Metropolitan Opera dusted off its drearily realistic, unbecoming old production of Pucciniâs âManon Lescautâ and brought it back to the house for the first time in 18 years on Tuesday night: the soprano Karita Mattila.
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If any actress of her generation seemed fated to play the juggernaut of a stage mother in the musical âGypsy,â it was Patti LuPone, the juggernaut of a Broadway star.
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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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Vivica Genaux, an international star, particularly in the early-music world, is making her return to New York opera.
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Opera star Bryn Terfel adds his voice to calls to keep a clothing factory open as offers of alternative work are revealed.
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Her Italian is nearly perfect. Her demeanor is quietly polite. But the sommelier at Il Pagliaccio, a tony restaurant in Rome's historic center, isn't your average Chianti expert.
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Actress Isabella Rossellini is taking on a new role that has become more than just a pet project.
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NEW YORK - The man could sing. Oh, how he could sing, and now he can team up and tune up with the angels. As a tenor, he was in their league for decades.
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A packed performance of a West End opera  was saved at the weekend when a member of the audience stepped  in to sing the lead role after the star lost his voice.
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The actress due to share the role of Maria in The Sound of Music leaves the Andrew Lloyd Webber production.
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In a Dec. 15 review of the opera "La Traviata," The Associated Press erroneously reported the roles performed by Joseph Calleja and Vladimir Stoyanov. Calleja, a tenor, sang the role of Alfredo Germont, and Stoyanov, a baritone, sang the role of Giorgio Germont in the Vienna State Opera production.
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Ms. Varnay never achieved widespread public recognition, but to opera buffs and insiders, she brought distinctive qualities to her work.
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Soprano Hope Briggs has been pulled from the starring role in the San Francisco Opera's upcoming performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni."
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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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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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Applausi alla soprano Cedolins e al direttore Chung
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NEW YORK  &#151; Some people called her Bubbles. Others knew her as "the diva next door." But to most of the world, Brooklyn-born soprano Beverly Sills was America's first prima donna &#151; a child star who sang commercials for laundry soap and grew up to play queens.