NY Opera looks to minority audiences
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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 &quot;O&quot; word.
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Natalie Dessay thrived under pressure, singing the touchstone title role of Donizettiâs âLucia di Lammermoorâ in a new production to open the Metropolitan Operaâs season on Monday night.
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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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With new music directors at both companies, New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera are poised to prod each other into making New York a hotbed of operatic innovation.
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On Tuesday night the New York City Opera opened its season with a new production of âMargaret Garner,â an opera by Richard Danielpour with a libretto by Toni Morrison.
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Lorin Maazel, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, is to open a run of Wagnerâs âWalkÃ¼reâ at the Metropolitan Opera, 45 seasons after making his debut at the house.
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Another reason classical music is not reaching more young people: not because of how it sounds, but because of how it looks.
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How do you get on the Metropolitan Opera stage? Stand in line.
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âTrumpery,â a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.
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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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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 -- The stretch of 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues is jammed shoulder to shoulder these days with office workers and tourists. Families catch a production of "Mary Poppins" at the refurbished New Amsterdam Theatre. European and Japanese visitors line up for Madame Tussauds wax...
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A musical based on âThe Diary of a Young Girlâ by Anne Frank is to open next month at the Calderon Theater in Madrid.
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The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players are hoping to lure a new generation of Gilbert and Sullivan fans.
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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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The Metropolitan Operaâs new strategy of plugging sudden holes in its casts with big names has its beneficiaries.
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The musical will open in London later this year.