Soprano Renee Fleming Takes on Role of Author
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Soprano Renee Fleming, star of opera  and concert stages, recording artist and single mother, has  added the role of author to her off-stage repertoire.
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We ask the author of suspense thrillers and historical romances about her favorite DVDs, CDs, and books.
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Playbill - transFigures, a new work for Women's Project, conceived and directed by 26-year-old Lear deBessonet, and inspired by the phenomenon known as Jerusalem Syndrome, begins performances in Manhattan April 6 toward an April 16 opening.
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Who knew that the opening of a sofa bed could be the key that unlocks an audience's affection &#151; and gets them foursquare on the side of one Broadway musical's new leading lady?
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Placido Domingo is writing "The Joy of Opera," a book to be published in 2009, in which the renowned tenor will offer insights into masterpieces and what makes a singer great.
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A new opera based on the life of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, featuring a rapper as Gadhafi and a chorus of all-female bodyguards, highlights the new season of the English National Opera.
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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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As the author of a series about a Baltimore-based private investigator, Laura Lippman gives the city a much-appreciated picture of itself.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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After climbing out of an addiction that led to her banishment from the Met, the soprano Andrea Gruber returns to its stage in "Turnadot" on Monday.
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Denyce Graves will sing Carmen to open the Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2005-6 season, which also will include new productions of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut," Tippett's "The Midsummer Marriage," Verdi's "Rigoletto" and Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice."
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LOS ANGELES  - Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke have joined the ensemble cast of "The Informers," an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel.
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Dining out with Cat Cora, the first female âIron Chef,â whose second book, âCooking From the Hip,â comes out this spring.
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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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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 Sound of Music" has a new Maria &#151; and the hills are alive with the sound of skepticism. An aspiring actress named Connie Fisher has been chosen to star as the novitiate-turned-nanny in Andrew Lloyd Webber's big-budget production of the musical. This was no ordinary audition, however: the casting process was watched by millions on a reality TV show, and Fisher was crowned by telephone votes from the viewing public.
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Billie Piper is being lined up to play a prostitute in a TV version of the best-selling book Belle de Jour.