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2nd June, 2008
'Oyster Opera' attracts tourists

'Oyster Opera' attracts tourists
Press Trust of India / Padanna (Kerala) June 02, 2008, 12:39 IST

Set amidst coconut trees, backwaters and a group of islands is "Oyster Opera", Kerala's first theme village, which despite lacking in sophistication of modern day resorts, is drawing tourists who crave for an experience truly natural ......

2nd June, 2008
FW Opera's 'Of Mice and Men'

Writing, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey stand out in FW Opera's 'Of Mice and Men'
12:00 AM CDT on Monday, June 2, 2008

By SCOTT CANTRELL / The Dallas Morning News
scantrell@dallasnews.com

FORT WORTH – Europe has nothing quite like the American "school" of populist operas that has run virtually unbroken since World War II. ......

2nd June, 2008
Gore's 'Truth' warms to opera

Gore's 'Truth' warms to opera
Climate documentary adapted for the stage

Al Gore's book and bigscreen warning on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth," is being made into an opera.

Italo composer Giorgio Battistelli's interpretation will play at Milan's Scala in 2011.

Battistelli, a former artistic chief of the Arena in Verona, says his ......

2nd June, 2008
The Threepenny Opera at Maidment Theatre (+video)

Review: The Threepenny Opera at Maidment Theatre (+video)
video watch Video: Threepenny Opera preview

Silo's production of the Berton Brecht /Kurt Weill classic opens with Jennifer Ward-Lealand, in Amy Winehouse mode, delivering a tortured Mac the Knife while members of a jazz combo scurry across the stage to take up their instruments. ......

31st December, 1969
Weekend Opera Broadcasts : Saturday, May 31, 2008

SATURDAY Maria Stuarda (Donizetti)
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SUNDAY Ercole Amante (Francesco Cavalli)
Please join guest host Marvin Rosen, who will be presenting today's opera, "Ercole Amante" by Francesco Cavalli. The performance features Yvonne Minton and Felicity Palmer along with the English Bach Festival Chorus and Baroque Orchestra conducted ......

24th May, 2008
The opera was sung in Italian.

Photographs by Ken Howard, courtesy of San Diego Opera, USA.
The photographs are the copyright of Ken Howard and the San Diego Opera.

Cast and production

Maria - Angela Gilbert (replaced by Ermonela Jaho for the opening performance due to illness)

Elizabeth - Kate Aldrich

Leicester - Yeghishe Manucharyan

Cecil - ......

24th May, 2008
Several years ago we saw a change happening in the box office around the country,

'Hot' 2009 San Diego Opera season includes 'Tosca,' 'Butterfly' and 'Rigoletto'

By PAM KRAGEN - Staff Writer

San Diego Opera is finishing its 2008 season on a high note with rapturously received productions of both "Aida" and "The Pearl Fishers," so you'd think selling subscriptions to the company's just-announced 2009 season would ......

24th May, 2008
San Diego Opera sets 2009 season

San Diego Opera will stage Massenet's autumnal masterpiece "Don Quixote" as part of its 2009 season, announced today. Veteran Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, who sang Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" for the company in 2007, will appear as Cervantes' visionary and slightly cracked wandering knight Feb. 14 to 22.

His inspiring Dulcinea will ......

24th May, 2008
San Francisco Lyric Opera Moves to Cowell

After four years, 15 productions and 60 performances, the San Francisco Lyric Opera is moving to the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason. The new location will have many advantages for this growing company. In addition to an expanded stage and state of the art technical facilities, the 400+ ......

26th May, 2008
Photo jewelry

If a gift is worth a thousand words, then why not put a grin on mother's face by sending her one of the special gifts. When you are looking to purchase an important item for your mother that she will be remember it forever and she will be wearing it ......

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