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The week in classical: The Barber of Seville; Apartment House – review

The Observer 03 Dec 2023
His skilful adaptation of , written for Bradford as part of a new opera festival, was premiered there in the Victorian splendour of a packed St George’s Hall ... Sold as “Eyup! Rossini’s best loved comic opera put into proper Yorkshire”, it contains the seeds of something interesting, but was in many respects an enigma.
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Review: Large, enthusiastic audience turn out for San Diego Opera's lovely mariachi opera 'El Milagro'

The San Diego Union-Tribune 03 Dec 2023
The one-act comic opera about small-town life in 1960s Central Mexico blends stories of faith, family, mystery and migration ... .
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Mildred Miller Posvar, famed mezzo-soprano and founder of Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, dies at 98

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 01 Dec 2023
Nearly 20 years earlier, in November 1951, Posvar had debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City’s Lincoln Center as Cherubino, a character in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” ... Octavian, a princess’s young lover, in “Der Rosenkavalier,” a comic Strauss opera.
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Readers respond: Keller Auditorium a vital player in Portland ecosystem

The Oregonian 28 Nov 2023
In the Nov ... Opera, ballet, orchestras, Broadway shows, touring musical acts, comics and political events that need larger performance spaces have a more far reaching social and economic value than was suggested. The investment by our community in the renovation or replacement of the Keller would be completely worth it regardless of the price tag ... ....
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The Barber of Seville review — Yorkshire Rossini doesn’t cut it

The Times/The Sunday Times 24 Nov 2023
Hearing that the poet Ian McMillan had adapted Rossini’s comic opera into Yorkshire dialect, my first reaction was to imagine what my Yorkshire-born mum would have said ... OPERA ... OPERA ... OPERA.
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Leading off: 27 years after Lied Center show, comedy duo reunites for good cause

Lincoln Journal Star 24 Nov 2023
In 1996, the two Lincoln-based comics raised some eyebrows when, at Burney's suggestion as the Journal Star reported then, they rented out the Lied Center for Performing Arts for a show that mixed stand-up and sketch comedy ... Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan nearly fell apart before the two made “The Mikado,” one of their most well-known comic operas.
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Across China: Legend of Chinese judge inspires integrity, justice around the world

China.dot.org 22 Nov 2023
Folk tales, traditional operas, films and television series through history have disseminated his legend ... Stories and the spirit of Bao have and will continue to inspire movies, operas, books and more ... The comics quickly became a hit in Europe and were later translated into a number of languages, including Dutch, Italian, English and German.
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Supreme Court justices Scalia and Ginsburg on trial in new opera

People's World 22 Nov 2023
Such is the conceit of Derrick Wang’s hour-long comic opera Scalia/Ginsburg, the opening number on a double bill offered by Pacific Opera Project that also includes the one-act Trial by Jury by W.S ... A small seven-piece orchestra led by Caleb Yanez Glickman seemed enough for the funky, let’s-put-on-an-opera spirit of this adventurous company.
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Legend of Chinese judge inspires integrity, justice around the world

Xinhua 22 Nov 2023
Folk tales, traditional operas, films and television series through history have disseminated his legend ... Stories and the spirit of Bao have and will continue to inspire movies, operas, books and more ... The comics quickly became a hit in Europe and were later translated into a number of languages, including Dutch, Italian, English and German.
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Bay Area arts: 8 cool live shows to see this weekend

The Mercury News 22 Nov 2023
You can hear Samoan tenor Pene Pati pour it out in San Francisco Opera’s current presentation of “L’Elisir d’ Amore” (The Elixir of Love), a co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago that sets this tuneful comic opera on the Italian Riviera in the 1950s ... Five performances remain at War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco.
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‘La Cenerentola’ Review: The Disenchanted Fairytale in Boston

The Harvard Crimson 21 Nov 2023
Immediately, “La Cenerentola” shows the audience that it is not a traditional opera ... Simmons, The Boston Lyric Opera’s creative new production of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” ran Nov ... The opera’s lack of magic emphasizes the second part of its title, “Goodness Triumphant,” which values the ability to change fate through acts of kindness and goodwill.
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With a National Award and an Oscar, this has been Naatu Naatu composer MM Keeravani's moment in the sun

Indian Express 19 Nov 2023
When actor Irrfan was fighting an endocrine tumour at Princess Grace Hospital in London, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt paid his old friend a visit ... The tunes have stayed on, as fond reflections ... It was finally a step into the spotlight ... Art cannot be defined ... Seemingly inspired by Stephen King, the aliases brought about a comic opera of sorts ... (Jism, 2005) ... .
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'Pirates of Penzance' to be performed the Geyer Performing Arts Center through Sunday

Herald-Standard 16 Nov 2023
Pirates of Penzance,” a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, is coming to the stage at Geyer Performing Arts Center for four performances, starting this evening ... ....
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Blue Ridge Symphonic Brass opens concert season Nov. 19

Biltmore Beacon 16 Nov 2023
... of musical styles, including musical offerings such as Percy Grainger’s Duke of Marlborough Fanfare, the haunting October by Eric Whitacre, Herbert Haufrecht’s Symphony for Brass and Tympani and the “Overture” to Gilbert and Sullivan’s ever-popular comic opera The Mikado.
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The Montpelier Chamber Orchestra returns: Daniel Bruce promises the joy of Mozart and Beethoven

Times Argus 16 Nov 2023
18, at the Barre Opera House ... 492, the composer’s brilliant 1786 comic opera ... Barre Opera House The Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, guest-conducted by Daniel Bruce, will perform Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, Mozart’s Overture to “The Marriage of ... 18 at the Barre Opera House, 6 N.
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