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Philip Glass Opera Met Debut

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2008-04-19 08:01:00 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...opera about Mahatma Gandhi's formative experiences in South Africa. This month it was performed for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera , and today it's broadcast on CBC's Saturday Afternoon At The Opera . (Very exciting for Philip Glass fans -- and for those curious about his work as an opera composer Satyagraha is part of a trilogy...
 
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Philip Glass Opera Met Debut

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2008-04-19 08:01:00 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...opera about Mahatma Gandhi's formative experiences in South Africa. This month it was performed for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera , and today it's broadcast on CBC's Saturday Afternoon At The Opera . (Very exciting for Philip Glass fans -- and for those curious about his work as an opera composer Satyagraha is part of a trilogy...
 
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Country House Opera

2008-06-28 04:08:01 by Robert H in Planet Hugill - Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill
 
...Opera magazine, the editor addresses the issue of country house opera, particularly in relation to the planned move of Garsington Opera from its current home. In his editorial he says, 'Its Elgar Howarth-David Fielding Strauss cycle apart, Garsington has generally resembled English Touring Opera with better champagne facilities Though...
 
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Through the Opera Gateway

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2008-12-27 15:32:01 by Philly Markowitz in Radio 2 Blog
...opera. What better way for children to discover the art form than with ancient Egypt, a lost Prince, a boastful birdcatcher, an exotic Queen with a quest to free a captured Princess, and - last but certainly not least - an enchanted musical instrument Mozart's enduring masterpiece Die Zauberflöte was created with librettist Emanuel...
 
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Renaissance Research "Conservatory Project" Assignment On Contemporary Opera Composition: In The Footsteps Of 'Pacific Visions' And 'Animating Opera'

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2008-06-20 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Opera Composition: In The Footsteps Of 'Pacific Visions' And 'Animating Opera Below are two excerpts from the History of the San Francisco Opera page of the San Francisco Opera web-site Pacific Visions In November of 1992, then General Director Lotfi Mansouri introduced Pacific Visions , an ambitious program designed to maintain the...
 
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Opera Within An Opera

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2008-08-16 17:45:38 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...opera broadcast...today it's Richard Strauss's last operatic work, Capriccio , which you could view as pretty much the story of the old Pete Yarrow song, Torn Between Two Lovers . (And loving them both is breakin' all the rules You can hear how this afternoon on Saturday Afternoon At The Opera ( Saturday 1:00 p.m., 1:30 NT), with a broadcast...
 
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Renaissance Research "Conservatory Project" Assignment On Western & World Opera Composition: Choose Three Operas For Reading, Listening, And Viewing

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2008-08-02 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...operas: an earlier Western opera from the 17th or 18th century ; a nineteenth century Western opera; and a Western opera from the 20th or 21st century . The operas are to be of your own choosing Here are three suggestions from works to be broadcast on Classical WETA-FM, in the Nation's Capital, on Saturday afternoons at 1 PM August 2,...
 
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Porgy and Bess comes to Lyric Opera of Chicago at last

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2008-11-17 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Opera of Chicago 's first-ever production of Porgy and Bess , opening Tuesday night November 18 at the Civic Opera House Porgy' at last Lyric yearned to do the classic, but delivering wasn't easy BY ANDREW PATNER Chicago -- one of the great music cities, great African-American cities, and great Jewish-American cities -- has waited a long...
 
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Gleanings from December's Opera magazine

2007-11-30 09:12:06 by HASH0x89480f0 in Planet Hugill - Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill
 
...opera house; the best indicator being, not the spectacular first nights but the revivals, if you have great Three Ladies in the Magic Flute or good Flower Maidens. And Mike Ashman unearths one of the original Flower Maidens, Carrie Pringle by name, who may even have been Wagner's mistress. One of those people who flit into history and then...
 
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