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1 hr ago | Midsussex Today

Feast of Valentine's music

Worthing's County Youth Orchestra will be joined by Worthing Symphony Orchestra's conductor John Gibbons as they present a sumptuous feast of romantic music for a Valentine concert .

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Valentine's Day, Life, Holidays, Rossini, Opera

Tue Feb 09, 2010

Edmonton Journal

Gallery: Pirates of Penzance Opera

Actors at the photo call Edmonton Opera's latest production, Pirates of Penzance.

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Related Topix: Arts

The Toledo Free Press

French operas offer amour for Valentine's gala

Selections from "Carmen," "Faust" and other French operas will spice up Valentine's Day during the Toledo Opera Gala at 7:30 p.m. Feb.

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Related Topix: Toledo, OH, Arts, Symphony

Mon Feb 08, 2010

Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus

Bad singing was never so funny: Theater Review

Few hysterically funny comedies can claim to be based on absolute fact, but Vermont Stage Company's "Souvenir" certainly is one.

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Related Topix: Arts, Middlebury, VT

Shropshire Star

Opera group presents Sweet Charity

Daphne Skinner, Emily Floyd, Bexie Archer and Ellie Woodman are in Sweet Charity.

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Related Topix: Sweet Charity, Drama Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Arts

Examiner.com

Barber of Seville opens Opera Colorado's winter season

A little comedy is what opera lovers needed to keep the winter doldrums at bay when Opera Colorado kicked off its winter season with The Barber of Seville .

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Related Topix: Arts, Spain, World News, Rossini, Opera, Gioacchino Rossini

Sun Feb 07, 2010

Winston-Salem Journal

Love Is in the Air - Symphony, Opera will present 2 concerts of romantic music

Lovers of love songs should have plenty to love next weekend. There will be two concerts in celebration of Valentine's Day, each presented by a different organization.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Wake Forest University, Mascagni, Opera, Entertainment

Southeast Missourian

Opera Bites: 'Simon Boccanegra' has political intrigue, murder plots and Placido Domingo

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giuseppe Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau.

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Related Topix: Arts, Placido Domingo, Giuseppe Verdi, Opera, Cape Girardeau, MO, Italy, World News

Sat Feb 06, 2010

Newport Plain Talk

Luke Grooms lands role in Phantom of the Opera

Newport native Luke Grooms, whose Broadway and Metropolitan Opera successes continue to grow, has added yet another star to his crown.

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Related Topix: Arts, Newport, KY, Harold, KY

Boston Globe

Boston Lyric Opera leaves home with a Turn of the Screwa

BLO leaves home with 'Turn of the Screw' Jeffrey Dunn for Boston Lyric Opera Vale Rideout as Peter Quint and Rebecca Nash as Miss Jessel in Boston Lyric Opera's production of "The Turn of the Screw.'' Boston Lyric Opera is on the move.

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Related Topix: Arts, Britten, Classical, Henry James, Vocal, Music, Entertainment

Canada.com

X-rated opera garners first night cheers

A new production of Alban Berg's opera "Lulu", which Geneva's Grand Theatre warned was unsuitable for people younger than 16, delighted a packed first-night audience with not a boo or cat-call to be heard.

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Related Topix: Arts, Alban Berg, Opera

Fri Feb 05, 2010

Penticton Herald

Nina Stemme returns to Metropolitan Opera for revival of a Ariadne auf Naxosa

Nina Stemme returned to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time since her debut run nearly a decade ago, and sang a radiant performance in a charming revival of Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos." The Swedish soprano has made her mark in Wagner - her only previous Met appearances were as Senta.

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Related Topix: Arts

SF Gate

Gheorghiu cancels remainder of `Carmen' at Met

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu has canceled her remaining two performances of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bizet's "Carmen." Gheorghiu withdrew in August from her first six performances of the run, which began Dec.

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Related Topix: Arts, Entertainment

Salem News

Opera comes to St. Paul

Three members of the Opera Western Reserve's Young Artists troupe from Youngstown stage an impromptu fishing opera with students at St.

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Related Topix: Arts, Salem, OH

National Post

Otello: Electrifying, despite the darkness

Howe versus Gretzky, Ruth versus Cobb. When the barstool talk turns to best opera, Verdi's Otello is a perennial contender, for reasons made abundantly clear by the opening Wednesday of a Canadian Opera Company run in the Four Seasons Centre.

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Related Topix: Arts, Verdi, Opera

Thu Feb 04, 2010

WMBF News

CCU faculty gives recital of opera, musical theater selections

The voice faculty of Coastal Carolina University will give a concert featuring selections from opera, oratorio and musical theater at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb.

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Related Topix: Arts, Musical Theater, Coastal Carolina University, Classical, Bizet, Verdi, Opera, New York

PittsburghLIVE.com

Review: Pittsburgh Opera production of 'Rape of Lucretia' powerful, evocative

Mark Kanny is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's classical music critic and can be reached at 412-320-7877 or via e-mail. The power of tragedy is nobly served in Benjamin Britten's chamber opera "The Rape of Lucretia," which Pittsburgh Opera is presenting through Sunday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Arts, Pittsburgh Metro, Classical, Benjamin Britten

Destin - EmeraldCoast.com

Music club plans opera brunch; Stage Crafters doing drawdown

Everyone is hurting for money these days, and arts groups are no exception. In fact, because they're often considered "luxuries," they're usually among the first to feel the hurt.

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Related Topix: Arts, Fort Walton Beach Metro, Fort Walton Beach, FL, Niceville, FL, Pensacola, FL, Navarre, FL

Oregonlive.com

Portland Opera's 'Cosi fan tutte'

In Mozart's comic opera "Cosi fan tutte," a cynical bachelor bets two young men that within 24 hours, he can prove their fiancees unfaithful.

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Related Topix: Arts, Portland, OR

Wed Feb 03, 2010

EDGEptown.com Entertainment Feed

Game Change

If the horrifying story about Channing Tatum's recent accident is anywhere remotely true to the stories that circulated the Internet lately, you may think he'd not be walking; never mind promoting his new film, Dear John, which comes to theaters on Friday.

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Related Topix: Dear John, Arts

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