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I've never made a bucket list. If asked what might be on mine, I can list only going to an opera.

By Nicole Liebermann - The Free Press Published: May 23, 2013 1:00 PM Updated: May 23, 2013 1:31 PM A versatile and unorthodox performer with an international career is bringing his hit one-man show, Opera for Heathens, to The Arts Station on Wednesday, May 29.

La Scala has reduced the number of operas it will stage during the 2013-14 season due to Italy's economic crisis, the theatre's general manager said Thursday.

Love, deception, murder and betrayal come to Northwestern University's Evanston campus this weekend via a modernized version of L'incoronazione di Poppea .

Edo de Waart, an SPCO artistic partner, opens the chamber orchestra's 2013-14 season in September, with music of Beethoven.

According to hyangga, or folk songs from the Silla Kingdom , Cheo Yong was a man who came from nowhere and married a Silla woman.

Stephen Fry is to curate this year's Deloitte Ignite festival at the Royal Opera House exploring the work of the Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: for general audiences; parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; no one younger than 17 ... (more)

Opera star and Grammy nominee Jamie Barton will be featured in a benefit performance at First Baptist Church on May 30.

In the shower or in the car -- with the windows rolled up -- weren't the only places amateur Seattle opera singers could perform Wednesday night.

Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines.

Gioachino Rossini's La Donna Del Lago will be screened live from the world-famous Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, to Empire Cinema in Sunniside.

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Sondra Radvanovsky and Marco Berti in the piano dress rehearsal for L.A. Opera's production of Puccini's "Tosca" on May 12, 2013.

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Even as the United States accuses China of military espionage and worries about Beijing's more strident posture in the Asia-Pacific region, the ties between the armed forces of the two nations have been getting closer.

Forget Star Trek into Darkness , Iron Man 3 , Oblivion , and all of those other hyped-up blockbusters.

I'm a progressive, liberal feminist woman-I've lived in San Francisco's Castro district, walking side by side with naked residents exercising their right to free expression.

Crowd scenes were appropriately crowded. Violetta's semi-striptease in Act I, though not objectionable, of course, contributed nothing to the action.

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