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Tickets for the third season of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's live transmissions in movie theaters around the world, go on sale to the general public on Friday August 22.

Photo by CORY WEAVER/GLIMMERGLASS OPERA. Sarah Coburn as Giulietta in Glimmerglass Opera's production of Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi." COOPERSTOWN - Put away the Penguin and Folger editions of that ...

COOPERSTOWN - It is extraordinarily difficult for most audiences not to think of Shakespeare when considering a musical text about Romeo and Juliet.

Based generally on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," the two-act opera was a showpiece for mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy in the pants role of Romeo and soprano Sarah Coburn as Giulietta.

He was the star of the much-talked about Bregenz Tosca last year, and his career is on an upward roll: following his critically acclaimed dbut as Manrico at Covent Garden in 2007, Belgrade-born tenor Zoran ...

COOPERSTOWN - A few pompous operagoers like myself may initially bristle at the thought of "Kiss Me, Kate" sharing the same stage with works by Wagner, Handel and Bellini.

Opera singers Anna WA rje and Richard Williams, and their accompanist Zsuzsanna Lukacs, are coming to 100 Mile on July 12.

By Celia Winter Irving In the mid l9th Century the truly "grand" Opera Company of entrepreneur William Saurin Lyster toured the Australian goldfields giving great music and a glimpse of stocking to miners ...

Among the many images that made Robert Rauschenberg one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century are 242 prints he created at a print studio in West Islip, Universal Limited Art ...

EMI continues to reissue classic opera performances from its vast catalog. In the latest batch are Riccardo Muti's 1980 recording of Bellini's "I Puritani" and Wolfgang Sawallisch's 1990 recording of Strauss' ... via CourierPostOnline

More... History she wrote: Lebanon woman excelled in opera By Rosalie Yoakam LEBANON - Laura Woolwine, born about 1851 in Lebanon, became a famous opera singer known worldwide by her stage name Laura Bellini. via Dayton Daily News

The Teatro Massimo from Palermo in Sicily will be the guest foreign company at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2009, according to information gathered by . via Helsingin Sanomat

After exploring two rarities this spring -- Puccini's 'La Rondine' and Bellini's 'La Sonnambula'-- Michigan Opera Theatre winds up its season with a beloved evergreen, Verdi's 'La Traviata.' The story of a ... via Detroit Free Press

The Metropolitan Opera is coming to the Westchester Italian Cultural Center in Tuckahoe for a special performance at 7 p.m. May 16. via Journal News

It has taken Seattle Opera more than four decades to mount Bellini's "I Puritani," waiting, as General Director Speight Jenkins has been saying, for the right quartet of singers. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Lawrence Brownlee in I Puritani . Seattle Opera's Young Artists have good fun with the story of an amiable con artist, while also staging a rare "lyrical fantasy" by Ravel , here set in a subway. via Crosscut.com

“Anytime you add a character to your repertoire it changes who you are a little bit”

Vivica Genaux wears the pants in most of her operatic relationships. The Alaskan mezzo-soprano, who lived in Pittsburgh for several years, specializes in "trouser roles" -- male characters sung by a woman. via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“This Giulietta doesn't have much joy”

Laura Claycomb plays Giulietta in the Pittsburgh Opera's production of Bellini's "The Capulets & the Montagues." "Giulietta fits me to a T," says Laura Claycomb, who will open as the heroine of Bellini's "I ... via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Marianna Kulikova , as Romeo, and Georgia Jarman, as Giulietta, star in the Florentine Opera Company production of "I Capuleti e i Montecchi." The doomed young lovers took the stage at the Florentine Opera this ... via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Every single word you said came true - don't ever do that again!”

Bellini's "I Puritani" , presented by Seattle Opera. Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Saturday through May 17, with two casts; stage direction by Linda Brovsky, new sets by Robert Dahlstrom, and Edoardo Muller, ... via Seattle Times