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Friday Aug 29 | Associated Content

Top 3 EnglishLanguage Operas for Beginners

Many people find opera to be intimidating, inaccessible or just plain boring. However, in many cases, this is largely due to the language barrier.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Classical, Purcell

Sun Aug 24, 2008

Ottawa Citizen

Critics' picks

Janos Csaba will conduct the Sinfonia Ottawa orchestra Tuesday in a concert that will raise funds for the Orkidstra program, which offers free music instruction to inner-city school-children. The concert will ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Arts, Sculpting, Travel, Canada Travel, Ottawa, Canada Travel

Sun Aug 17, 2008

WisInfo

Review: 'Baroque Night' a nice change of pace

Peninsula Music Festival's 'Baroque Night' was filled with music from the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Related Topix: Classical, Arts, Symphony

Fri Aug 08, 2008

Denver Post

Night of firsts for Central City Opera

It was a night of firsts. The first time that Central City Opera featured participants in the company's Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program performing lead roles in a double bill of rarely heard ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Central City, CO, Arts, Opera, Purcell, Entertainment

Sat Jul 26, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk

Bringing the baroque and British music to the BBC

The Daily Telegraph reveals exclusive details of two major new BBC arts programmes In The Birth of British Music for BBC TWO, acclaimed conductor Charles Hazlewood tells the story of how Britishness was built ...

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Related Topix: Classical

Tue Jul 22, 2008

Toronto Life Online

Stratford Summer Music

Back for its eighth season, the musical counterpart to the theatre fest covers a wide range of genres.

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Related Topix: Classical, Thomas Tallis, Purcell

Sun Jul 20, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk

Bringing the baroque and British music to the BBC

The Daily Telegraph reveals exclusive details of two major new BBC arts programmes In The Birth of British Music for BBC TWO, acclaimed conductor Charles Hazlewood tells the story of how Britishness was built ...

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Related Topix: Classical

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Indianapolis Star

Indianapolis Opera to relocate to church building

When Indianapolis Opera relocates next spring to a Greek Orthodox church building on Pennsylvania Street, the move will put the company less than half a mile from its current headquarters.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Classical, Gian Carlo Menotti, Purcell, Indianapolis, IN, Opera

Mon Jul 14, 2008

Naples Daily News

Fundraiser helped promote programs of Opera Naples

Melodies from across Europe filled the air inside maestro William Noll's house on Saturday night.

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Related Topix: Classical, Purcell, Florida State University, Florida College, Florida Institute of Technology, American University of Puerto Rico

Sat Jul 12, 2008

Rockbridge Weekly

W&L Summer Scholars, Schadeberg Studio To Present Purcell and Shakespeare

The Washington and Lee University Summer Scholars program, in conjunction with the vocal studio of Christine Schadeberg, presents "Purcell Meets Shakespeare: An Evening of Words and Music" on Tuesday, July 22 ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Classical, Purcell, Theater

Mon Jun 30, 2008

WKSU-FM Kent

Does how and when you fill your tank save you money on gas?

Some techniques involve how and when you fill your tank. We explore some of the facts and fiction behind filling-up to save gas.

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Related Topix: Classical, Collegium Musicum 90, Los Angeles Philharmonic

Thu Jun 19, 2008

Star-Press

Free workshop performance set

MUNCIE -- A free workshop performance of Those Killing Fears, a newly devised musical monodrama, will be presented at 7 p.m. June 29 at Muncie Civic Theatre, 216 E. Main St.

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Related Topix: Muncie, IN, Muncie Metro, English, IN, Classical

Tue Jun 17, 2008

Tbs.com

Stealth

Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller, War Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas U.S. Navy pilots Ben Gannon, Kara Wade and Henry Purcell are part of a close-knit elite division of test pilots flying highly ...

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Related Topix: Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel, Black Entertainment, Josh Lucas, Classical, US Navy, US News, Movies, Entertainment

Sat Jun 07, 2008

Scotsman.com

Album review: Henry Purcell

Naxos 8.570149, 5.99 Henry Purcell was born just in time for the Restoration, and by the time he was a practising theatre composer, Shakespeare's open-air, male-only dramatics had long since been replaced by ...

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Related Topix: Classical

Wed Jun 04, 2008

The Phoenix

Altar and ego

MIRROR IMAGES? Amber Darragh and Craig Biesecker are at their best when they're dancing with each other.

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Related Topix: Classical, Purcell

Mon Jun 02, 2008

WGBH

Today's digital mural

Image credit: Courtesy of Mark Morris Dance Group / Stephanie Berger Image credit: Courtesy of Mark Morris Dance Group / Costas Image credit: Courtesy of Mark Morris Dance Group / Costas Courtesy of Mark Morris ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Purcell, Arts, Opera

Sat May 31, 2008

Jerusalem Post

Opera: Waltz beyond the sea

A giant aquarium. Lithe bodies appearing and disappearing through secret passages.

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Related Topix: Classical, Purcell, Arts, Dance

Thu May 22, 2008

WKSU-FM Kent

First round of research scholars announced

About half that money is targeted for Northeastern Ohio universities and partners, including Kent State and University of Akron

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical

Tue May 20, 2008

The Phoenix

Maestro

Next week, the Celebrity Series of Boston brings back Mark Morris's dance setting of Henry Purcell's 17th-century English opera Dido and Aeneas .

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Related Topix: Purcell, Classical, Arts, Dance

Sun May 18, 2008

Houston Chronicle

Dido boils with toil and trouble

A question gurgling near the surface of every opera production is how much the director will trust the music to tell the story.

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Related Topix: Classical, Theater, Arts, Opera, Purcell

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