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Joyce DiDonato, the American mezzo-soprano, has delighted an audience at the Royal Opera House by singing her part in The Barber of Seville from a wheelchair.

On Saturday night at the Royal Opera House here, the American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato brought literal meaning to the old theatrical motto "Break a leg." The mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in a London hospital after her onstage accident.

It was not such a lucky break. Opera singer Joyce DiDonato was appearing on a London stage in a wheelchair after breaking her leg during an earlier performance.

Joyce DiDonato overcame a nasty tumble in her performance as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Covent Garden.

And, thanks to some others in the area similarly focused, I've got a lot more to think about.

Don Alvaro makes a vain pitch for the affections of Marchise Melibea , in Rossini's opera from La Scala.

Sunny skies were smiling on Caramoor last Saturday evening, a rare occurrence for the month of June.

All precautions are useless, any resistance is futile - you're going to be totally seduced by the Des Moines Metro Opera's charming production of "The Barber of Seville." Gioacchino Rossini's universally famous comic opera, playing through July 12 at the Blank Performing Arts Center in Indianola, is being offered for only the fourth time in the ...

Valerian Ruminski is the kind of rough, rakish guy who can call you "baby" and get away with it.

I don't think anyone would question how much everyone looks forward to summer every year.

BOB PEPALIS/www.northfulton.com Baritone Matthew Worth, soprano Georgia Jarman and tenor Nicholas Phan sing a selection from The Barber of Seville with Robert Spano conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra behind them.

Newly Reviewed Annie Reviewed in this issue . St. Louis Stage Capsules The Ghosts of Versailles Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais wrote three plays about lovable con man and fixer, Figaro.

Des Moines Metro Opera leaders are set to kick off the company's 37th season with a 19th century drama, a popular comedy and a rarely performed German fairytale.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts launches its 64th Caramoor International Music Festival on Saturday, June 27 at 8:30pm with Susan Graham, the dazzling Metropolitan Opera star, singing a selection of Mozart's most beautiful and emotionally affecting arias.

Leave the wellies behind. You won't have to traipse through the mud to enjoy these elegant seasonal spectaculars.

Fiona Maddocks: Beethoven and Rossini blossom in the open air at Garsington while avant-garde entrances indoors Tags: entertainment Flaming June: the season for survival blankets, tarpaulins and country house opera.

The Arena di Verona, the city's first-century AD Roman amphitheatre, hosts the 87th running of the Verona Opera Festival, which opens with an update of Franco Zeffirelli's production of Georges Bizet's Carmen , conducted here by Placido Domingo and Julian Kovatchev.

John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles" was conceived as the ultimate in grand operas.

Opera Boston proudly announces the next season. All performances in the 2009-10 season will be conducted by Opera Boston's Grammy-nominated Music Director Gil Rose.

Mark Sforzini, artistic director for the St. Petersburg Opera, guides young performers Thursday during a rehearsal of the kid-friendly opera The Barber of St.