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When Rufus does opera, size matters The singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, shown in New York in May 2007, has written an opera opening this month in Manchester.

Ferruccio Furlanetto is still buzzing. "What a sensational night," he says, of the opening performance of The Barber of Seville at the Royal Opera House on Saturday.

Lithuanian stage director Eimuntas Nekrosius, hailed as one of Europe's best, is bringing his Hamlet to Tel Aviv.

CINCINNATI - It was a few minutes before curtain time at Cincinnati Opera's production of Verdi's 'Don Carlo,' and I was chatting with the articulate, opinionated and, yes, quite charming woman sitting next to me.

MARIA NOCKIN was at Los Angeles Opera's 'La traviata' With his opera La traviata , Giuseppe Verdi crowned the achievement of his early years as a composer .

Mr. Jarrett at a solo recital at Carnegie Hall in 2005. Kevin G. Der is giving us a bit of a break today.

Yinka Shonibare, M.B.E., Un Ballo in Maschera. 2004. High-definition digital video.

I forgot to mention in my comments on Tosca that while Adrianne Pieczonka has fine technique and a warm voice of ample size - certainly more than enough for the role - she doesn't sound at all Italian.

"EU and Turkey Sign Pipeline Deal Nabucco, an American piece for a European orchestra The European Union and Turkey plan to sign an intergovernmental agreement on the Nabucco natural gas pipeline project on June 25 in Ankara.

It is strange that so few Handel operas are to be found in London in 2009. Perhaps the journey of discovery that has seen so much of his operatic legacy brought back to life over the past 50 years is now complete and it was felt there was no need to do more to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's death.

Even in its truncated, four-act version, Verdi 's Don Carlos is a big work, in every sense.

Aria, DVD review Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, and Ken Russell direct the flamboyantly original operatic 'Aria'. From the sublime to the ridiculous: the all-singing 'Aria' is opera's first foray into MTV territory Aria 15, Second Sight, 19.56 Attempts to translate opera into film date back to the birth of cinema and run into their thousands: ...

The strains of a sonata can bring calm, while a stirring chorus may rouse us. But listening to music may change more than just our mood.

Beijing International Music Festival, an annual cultural event in Beijing's calendar, is known for its continued efforts in promoting classical music.

Verona will open its 87th Opera Festival on Friday, a summer-long event with five operas and a special evening for tenor Placido Domingo, celebrating 40 years since his debut in the northern Italian town's arena.

Hector Berlioz composed his operatic version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing early in the 1860s.

Published: Monday, June 15, 2009 at 3:03 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 15, 2009 at 3:03 p.m. Sarasota Opera is bringing back some familiar names for its fall production of Verdi's 'La traviata.' Lina Tetriani, who was known as Lina Tetruashvili when she played Magda in the 2008 production of 'La rondine,' returns as the show's heroine, Violetta.

In this May 9, 2008 file photo originally released by the Metropolitan Opera, German bass Rene Pape portrays Macbeth's comrade in arms, Banquo, during a performance of Verdi's Macbeth, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

From its second act onward, the San Francisco Opera's new production of "La Traviata" attempts something radically new with Verdi's familiar melodrama.

In April last year Chelsea Opera Group gave us a terrific performance of Verdi 's first version of Macbeth .