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Proust's Lover Writes Hit About Cucumber Girl's Aristocrat Romance: Review
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... at the Opera Comique. Hahn (1875-1947) was born in Venezuela , moved to Paris as a child and studied with Jules Massenet. He became his generation's answer to the German Jacob Eberst, better known as Jacques Offenbach, half a century earlier -- the ... Comment?
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Ciboulette, Opera Comique, Paris
... orchestra is not quite note perfect but Equilbey caresses the score's simple poetry and milks its emotional nods to Massenet. GA ori BouA , the first Ciboulette at the OpA ra Comique and now 94, was trotted out before curtain up for a ... Comment?
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10 things to do in Scotland this week
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... following the screening. American tenor Jonathan Boyd sings the title role in Scottish Opera's new production of Massenet's Werther. The opera is based on Goethe's partly autobiographical tale of a young artist infatuated by a girl whose engagement ... Comment?
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As operas go, Massenet's Werther shouldn't be a tricky one to follow. Its timeless themes don't depend on any clever plot permutations. Comment?
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Werther, Theatre Royal, Glasgow A tale of doomed love
The orchestra of Scottish Opera sounded tremendous as Scotland's classical music crowd, plus a few newbies, turned out for the opening night of Scottish Opera's new production of Massenet's Werther. Comment?
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Preview: Stephen Hough and the San Francisco Symphony
... features Swiss-born Alfred Cortot's transcription of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV565), works of Faure, Massenet, Chabrier, Chaminade, Delibes, Alkan, and the Liszt transcription (S409a) of Fromental Halevy's opera, La juive . Pianists ... Comment?
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Ailyn Pérez Releases Debut Album; Headlines ?La Traviata? and ?L'Elisir? in Europe
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... prestigious Rosenblatt Recitals series. In a program featuring Spanish and French art song together with arias from Massenet's Manon, her performance came, according to Opera Creep, "as close to my idea of perfection as possible." Prez headlines La ... Comment?
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A man obsessed. A man destroyed. The posters for Scottish Opera's new Werther boil Massenet's opera down to a pithy strapline, but it's true: Werther is an archetype. Comment?
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DHO's 'Cinderella' Updates a Classic
The plot of Jules Massenet's opera "Cinderella" centers around the same elements as that of the Disney movie everyone grew up with: a girl, a godmother, a glass slipper. Comment?
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James Valenti breaks the tenor barrier
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... impressionistic accompaniment. It was in the opera arias that Valenti was most at home. With "Le rve," from Massenet's "Manon" and "La fleur" from Bizet's "Carmen," he seemed more to the manner born, full of effusive romantic passion. Vocal problems ... Comment?
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Review: James Valenti at the Schubert Club
... impressionistic accompaniment. It was in the opera arias that Valenti was most at home. With "Le reve," from Massenet's "Manon" and "La fleur" from Bizet's "Carmen," he seemed more to the manner born, full of effusive romantic passion. Vocal ... Comment?
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... vocal abilities came on in leaps and bounds and he soon won a part in a Royal Opera House production of Jules Massenet's . "That's really how I got started in opera," says Oakes, adding that while he enjoys other genres he is not, for the moment at ... Comment?
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Cleveland Pops presents 'Valentine Fantasy' with flexible soloist
... different personality. She played things straight as violinist in Gershwin's Three Preludes and the Meditation from Massenet's "Thais" and raised her soubrette-like soprano variably in arias from "Die Fledermaus," "Adriana Lecouvreur" and "Gianni ... Comment?
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Tickets on sale for 'Cinderella' at Simpson
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15, 16 and 17 in Pote Theatre in the Blank Performing Arts Center on campus. This is the first time Simpson will perform the opera by Jules Massenet. Comment?
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Preview: Dunster House Opera's 'Cinderella'
... winter, from head to glass slipper. Opening in Dunster Dining Hall on Saturday, this rendition of Jules Massenet's "Cinderella" ("Cendrillon," in itsoriginal French) uses an enormous cast, over a dozen named parts, and a shortened script to tell the ... Comment?
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Opera: Tenor Jonathan Boyd on Massernet's Werther
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Massenet's tragic opera is a favourite of tenor Jonathan Boyd, as it allows him to give voice to unusually wide emotional range Operatic tenors are a breed apart. Comment?
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Renee Fleming and Susan Graham on Stage and on CD's
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... Mary Garden (1874-1967), who was a favorite of French composers of the early 20th century, including Debussy and Massenet. Then, the two stars came out, dressed to the nines. (As Graham noted after the intermission, "What did you expect? Two divas. ... Comment?
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Patt Diroll: L.A. Opera in preparation
... season of seven productions at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The season will include the company premiere of Jules Massenet's "Thais" and the first L.A. performances of the outr "Einstein on the Beach," by Phillip Glass and Robert Wilson. James ... Comment?
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SF Opera presenting Offenbach's lyrical 'Tales of Hoffman' with Natalie Dessay
... Francisco's new production will be English mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, who was in San Francisco's new production of Massenet's Werther, makes her role debut in the pants role as Nicklausse, Hoffman's guiding spirit also in love with him. Werther was ... Comment?
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Canadian Opera Company unveils 2013/2014 season
... merge into the dream world, the abstract version of the period that it was written in.' The season will close with Massenet's tale of chivalry and romance, Don Quichotte. It will be conducted by COC music director Johannes Debus, who will also head ... Comment?
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