Most concert halls and opera houses are just too big.
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Nunneries, like theaters and opera houses, are promising for obvious reasons.
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Opera houses have to respond creatively to justify continued public money.
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Opera houses, "full of dust and shit", should be burned down.
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It's also important for singers to perform outside of opera houses.
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Of course, opera houses are no strangers to audiences voicing their disapproval.
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Since nabbing those honors, he's performed in opera houses around the world.
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"[Only] a few [opera houses] are willing to take risks," she says.
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As a child, he loved sneaking into the neighborhood's traditional Cantonese opera houses.
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At American and British opera houses, corporate sponsors and philanthropists top up public funding.
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The government is setting up opera houses, concert halls and symphony orchestras at speed.
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By all means go to the major opera houses and hear big, grand operas.
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Of Italy's 13 leading opera houses, only La Fenice in Venice is currently in profit.
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State-funded opera houses don't need to be full every night to pay the bills.
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He estimated that he had staged some 50 productions at opera houses around the world.
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Dance companies, like orchestras and opera houses, must tend to an enormous repertory of classics.
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But on Tuesday, the company — one of London's two main opera houses — had a boost.
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Or perhaps more relevant to Australia, the value comes to more than 12 Sydney Opera houses.
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But does China, with its own rich cultural history, need opera houses performing a Western repertoire?
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The enchanting and futuristic opera houses of the country's megacities don't offer Italian masterpieces every night.
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In recent seasons Mr. Ford has won praise for performances in American and European opera houses.
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He created a vibrant performing version for modern opera houses, and it soon entered the canon.
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It was unclear whether other opera houses would stick by Mr. Domingo after his latest statement.
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My hope is that more people will feel comfortable in the opera houses of my childhood.
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Alas, her career mostly predated the era when film and TV routinely came to international opera houses.
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In Germany, generous state subsidies to opera houses mean they "could be much more adventurous," he said.
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Turner died of cancer in 2012, and Kaiser wrote he promised he'd take Turner's ashes to opera houses.
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Behind them, an entire generation of Italian conductors is making a mark at leading orchestras and opera houses.
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Paris teems with visitors, but its opera houses are a safe distance from its most tourist-infested quarters.
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Before she got sick, they had worked their way across Europe, singing at all the big opera houses.
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Of Italy's 14 major opera houses—the ones supported by the federal government—nearly all are in the red.
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Contrary to the thrust of your article, it is the great voices that fill opera houses, not radical directors.
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He took on projects ranging from private homes to opera houses, as long as the job fit his sensibility.
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From city boats to opera houses, there are plenty of ways to spend a day in the Polish city.
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He was the kind of usher one encountered at the world's finest opera houses: London, Vienna, Milan, New York.
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Indeed, in the way opera houses rush to sign up rising stars, her dance card is rapidly filling up.
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In a rebuke of Nazi oppression, "Fidelio" became the opera of choice to reopen Germany and Austria's opera houses.
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She became the global go-to for fuck-off art galleries and experimental opera houses from Abu Dhabi to Guangzhou.
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For centuries, its physical style has been designed to radiate upward and outward into the farther reaches of opera houses.
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But the operatic world is really breaking this wall, and we have to thank the opera houses and casting directors.
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There were no opera houses in Palestine then: What local opera companies there were had to perform in movie theaters.
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The stagehands of old opera houses in towns like Galveston and Lexington would boast that Harry Houdini had performed there.
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Correction (July 18th, 2017): This article originally stated that only two of 14 opera houses in Italy were not loss-making.
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The Camden and Rockport Opera Houses, the Farnsworth Museum, and the Strand Theater are proud New England environments, never too imposing.
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You seem very interested in opéra comique and operetta, traditions of music theater that many big opera houses shy away from.
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Europe's top opera houses all wanted to book her, journalists wanted to interview her, congratulations flooded in from friends and family.
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This made the Turkish military seem less fearsome than before, and European opera houses rather suddenly began staging operas about Turks.
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The outlet reported that other opera houses, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and San Francisco Opera, had already canceled appearances by Domingo.
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His successor at the Met, one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, will be named in the coming months.
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New York boasted one of the country's first opera houses, the Italian Opera House, which was consumed by a fire in 26.
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Her performance earned a standing ovation and glowing reviews, followed by offers from major opera houses in Barcelona, Spain, and Dresden, Germany.
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If their request is granted, clubs in Germany will enjoy the same legal status as opera houses, theaters, and other cultural spaces.
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With Old World-style theaters and opera houses, jazz festivals and diverse restaurants, colonial-era Montevideo looks and feels like modern-day Europe.
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The performers didn't come from one of Italy's most iconic opera houses—Milan's La Scala, for example, or Rome's Accademia di Santa Cecilia.
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Opera houses are now finding that the sparring divas are not the sopranos or tenors treading the boards, but those behind the scenes.
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The Berlin Staatsoper, one of Germany's foremost opera houses, has announced a collaboration with the filmmaker as part of its 2016-17 season.
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Tradition was the rallying cry on Sunday for the 4503th anniversary of the Komische Oper Berlin, one of the city's three opera houses.
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Most Spanish music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was created for popular theaters, however, while Italian composers dominated opera houses.
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He reconstructed Cavalli's "La Calisto" and "L'Ormindo,"and introduced, to acclaim, his versions into opera houses, especially at the Glyndebourne Festival in England.
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It is one reason that Germany has more opera houses than anywhere else in the world: 78, according to the German Theater Association.
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Domingo, 78, is one of the most famous classical singers and directors in the world and has performed at opera houses around the globe.
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"She could have signed up with a major vocal management immediately and start being represented and getting bookings at major opera houses," he said.
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Opera houses are particularly vulnerable, said Wasfi Kani, who runs Grange Park Opera, a successful small-scale company based in Surrey, south of London.
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Opera houses, dark on performance nights: what an irony in the country where Jacopo Peri established the genre with "La Dafne" over four centuries ago.
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But that nomadic curiosity is also his hallmark: His work has appeared everywhere from opera houses to concert halls to theater stages to movie screens.
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Some of the artists selected as their subjects aristocratic opera houses and theaters, while others look to more democratic spaces of popular entertainment, like cinemas.
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We have worked on Broadway, at theaters across the country, at opera houses around the world, and at colleges, inspiring next generations in the arts.
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The allegations at one of the world's most prestigious opera houses come amid widening sexual misconduct scandals in the fields of entertainment, politics and journalism.
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Opera houses began to rise all over the city to meet the growing demand for the art form — though they often fell almost as quickly.
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But his performance turned out to be a triumph, propelling his international career and leading to appearances with the world's greatest opera houses and orchestras.
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One of the most spectacular opera houses in the world, the venue is the flagship of the art form's swift rise across the conservative Gulf region.
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She may have been hindered by her voice, which, though almost universally praised for its purity, was not as immense as large opera houses can demand.
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In recent years, Mr. Grigolo has been establishing himself as something modern opera houses desperately need in the post-"Three Tenors" era: an exciting leading man.
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In an ISIS-controlled society, there would be no concert halls or opera houses, and music critics like Anthony Tommasini would be out of a job.
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Mr. Gedda was ubiquitous on recordings and in the world's foremost opera houses and concert halls, including La Scala in Milan and Covent Garden in London.
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And with Italian star conductors preferring engagements abroad over the risk of cancelled engagements at home, the musical quality at Italian opera houses will continue to decrease.
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Munich plays host not only to one of the best opera houses in the world, but also to one of the best orchestras: the Bavarian Radio Symphony.
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ZACHARY WOOLFE There's much to be said for the stagione system in use in many European opera houses, in which only one production runs at a time.
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For that, you can thank the impossibility of creating one-size-fits-all sets for the world's leading opera houses, muddled administrative leadership and a strained friendship.
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According to Bankes-Jones, something similar is happening with large opera houses today: "All this technology goes to endlessly trying and preserve [the canonical operas]," he says.
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Yet Boulez mellowed over time, and became a revered figure at leading opera houses and orchestras, working within the system to improve it rather than exploding it.
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Why would a symphony orchestra, let alone one with a budget of only 10 million pounds ($13.5 million), take on a task that most opera houses fear?
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Charity galas at opera houses were preceded by personal visits to places like the Henry Street Settlement House, an organization to assist the homeless, in New York.
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OperaCamion — which began last year with a coproduction of Rossini's "Barber of Seville" by the opera houses of Rome and Palermo — was conceived in that same spirit.
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"I told Terry that if he would like, I would take some of his ashes to opera houses that I visited in the future," Mr. Kaiser wrote.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Are museums, opera houses, food pantries and other nonprofits to be held responsible for how their donors have made their money?
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But with all of Italy's major opera houses except two posting a deficit, there's little incentive for an angel-voiced Italian to embark on an operatic singing career.
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Little did Tori know that she would one day be selling out opera houses all over the world and singing her own original songs of empowerment and heartbreak.
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This high-energy city has everything — thermal baths, an abundance of shopping areas and yummy cafes, plus tours of its grandiose opera houses and famed Hungarian Parliament building.
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Italy is still under lockdown, and Berlin has shuttered state theaters, opera houses and concert halls until mid-April as the number of cases across the continent grows.
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A changing of the guard in Vienna, at one of the most important and busy opera houses in the world, would always be of interest to opera buffs.
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Click it and the service will take you somewhere unexpected, from opera houses in Italy to hot springs in Japan, before showing you a "knowledge card" of interesting facts.
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Middle-class Europeans are more likely to live in flats, and wealthy Europeans have long preferred city centres, choosing museums and opera houses over swimming pools and golf courses.
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On Tuesday, the local authorities in Berlin closed all state-run theaters, opera houses and concert halls; on Wednesday, the city banned public events involving more than 1,000 people.
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The language barrier is a constant in China, but aside from the well-established opera houses in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, others aren't really set up for culture tourism.
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But on Thursday, as some of Europe's leading opera houses considered canceling his future engagements, Mr. Domingo said he wanted to "correct the false impression" his statement had created.
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Built nearly 10 years ago with soaring Byzantine-style architecture and a lobby that rivals the great opera houses of the world, it also hosts some major opera singers.
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Last year the Italian culture ministry spent €183m ($204m) on the country's 14 major opera houses—a figure down from the €191m ($213m) provided by the government five years ago.
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He had been working for years assisting other producers and running a booking firm he founded that sent small shows to opera houses and old vaudeville theaters around the country.
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With concert halls and opera houses closed around the world as part of bans on large gatherings aimed at curbing the coronavirus outbreak, what are homebound classical critics to do?
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But at a young age he discovered that free standing-room tickets were available at some opera houses to "claquers," who would applaud on cue when their designated star appeared.
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Since Alexander Neef became general director of the Canadian Opera Company a decade ago, he has helped turn it into one of the most interesting opera houses in North America.
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It is not unusual to find musicals on the programs of opera houses in Germany and Austria, where, unlike on Broadway or the West End, few theaters specialize in them.
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"With an opera singer, you either do or you don't," explained Mr. Fabiano, who sings at leading opera houses all over the world and travels for most of the year.
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Mahler, however, might be the better composer to hear Ms. Young conduct, given what she is known for in her long-established career at opera houses and concert halls abroad.
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Several opera houses around the world cancelled appearances by Domingo and the Los Angeles Opera, where he is general director, said it would start an independent investigation into the accusations.
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The Staatsballett, though one of Germany's leading ballet companies, is still relatively young: It was founded in 2004 through a consolidation of the dance troupes from Berlin's three opera houses.
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In the 1990s, the festival created its own international superstar in the tenor Juan Diego Flórez, who then took some of Pesaro's unearthed masterpieces to the world's great opera houses.
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You're combining everything, and using them to express things that are as diverse as the people creating them in architecture as grand and diverse as all the world's opera houses.
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But she persisted, winning some of the loudest applause in recent memory, paying off her debts, fielding offers from opera houses around the world — and finding her voice as Brünnhilde.
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Mr. Moll's 6-foot-2 frame was made to measure for many of the basso profundo roles he came to own on the stages of the world's leading opera houses.
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In the 1990s, the festival created its own international superstar in the tenor Juan Diego Flórez, who then took some of Pesaro's unearthed masterpieces to the world's great opera houses.
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After the Met dismissed Mr. Copley, a revered director who has worked at leading international opera houses, a heated debate erupted on social media about whether it was an overreaction.
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Living in Vienna gives you front row seats to incredible architecture ranging from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period, plus a divine array of museums, carnivals, opera houses and markets.
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But after a week seeing new productions at all three opera houses, led by some of Europe's most renowned stage directors, I was struck by the lack of grandeur on display.
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Like all opera houses in Italy, the Teatro has struggled with steadily declining state subsidies from a financially strapped government, but it manages to fill 80 percent of its paid seats.
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It's a challenging yet apt assignment for the Met debut of Jakub Hrusa, a rising Czech maestro who's already a regular with American orchestras, if not yet with American opera houses.
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In 2013, the largest structure ever constructed was finished in Chengdu: the 1.7-million square meter New Century Global Center, an 18-floor mall that could fit 20 Sydney Opera Houses inside.
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At the Met, which with La Scala is considered to be at the pinnacle of the world's opera houses, the conductor roster this season features nine Italians, more than any other nationality.
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"I thought he kind of hit the nail on the head, as a composer who could write pieces for today that audiences in large opera houses would take up," Mr. Gockley said.
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But not all opera houses are the same size, so bringing a production from one to another often entails adjusting, or even rebuilding, sets, as well as reimagining some of the blocking.
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You can spend a lot of (tax-deductible) funds sprucing up the nation's universities and opera houses, and as a bonus it might distract from your history of less laudable political spending.
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Pieces of the Dutch National Opera's recent history — the sweat, the drama, the flecks of fake blood — may end up at other opera houses or in the closets of avant-garde dressers.
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Anyone following classical music in Berlin is aware of the flowering of the Komische Oper, the most rebellious and unconventional of the city's three opera houses, under its artistic director, Barrie Kosky.
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By the time Mr. Schrott, a Uruguayan-born bass-baritone, won the top prize in Operalia in 1998, the competition had become the place where leading opera houses looked for new talent.
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He conducted at the major opera houses of London, Paris, Hamburg, Geneva, Stockholm and elsewhere and led a production of Britten's "Billy Budd" at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1978-79 season.
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And since 2014, the secular oratorio "Le Vin Herbé," Martin's pared down but poignant take on the Tristan legend, has been mounted by opera houses in Boston, Chicago and Long Beach, Calif.
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A report cited patrons "staring into space" with "glazed…eyes" as evidence of drug-taking; it certainly didn't consider that those symptoms might be observed in the audiences of theatres and opera houses.
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Nothing—not even the obligatory Nazi rape scenes that are now derigueur in European opera houses—prepared me for how cock-horrid most of these celebrations of misogyny, arrogance and ego really are.
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Mr. Botha appeared at the world's major opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London and the Vienna State Opera.
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"I'm glad I'm a countertenor, even though I can't sing 'Tosca' at all the best opera houses and make my money with that," he said in a recent interview at his Manhattan apartment.
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More than three dozen singers, dancers, musicians, voice teachers and backstage staff have said they witnessed or experienced inappropriate behaviour by Domingo towards women at different opera houses over the last three decades.
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The five-time Grammy winner has consistently shunned the mezzo-soprano roles performed in the world's big opera houses, and has championed an early-music repertory that has sometimes verged on the obscure.
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A handful of U.S. regional opera houses and orchestras had previously canceled planned appearances by Domingo but the decision by the Met marked the most serious fallout for the singer from the accusations.
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With three full-time opera houses, seven major symphony orchestras and numerous world-class choirs, all lavishly funded by the German government, Berlin may well be the most musically active city on earth.
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Costume departments of major ballet and opera houses all over the world are often in touch with one another, sharing tips and techniques, in large part because so many co-productions are staged.
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While the Teatro Regio's figure (15%) comes nowhere close to the sponsorship deals and philanthropic funding enjoyed by American opera houses, the additional income has allowed Mr Noseda to start planning more foreign tours.
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And the fact that the Teatro Regio is thriving raises the question: if it can reverse its fortunes despite its somewhat lesser status, what's to stop other Italian opera houses from doing the same?
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Following news of his death, many of the opera houses where he had worked over the years, as well as those who had known the director throughout his life, shared tributes on social media.
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The police also learned from an audience member about a man — Mr. Kaiser it turned out — who had mentioned spreading the ashes of a friend at opera houses around the country, the official said.
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I know the coronavirus contingency plans of airlines, hotels, restaurants, delivery services, opera houses, mattress companies, and brands whose businesses seem extremely unrelated from the ongoing coronavirus crisis, like Levi's or Harbor Freight Tools.
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Dominique Meyer, who is French and has been director of Vienna State Opera since 2010, has been celebrated for increasing revenue at the Austrian institution at a time when many opera houses are struggling.
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La Scala, which is considered one of the world's most prestigious opera houses, hosts its audiences in four tiers of loges and has dazzling acoustics from a concave channel beneath the wooden orchestra floor.
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Rolando Panerai, an Italian baritone who sang more than 270 roles at leading international opera houses, made many classic recordings and appeared frequently with the celebrated soprano Maria Callas in her prime, died on Oct.
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Though cuts to labour contracts mean opera workers have to do more for less money, if Italy's opera houses are to emerge from their fiscal holes a Fuortes-style plan may be their best hope.
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Brenda Lewis, an American soprano whose mastery of a vast range of vocal styles carried her to the world's foremost opera houses and the Broadway stage, died on Saturday at her home in Westport, Conn.
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That's about the same value as a dozen Sydney Opera Houses — except instead of housing artists and performers, the Great Barrier Reef shelters and sustains everything from algae, worms, and snails to fish, turtles, and sharks.
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"She went beyond opera and classical music showing that opera singers are not just limited to the opera houses but go way beyond that," Christina Sheppelmann, the Liceu's artistic director, told reporters on Saturday in Barcelona.
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China, another nation not traditionally known for Wagner and Rossini, is in the midst of an opera-house construction boom that includes boldly designed opera houses in Harbin and Guangzhou (the latter designed by Zaha Hadid).
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Coproductions are increasingly how leading opera houses do business, allowing them to share costs while presenting their audiences with a steady stream of shows that are new to them, even if not new to the world.
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VIENNA — The prompter's box at the foot of the stage of the Vienna State Opera houses the person to whom divas can turn at forgetful moments for a snippet of text to get back on track.
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Opera houses have rarely been profitable, but Balanchine's high-brow marketing was effective (today, the three organisations founded in his name—NYCB, the George Balanchine Foundation and the School of American Ballet—are worth a collective $196m).
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The decision to appoint Mr. Mears to succeed the Danish-born Kasper Holten came as a surprise, because Mr. Mears has little experience with the politics of big opera houses and has a relatively modest international profile.
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Staging became more important in the 2500th century, as European opera houses began to remake old operas from the 22014th and 18th centuries, using new technology and special effects to keep audiences engaged with these familiar classics.
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Mr. Schulz said the size of the theater — which has less capacity than either of the city's other two opera houses, the Deutsche Oper and the Komische Oper — is a boon to creating a powerful live experience.
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While other major opera houses, ballet companies and Broadway shows find that Sunday performances are among their most popular, the Met retains a longstanding never-on-Sundays schedule that dates back to the days of strict blue laws.
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Jeffrey Tate, an English conductor whose precise, incisive interpretations of the German repertory and inspired work with singers made him a constant presence at concert halls and opera houses around the world, died on Friday in Bergamo, Italy.
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More than three dozen singers, dancers, musicians, voice teachers and backstage staff have said in recent weeks that they had witnessed or experienced inappropriate behavior by Domingo toward women at different opera houses over the last three decades.
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Only a handful of players have the standing and resources to create for cinema, and many organizations in Europe turn to free web streaming, but never before have opera houses had such freedom to produce their own content.
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For the "Amistad" costumes, Carter studied nineteenth-century etchings from a London flea market, costume archives in Italian opera houses, and David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,'s multivolume work "The Image of the Black in Western Art."
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It is rare for opera houses to expect the kind of commitment Mr. Levine made to the Met in his early years, when he seemed to conduct nonstop; he has racked up more than 2,500 performances with the company.
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The problem, according to a 22016 Pitchfork feature, is that previous attempts to stage daring, modern productions at large opera houses in New York have not been lucrative, signaling that older, traditional audiences are uninterested in reinventing the wheel.
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Appearances at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London, and other major opera houses followed, and she quickly became one of the busiest opera divas on the scene, a fixture of galas and benefits.
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The man's accusation and the inquiry by the Met, one of the world's most prestigious opera houses, showed that the national reckoning over claims of sexual misconduct had entered the world of classical music at its very highest echelons.
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So it made sense for Sabine Devieilhe, a rising star in her native France who has won acclaim at the leading opera houses of Europe, to include it in her debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on Thursday.
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The sun sank behind the hills of Ankara, and the Old New York opera houses and drawing rooms grew increasingly vivid, as did the fraught relationship between Newland Archer, his fiancée, May Welland, and her unconventional cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska.
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Nye Lavalle was the great-grandson of an Argentinian president (Teatro Colon, one of the world's finest opera houses, sits on a Buenos Aires square named Plaza Lavalle, after his ancestor) who successfully managed professional tennis players in the 1970s.
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He acknowledged that some of these new packages and programs were inspired by other major opera houses, such as the Royal Opera House in London, which has a mix of government and private funding, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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While the majority of what you see at major opera houses today will still be old hat, the digital revolution has paved the way for new voices and a diversification of social perspectives to make their way into the field.
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He made his reputation primarily at German opera houses: first at the Meiningen Opera, then at the Komische Opera, in Berlin, and, most recently, at the Bavarian State Opera, in Munich, where he will remain the music director until 2021.
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In our wired, amplified world, concert halls and opera houses are essentially the last places we can hear music in a natural acoustic, where we can savor the richness of an orchestra's string section or the ping of a tenor's voice.
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He is a seasoned performer in regional opera houses; here, he was assigned to cover for the part of Don José, and so he had been fitted with a costume and had familiarized himself with the outlines of the staging.
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Already the chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony in Germany and the permanent guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, he becomes principal guest conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London next season and appears regularly with major orchestras and opera houses.
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The cities of the Gulf region — the modern-day, sun-draped Gothams with their skyscrapers that have sprouted up like weeds — are home to some of the world's newest and newly appreciated museums, visual arts scenes and even opera houses.
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Other Renaissance-era movies featured songs that were Grammy and Academy Award-winning hits—songs that have been sung in theaters and opera houses all over the world—but none of them feel as good as Powerline's ode to seeing relationship's through.
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"There is sort of an invisible rule in China that rock musicians cannot perform in big concert halls or opera houses," said Tan Dun, the Oscar-winning composer of the score for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and de facto star of the concert.
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The first crisis to silence Simon Keenlyside — the British baritone whose refined musicality and edge-of-your-seat theatricality have made him a favorite in both recital halls and opera houses — hit nearly two years ago in the most high-profile of settings.
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Mr. Barenboim said Tuesday that he planned to stage his own production of the cycle in 2020, despite the fact that one of the city's other major opera houses, the Deutsche Oper, is already planning its own version of the four operas.
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"China is so big and we have so many grand theaters and opera houses, but if you asked me to give you the names of five general managers who are running their halls professionally, I wouldn't be able to," Mr. Wu said.
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One of opera's great recent success stories has been the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, which regularly assembles some of the best casts imaginable for edgy productions that frequently generate more buzz than the offerings of opera houses in bigger world capitals.
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Now that I've sung in all the major opera houses and been recognized all over the world, I can allow myself to step out and communicate again in a more popular musical language, meaning with a pop song rather than an opera aria.
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BERLIN, March 10 (Reuters) - Berlin said on Tuesday performances will not be held from March 11-April 19 at large halls in state theatres, opera houses and concert halls in the German capital, with the aim of inhibiting the spread of the coronavirus.
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But in a broader sense the term classical music has been adopted as a way to describe the continuing heritage of music mostly written to be performed in concert halls and opera houses by orchestras, singers, choruses, chamber ensembles and solo instrumentalists.
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Since 2012, Mr. Kosky, 50, has been the artistic director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, a company once seen as the distant third of the city's three opera houses — but now regarded, under his leadership, as one of the world's most interesting.
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The company is grappling with the same challenge facing other American opera houses, ballet companies and orchestras: the steady decline of the old subscription model, in which many audience members could be counted on to buy tickets to multiple events each year.
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According to festival director and curator Ekaterina Degot, "The Grand Hotel Abyss" is a place for "pleasure and political crisis" to come together, and it takes place over a number of different venues — galleries, hotels, art spaces, opera houses, and old palaces or state offices.
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Antoine Pecqueur, who wrote "The Most Beautiful Opera Houses in the World," featuring photographs by Guillaume de Laubier, said the role of chandeliers had changed over the years, from illuminating high society's see-and-be-seen rituals to serving a more functional, transitional role today.
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But his Facebook page also describes a more unusual operagoing ritual, which investigators now say led to the events that stopped the show at the Met: dispersing the ashes of a friend, whom he described as an "opera mentor," at opera houses around the country.
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But these men — yes, regrettably they are all men — had an avenue for advancement that is unavailable to most aspiring Americans: As apprentices, most honed their craft into art at one of the opera houses that since the 18th century have spread throughout Europe.
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The aria has a familiar ring to it: One of the world's leading opera houses reaches outside the tight-knit world of opera impresarios for new leadership, choosing a Sony record executive with no experience running a theater to guide it through uncertain times.
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While we were discussing his situation in the hospital, once he had opted to be made comfortable till the end, I told Terry that if he would like, I would take some of his ashes to opera houses that I visited in the future.
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What's more remarkable is that men in their twenties and early thirties have chosen conducting as a career, given that Italy's opera houses—the bread and butter of the country's music-making—are in such poor shape: productions are frequently cancelled and artists are habitually paid late.
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Now the sputniks are ready to resume their nightly ascents, and the Met, which has been facing a box-office slump and fiscal challenges, can take its place once more among the many opera houses that have made opulent, ornate chandeliers showpieces in their own right.
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Patricia KiddLumberton, N.J. To the Editor: If museums, universities, opera houses and symphony halls stipulated that all donations had to be anonymous, the morality of the donor — or the need to assess whether ill-gotten gains lurked beneath a specific donation — would be a moot point.
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Making his Met debut, the conductor Antonello Manacorda led an easygoing performance that was something of a middle ground between the brisk, spiky Mozart renditions favored these days by early-music groups and the weightier, smoother takes on this composer that still reign at bigger opera houses.
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This summer it is mounting five new fully staged opera productions (plus the return of Handel's "Ariodante" starring Cecilia Bartoli, which premiered at Salzburg's Whitsun festival this spring), over the course of just six weeks — close to what many big opera houses do over an entire season.
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When his voice changed and he could no longer sing in the children's chorus, he became a page-turner for recital accompanists and then a pianist at La Scala while he was still a teenager, then a chorus master in small opera houses and eventually a conductor.
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While opera houses will sometimes keep old sets and costumes in storage in case a new production turns out to be a disaster, it is highly unusual for a new show to be introduced with the explicit understanding that it will be presented alongside its predecessor.
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Lawrence Brownlee, a star tenor who sings at the Metropolitan Opera and other leading opera houses and is African-American, said he felt "torn in two different directions" when he was asked to sing the anthem at Sunday's game between the New York Jets and the Baltimore Ravens.
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What's fascinating about living on the cusp of China is the exciting but slightly frustrating cultural pilgrimages I've embarked on of late: visiting the extravagant and sometimes half-empty opera houses that have sprung up in the past few years in such megacities as Chongqing, Guangzhou and Zhuhai.
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They also connected artists; advanced favored singers; created set, costume and prop designs, with some lovingly detailed examples on view at the Morgan; compiled staging books that allowed opera houses to reproduce, more or less moment by moment, the blocking from the premiere; promoted openings; managed reputations; soothed egos.
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I pieced it together over the course of three days and was able to check out, among other things, one of the nation's most obscure and unexpected opera houses, a bizarre, deserted seaside resort town, and, of course, Death Valley, the lowest, driest and hottest place in the country.
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"If museums, universities, opera houses and symphony halls stipulated that all donations had to be anonymous, the morality of the donor — or the need to assess whether ill-gotten gains lurked beneath a specific donation — would be a moot point," one letter in the New York Times argued.
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"Great Barrier Reef Foundation director Steve Sargent said the report "sends a clear message that the Great Barrier Reef—as an ecosystem, as an economic driver, as a global treasure—is too big to fail," adding that at $56 billion, "the reef is valued at more than 12 Sydney Opera Houses.
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She chose to remain at Texas and, after earning her music degree in 22009, went on to a successful operatic career under the name Barbara Smith Conrad, appearing at major opera houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and performing in concert with leading symphony orchestras.
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After President François Mitterrand, in 1988, put him charge of Paris's opera houses, including the newly built Bastille Opera, Mr. Bergé scandalized the music world by firing Daniel Barenboim as its music and artistic director, contending that his salary was too high and that his plans for the house were too elitist.
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It tells the true story of Philip V (rendered as Philippe V in the play) of Spain, the 18th-century king who suffered from depression that was apparently held at bay by performances by the famous castrato Farinelli, who gave up Europe's opera houses to be a court musician for the king.
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"In a world that had overcome extreme poverty and other major problems that face us now, promoting the arts would be a worthy goal," philosopher Peter Singer, a proponent of effective altruism, writes in his new book, The Most Good You Can Do. In the meantime, opera houses will have to wait.
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"Opera houses did not yet exist really, so the composers were often writing for reception halls, like in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence," said the French conductor Raphaël Pichon, who will be making his U.S. debut in the production, which opens on March 21 in a similarly vast space: the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
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W.W. Norton; 2114.99 pages; $212015 and £29.99Drawing on a wide range of new evidence, including unknown letters and the archives of many of the opera houses that Arturo Toscanini worked with, including La Scala, Harvey Sachs has written a weighty and highly enjoyable account of one of the greatest conductors, a man still renowned for his pursuit of perfection.
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The focus on race in the opera houses comes after a white nationalist march in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va., was met with an equivocal response from the president; a series of scandals about state officials wearing blackface or using images of it in their yearbooks; and a stream of shootings of black men by the police.
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Among the works included is a film that provides a post-colonial take on Verdi; large-scale photographs of iconic opera houses that explore the architecture and order of social space; multiple installations that investigate the stories, music, sets and costumes of opera; drawings and collages that abstract opera design; and an installation of a fictional diva's dressing room that examines gender roles.
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But now the Met — the nation's largest performing arts organization and one of the world's most prestigious opera houses — finds itself in the position that Hollywood studios, television networks and newsrooms have confronted in recent weeks, answering questions about what it knew about allegations of sexual misconduct against one of its stars, and what actions it did and did not take.
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As more people move around the world for work, connected by our devices and our ability to communicate through Google Translate and a simple smile, these cultural and architectural wonders are a modern version of the great opera houses of centuries past: temples of national pride and the transformative power of music and culture, but also places to be seen, to find comfort, to swagger.
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Home to the Teatro alla Scala, one of the world's most famous and beautiful opera houses, the square had been transformed into a stage for a different kind of spectacle: the first Green Carpet Fashion Awards Italia, hosted by Carlo Capasa, chairman of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, which coordinates the country's fashion industry, and Livia Firth, founder and creative director of the sustainability consultancy Eco-Age.
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I also hoped to discuss her beginnings in the New York queer performance-art scene of the 90s, helming the drag-theater troupe the Blacklips; how her gymnastic voice won her an early mentor in Lou Reed, then a career-catapulting 2005 Mercury Prize; and the decade she spent shuttling her acoustic chamber-pop ensemble, Antony and the Johnsons, to concert halls and opera houses around the globe, sometimes with symphony orchestras in toe.
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