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Seven Veils emerges as a film about appropriation – not cultural but personal, the morally dubious territory in which the artist takes your trauma and spins it into gold

The singer Wang Fang drew criticism after she performed “Katyusha,” a Soviet-era patriotic song, at the ruins of a theater in Mariupol.

Chinese opera singer Wang Fan has sparked a diplomatic row after she was filmed singing the Soviet war song “Katyusha” inside the Mariupol Drama Theater in Ukraine where hundreds were killed last year.

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For its Japan tour, the company will perform lavish productions of \La Traviata,\ directed by Sofia Coppola, and \Tosca,\ by Franco Zeffirelli.

The Italian Cultural Community Center and Harmonium Stellarum Houston kick off both of their fall music series with an operatic duo in "Baroque Beginnings."

Soprano Cecilia Violetta López doesnt have a traditional opera background, but she says her uncommon path has enriched her appreciation of the music.

ASTANA. KAZINFORM The Astana Opera’s opera company director, Honored Worker of Kazakhstan, Professor Azamat Zheltyrguzov, became a laureate of the Stars of the Commonwealth CIS Interstate Humanitarian Award. The award ceremony will take place in Bishkek on September 11 to 15, 2023, as part of the CIS Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia Forum, the press office of Astana Opera reported.