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May at times be disappointed when their favourite singers cancel, but how does one attract such passion for opera amongst younger people? i know that young people love modern things, but they would never go to the opera to find modernity. they would go to the opera to find fantasy, to find the past, to dream away from a difficult life that they are in. so keep the opera traditional... keep it... ..don�*t try to reinvent it in a modern way, and you feel that that will maintain and spread its ap...

At least eight people have died. the south korean president has called an emergerncy meeting now on bbc news, take me to the opera. ive been an opera fan for decades and i want to share my passion with you, so im on a mission to find out how opera is making itself fit for the future. ive come to munich to meet one of my all—time opera heroes, the german tenor jonas kaufmann, whos widely viewed as the worlds leading opera singer. hes a charismatic person, performer. his way of communicating, hi...

Somewhere within us. and it can only resonate if it has a certain beauty. and the more you go away from these rules and recipes that, for several centuries, did work well, the more complicated this music becomes. he sings jonas kaufmann is extremely important, actually, for opera today and opera tomorrow. somehow, he makes it relevant. he gives it a kind of actuality, his personality, the way he is approaching it. so he makes it that opera is not something about the past. there is no nostalgia o...

The young venezuelan conductor gustavo dudamel and why hes shaking up the world of opera and music. hello. our spell of largely dry and increasingly hot weather is set to continue for the rest of this week. over the next few days, we see those heatwave conditions building and hardly any rain in the forecast. just the far north—west of scotland, where we see a weather front close by, we see a little bit of rain, but for the rest of us, high pressure dominates. as that high pressure shifts its w...

Whatever role hes in, jonas kaufmann dazzles. hes renowned for a vast range of performances in tosca, la traviata, otello and fidelio, amongst many others. what is the secret of his success? thats what the next generation of opera stars want to know. so ive come to castiglione della pescaia, on the tuscan coast in italy, to meet the young singers who want to learn from kaufmann about how to get to the very top, as well as the pressures of remaining there. sing here, every year, a dozen lucky sin...

The International Brazilian Opera Company (IBOC) took to the well of the Pioneers Museum’s packed Division 1 Courtroom last month for a workshop performance of their new production.

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s “Lessons in Love and Violence” is a masterly follow-up to their acclaimed “Written on Skin.”

XIAN, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Before moving to the city of Xian, capital of northwest China Shaanxi Province, Robin Gilbank had limited knowledge about the city desp

Perform for many years to come. applause in the next episode, the young venezuelan conductor gustavo dudamel and why hes shaking up the world of opera and music. hello there. no sign of any rent across some parts of southern england in particular it will be dry in hampshire, no rain since the first ofjuly, and only 0.4

And be even longer on heaven. the beginning... jonathan papp is co—founder and artistic director of the georg solti academy and is one of the worlds leading vocal coaches. weve had some really wonderful singers that weve nurtured through here, and theyve gone on to sing at all the great houses. angel vargas is a tenor from puerto rico and studied music in the united states. i first sanonas kaufmann in a video in 2011 of the royal opera house production of tosca. and i had no idea what he was s...