He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One.
Hans Rosbaud was renowned as a modern-music specialist. But newly released archival recordings demonstrate his gifts were far broader.
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Willard White interview: 'I thought no real man would go on stage and sing'
The great bass baritone Willard White tells Jasper Rees how he used to be embarrassed about his voice and why little fazes him now
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The 'uncompromising' and versatile opera singer Maria Ewing dies at 71
"She was fearless in her approach to finding the emotional truth of a piece of music — whatever it was," her daughter, the actress and director Rebecca Hall, tells The Times.
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Pope slips out of Vatican to visit record shop, gets CD
Pope Francis grew up listening to the opera on the radio, is a fan of Argentine tango and thinks Mozart “lifts you to God.”
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio Javier Martinez Brocal Pope Francis Rome Reports Classical Music Rts And Entertainment
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Gianni Schicchi, Grange Park Opera online, review: hard to beat as an hour of pure, free fun
Awkward to stage live because of its short length, Puccini's comic opera has here found an ideal online home, in a super filmed production
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Bucharest National Opera Orchestra to stage gala at Expo 2020 Dubai on January 17
The Bucharest National Opera Orchestra, under the musical direction of maestro Tiberiu Soare, will perform at Expo 2020 Dubai on January 17 in the...
United Arab Emirates Ciprian Porumbescu Romania General Ruxandra Donose Teodora Gheorghiu Rafael Butaru
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Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages
The musical “Hadestown” and the opera “Eurydice” aim to offer new twists on a Greek myth. But when it comes to their heroine, they only go so far.
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Opera singer Maria Ewing, wife of Peter Hall, dead at 71
DETROIT (AP) — Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall and the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, has died at age 71. Ewing died Sunday at her home in Detroit, spokeswoman Bryna Rifkin said Monday.
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4 Operas in 48 Hours: A Critic's Marathon at the Met
Amid the virus surge, the company is performing “Rigoletto,” “Le Nozze di Figaro,” “Tosca” and “La Bohème” in close succession.
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Mälkki could be 1st woman music director of NY Philharmonic
NEW YORK (AP) — Her arms at her side against her glimmering, long black jacket and her blond hair pulled into a ponytail, Susanna Mälkki soaked in several minutes of
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