"People who go to museums and concerts or create art or play an instrument are more satisfied with their lives, regardless of how educated or rich they are, according to a study.
Irene Dalis gets back in the actionSan Jose Mercury NewsOn Oct. 22, Irene Dalis was on her way to work at Opera San Jose, driving north on Interstate 880 in San Jose after a standing appointment with her hairdresser.
The Sacramento PressSacramento Opera's 2011-2012 season saved by donorsSacramento BeeThe Sacramento Opera announced Friday that it will present a 2011-12 season. Urgent pleas in the last two weeks secured $135164 from donors.
A FILIPINO baritone based in Berlin is now considered one of the world's most versatile interpreters of contemporary music in the German opera scene after appearing in an important segment of a contemporary opera by acclaimed composer ...
"Dubbed GrouponLive, the service, expected to launch in June, is aimed at easing both the perennial problem of filling empty seats at concerts and sporting events, including last year's big drop in attendance that prompted numerous cancellations...
Racette in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride at Washington National Opera (Photo: Scott Suchman)"Without any daringly ornamented arias or anything extraneous that might divert attention from the story's dramatic continuity, a Gluck opera will succeed...
How many other blogs discuss the challenges of being a singing Nordic god in 15-inch platform boots? Yes, fine, the internet’s a big place. But how many of these bloggers sporting 15-inch platforms are also opera singers?
AFPSpanish tenor Domingo sings farewell to WashingtonAFPWASHINGTON — At 70 years old, he climbs ladders, rolls on the ground and his voice shakes the room: Placido Domingo is Oreste in "Iphigenie en Tauride," a performance-style farewell to the...
"Direct-to-fan," everyone called it, the idea that if the bond between artist and fan is strong enough, the fan will gladly pay for access, for premium content, for the sense of a less-anonymous relationship with the artist and the process.
This has been a good spring for Strauss at the Met. After a luxurious Capriccio, we get Ariadne auf Naxos with an incredible cast under the baton of Fabio Luisi.
by Christie Connolley It is no secret that Jessye Norman is my idol! As I have said before, but bares repeating when I grow up I want to be a synthesis of Jessye Norman, Oprah Winfrey and Gisele Bundchen!
Patrick Summers will assume business management responsibilities as artistic and music director, and collaborate with COO Perryn Leech and chief advancement officer Greg Robertson in an attempt to continue and build HGO's international reputation.
After years of will-they, won't-they, the Berlin Philharmonic have finally decided to part company with the Salzburg Easter Festival. Next year's will be their last. From 2013 they set up camp in Baden Baden instead.
My mother, lord love her, has long regarded--and listened to--my opera obsession in more or less suffering bewilderment, or more or less bewildered suffering.
Norman Lebrecht announces that soprano Kate Royal, who just made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Orfeo ed Euridice, is pregnant and has cancelled her engagement at the Glyndebourne Festival this summer.
Newest photo →; 20080903 Oslo Opera House, Oslo, Norway 107 · 20080903 Oslo Opera House, Oslo, Norway 105 · 20080903 Oslo Opera House, Oslo, Norway 104. This photo also appears in. Black and White (Group) ...
Tae Joong YangKorean born barihunk Tae Joong Yang first came to international attention after performing in the Neue Stimmen competition in Germany. He is another one of our reader submissions from Germany.
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