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Festival and residency offer up an opera feast
3 days, 18 hours ago

Festival and residency offer up an opera feast

China Daily  

Three-year plan to celebrate German composer by presenting his works, with educational and children's activities, Wang Xin reports. "Bayreuth in Shanghai "will present Wagner's three major works — Tristan and Isolde, Die Walkure and Tannhauser — as well as a series of educational activities and special editions of operas made for children. China has a big market for operas and …

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Festival and residency offer up an opera feast
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3 days, 18 hours ago

Festival and residency offer up an opera feast

China Daily  

Three-year plan to celebrate German composer by presenting his works, with educational and children's activities, Wang Xin reports. It is staging three masterpieces by notable German composer Richard Wagner from 2025 to 2027 and offering audiences an opera feast. "Bayreuth in Shanghai "will present Wagner's three major works — Tristan and Isolde, Die Walkure and Tannhauser — as well as …

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Popular TV drama transforms into a bold yet challenging stage production
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3 days, 18 hours ago

Popular TV drama transforms into a bold yet challenging stage production

China Daily  

The new Chinese opera A Dream of Splendor, created jointly by the Shanghai Opera House and Tencent Video, will have its global premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre from March 28 to 30. "The adaptation and creation of our new classical Chinese-style opera is a bold, fresh attempt to establish a foundation rooted in Song Dynasty culture and aesthetics," says …

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Popular TV drama transforms into a bold yet challenging stage production
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3 days, 18 hours ago

Popular TV drama transforms into a bold yet challenging stage production

China Daily  

The new Chinese opera A Dream of Splendor, created jointly by the Shanghai Opera House and Tencent Video, will have its global premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre in March. The new Chinese opera A Dream of Splendor, created jointly by the Shanghai Opera House and Tencent Video, will have its global premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre from March …

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Festival and residency offer up an opera feast
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3 days, 18 hours ago

Festival and residency offer up an opera feast

China Daily  

Stage photo of the Roland Schwab production of Tristan and Isolde in 2022. "Bayreuth in Shanghai "will present Wagner's three major works — Tristan and Isolde, Die Walkure and Tannhauser — as well as a series of educational activities and special editions of operas made for children. Launched by Richard Wagner in 1876, the Bayreuth Festival is one of the …

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Chinese operas that blend French culture wow audiences
4 days, 18 hours ago

Chinese operas that blend French culture wow audiences

China Daily  

gofujian.com.cn | Updated: 2024-12-19 The "China-France Beautiful Countryside Journey" event was stagedin the town of Pernes les Fontaines in southern France on local time Dec 17, aiming to promote exchanges and mutual understanding among the people of both countries. Highlights included the Notre-Dame de Paris puppet show, a blend of martial arts and acrobatics in a Dacheng Opera, a tea-picking …

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Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, review: Larger-than-life Tolstoy rock opera gets intimate
6 days, 4 hours ago

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, review: Larger-than-life Tolstoy rock opera gets intimate

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It’s marvellously clear in the hands of new Donmar artistic director Timothy Sheader, who previously …

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Intl students experience Peking Opera in Yantai
1 week ago

Intl students experience Peking Opera in Yantai

China Daily  

On Dec 11, a group of students from Troy University in Alabama, the United States, had a unique opportunity to experience the rich and vibrant world of Peking Opera, one of China's most iconic traditional art forms. Following the performance, the artists provided a detailed explanation of Peking Opera's history, performance techniques, and cultural significance, further enriching the audience's understanding …

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Commentary: What Netflix’s ‘Maria’ gets so wrong about Maria Callas
1 week, 2 days ago

Commentary: What Netflix’s ‘Maria’ gets so wrong about Maria Callas

LA Times  

Here we go again. In Hollywood’s ongoing cheerless attempts to contest the joy of music by cutting stellar classical musicians down to size, “Maria” joins the curt parade of “Tár” and “Maestro.” The new biopic of Maria Callas follows the takedowns of fictional conductor Lydia Tár and larger-than-life Leonard Bernstein with a dramatization of the most compelling singer I’ve ever …

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Love of song bonds chorus and community
1 week, 2 days ago

Love of song bonds chorus and community

China Daily  

By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2024-12-14 10:20 Soprano Zhao Jin and tenor Yang Guangmeng perform at the concert. Looking back on this journey, I'm incredibly proud and honored," says tenor Yang Guangmeng, who was born and raised in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and graduated with a degree in singing from Tianjin Normal University in 2007, joining …

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Quentin Tarantino shares controversial verdict on ‘soap opera’ Yellowstone
1 week, 3 days ago

Quentin Tarantino shares controversial verdict on ‘soap opera’ Yellowstone

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Filmmaking legend Quentin Tarantino has controversially labeled Taylor Sheridan’s hit Western …

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Forum explores ways to promote Chinese culture to the world
1 week, 3 days ago

Forum explores ways to promote Chinese culture to the world

China Daily  

As part of a forum on international communication of Chinese culture, a performance featuring traditional Chinese opera artists is held at Beijing Language and Culture University on Dec 10. In the evening, an exciting performance featuring traditional Chinese opera artists, including over 10 Plum Blossom Award winners, staged excerpts from traditional Chinese opera pieces. It has played an increasingly important …

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Bulgarians keen on China's culture
1 week, 4 days ago

Bulgarians keen on China's culture

China Daily  

SOFIA — It is hard to imagine that someone living on the other side of the world could be interested in your culture as the result of just a handful of encounters. Eleven prominent experts visited cities like Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo and Plovdiv to share insights into Chinese civilization through philosophy, history, literature and art. One highlight was a lecture …

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Bulgarians keen on China's culture
1 week, 4 days ago

Bulgarians keen on China's culture

China Daily  

SOFIA — It is hard to imagine that someone living on the other side of the world could be interested in your culture as the result of just a handful of encounters. Eleven prominent experts visited cities like Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo and Plovdiv to share insights into Chinese civilization through philosophy, history, literature and art. One highlight was a lecture …

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‘Maria’: An operatic tragedy
1 week, 5 days ago

‘Maria’: An operatic tragedy

LA Times  

“The film isn’t a biography about one of the world’s greatest opera singers,” says cinematographer Edward Lachman about Pablo Larraín’s rousing drama “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie. “What happens is this film becomes an opera about the betrayal and manipulation of Maria Callas’ closest relationships with her mother, her only husband and her involvement with Aristotle Onassis. She becomes the summation …

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Two decades after ‘The Simple Life,’ Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are ready for an encore
1 week, 6 days ago

Two decades after ‘The Simple Life,’ Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are ready for an encore

LA Times  

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie may no longer be driving cross-country in a pink pickup truck or pouring bleach on pool tables in Arkansas, but they still greet each other with the nicknames they imparted on one another when they starred in “The Simple Life.” “Hi, Sill,” Richie says casually over the phone from Los Angeles, to which Hilton replies …

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Inside Dan Ashworth’s farcical Manchester United exit and the power struggle in the Old Trafford soap opera
2 weeks ago

Inside Dan Ashworth’s farcical Manchester United exit and the power struggle in the Old Trafford soap opera

The Independent  

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Dan Ashworth has left Manchester United because Sir …

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Growing chorus of approval for musicals in China
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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Growing chorus of approval for musicals in China

China Daily  

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-12-07 11:17 Annemieke van Dam, a Dutch musical actress, recently won the hearts of Chinese audiences with her portrayal of Mrs Danvers in the German-language musical Rebecca, at the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center. Musical lovers have been sharing videos of Van Dam singing the musical's theme song online, with comments such as "the melody's so beautiful …

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Growing chorus of approval for musicals in China
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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Growing chorus of approval for musicals in China

China Daily  

Annemieke van Dam, a Dutch musical actress, recently won the hearts of Chinese audiences with her portrayal of Mrs Danvers in the German-language musical Rebecca, at the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center. Musical lovers have been sharing videos of Van Dam singing the musical's theme song online, with comments such as "the melody's so beautiful and keeps ringing in my …

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Amy Sherwin, the 'Tasmanian nightingale', was Australia's first big international opera singer
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Amy Sherwin, the 'Tasmanian nightingale', was Australia's first big international opera singer

ABC  

Before Nellie Melba captivated international audiences, another Australian soprano rose to international fame. Amy Sherwin was before Melba," Bel Canto Young Opera artistic director Suzanne Ortuso said. A scene from the 1978 ABC TV dramatisation of Amy Sherwin's life, showing a young Amy performing to an audience at a concert in the Huon Valley. In November 1935, the West Australian …

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Former Oberlin students return to the Finney Chapel for a performance of 'Omar'
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Former Oberlin students return to the Finney Chapel for a performance of 'Omar'

NPR  

Former Oberlin students return to the Finney Chapel for a performance of 'Omar' NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks to Rhiannon Giddens and Limmie Pulliam about their performance of "Omar" at Oberlin College's Finney Chapel as well as Cleveland's Maltz Preforming Arts Center. NADWORNY: That's Limmie Pulliam and Rhiannon Giddens as Omar and Julie in "Omar," whose story is only partially known …

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American tenor Brian Jagde gets last-minute call to sing in La Scala’s gala season premiere
2 weeks, 3 days ago

American tenor Brian Jagde gets last-minute call to sing in La Scala’s gala season premiere

Associated Press  

MILAN — American tenor Brian Jagde was just wrapping up Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” in Barcelona last month when he got a last-minute offer to sing the same role in La Scala’s gala season premiere this Saturday, arguably the opera world’s most prestigious gig. I think that is more of what it’s about than necessarily where they are from.” …

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The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2024
2 weeks, 3 days ago

The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2024

NPR  

The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2024 toggle caption Cover art by Raul Urias/Platoon The year 2024 was an emotional roller coaster. YouTube Gabriela Ortiz Revolución Diamantina For Those Who Like: Stravinsky, social justice, Mexico The Story: With a colorful family history in her native Mexico — including a grandfather who worked as Pancho Villa's physician and parents who founded …

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Bayreuth trims 150th anniversary festival, citing budget cuts
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Bayreuth trims 150th anniversary festival, citing budget cuts

Associated Press  

The Bayreuth Festival dropped four productions from its 150th anniversary season in 2026 because of budget cuts, the festival said Thursday. Bayreuth, built to the composer’s specifications and run by his great-granddaughter Katharina Wagner, had planned to present all 10 of his mature works plus the festival debut of “Rienzi,” Wagner’s rarely performed third opera. Citing labor costs, the festival …

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