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Also, Margot Button and Brian Nash, two local singers, starred in the world premiere of "The Brain Food Opera," a farce presented in three acts, set to well-known pieces of music from operas such as Carmen and La Traviata...
...Sister Helen Prejean, the spiritual adviser who brings salvation to a death-row inmate, the role for which Susan Sarandon won an Academy Award. The score is by Jake Heggie, a gifted purveyor of bittersweet art songs, and the libretto is by playwright-opera buff Terrence McNally (The Lisbon Traviata, Love! Valour! Compassion!). Will this brand-name opera be agitprop or art--or both? Whatever the results, the timing of the premiere at the War Memorial Opera House on Oct. 7, less than two months after Texas' controversial double execution, could scarcely be better...
Madama Butterfly, Puccini 21 Don Giovanni, Mozart 16 La Boheme, Puccini 15 Rigoletto, Verdi 12 Aida, Verdi 11 La Traviata, Verdi 11 Carmen, Bizet 9 Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart 9 Die Fledermaus, Strauss 9 Die Zauberflote, Mozart...
...known for his masterly bel canto roles; of pancreatic cancer; in Madrid. Kraus limited his repertoire, a policy that preserved his voice into his 60s. The selectivity cost him popularity but made him a connoisseur's delight. He sang with Maria Callas on the legendary live recordings of La Traviata in Lisbon...
...City's Metropolitan Opera House on Sept. 9, several artists were invited to get with the venue. JANET JACKSON reigns as Cleopatra from Handel's Giulio Cesare, OZZY OSBOURNE plays the sad clown from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, and teen queen BRITNEY SPEARS blooms as Violetta from Verdi's La Traviata. Photographer Mark Seliger says the opera music played during the shoots was tolerated to varying degrees. "It didn't last too long with Eminem, and David Bowie wanted me to turn the music down," he said. "Janet really liked it, but I don't think Ozzy even knew there...