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The 2013-14 Season Line Up – “By Love Transformed”

Source: The Dallas Opera, Feb 22 2013, 11:35am CST

DALLAS, FEBRUARY 12, 2013 — The Dallas Opera is proud to announce a return to four mainstage productions for the company’s bold and dazzling 2013-2014 Season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT ...

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16 hours ago

Planning SF Opera season is an art

Source: Albuquerque Journal  |   May 25 2013, 2:24am CDT

Formulating an opera season is a risky calculus involving singer, orchestra and choral availability, factored with rotation of the classic repertoire and the potential drawing power of new music. The Santa Fe Opera’s director of artistic administration ...

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23 hours ago

Critics' Picks: Tips for Memorial Day weekend

Source: Los Angeles Times  |   May 24 2013, 7:22pm CDT

It was a risk for director Richard Linklater to go so dark in “Before Midnight,” the latest round of the romantic musings he began with his stars, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, nearly 20 years ago. The illusions of a young couple’s more pri ...

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13 weeks ago


Quote:
"She took charge of the stage whenever she occupied it in a first-rate performance."


Source: The Dallas Opera

 
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1 day ago

The Dallas Opera is Proud to Announce Mezzo-Soprano Susan Graham as the “Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year”

Source: The Dallas Opera  |   May 23 2013, 8:35pm CDT

DALLAS, MAY 23, 2013 – The Dallas Opera is tremendously proud to announce the result of this year’s balloting for the 2013 “Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year” Award: American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who made an unforgettable ...

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2 days ago

Henri Dutilleux, modernist composer, dies at 97

Source: Los Angeles Times  |   May 23 2013, 6:14pm CDT

His death was announced by his publisher, Schott Music. No cause of death has been released. Dutilleux is widely regarded as one of the most important composers of the 20th century. He wasn't a prolific w ...

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3 days ago

Famed composer Dutilleux dies at 97

Source: Big Pond News  |   May 22 2013, 2:44pm CDT

France's Henri Dutilleux, whose modernist and impressionist works ranked him among the leading composers of the 20th century, has died in Paris aged 97, his family has announced. The internationally renowned Dutilleux, b ...

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3 days ago

Death of a great French composer

Source: ArtsJournal  |   May 22 2013, 12:53pm CDT

The death was announced today of Henri Dutilleux, composer of exquisite orchestral and instrumental works in an unmistakably French idiom. He was 97. Born in Angers, he occupied important positions in Parisian musical life – head of ...

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3 days ago

Henri Dutilleux

Source: The Telegraph UK  |   May 22 2013, 12:24pm CDT

Boulez, the enfant terrible of the contemporary scene, famously argued that opera houses should be burned down, that symphonies were obsolete and that serialism was the only show in town. Dutilleux did not agree. During ...

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3 days ago

'I hate Wagner but I hate him on my knees'

Source: The Local  |   May 22 2013, 5:12am CDT

Opera houses the world over are paying tribute to Wagner, who is often referred to as Adolf Hitler's favourite composer, in his bicentennial year. The Met in New York, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan, the Bastille in Paris and Vienna State ...

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4 days ago

Musical world hails Wagner birthday

Source: BBC News  |   May 21 2013, 7:08am CDT

21 May 2013 Last updated at 08:08 ET Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favourite composer The musical world is coming together on Wednesday to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Richard Wagner with a series of programmes an ...

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