And though she gave her final operatic performance in 1997, she appears in recitals to this day.
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Wagner's orphans have long led a shadow existence at the fringe of operatic life.
Task force meetings generally are suffused with all the Operatic Drama of C-SPAN 2.
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Turning from his favorite singers, Mr. Calleja touched on some of his favorite operatic music.
Both the Met and City Opera are committing the supreme operatic sin: they are thinking small.
Elsewhere operatic quartet Il Divo will receive a special award for artist of the decade.
The almost operatic intensity of the story is balanced by the group's own belief in night dancers.
The 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster was the previous benchmark for American oil spills, which garnered soap-operatic coverage.
The almost operatic quality of these narratives is heightened by the changing moods of the liturgical year.
In 1868, Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, famed for his operatic comedies such as "The Barber of Seville, " died.
Pound for pound, ton for ton, it is the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history.
The Met's operatic repertoire now reaches more than 850 screens in 30 countries.
This led to a discussion of today's operatic preoccupation with singers' physical allure.
And yet these were the singers who drove operatic history at least up to the time of Verdi and Wagner.
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His sentiments were echoed by The Guardian's Andrew Clements, who called the production "an unedifying exercise in postmodern, operatic grunge".
There are intimidating fugal choruses, sublimely extended operatic arias, frenzied instrumental interludes, weird chords galore, episodes of almost irreverent dancing merriment.
Just last month, Hwang invited him to the U.S. to direct Silver River at the Spoleto Festival, the country's biggest operatic gathering.
Aaah, this is cricket at its soap-operatic best: two great teams act out the latest installment in a drama that spans generations.
Her love of singing and drama led her to become a member of the Blaenau Gwent Young Stars and Ebbw Vale Operatic Society.
Classical pianist Angela Hewitt, cellist Natalie Clein and operatic soprano Anna Netrebko will battle it out in the female artist of the year.
Last year's winners included British conductor Antonio Pappano, named best male artist, and operatic quartet Il Divo, who were crowned artists of the decade.
The Australian press has certainly seen the soap operatic potential of the relationship, and there's regular conjecture about when they will tie the knot.
In a way, "Dialogues" is a kind of operatic time capsule.
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Charles Gounod created the most famous operatic version of Shakespeare's tragedy.
Bass said that she had not been shy about expressing her opinions on matters operatic to Gelb, who had urged her to call at any time.
Jill Venn, chairman of Taunton Amateur Operatic Society, said their main aim was to ensure their production of The Sound of Music took place in April.
So instead she has chosen to recount the soap-operatic lives of the surrealists, of their promiscuous, scandalous, perfidious and self-obsessed goings-on, all in the name of revolution.
Later, he would document the Faust story in a powerful stage drama with chorus and soloists, and build a complex, five-hour operatic spectacle on the ruins of Troy.
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Within a year he was taken to audition for Malta's pre-eminent operatic figure, the veteran tenor Paul Asciak, who had enjoyed a noteworthy career in Britain during the 1950s.
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