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Tenor Placido Domingo will perform at the Classical Brits, where he will receive a lifetime achievement award. ...LINK to complete story
Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Topic: VOCALIST First she was forced to sing mezzo roles.
Then she was invited to be president of Lithuania. Violeta Urmana tells Tim Ashley in The Guardian, why she prefers life as a soprano
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Sunday, 5 February 2006
Topic: VOCALIST
Opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti...
will sing for Bosnians in Sarajevo in April as part of his farewell world tour. ...LINK to complete news story
Wednesday, 1 February 2006
Topic: VOCALIST Metropolitan Opera general manager Joseph Volpe has announced that Placido Domingo has withdrawn from his singing engagements with the company until March 8, due to the bout of tracheitis that prevented the tenor from singing in the company's January 26 performance of Alfano's Cyrano. Domingo's decision comes on the advice of his doctors.
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Saturday, 28 January 2006
Topic: VOCALIST
Classical music folklore is full of tales of the understudy stepping in at the last minute to stun the crowd and grab the glory.
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Thursday, 26 January 2006
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Placido Domingo canceled his Thursday night performance in the opener of the Metropolitan Opera's revival of Alfano's "Cyrano de Bergerac" because of tracheitis. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: VOCALIST A RUSSIAN soprano has taken a swipe at Katherine Jenkins, suggesting that she’s only as successful as she is because of her glamorous image.
In an outrageous and thinly-veiled dig at the talented Neath soprano, Marina Laslo reportedly said, “The market is full of blonde classical artists with their cleavages on show.” ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: VOCALIST INTERNATIONAL opera star Lisa Gasteen's Order of Australia is a long-overdue acclaim for one of the world's great operatic sopranos. ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
Topic: VOCALIST Tenor Placido Domingo will headline a March 4 benefit concert in New Orleans -- the first operatic performance to be held in the city since Hurricane Katrina.
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Monday, 23 January 2006
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Joyce DiDonato is a young American mezzo soprano who has taken London by storm. She is appearing at the Royal Opera House as Rosina in Barber of Seville. DiDonato, who is from Kansas, admits that when she was a child, she cared little about opera -- her musical world revolved around Shaun Cassidy and Billy Joel.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2006
Topic: VOCALIST Legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne has been diagnosed with localized pancreatic cancer, her manager confirmed. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: VOCALIST Grammy Award winner, Mark S. Doss, opened the current 05/06 season as Alidoro in Lyric Opera of Chicago's La Cenerentola, having just concluded the 04/05 season with the same role at Milan's Teatro alla Scala, his third role there within a 12 month period. He followed with Escamillo in Carmen at the Teatro Sociale di Mantova in Italy, and concluded 2005 as the bass soloist in Messiahs in Rock Island, IL, Nashville, TN and at Chicago's Civic Opera House. ...LINK to complete news story
Sunday, 8 January 2006
Topic: VOCALIST By any measure, this is a breakout season for the American baritone Nathan Gunn at the Metropolitan Opera. On Dec. 28, he finished a demanding run of performances as Clyde Griffiths, the recklessly ambitious young protagonist in "An American Tragedy," by Tobias Picker. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: VOCALIST When Isabel Bayrakdarian travels, there is one thing she never leaves behind -- Warrior of the Light: A Manual by Paulo Coelho. A spiritual book about listening to the heart and following one's path, it goes a long way toward explaining the personality of Canada's most promising young soprano. ...LINK to complete news story
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First she was forced to sing mezzo roles.
Opera superstar 
Metropolitan Opera general manager Joseph Volpe has 
A RUSSIAN soprano has taken a swipe at
INTERNATIONAL opera star
Tenor Placido Domingo
Legendary mezzo-soprano
Grammy Award winner, Mark S. Doss, opened 
By any measure, this is a breakout season for the 
When Isabel Bayrakdarian travels, there is 
