(Reuters) – Finland’s Savonlinna Opera Festival has invited the public to help it create an opera entirely from online submissions. The festival launched its Opera by You project on Thursday with the aim of having it ready to stage a premiere of the production in the summer or 2012.
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The roots of Thor and many other comic book figures stretch back to Wagner’s epic and earlier. Look, up in the sky! In case you haven’t noticed already, our entertainment stratosphere has grown crowded with muscle-bound superheroes in almost every conceivable shape and size: the franchise-rebooted likes of Spider-Man and Superman, battle-armored warriors such as Robin Hood and Perseus.
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The cast of Verdi’s “Traviata” at the Metropolitan Opera Saturday night looked much relieved to have the conductor Marco Armiliato in the pit instead of Leonard Slatkin, who had conducted on Monday, the opening of the run.
It’s not over ‘til the fat baby sings. Scottish Opera is attempting to reach beyond its normal audiences of middle-aged music buffs by launching a series of concerts aimed at infants, aged between six and 18 months.
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Pavarotti started the ball rolling. On the occasion of a concert he gave in 1986 to a packed crowd of 10,000 Chinese at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, the tenor expressed a single regret, that “the capital of the world’s most populous nation should be without a suitable opera theater.”
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Liping Zhang, one of the artists mentioned in the Music notes titled China’s First Lady of Opera.
A multimillion-euro fraud investigation and an attempted suicide have added to the drama at Salzburg’s prestigious festival
A scandal of Wagnerian proportions has engulfed Salzburg’s music festival, just weeks before Sir Simon Rattle conducts the German composer’s opera Götterdämmerung, a tale of corruption and downfall that now seems particularly apt.
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Verdi’s Don Carlo, an opera mentioned in our blog titled Carlo and Martha in Paris.
Nico Muhly, a 28-year-old composer based in New York, has been commissioned to create a fictionalized account of a British teenager who used the Internet in an attempt to arrange his own murder in 2003.
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Giuseppe Filianoti, an opera singer mentioned in our section In tune titled Anna, Anna, Sacrée Nana! and Paris.
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