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Daniele Rustioni conducts Ermonela Jaho, Adam Smith, Mihoko Fujimura, and Lionel Lhote in a performance from Aix-en-Provence
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Born on this day in 1889 writer, filmmaker and designer Jean Cocteau
Michele Gamba conducts a performance of Davide Livermore‘s new production featuring Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Rosa Feola, and Vitalij Kowaljow live from La Scala
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Chris’s Cache follows up its Gounod R&J installment with a widely varied quintet of additional Romeos and Juliets
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Born on this day in 1878 composer and performer George M Cohan
Philippe Jordan conducts Michael Volle, Joshua Guerrero, Anja Kampe, Eleonora Burrato, Michaela Schuster, Ambrogio Maestri, and Serena Sáenz in a performance from Vienna last fall
Mixing the historical with the personal in strikingly original ways, Davóne Tines and Zack Winokur’s Robeson sent sparks out over the Hudson.
Born on this day in 1714 composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck
The outdoor recitals that the Metropolitan Opera presents in New York City Parks every summer are a wonderful way to showcase rising young stars and promising beginners from the Met’s Lindemann Program.
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On this day in 1933 Richard Strauss‘s Arabella premiered in Dresden
Simon Rattle conducts Andrew Staples, Elsa Dreisig, Magdalena Kozená, Sabine Devieilhe, Allan Clayton, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mozart‘s opera seria recorded last December
Born on this day in 1914 conductor and composer Rafael Kubelík
On Friday, June 21st, Opera Parallèle – the Bay Area nomadic, contemporary opera company – together with the Presidio Theatre unveiled their final production of the season, the West Coast premiere of Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s Fellow Travelers, an adaptation of Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel of the same name.
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