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“Well, just running the house is a day-to-day labour of love… I want to be there with Gus, of course, but it does take up time — being a wife, being a mother, entertaining in the summer, doing the pheasant shoots in the winter.” [The Times]
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There was a certain frisson in the air entering Chicago Lyric Opera last night, and not just in anticipation of attending the world premiere of a new work by Jimmy Lopez (music) and Nilo Cruz (libretto), Bel Canto. Particularly for those who read Ann Patchett’s splendid novel on which the opera is based, there was a certain sense of danger at attending an opera about a terrorist attack and hostage-taking. Read more »
Here Danielle de Niese throws an ecdysiastical twist into a medley from The Sound of Music.
Christopher Alden‘s production of Handel’s Partenope is so erudite and theatrically audacious and also such a rollicking ride, it’s hard to believe it isn’t crap.
It appears that Mariame Clément’s conception of Don Pasquale is that the opera should be retitled Malatesta.
Recently, opera showed up at both Mets, the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The leading lady of the Bayerische Staatsoper’s production of La Calisto has taken to the Twitters to respond to the recent discussion of her comments about Miley Cyrus.
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