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Operalia 2013: The Winners 27 Aug 2013 | 12:26 am
(Aida Garifullina) Everyone's a winner (actually, only twelve official finalists are winners) at Plácido Domingo's Operalia, which wrapped its 20th...
You Must Remember This: (Professor) Bostridge Rocks! 26 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
Not that we'd ever tire of Ian Bostridge's sterling, clarion Schubert & Schumann Lieder -- like his clairvoyant Die schöne...
Opera for the (Fashion) People: Die Entführung in a Hangar, Live from Salzburg 24 Aug 2013 | 07:08 pm
Europe's fetish for staging traditional, staid opera in modern, Metropolis hubs -- like offstage productions of Bohème in Hochhaus Bern...
Moritzburg Festival: Chamber Music Unplugged 20 Aug 2013 | 04:24 am
For all of its libations (Bulgari aperitivo in the garden all to yourself) and indulgences (summer sales at Prada), surviving...
Summer School Never Looked so Cool: Carol Burnett & Music Academy of the West 18 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
(Carol Burnett & Marilyn Horne, among guests) We'll never forget the September 2007 tribute to a recently-departed Beverly Sills at...
Mitsuko Uchida: Hands Off My Steinways! 14 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
Mitsuko Uchida -- our go-to for intelligent, elegant Mozart, Schumann and Schubert -- knows if you've been playing one of...
America's Impresario and The Swedish Nightingale 14 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
In a WSJ piece adapted from Brenda Wineapple’s new book about nascent America's biggest dreamers, included is P.T. Barnum's dip...
Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical 10 Aug 2013 | 02:41 pm
The Paris Review excerpts a comprehensive 1997 interview with Stephen Sondheim where the American composer/lyricist talks shop, legacy and everything...
88 Keys to Lady Edith Crawley's Style 8 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm
At a recent PBS event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, actress Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith Crawley on Downton...
Dario Argento Makes his Opera Debut, Fittingly, with Verdi's Macbeth 7 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
While we were busy repressing childhood terrors like fear of the dark, ghosts and rabid dogs (and rabid ghost dogs),...
