There will be more symphonies, more concertos, an opera about the life of Walt Disney.
In "Yes, Giorgio, " Pavarotti played an opera singer pursuing a lovely American throat doctor.
This year's other highlights include an opera by Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn.
In 1821, "Der Freischutz, " an opera by Carl Maria von Weber was first performed in Berlin.
To have an opera company and an orchestra working in tandem is a rare and enticing prospect.
There was also some eclectic entertainment in the form of an opera quartet singing Frank Sinatra covers.
The two had no onstage chemistry at all, a serious failing in an opera that's all about lust.
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There have also been several other adaptations including an animated short in 1973 and an opera in 1980.
He was asked to help turn derelict Compton Verney into an opera house.
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In no obvious sense an opera, it's a sense-of-nation-defining pageant based on the career of the Tudor-era magus, necromancer and astrologer.
"It is important to give something back to help people's careers at a formative stage, " said Mr Hyman, an opera fan.
And as General Director of Los Angeles Opera and Washington National Opera, he is a major force as an opera administrator.
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" He even has a sure thing in mind: "I wish someone would commission me to do 'Moonstruck' as an opera.
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Jonathan Shimony, professor of fine arts at the American University of Paris, is an opera aficionado who regularly attends productions in Paris.
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How do you take an opera with great tunes, brilliant ensembles and a dopey story, and update it for an essentially conservative audience?
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As a finance professional, he played rugby, tennis and cricket, but when he became an opera singer, his workouts changed radically, he says.
As an opera singer you have to understand that going through those rough moments is part of the lesson, of development, of enrichment.
He has installed sculptures around the village and every July sponsors an opera and theatre festival in the old quarries next to the castle.
In the 1930s and '40s, it would have been impossible for an African-American singer, however extraordinary, to sing Wagner's lily-white heroine in an opera production.
There is a danger, whether you are running a record label or an orchestra or an opera house, of not understanding who the public is.
Manchester City Council and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, are in talks about whether an opera centre could regenerate the east of the city.
Events which have already been confirmed are an exhibition of Gustav Klimt's work at Tate Liverpool and an opera based around the city's famous Adelphi Hotel.
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Of course, as an opera singer I've now sung in 11 or 12 languages, but how many people get to say that they've sung in Zulu?
It consists of poetry (often the briefest of fragments), a selection of essays, including several about authors from classical antiquity, and even the libretto of an opera.
Lying around in my caftan soaking up the sun, I might feel suddenly inspired to write a novel or an opera, or cure the global economic crisis.
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An opera score to William Shield's "Rosina, " first performed at Covent Garden in 1782, contains a quotation of the melody over a bagpipe-like drone of bassoons and clarinets.
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An opera by Gioachino Rossini has been broadcast live over the internet for the first time in Vienna, giving audiences around the world free access to a classical production.
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