As were, arguably, the heavily decorated codpieces in Gotham Chamber Opera's production of "Eliogabalo, " a Baroque opera about a hedonistic Roman ruler.

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Working with Mr. Cuomo, who has written a chamber opera based on the Bhagavad Gita as well as dozens of movie and television scores, Mr. Shanley would write "a chunk of the libretto" and send it to him.

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The five companies are the National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Opera.

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He also wrote profound song cycles, gorgeous chamber music and a powerful opera, "Dialogues of the Carmelites" (1957), whose subject is religious martyrdom and which the Metropolitan Opera will be reviving this spring for the first time since 2003.

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Every summer the town hosts one of the highest profile musical events in Europe, the Ravello Festival, also known as the Wagner Festival, featuring two months of orchestral music, chamber music, jazz and especially opera, with open air venues above the Mediterranean.

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As were, arguably, the heavily decorated codpieces in Gotham Chamber Orchestra's production of "Eliogabalo, " a Baroque opera about a hedonistic Roman ruler.

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