Opera spared little expense to showcase a major overhaul of the Opera Turbo feature, the crowning achievement in the new version.
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There are risks in brokering marriages between theatre directors who have little experience with opera and singers who expect that directors will be familiar with the demands of their art.
On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents a production of The Cunning Little Vixen from Houston Grand Opera, sung in English and starring Lisa Saffer in the sharp-eared, title role.
And that's hardly surprising, as Vivian has more than a little in common with opera's tragic, main character not least, her occupation.
So far, City Opera shows little evidence of being rejuvenated.
In fact, the opera is a little too pensive, too oratorio-like.
While you might not have in mind the wearing of opera gloves with little else, I highly recommend the woolly or leather variety with a coat, hat and boots in freezing conditions.
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These days, with Hollywood churning out big budget movies based on comic book characters such as Iron Man, the Silver Surfer and the Incredible Hulk, a comics-based opera about a cute little fox may sound a bit tame.
"Although we have expanded the paying audience for the Met through the HD transmissions, we've also cannibalized a little bit our local audience in the opera house, " Gelb said.
In the course of introducing a film at the Sheridan Opera House, a beautiful little jewel box of a theater that dates back to the 19th century, a bright young woman said Sandra Bernhard had played there.
The second opera in the season is the English-language The Cunning Little Vixen by Leos Janacek.
On World of Opera, Lisa Simeone presents Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen in a production from the Maggio Musicale in Florence, led by conductor Seiji Ozawa.
In recent decades, Jonathan Miller's controversial 1982 English National Opera production, filled with Mafioso in New York's Little Italy circa 1950, has been followed by concepts as goofy as relocating the action to "The Planet of the Apes" in a 2005 staging in Munich, Germany.
Some of the images -- especially dreamy scenes of Beijing opera -- are ravishing, but Zhang's reading of homosexuality seems a little dated.
Sure, it might now be the internet limitations which make Opera popular in Belarus, instead of it being the computers themselves that motivated my little business.
Although little seen in Britain and still under-represented in America, Mr Wilson's theatre and opera productions are well-known in French- and German-speaking countries.
If you miss out, the opera is telecast on big screens outside the opera house in April, May, June and September, so you can catch as little or as much of the performance as you wish.
What we're trying to do is bring people - bring the younger audiences to opera where it's not so intimidating and we - that's where we add a little twist to it.
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