The Aix-en-Provence opera festival, the Paris Opera and the Comedie Francaise have already been hit by strikes.
The 15, 000-seat theatre is in such good shape that performances are still held here, including an annual summertime opera and ballet festival.
He has installed sculptures around the village and every July sponsors an opera and theatre festival in the old quarries next to the castle.
Looking to future seasons. the Met has joined with the Royal Opera and the Salzburg Festival to commission Thomas Ades' "The Exterminating Angel, " based on the Luis Bunuel film.
He made his Proms debut in 1976 and his opera debut in 1977 at the Glyndebourne Festival.
Since its founding in 1980, the festival has been expanding its offerings such that in recent years, the highly anticipated centerpiece is an eye-popping, lavishly staged Baroque opera, supported by the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, an ensemble of internationally acclaimed Early Music specialists.
"The piano is kind of the hardware for the software of our programming that goes on year round, " said Zamora, who founded Sing for Hope in 2006 with fellow opera singer Monica Yunus, launching the first piano festival in partnership with British artist Luke Jerram in 2010 when 60 pianos were featured.
Fu Xiru, who plays Zi Dan, the Hamlet part, at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre, said the training for Peking Opera started at a very young age.
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Thousands of people have attended the three-day open-air festival since it began in 2000, offering a mix of opera, musical theatre and Welsh language music.
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Now in its 65th year, the international festival presents a rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and dance in six major theatres and concert halls and a number of smaller venues.
The circus opera, created by Gorillaz and Chen Shi Zheng, opened the 2007 Manchester International Festival.
The program for the festival's landmark 20th year includes film, dance, theatre, opera, music, fashion and visual art events, all with a French slant.
The International Music Festival , held in October or November, is usually an intriguing mix of opera, musicals, visiting Portuguese orchestras and other musical events.
Morgan, who was selected to support Joan Armatrading at the city's Grand Opera House last year, said she was looking forward to her second appearance at the festival.
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That's because the soprano sang the role of Cleopatra when the David McVicar production premiered at England's Glyndebourne Festival in 2005 and performed it again when the staging traveled to the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2007.
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.
Meanwhile, a film version of Bizet's opera Carmen - translated into the South African language Xhosa - has received a warm reception at the festival.
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