The event honours all forms of classical music from contemporary to crossover, opera to soundtracks, traditional to theatre.
But we hope the awards will help bring opera to a wider audience.
Then I started wearing outfits based on the Peking Opera to perform.
This is a very enjoyable mish-mash of genres, from space opera to slapstick to adventure story to kung fu story to farce to satire.
Klaus Florian Vogt, who replaced Marco Jentzsch as Lohengrin at the last minute, has sung the role everywhere from New York's Metropolitan Opera to Bayreuth's Festspielhaus.
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It enjoys the support of South African notables like retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who just called for the Cape Town Opera to cancel its visit to Israel.
Khumalo took time out from the shooting on the set of a South African soap opera to explain to NPR's Farai Chideya why "Yesterday" is such a personal project.
David Mellor, the former heritage secretary and presenter at BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM, admits that recently he has "got a bit of a reputation for telling people who talk in the opera to stop" after he attracted headlines for remonstrating with fellow audience members.
Some were opera buffs, but many said they started to appreciate opera only thanks to Pavarotti, who took the elite music out of stuffy theaters and brought it to the masses.
Though he hasn't been onstage lately, he has returned to the Met Opera House to visit rehearsals for the orchestra and chorus.
Even the United Nations has given warning that the development could jeopardise plans to add the opera house to its list of World Heritage sites.
While the Houston Grand Opera will continue to stage traditional productions, the company has created a new arm, called HGOco, whose goal is to bring musical storytelling into communities that traditionally haven't been exposed to opera.
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Three years ago, the Russian bank decided to fund a program for young opera artists similar to what the Metropolitan Opera in New York does with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
Going to the opera is going to look at and listen to a work of art.
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As almost one in five of those surveyed said that they had not gone to the opera in the past two years, and around 5% said they had never been to the opera at all, the Met can justifiably claim that simulcasts are rejuvenating and expanding the audience for opera.
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For its third production this season, Gioachino Rossini's "Moses in Egypt" (1818), the itinerant New York City Opera returned to New York City Center, where it was born as "the people's opera" in 1944 and spent the first two decades of its life.
Originally, the opera was to have gone on to New York's Lincoln Centre, and thence to Paris.
Conducted over the fourth quarter, Opera wanted to know which mobile operating systems performed the strongest with advertisers.
He was the first opera star to be imitated, drunkenly, by legions of joyful or heartbroken football fans.
In June 2010, Norwich City Council collaborated with The Royal Opera House to bring Bizet's Carmen live to the Big Screen.
If contemporary opera is to begin to thrive, it needs first of all the full theatres which were Verdi's criterion for success.
Prada had famously decamped during the Berlusconi opera buffa to list on the Hong Kong exchange, but Cucinelli once again put his money where his heart is.
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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The Minnesota Opera wanted to preserve that small cast.
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She asked the first minister for an assurance that any settlement will ensure that Scottish Opera will continue to produce first class opera while living within the budget provided by the Scottish taxpayer.
With the Opera House to our right and the Harbour Bridge straight in front of us we were in the very heart of the city, and yet no one could see us from our darkened perch.
Two hours later, the huge crowds around the harbour in the Australian city of Sydney watched as seven tonnes of fireworks lit up the famous landmarks of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House to a soundtrack co-written by Australian singer Kylie Minogue.
Sir Clive Gillinson, head of Carnegie Hall, New York's main concert hall, thinks cinemacasts are a brilliant tool to promote opera with all its theatricality, though he warns that it will soon be a very competitive market as a dozen or so of the leading opera houses are likely to be doing it.
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They argue that opera was made to be seen live in opera houses and they worry that cinemacasts will hasten the demise of an ailing art form.
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