Bruce, from Newfoundland, Canada, is on a two-week trip to England and said he wanted to see Blackpool after Jack and Vera Duckworth visited it on the British soap opera Coronation Street.

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And, finally, Don Giovanni, which Kinmonth has re-situated in 18th-century Venice, home to Casanova and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, whose roots in Venetian street theatre would have given the opera's original productions an abrasive topical edge as recognizable to contemporary audiences as Shakespeare's words were to the crowds at the Globe.

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At the top of Cumberland Street is the city's Grand Opera House.

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No man who can sit in his own study with his telephone by his side, and thus listen to the performance of an opera at the Academy, will care to go to Fourteenth street and to spend the vening in a hot and crowded building.

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Where else can you walk past a foreshortened version of the Eiffel Tower, straddling what looks like the Paris Opera, and think to yourself, compared to the pirate ship down the street that looks almost classy?

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Located just south of Carnegie Hall, on West Fifty-fifth Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, City Center is the original home of New York City Opera and New York City Ballet.

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When Barbara Zinn Krieger founded the Vineyard for the 1981-1982 season at its original 26th Street location (it opened at its current home on East 15th Street in 1989), she wanted to start a showcase venue with programs ranging from jazz to theater to opera, providing herself and her friends in the community a place to learn and work.

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