He said he wanted to have time again to dine well and listen to opera.
As artistic advisor, she will offer advice and expertise related to opera repertoire, casting and creative teams.
He also needed to find directors willing to face the steep challenges inherent to opera, chief among them being time constraints.
In India, it runs a close second to Opera as the top choice, either as a web platform or an app.
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Scottish opera director David McVicar also receives a knighthood, for services to opera, while English National Opera's Edward Gardner becomes an OBE.
Norman clearly enjoys the only nod to opera on the new disc, a jazzed-up version of the "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen.
"When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy, " Bocelli says.
Growing up, while the other kids in her neighborhood were out playing hide and seek, Barbara would be inside listening to opera on the radio.
Yesterday, we bade farewell to opera great Luciano Pavarotti and last month we lost Max Roach, the man who revolutionized not just jazz drumming but jazz itself.
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.
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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There's also an off-road mode, which essentially gives you the option to switch over to Opera Mini for extra data compression for those times you need it -- this obviously comes in handy when you're reaching your data threshold or just in a low-reception area.
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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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.
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.
Going to the opera is going to look at and listen to a work of art.
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The event honours all forms of classical music from contemporary to crossover, opera to soundtracks, traditional to theatre.
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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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.
Since last fall, Mr. Levine has resumed many of his duties, now coming to the opera house between three and five days a week to coach young singers, hear auditions and meet with orchestra members and administrators.
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The Yandex browser platform has through a technological partnership with a key long term partner been expanded to incorporate Opera Software's Turbo technology, which allows to boost the browser's page loading capacity even with a slow connection.
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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.
London's Royal Opera House (ROH) has announced a new commitment to contemporary opera until 2020.
It could also be because the CEO likes to go to the opera or formula one.
He said the important issue is what happens to Scottish Opera in the future.
Mr. ROBERTSON: Well, I mean, the key is to keep opera relevant in today's society.
Having the audience in the middle of the action added to the opera's unsettling quality.
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Mr. ROBERTSON: They seemed to be more attentive to the opera, weren't they?
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