But on Monday night, he makes his highest-profile New York appearance yet, singing the role of Oronte in Verdi's "I Lombardi" in concert with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.
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.
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.
Nor, despite Mr Berlusconi's protestations, are the Italians innocent of this sort of behaviour: they recently entertained the rest of the world with the soap opera featuring attempts by the governor of the Bank of Italy to prevent foreigners from buying two mid-sized Italian banks.
In 1947, Mr. Balanchine became a guest choreographer with the Paris Opera Ballet Company, and Ms. Tallchief became the first American to perform with the company.
For the fourth Opera Annex show, the BLO co-commissioned "Clemency, " by the Scottish composer James MacMillan, with the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera and the Britten Sinfonia, and presented its North American premiere at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter on Boston's South Side last week.
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In June 2010, Norwich City Council collaborated with The Royal Opera House to bring Bizet's Carmen live to the Big Screen.
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In the past he has worked with the Santa Fe Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the BBC Proms.
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Yet to hear people talk about the shows, you'd think Maria Callas had risen from the dead to tour with the Metropolitan Opera.
In the U.S., the first complete, four-opera cycle will begin on April 6 at the Metropolitan Opera with a reprise of the Robert Lepage production.
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The composer, who has worked with the likes of opera singer Bryn Terfel and the Royal Ballet, is also concerned that poorer families could miss out, with only wealthy parents able to afford music lessons.
If you compare the current staging of the opera with footage of the earlier versions, the extent to which Wilson has reduced and refined his vision becomes startlingly clear.
But the show goes on and, with the closure of the Royal Opera House for a lottery-subsidised rebuild, now enters a nomadic phase.
Over 10 months, the venerable Minnesota company began a program with the aid of Opera Solutions Inc. of New York, an eight-year-old analytics firm.
The occasional parties packed with opera singers happen in the kitchen, which has rift-sawn oak and metal cabinets, and a butler's pantry, which has its own refrigerator and is stocked with frozen glasses for the cocktails Ms. Clayton mixes up (her latest concoction is called "Flaming Lips" because it includes habanero peppers).
And that's the production that host Lisa Simeone presents on World of Opera, with Guido Maria Guida conducting the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
The show debuts at Monaco in September 2009, and Machover said it should revolutionize the world of opera -- by introducing the personal opera combined with robotic instruments and 'hyperinstruments'.
As a result, the accommodations to request among the 158 rooms and suites are those with "opera" in the name.
It is hard not to equate the travails of the Royal Opera House with those of the House of Windsor.
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.
Michael Grandage's "Le Nozze di Figaro" is Glyndebourne's seventh production of the Mozart opera with which it opened in 1934, and the best of the many of those I've seen.
Prior to embarking on my legal career, I was a recording artist and songwriter (see website for a full history: www.tinab.tv) and studied opera at the Juilliard School in New York and with Maestro Vincent La Selva at the New York Grand Opera Company.
Before Porgy opened, Gershwin took five of the leading players into a recording studio to conduct parts of the opera with an orchestra.
After World War II she concentrated on singing, landing lead parts in Tosca and Ariadne auf Naxos with the New York City Opera.
All this contrasts with the high-profile poster campaign for the opera, showing the Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek glamorously made up as the star.
This is much more suitable repertoire for her than Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus, " the baroque piece in which she made her debut with the New York City Opera last season.
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The Royal Opera House leads the way with nominations in five categories, including three for its production of Wagner's Tannhauser.
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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Fry has appeared in opera before with a part in a recording of the Richard Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos.
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