| Critic's Notebook: CD releases show that some forgotten composers are worth a listen |
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| Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia, Asger Hamerick, Nicola Porpora and George Onslow are among little-known composers being explored in recently issued recordings. When it comes to the arts, summer in the city is a time for timidity, especially when we venture out of doors. Classical music audiences are expected to go to places like the Hollywood Bowl to hear what we already know, always the same ... |
| A Philippine treasure |
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| The Aug. 14 recital of Philippine tenor Arthur Espiritu is one I always will remember. The Philamlife Auditorium was filled with persons anticipating the performance of the young tenor. |
| Guiseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore |
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| The Arena in Verona is a grandiose and eminently functional survivor. In contrast, its close contemporary, the Colosseum in Rome, is a picturesque relic, albeit a richly evocative one. As I left my hotel in Verona, I got my first glimpse of the Arena. |
| Rising stars team up in new tenors trio |
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| Neil Funkhouser Artists Taylor Stayton joins Cody Austin and John Viscardi in Our Three Tenors II, in Ocean City on Sunday. Ever since Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras teamed up, trios of tenors — of varying quality —... |
| American-Filipino tenor's rise from rock to opera |
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| Fifteen years ago the future opera singer Arthur Espiritu was fronting a US high-school rock band, belting out covers of Bon Jovi's odes to modern-day hard men and motorcycle-riding outlaws. |
| From rock to opera |
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| FIFTEEN YEARS ago the future opera singer Arthur Espiritu was fronting a US high-school rock band, belting out covers of Bon Jovi’s odes to modern-day hard men and motorcycle-riding outlaws. |
| Opera's just her aria of work |
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| A TRIP across the Tasman got Rosel Labone's singing career off on a high note. |
| Italian Dressing |
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| No artistic enterprise is more labor-intensive than opera. For cost alone, the stakes are always high. And no theatrical enterprise must try to cosset audiences so finicky—not to say stridently opinionated—as those for opera. |
| Bernard Madoff |
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| scheme in the history of investing is published, Madoff's alleged fraud on a massive scale has already touched the literary world. |
| Iain MacNeil's bella voce takes him to Italy |
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| Last winter, 19-year-old Iain MacNeil had the audience enraptured when, at the New Year's Eve concert at Wall Street United Church, he sang one of Mozart's arias. He did not realize then that, a few months later, he would be embarking on a four-week adventure to study and perform opera in Italy.[...] |
