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Beverly Sills Born May 25, 1929
Belle Miriam Silverman, best known as gifted operatic performer Beverly Sills, was born May 25, 1929. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York. While her insurance salesman father would have preferred she become a teacher, her mother encouraged Sills voice car from Bella Online Read more »
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Diminuendo
Two decades ago, New York City Opera was literally dying. Signs backstage announced the nearly constant roll call of company members lost to aids. I remember the night in 1995 when artistic director Christopher Keene, 48 and frail, conducted a messy but from New York Magazine Read more »
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Resurrecting 'Orpheus' -- New York City Opera stages Telemann's take on mythical story
Carol RoseggEurydice (Joélle Harvey), Orpheus (Daniel Teadt), Eurimedes (Victor Ryan Robertson) and Ascalax (Daryl Freedman) in New York City Opera's production of Telemann's "Orpheus." For centuries, Orpheus has fascinated composers, from Claudio Monte from NJ.com Read more »
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Siren Songs in Central Park
By Mike Vilensky "Ladies and gentlemen: Would you like to hear any singing this evening, before the singing this evening?" asked Eric Barry, the operatic tenor, in a gondola at Central Park on Wednesday. "Absolutely!" said a passenger. A rendition of "'O from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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Telemann's 'Orpheus' given staging by NYC Opera
No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln Center with a handsome staging of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus," a work premiered in 1726 that was long lost b from eTaiwan News Read more »
