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I really liked the movie Pretty Woman when I was a kid. Julia Roberts is just gorgeous, and so wonderfully real. In the middle, there’s that scene where she and Richard Gere’s character go to the opera. He says some people hate it, but others just get it... 
I really liked the movie Pretty Woman when I was a kid. Julia Roberts is just gorgeous, and so wonderfully real. In the middle, there’s that scene where she and Richard Gere’s character go to the opera. He says some people hate it, but others just get it. And as he and Julia Roberts’ character sit in their private box at the opera, she cries. The opera is La Traviata, about a prostitute who falls in love with a rich man. That movie always makes me cry too. Opera isn’t really about large-boned women in period costume, or about arrogant tenors puffing up their chests. Nor is it about the high soprano note at what are often termed “painful” pitches. And operas were never intended by their composers and librettists to be pretentious – they’ve just been sadly stereotyped. In truth, opera is really about the beauty of human life and translating and transforming it into music. From Orfeo to Doctor Atomic, Wagner to Verdi, they portray beauty, tragedy, emotion . . . life.Related Top 10 Sources: Theatre | Fine Art | Books | New York City 
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Ariodante Hardly the most scintillating production — actually it could easily be deathly dull, except that it isn't, because it's peopled by a clutch of fascinating singers. And I know it's trendy to scoff at baroque opera where the singers...
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It's not easy getting eight superstar divas in a room together. But that's effectively what Francesco Clemente has achieved with his new solo exhibition, The Sopranos, currently on view in Gallery Met.
The acclaimed painter has created a series of portraits of high-profile women singers starring in Met productions next...
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Be afraid, be very afraid: David Cronenberg's 1986 horror flick, "The Fly," has undergone a bizarre metamorphosis. It's now an opera.
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Conductor George Manahan will remain a music director of the New York City Opera under incoming general manager Gerard Mortier, agreeing to a four-year contract through the 2011-12 season.
Manahan, 56, was hired as music director in 1996, effective with the 1997-98 season. In 2009-10, Mortier's first season, Manahan will...
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Workers at La Scala opera house in Milan are threatening to stage a strike next week that would cancel the first three performances of "La Boheme."
But union representative Giancarlo Albori said Wednesday that talks with management were still going on. He said a decision on whether to strike would be made at the end of...
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I never meant to take so long to write about San Francisco. If my hotel hadn't had the World's Worst Wireless I might have written more while I was there, but it was all I could do just to check...
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Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price - $77.
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Armonico Consort Opera is a bit of a misnomer. This flexible team of singers, instrumentalists and all-round entertainers has had its biggest hits with masterpieces that fall between the cracks - works that aren't quite opera, but are rather more than mere music theatre.
Purcell's astonishing 'semi-operas' King Arthur and...
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There are a couple of reasons West Side Story represents a huge gamble for Central City Opera: It's not really an opera, and it demands a cast of skilled dancers as well as singers.
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Edgar Vincent, a veteran press representative for a starry roster of opera singers dating to Ezio Pinza, notably as the publicity agent and a close adviser to Plácido Domingo for more than 25 years, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 90.
He died of a blood clot while recuperating from a partial hip replacement at Lenox...