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A new Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Verdi's Aida screens at the Lensic on Saturday, January 25, and is the subject of Pasatiempo's new review-writing contest.

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This year’s Prototype, a showcase of experimental opera and theater, was stylistically broad but the focus was on the human voice in all its weirdness. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Even before ...

They will be supported by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, opera singer Lesley Garrett and ... is a play on Lord Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera, basted on the novel by Gaston ...

A group of Bradford City fans will go from singing on the terraces to performing as a choir for a BBC programme called "Bantam of the Opera ... Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera ...

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Opera tenor Christopher Macchio will sing the national anthem at the President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration before a much smaller crowd than he was expecting, a letdown with a silver lining.

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