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It's uphill all the way in Met Opera's 'The Audition'
Just like the stories it seeks to tell through histrionic plots, spectacular settings and virtuosic vocal lines, the world of opera is full of behind-the-scenes drama.
Maria Callas' diva-like antics have become legendary. Luciano Pavarotti earned the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Music Theater, Maria Callas, Theater, Luciano Pavarotti
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Darker nights at the opera
M any an opera plot is set in motion by a wicked curse that generates terrible heartache and loss. These days, it looks as if the real world of opera has been hit with a curse every bit as pernicious.
Although orchestras, art museums, theater troupes and...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Tickets, Music Theater, Management Change, Bankruptcy
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Fat Lady Sings for the Connecticut Opera
After 67 seasons, the CT Opera is singin' the blues -- the latest victim of the drama that is the US economy. The president of the board tells the Hartford Courant sagging ticket sales and reduced corporate and private donations are the villans in...Tags: Tickets, Music Theater, Opera (genre), Family
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Rock, Pop & Country Listings
7TH ANNUAL PODUNK BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL July 25 - 27 - Lineup includes: Thurs, Thunder Mountain Bluegrass, Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters; Fri, open bluegrass scramble (bring instrument), Blistered Fingers, Thunder Mountain Bluegrass, the Larkins, Austin...Tags: Romeo Miller, Tourism and Leisure, Faith Evans, Ziggy Marley, Toad's Place
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Classical Music Event Listing
ASTON MAGNA FESTIVAL July 6 - Works of Mozart and Haydn. Nancy Armstrong, soprano; Peter Sykes, keyboard. July 13 - Works of J.S. Bach and Vivaldi. Sharon Baker, soprano, and Stephen Hammer, soloist, joined by instrumental ensemble led by violinist...Tags: Politics, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Colleges and Universities, Senior Citizens, Theater
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Classical Music Listings
ASYLUM HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Jan. 3 - 5 - 36th annual Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival. Jan. 3, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 4, 3 & 6:30 p.m.; Jan. 5, 1 & 4:30 p.m. Historic sanctuary decorated for holiday feast as musicians and jugglers, lords and ladies,...Tags: Easter, Politics, Christmas Music (genre), Senior Citizens, Colleges and Universities
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Uncharted Territory For Hartford Arts
Courant Staff WriterThe Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts has taken a triumphant giant step into the new millennium with the completion of its $45 million building project, including its handsome 907-seat Belding Theater and the smaller but also classy Autorino Great...Tags: TheaterWorks, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Companies and Corporations, Music Theater, Opera (genre)
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A Long Haul
Courant Staff WriterThe sun, the stars and the moon - icons featured in the grand 1929 ceiling design in Hartford's Horace P. Bushnell Memorial Hall - had to align just right to create a cosmic shift, especially in an arts universe. Such were the market, civic and financial...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Music Theater, Theater, Culture
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Now Playing: Budget Strife
The Hartford CourantAfter years of theater expansion across the state, the momentum has slowed as institutions now face a new power-base reality: a new governor, a new legislature and a new state commission for culture and tourism. No longer are there tens of millions in...Tags: CareerBuilder, Stamford, Justice and Rights, Contracts, Politics
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