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| Sales topped $2.08 million, a 25 percent increase over last season's opening-day sales of $1.66 million, after the box office opened to the general public Sunday, said Met spokeswoman Sommer Hixson. Sales on the Internet this year were nearly 50 percent higher than last year. |
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| 01.09.2007 / Yahoo News |
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| GOOD Friday was a particularly good day for Peter Fearnside this year. While in Alice Springs on holiday, the Melbourne acoustic specialist was woken by the beep of a text message.
Although written in French, its meaning was unmistakable. His firm, Marshall Day Acoustics, which had teamed up with the renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, had just been awarded "the Paris job". |
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| 25.06.2007 / The Age - Melbourne |
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| Filmmaker Woody Allen will make his opera directing debut with Puccini's comedy "Gianni Schicchi" to open the Los Angeles Opera's 2008-09 season, the company announced Thursday.
Allen's staging will be part of a new production of Puccini's "Il Trittico," a trio of one-act operas. The production will run for seven performances beginning Sept. 6, 2008. Director William Friedkin will stage the other two works, "Il Tabarro" (The Cloak) and "Suor Angelica" (Sister Angelica). James Conlon will conduct. |
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| 25.06.2007 / LA Times |
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| Lorin Maazel is noted for self-control when he conducts orchestras. He proved that yet again on Wednesday when he led the New York Philharmonic – his New York Philharmonic – in the splashy final concert of 2006-07. He is not noted for self-control when he conducts interviews. He proved that a few days ago when he chatted with a reporter for the Corriere della Sera in Milan.
The controversial American maestro expressed his special love for Italy and, in passing, his lack of love for a few things at home. “New York is magnificent,” he declared, “but there is too much nervous stress. I prefer more human rhythms. Also, the America of Bush does not appeal to me.” It is possible to sympathise with that. |
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| 25.06.2007 / Financial Times |
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| THE artist David Hockney recently complained that our iPod age was an aural culture, inured to the visual world. Most musicians complain of the opposite, citing an increasing demand to augment the musical experience with visual distraction. The real problem is not aural or visual culture but junk culture and the tawdry exploitative appropriation of art for venal commercial gain.... |
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| 25.06.2007 / Sydney Morning Herald |
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| VIENNA, Austria -- American tenor Neil Shicoff, who was overlooked for the position of director of Vienna's State Opera, has pulled out of Austria's renowned Salzburg Festival.
Shicoff, in a letter to festival director Juergen Flimm, said he needed a break to rethink his priorities and distance himself from "intrigues and disappointments." A copy of the letter, written in German, was provided to media outlets Tuesday by festival organizers. |
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| 25.06.2007 / Seattle Times |
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| A recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall by French pianist Hélène Grimaud ended abruptly Sunday evening when an ailing Grimaud walked offstage after only the third piece on her program.
Adam Crane, director of public relations for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which was presenting the recital, wrote in an e-mail later Sunday that Grimaud, 37, had "said she felt dizzy and had spotty vision when she realized that she could not continue." He added that "she wanted to go back on stage, but couldn't regain enough strength to complete her program." |
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| 25.06.2007 / LA Times |
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| Italian cellist Mario Brunello played Bach at the summit of Japan's Mt. Fuji this past weekend.
The high-altitude performance took place on Sunday, June 17, according to a report at Earthtimes.org. Accompanied by a group of fans and with his instrument in tow, Brunello began his ascent of the inactive volcano around the 8,200-feet mark; by sunrise, he reached the 9,842-feet mark. There he played Sollima's Alone before resuming his snow-capped climb... |
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| 25.06.2007 / Playbill Arts |
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| Violin virtuoso Alex DePue has distinguished himself in country, bluegrass, rock, swing and classical music, with his Carnegie Hall debut coming when he was just 14. But this Ohio-born, Rancho Santa Fe-based musician's national profile really took off after he played an open mic night Nov. 11 at Lestat's, the tiny Normal Heights venue that has a seating capacity of just 50... |
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| 25.06.2007 / San Diego Tribune |
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| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Once the Olympiad of classical music, Russia's top international music prize the Tchaikovsky competition opened this week hoping to restore its lost glory after more than a decade in the doldrums. Around 200 young pianists, violinists, cellists and singers from 34 countries will perform over the next two weeks before juries of top musicians in Moscow's grand but run-down Conservatory, hoping to become the virtuosos of the future. |
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| 25.06.2007 / Yahoo - Reuters |
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