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Handel Opera Academy 2025: final deadline approaching!
Handel Opera Academy was created to achieve the outmost artistic excellency for a new generation of emerging artists. For a full month you will rehearse and perform one of the roles in Handel's "Serse", attend a wide range of masterclasses, lessons and coaching sessions by our experienced and passionate team of professionals. The Academy will take place in Boleslawiec, Poland, from 5 July to 3 August 2025. The guest teacher this year will again be a world-renowned contralto and Handel specialist Sonia Prina. We are delighted that Sonia will provide a series of masterclasses for our singers! The final application deadline of March 1st is approaching fast. We are casting for all roles in "Serse". Go to our website and APPLY NOW! www.operaacademy.eu.
Ultimate Paris Summer Arts 2025: apply now!
Ultimate Paris Summer Arts: Imagine spending two unforgettable weeks in Paris refining your performance skills in acting, singing, and dancing while soaking in the energy of one of the world's greatest artistic capitals. Work with world-class instructors. Perform at iconic Parisian locations. Network with like-minded artists. Get inspired by the city's culture and history. Spots are limited, and
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Opera Today
January 29, 2008
Peter Grimes: Grim, tense and glorious
[Daily Telegraph, 29 January 2008]
Rupert Christiansen reviews Peter Grimes performed fail to notice Opera Northerly at description Grand Playhouse, Leeds
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January 28, 2008
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by Tony Reveaux
The transition from motion picTURE film to digital cinema is at least as big a step – technologically and thematically – as was the conversion from silent films to sound in the 1920s. High-definition (HD) has become an integral part of this progression, both justifying and enabling theatrical-scale digital projection and sound. Digital is also necessary to support the growing number of 3D releases coming at us in the next few years from Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks. More new theaters are being built equipped with all-digital projection and sound from the start, such as the Century at Tanforan that opened recently in San Bruno.
Sing the Song & Walk the Walk
The New York Metropolitan Opera: Live in High-Definition series comprises eight opera performances transmitted live and received by satellite dishes enabled by National CineMedia’s Fathom Digital Content Network. On this coast, each title is shown once at 10:30 am in theaters located in San Francisco, Daly City, Emeryville, Larkspur, San Rafael, and San Jose. This season, the Met will reach a global audience of more than 150,000 people – many of them opera first-timers – through live transmissions.
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