OPERA FOR ALL
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Longtime friends and opera lovers Octavio Choy and Peter Shimkin want YOU to become an opera fan! In this introductory series, we will present the plots of popular operas along with their musical highlights. We will provide insight to help you appreciate singers and singing in general. You will also learn about the musical style of great composers.
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OPERA FOR ALL presents Gounod's opera "ROMEO & JULIETTE", one of the jewels of French Opera ..read more
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A mysterious stranger must answer three riddles to win the Princess of China in marriage. Should he fail, the penalty is death. Puccini's last opera, featuring the famous aria Nessun Dorma,Luciano Pavarotti's calling-card ..read more
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In Massenet's opera "THAIS", the monk Athanael tries to convert the courtesan Thais. While she repents her sinful life and accepts God in the famous "Meditation", Athanael sinfully begins to lust for her ..read more
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In Rossini's version of Cinderella, the evil stepmother becomes an evil stepfather; the fairy godmother is a real man, and the lost shoe is a bracelet, but the most important change
is that the opera is really a comic opera ..read more
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Blurb for Meistersinger:
Wagner's most accessible opera. A sunny comedy set in Medieval Germany. The town Cobbler, Hans Sachs helps the young Knight Walther win the hand of the Gosldsmith's daughter Eva by foiling the unwanted attentions of the competing suitor Beckmesser ..read more
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin A bored anti-hero rejects the outpouring of love from a young girl from the provinces. 6 years later he meets her again as the wife of a fabulously wealthy Prince and immediately becomes infatuated. He pleads with her to leave her husband: will she succumb? Sung in English. More melodies than you can shake a stick at ..read more
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"A lush romantic lyric opera with swelling arias and duets. The story, taken from a famous novel, concerns a young poet who falls in love with a married woman ..read more