Sentences with phrase «of opera companies»

I suppose you could have a gathering of opera companies asking «Why opera now?»

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A professional bassoonist by training, he played with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and various opera companies before cofounding Packet in 2014.
Patrons of the Santa Fe opera company will be the first to find out this Saturday when The (R) evolution of Steve Jobs, a libretto revolving around the personal and professional lives of the Apple founder premiers.
And no matter what the next episode of the Redstone - Dauman soap opera brings, one thing is clear: Today's Viacom appears a far cry from the company Freston helped build.
The Diocese of Durham said the event was in partnership with Footprints Theatre Company which gave the show a «soap opera» feel.
The life of the mind, pursued in this way in partial isolation, though in the company of my wise, gentle, and practical wife, has proved so rewarding that the loss of theaters, concert halls, opera houses, and all the other temples to high culture that I left behind in the city is more than compensated by what I have gained.
At 7 p.m., Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., opera singer Marie - Claire, NYC Public Advocate Tish James, US Sen. Chuck Schumer, Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and members of The Bronx Opera Company and City Council attend City Councilman Andy King's «State of the 12th District» address; Beulah Church of God, 986 E. Gun Hill Rd., the Bronx.
We're not going to have as many tenure - track positions and we're not going to have as many tenured artists in opera companies or symphonies, so we're going to get a lot more of this cross-pollination, I think.
He was asked to design restaurants, an opera house for Tokyo, the bull - nosed, green Nani Nani building and, most extraordinary of all, a beer hall and restaurant for the Asahi beer company in Tokyo's run down east end.
It might not be as famous as the Texans, but Houston actually hosts one of America's finest opera companies.
The redeveloped waterfront area at Cardiff Bay includes the Wales Millennium Centre, home of the national opera, orchestra, theatre and dance companies.
If you don't think you like opera, you just might like the double bill of Dido and Aeneas and Venus and Adonis presented this weekend by the Florentine Opera Company at the Marcus Center.
June 26, 2014 • The conductor served as musical and administrative head of New York's second - largest opera company at a time when American talent was flowering.
Jagger — James, that is — plays Kip, the British expat lead singer of punk act The Nasty Bits, whose evolution from pet project of aspiring A&R scout Jamie (Juno Temple) to potential company saviour is the season's most significant throughline outside of Richie's soap - opera turmoil.
Dana performs in the chorus of a professional opera company.
«August» is an actor's showcase, and in this case director John Wells («The Company Men») has pit Meryl Streep against her entire family, but in particular eldest daughter Barbara, played by Julia Roberts.A monumental soap opera of arguing, abuse, betrayal, cruelty, pettiness and even incest ensues.
And no company seems to have taken advantage of YouTube yet, though searching for individual opera stars can bring up snippets of their performances.
The Metropolitan Opera Guild This opera company helps teachers involve their students in the creation of original operatic pieces and performing them.
«But what really blew me away was when I went back to Farmland the following year and saw some of my former students doing their jobs in the opera company as fourth graders.
LAYTON — Several Top of Utah teachers have turned to a program sponsored by the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater Company to encourage their students to write and compose their own operas.
The Company's designers and engineers have created a compelling new take on the Grand Touring Bentley — a vehicle that feels equally at home at an opera gala performance, on the sand dunes and the overtaking lane of the autobahn.
From its early days working on the Crunchpad prototypes with Mike Arrington and company to their rather explosive (and very public) split to the announcement of the Joojoo tablet and finally the revelation of its successor, the Grid 10, the FG story reads like a tech - based soap opera.
Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, is still the company's CEO and he recounts how the inspiration for Smashwords came after he and his wife wrote a novel aimed at soap opera fans and got a high - powered agent.
Right now I work for the USC School of Dramatic Arts during the school year and spend my summers in upstate New York working for an opera company called The Glimmerglass Festival.
The city also has a wealth of contemporary art galleries, as well as world - class performing arts venues, which attract the best opera, ballet, and contemporary dance companies from around the globe.
One of the nation's premier festival opera companies producing a spring festival season (May - June), sung in English with projected supertitles.
I then caught a tour of the Gothenburg Opera House, one of Europe's newest but most notable opera companies, where we were shown throughout the backstage and around the nautical - themed foyer.
The Visalia Opera Company is a non-profit artistic company whose mission is to bring world class opera to our region by exposing local citizens, especially our young people, to the art of opera and the beauty ofCompany is a non-profit artistic company whose mission is to bring world class opera to our region by exposing local citizens, especially our young people, to the art of opera and the beauty ofcompany whose mission is to bring world class opera to our region by exposing local citizens, especially our young people, to the art of opera and the beauty of voice.
The San Diego Opera at Civic Center Plaza, now directed by David Bennett, was ranked by Opera America as one of the top 10 opera companies in the United States.
With performances in dance, music, opera, comedy and drama, from major Australian companies to local performing arts organisations, the diverse program is designed to appeal to a broad cross-section of the community.
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It may not be the capital, but the plethora of art establishments here outstrips anything else in Canada, with over 50 dance companies, two orchestras, six opera companies and a vibrant theater scene.
Her father was an accountant in Pennsylvania Railroad, while his family was the owner of a steamship company, and some members were opera singers.
His opera and theater works, often produced in collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, have appeared at Brooklyn Academy of Music (2007); Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa (1992, 1996, 1998); and Festival d'Avignon, France (1995, 1996).
The exhibition highlights his dual working practices of painting and printmaking, and features new works made in response to a year - long residency at English National Opera (ENO), the first initiative of its kind for the opera company.
The opera company's home is part of the $ 275 million Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, which opens in fall 2009.
Jones, who has choreographed more than 45 works for his 30 - year - old Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company and dozens of dances for major ballet companies and operas, won Tony Awards for his work on «FELA!»
Over the summer, The Space team will be airing a whole host of work from established names sitting alongside work from new and up - and coming companies and artists including; David Shrigley's new opera, a Scissor Sisters concert and the ground - breaking, international productions of Shakespeare's plays being staged by The Globe Theatre.
On Saturday (June 1), the contemporary music ensemble wild Up returns to the Hammer Museum with the experimental opera company The Industry to present First Take: a West Coast Workshop of new operas - in - progress.
Brave New World Rep is a theater company run by a former soap opera star who staged the company's first significant production, To Kill a Mockingbird, on her front porch in Ditmas Park for a one - performance run in front of an audience of 1,500 under a serendipitously full moon.
If you surveyed the concert programs of orchestras, opera companies, and chamber music ensembles across the country, then sorted the statistics, you would think that the center of gravity in classical music was slowly rotating through Central Europe — with occasional vacations to France, Italy, and Russia — as it did from the early 18th to early 20th centuries.
BP - or - not - BP are concerned that people might not understand, you see, that companies which sponsor cultural things... Things like museums, operas, and plays... Do bad things, like producing energy for things like, erm, museums, operas and plays, as well the vehicles which take people to them, and things such as schools, hospitals and... Horror of horrors... factories where things are made.
Musicians create and / or perform music and they work either independently or as employees of orchestras, choirs, bands, opera companies and theaters.
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Excellent advice from a pro whose career path wound from opera singer to CEO of her own company.
Perhaps surprisingly, Erie, with a population of under 200,000 has its own philharmonic, ballet and opera companies.
Perhaps surprisingly for a town of only 20,000, it supports a community and an equity theater company, an opera house, a philharmonic orchestra and a jazz orchestra.
In addition to a modern performance arts hall, the city also boasts an opera house, a ballet company, several acting troupes and a host of lesser artistic and theatrical venues.
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