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This year's Super Bowl featured soprano heavyweight Renee Fleming singing the Star-Spangled Banner to open the game. Now, another world-renowned opera singer has taken the stage at a major sporting event, marking the second major opera appearance this year. -
The Column: Met Opera Protests, Lots of Questions, But One Definite Answer
Anti-Putin protests at Met Opera raise many issues, but they crossed a line. So the opening night performance of the Metropolitan Opera's 2013-14 season has been disrupted by protesters, angry at President Putin of Russia's anti-homosexuality stance. -
Will Putin, Gergiev, Netrebko Respond to Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Solitary Confinement and “Conditions of Slavery?"
Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was moved to solitary confinement today, a day after she began a hunger strike to protest the inhuman conditions at the penal colony where she is imprisoned. Prison authorities said they were... -
Bryn Terfel Makes Mormon Deal with Deutsche Grammophon to Launch Snowdonia Records
Two decades after first joining Deutsche Grammophon, Bryn Terfel has signed an exclusive, long-term recording contract with the Berliners. As part of the deal, the award-winning Welsh baritone/bass has affirmed his commitment to... -
FREE LISTEN: Anna Netrebko Sings Verdi's "Mercè, dilette amiche" on New Deutsche Grammophon Album
Netrebko doing Verdi for DG...worth every red cent... We don't know about you, but Classicalite has been floating on SoundCloud 9 after so many free repeats of Anna Netrebko singing Verdi's "Mercè, dilette amiche. -
BREAKING: Anatoly Iksanov, Head of the Bolshoi, Has Been Fired
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