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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

DiDonato a luminous Mary Stuart at Met by Mike Silverman

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Metropolitan Opera may have pretty much turned opening night over to the glamorous Anna Netrebko, but New Year's Eve belongs to a very different diva - Joyce DiDonat…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:06AM
Sunday, June 24, 2012

A grim, ghostly 'Billy Budd' on British stage by Mike Silverman

LONDON (AP) -- A ghostly gloom dominates the stage of the London Coliseum, where the English National Opera is closing out its season with Benjamin Britten's 1951 shipboard tragedy "Bill…

SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:26AM
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Met opera's 'Hansel' is a musical food feast by Mike Silverman

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Is the witch really dead now?" my 6-year-old seatmate, Claudia, leaned over anxiously to ask....

SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:42AM
Sunday, September 11, 2011

New opera tells story of Sept. 11 heroism by Mike Silverman

A continent away from where the towers fell, the horror of that September morning 10 years ago is being recreated on the stage of the War Memorial Opera House.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:09PM