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CURRENT ISSUE
2009 OPERA NEWS AWARDS
The Met Premiere of
From the House of
the Dead
Direct Line: Donizetti's
Influence on Verdi
The Readiness is All:
New York City
Opera's George Steel
Argento's Casanova
Comes Home to
Minnesota
Bryan Hymel
Unclosed Captions: Designing Opera Titles
Remembering The Incomparable Hildegard Behrens
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The OPERA NEWS Awards
OPERA NEWS salutes the distinguished achievements of five of opera’s best. And the 2009 honorees are ... MARTINA ARROYO by BRIAN KELLOW JOYCE DiDONATO by OUSSAMA ZAHR GERALD FINLEY by LOUISE T. GUINTHER PHILIP GLASS by ADAM WASSERMAN SHIRLEY VERRETT by F. PAUL DRISCOLL
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The Lady Killer
Dominick Argento's brilliant 1985 opera buffa about Casanova gets a major revival this month at Minnesota Opera. RUSSELL PLATT reports.
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Last Man Standing
George Steel's mission as the newly appointed chief of the beleaguered New York City Opera amounts to nothing less than keeping the company alive. Do his plans for the future make sense in light of the pared-down realities the "People's Opera" now faces? ADAM WASSERMAN reports.
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Entitlement Issues
MATTHEW GUREWITSCH looks at the various ways in which opera titles have been integrated into production designs.
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