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"Il Postino' by Center City Opera
Is there a Hispanic in the house?
Center City Opera Theater has launched an ambitious initiative to mount Hispanic opera productions. It got off to a good start this month with Daniel Catán's Il Postino. Just one quibble: Il Postino isn't very Hispanic.
Il Postino. Opera by Daniel Catán; conducted by Andrew M. Kurtz; Leland Kimball directed. Center City Opera Company production May 17-20, 2012 at Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut St. (215) 238-1555 or www.operatheater.org.
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Of composers and bridges
Imagining early music: What I've learned by crossing bridges
Once no bridges crossed the Delaware River; now 120 do. There's a lesson here for composers like me, since we build bridges all the time.
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Tempesta di Mare's survival formula
Thriving through 9/11 and recession too: Secrets of musical survival
Tempesta di Mare finished its celebration of its successful completion of ten full seasons— an achievement based on its founders' application of a secret formula, known to a select few.
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Tempesta di Mare's tenth birthday festival
Tenths for Tempesta's Tenth
For its tenth anniversary, Tempesta di Mare demonstrated that the Baroque repertoire is so rich and varied that you can assemble two meaty concerts even when you limit your selections with a gimmicky rule invented for a special occasion.
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Vox Ama Deus plays Beethoven
A new way to hear Beethoven
Why would a small ensemble like Vox Ama Deus take on two pieces normally reserved for major orchestras? For a very good reason, it turns out.
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Chestnut Street Singers and the "Midnight Sun'
Amateurs in the best sense
Philadelphia's newest volunteer chorus consists of 14 voices without a leader, a payroll or any accompaniment. This month they demonstrated that they're up to the challenge.
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Back to the future: Youth and the Orchestra
Back to the Orchestra's future: One musician's story
As the Philadelphia Orchestra's audience dwindles, much has been written about the need to reach out to young audiences. But how exactly does this process work? Let me demonstrate the long-range effect of vigorous youth music programs on a single individual: me.
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Mendelssohn Club sings Clearfield and Fauré
The sum of Andrea Clearfield's parts
Andrea Clearfield's ambitiously sprawling Tse Go La is the latest fruit of the composer's musical field trips to Tibet and by far the most substantial: a fantastic amalgam of cross-cultural influences.
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Opera Company's "Manon Lescaut'
A vocal and visual knockout
The title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut taxes even seasoned professionals. With just three weeks' rehearsal, the student Michelle Johnson carried it off with aplomb. Sumptuous costumes helped, too.
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Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore' by AVA
Donizetti meets Mussolini
Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is a melodramatic comedy about love. Nic Muni's current production sets the story in Mussolini's Fascist Italy, where the stakes are life and death, not to mention damnation.
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