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opera chic

Milan, Italy

I'm a young American woman living in Milan, and you're not. I go to La Scala a lot, and you don't.

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Baroque in Venice: Monteverdi Vivaldi Festival

While everyone's celebrating the anniversary graph points of Wagner, Britten and Verdi, the Baroque fetishists at the Venetian Centre For... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at Opera Chic

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Outbound Speight Jenkins for Inbound Aidan Lang at Seattle Opera

Say hello to this guy as the Seattle Opera crowns British-born Aidan Lang as its new general director, the third... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at Opera Chic

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La Scala's Full [Metal] Wagner Ring Cycle, OC Livetweets

By Milan's early Sunday hours, OC will be fully-immersed in Guy Cassiers' complete Wagner Ring Cycle at Teatro alla Scala,... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at Opera Chic

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FestspieleZürich: Much Ado About Wagner

This weekend kicked off FestspieleZürich, this year's edition called "Treibhaus Wagner" (Wagner Greenhouse) in reference to a song from the... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at Opera Chic

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Arena di Verona Opens with La Fura dels Baus Aida, Zeffirelli's Not Impressed

Arena di Verona inaugurated its 100th anniversary season last night to a packed house of 15k spectators, set to a... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at Opera Chic

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Renata Tebaldi? She's an App

LA TEBALDI Official PROMO - 'Renata' Section A voice that launched a thousand fists -- loggionisti fists -- as she... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at Opera Chic

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Sinfini Music & OC: BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Frockwatch

(2011 winner Valentina Naforniţă with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa) Singers: we want you to kill a stage before you even... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at Opera Chic

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Next Up For Filarmonica della Scala

Yesterday, Filarmonica della Scala announced its 2013-14 season comprised of ten concerts, which kicks off on November 4 under Georges... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at Opera Chic

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Netrebko's Virtual Verdi

As Netrebko teases her first solo, studio disc in five years, we toast its photoshoppy cover with our own grumpy-sourced... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at Opera Chic

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it was dark! and late! and i may or may not have just come home from a wine-soaked dinner...

Commented Jun 12, 2013 on Sinfini Music & OC: Backstage Beauty with Glyndebourne Festival’s Bright Lights at Opera Chic

Great story rompi...thanks for sharing

Commented Jun 12, 2013 on Bruno Bartoletti, In Remembrance at Opera Chic

Bruno Bartoletti, In Remembrance

(Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) Many of Bruno Bartoletti's champions have eulogized his June 9th passing in print, including Milan's Isotta and... Continue reading

Posted Jun 11, 2013 at Opera Chic

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Sinfini Music & OC: Backstage Beauty with Glyndebourne Festival’s Bright Lights

Glyndebourne Festival’s Head of Make-up Sarah Piper invited Sinfini Music into her clean, bright workspace to show us, step-by-step, how... Continue reading

Posted Jun 11, 2013 at Opera Chic

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Operavore on Pereira, OC Blurbs

Fred Plotkin's Operavore commented on the 2015 Alexander Pereira La Scala appointment and asked us what we thought. You can... Continue reading

Posted Jun 11, 2013 at Opera Chic

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All Things Egypt: Super Avanti Auditorium Magazine

Exhibit A: The impossibly thin, eternally cat-eyed ghost of Liz Taylor's 1963 Egyptian Queen laid with Bulgari jewels, courted by... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2013 at Opera Chic

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Thanks for the background, Noncy! Very cool!

Commented Jun 7, 2013 on Hot Piece with a Hot Piece: Andreas Ottensamer at Opera Chic

Hot Piece with a Hot Piece: Andreas Ottensamer

For those of us who like more beef in our diet than waify, milk-fed violinist Charlie Siem, Sinfini Session pings... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2013 at Opera Chic

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On Branagh's Flute II

Kenneth Branagh had us at Henry V before he even whipped out his Magic Flute seventeen years later. Shot in... Continue reading

Posted Jun 5, 2013 at Opera Chic

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HA!

Commented Jun 5, 2013 on Next up at La Scala: Pereira with a Pay Cut at Opera Chic

Lang Lang's Friends are the Best Friends

The Langer's friends run mad deep. At a one-off benefit concert last night, Renée Fleming, John Legend, Joshua Bell, Danish... Continue reading

Posted Jun 4, 2013 at Opera Chic

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Next up at La Scala: Pereira with a Pay Cut

Milan's mayor Pisapia announced today at the conclusion of a La Scala board meeting that the next director of Salzburg... Continue reading

Posted Jun 4, 2013 at Opera Chic

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Zeffirelli's Library Finds a Home

Let's hear it for Franco Zeffirelli whose lavish directorial aesthetic matches his generosity (when he's not being cranky). Today, in... Continue reading

Posted May 31, 2013 at Opera Chic

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I was definitely going to say Clooney (and Daniel Craig) until I saw this photo from last week!! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2331052/George-Clooney-looks-grandfatherly-plaid-scarf-dines-London.html

Commented May 31, 2013 on Stravinsky's Rite at 100: You Gotta Fight For Your Rite to Party at Opera Chic

Stravinsky's Rite at 100: You Gotta Fight For Your Rite to Party

A lot of things get better with age -- baseball gloves, selvedge denim, beards, Ryan Gosling -- and our deep... Continue reading

Posted May 29, 2013 at Opera Chic

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A Decade without Berio

Props today for Italian composer Luciano Berio who passed away a decade ago, the modern maestro who penned masterpieces that... Continue reading

Posted May 27, 2013 at Opera Chic

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