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Meet The Break-Out Stars Of The Met

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 11.20.2012 | Arts
Read More: The Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Video, Janai Brugger, New Met Opera Singers, Kristine Opolais, Metropolitan Opera Singers, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Met Opera Singers, Opera News, Met Stars, Alek Shrader, Elza Van Den Heever, Metropolitan Opera Stars, Arts News

With every new season at The Metropolitan Opera comes a fresh batch of break-out stars, belting their way to the leading roles of infamous operas like...

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Candide Travels the World and Arrives at Hollywood Bowl

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Frederica Von Stade, Anna Christy, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bramwell Tovey, LA Culture, Hollywood Bowl, Leonard Bernstein, Candide, Alek Shrader, Los Angeles News
Donna Perlmutter

Victimized by bitter circumstance? Not on a bet. Bernstein's Candide showed up at the Hollywood Bowl in concert, courtesy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Yes, it was almost the best of all possible worlds.

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If This is Monday and Opera in Central Park, Why the Microphones?

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: The Metropolitan Opera, Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, Lisette Oroposa, South Pacific, Carmen, My Fair Lady, Les Pecheurs Des Perles, Don Pasquale, Opera, Summer Recital Series, Paolo Szot, Camelot, West Side Story, Entertainment, Don Giovanni, La Fille Du Regiment, Alek Shrader, Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail, Rigoletto, New York News
David Finkle

My question, then, is: Whom are the presenters doing a favor by offering these recitals? Opera lovers will know they aren't hearing singing done under the proper conditions.

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