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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in wintry Helsinki
ReutersHELSINKI (Reuters) - Don't let sub-zero temperatures and darkness put you off visiting Finland's capital city in the winter, when its Art Nouveau and modernist buildings are covered in a layer of snow. Finns know how to make the best of wintry weather,...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Classical Music (genre), Bars and Clubs, Cross Country Skiing, Entertainment
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Bryce Pinkham Joins "Kiss Me Kate"/Yale/Cole Porter Ta-Do
Hartford CourantBryce Pinkham (Broadway's "Ghost," off-Broadway's "The Orphans' Home Cycle"), opera singer Sari Gruber and Ethan Freeman will join Christopher Durang and Bobby Lopez to al all-Yale alum concert production of "Kiss Me Kate" for two performances, Saturday,...Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Tony Awards, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Galina Vishnevskaya, Lisa della Casa, Paul Rauch
Galina Vishnevskaya Russian opera singer, wife of Rostropovich Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, a world-renowned Russian opera diva who with her husband defied the Soviet regime to give shelter to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and suffered exile from her...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Moscow (Russia), Zurich (Swiss Confederation), Music, Obituaries
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Applauding Elizabeth Caballero
Lyric soprano Elizabeth Caballero was, of all places, shopping in a Miami Home Depot when she got the call: The Berlin State Opera needed a last-minute replacement for the demanding, exhausting title role in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly." The Miami-based...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Florida Grand Opera, The Home Depot, Arts and Culture
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Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Two and a Half Men' on CBS
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon (Jim Parsons) revisits his special Christmas memories, while Amy, Penny and Bernadette (Mayim...
Tags: New York Knicks, NBC (tv network), Holidays, Two and a Half Men (tv program), Hanukkah
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Oslo at Christmas time
ReutersDec 7 (Reuters) - Oslo dresses up in white lights ahead of Christmas but keeps the spirit of the season partly under wraps as befits a reserved Nordic capital with a winter shroud of darkness and some of Europe's highest food and drink prices....Tags: Weather Reports, Lifestyle and Leisure, Politics, Religious Festivals, Norway
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Soprano Lisa della Casa, an opera beauty, dies at 93
Lisa della Casa, a Swiss-born soprano known for her sweet voice and exquisite elegance, has died at 93, the Vienna Opera announced Tuesday. The late English music critic Sir Neville Cardus reportedly once said of Della Casa that one should go to her...
Tags: Al Pacino, Classical Music (genre), Zurich (Swiss Confederation), Music, Obituaries
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Critic's Notebook: Gustavo Dudamel wraps up an ambitious year
NEW YORK — The hair jokes may have grown old, what with a slight fleck of gray peeking through his now shortened and tamed curls. The Dude nickname is pretty much over as well. And no longer is Gustavo Dudamel as tempted to head for Pink's hot dog...
Tags: Lincoln Center, Classical Music (genre), Sweden, Milan (Italy), Paris (France)
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'Les Miserables' aims to hit high note in history of film musicals
This story has been updated. See below. Few things are more carefully choreographed than a movie musical, but director Tom Hooper wanted to steep his big-screen adaptation of "Les Misérables" in some gritty reality. So he took a page from Ridley Scott's...Tags: Anne Hathaway, Adam Shankman, Bill Condon, Amanda Seyfried, Eric Fellner
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Classically Trained: Notes for the new year
The Pacific Symphony has some crowd-pleasing music set to bring in the New Year. The series at 8 p.m. each night from Jan. 10 to 12 will feature Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade." Grammy-winning Canadian violinist James...Tags: Arts and Culture, Concerts, Music, Entertainment, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Best of Brazil, far from home
Chico Mattoso has published two novels, founded the successful literary magazine Ácaro and written for a soap opera — all in Portuguese. In the English-reading world, his work is largely unknown. But now the literary magazine Granta has selected...
Tags: Brazil, Newspaper and Magazine, Periodicals, Arts and Culture, Chicago Tribune
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A rhapsodic 'La boheme'
It shouldn't work. Not anymore. Not in the 21st century. That time-worn plot, the one-dimensional characters, the unabashed sentiment. But Florida Grand Opera's production of "La bohème" underscores how Puccini's masterpiece remains a moving, even...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Florida Grand Opera, Arts and Culture, Arts, Broward Center for the Performing Arts
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