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On opera and mentorship

Celebrating its 26th year, the Philippine Opera Company continues its vision to bring opera to the larger theater community by staging Terrence McNally’s “Master Class,” a play about renowned opera ...
FOR THOSE who want to explore what it means to be great and to make sacrifices for art — and for opera fans who admire ...
Considered the most exciting opera singer of her time, she thrilled audiences with her penchant for spectacle onstage and in her personal life. By Raymond Ericson At Little Island, the countertenor ...
The Greek National Opera is continuing its artistic outreach journey across Greece with a grand tour of Crete. The GNO tour ...
We spoke with the artist about her striking overlaps with Maria Callas, how museums must better evolve to meet the needs of ...
Maria Callas endured a lot of things in her life but one thing she could never tolerate was kakapeepeedoodoo. That’s nonsense ...
Often hailed as the “First Lady of Philippine musical theater,” Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo has spent decades shaping the local stage with her ...
Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning first full-length opera, was commissioned by and premiered at the “old” ...
Karla Gutierrez and her Philippine Opera Company (POC) is staging this Terrence McNally play that imagines a scenario of Maria Callas, in her sunset years, conducting a class with three opera students ...
Mimi Coertse, who sang the Queen of the Night more than 500 times on the world’s greatest stages, has died aged ...
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