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		<title>Opera on Screen in Ireland, 2011-2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very little information has been forthcoming about screenings of opera simulcasts in Ireland (NI &#38; ROI) for the coming year.  Part of this is due to the fact that the last function of the late, lamented Opera Ireland was to act as distribution agent for the Met in HD, and with it gone I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2721534&amp;post=318&amp;subd=operapage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>European Opera Centre/UCH Limerick: Dardanus (Rameau)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dardanus, music by Jean Philippe Rameau; livret by Charles-Antoine Le Clerc de La Bruère; edition (based on 1744 version) by Gilles Rico University Concert Hall, Limerick – July 22, 2011; presented by European Opera Centre and University Concert Hall Cast: Svetli Chaumien (Dardanus), Myrto Boccolini (Iphise), Romanas Kudriasovas (Anténor), Dionisios Tsantinis (Ismenor), Joanna Freszel (Vénus), Ilektra Platinopoulou (L&#8217;Amour), Ryszard Kalus (Teucer) Orchestra (on period [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2721534&amp;post=304&amp;subd=operapage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handel &#8216;Orlando&#8217; at Lille, Paris &amp; Dijon</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/handel-orlando-at-paris-and-lille/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Early opera]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David McVicar added to his repertoire of Handel operas this season with his production of Handel&#8217;s Orlando (1733), which has been co-produced by three French opera companies who are each showing it in quick succession: Opera de Lille last month, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris last week, and Opera de Dijon on 20, 23 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2721534&amp;post=298&amp;subd=operapage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New recording of Vivaldi&#8217;s Armida</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Early opera]]></category>
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		<title>2010-11 Season announcements begin: Metropolitan Opera</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Details of the New York Metropolitan Opera&#8217;s 2010-11 season were announced this week.  It&#8217;s an impressive lineup, as ever. The Met Live in HD simulcast programme was announced at the same time, and is as follows: Das Rheingold / Wagner (October 9, 2010) &#8211; conductor James Levine, director Robert Lepage, singers include Bryn Terfel (Wotan), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2721534&amp;post=283&amp;subd=operapage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CMBV/Opéra d&#8217;Avignon/Opéra de Massy: Amadis (Lully)</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/cmbvopera-davignonopera-de-massy-amadis-lully/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amadis, tragédie en lyrique in a prologue and five acts, by Jean-Baptiste Lully [1684], libretto by Philippe Quinault, after Essart&#8217;s translation of Los quatros libros del virtuoso cavallero Amadis de Gaula by Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo (c.1492). Cast: Cyril Auvity (Amadis), Katia Velletaz (Oriane), Isabelle Druet (Arcabonne), Alain Buet (Arcalaüs), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Florestan), Dagmar Šašková (Corisande), Hjördis Thebault [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2721534&amp;post=250&amp;subd=operapage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AIDA at the O2 Dublin &#8211; fail</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/aida-at-the-o2-dublin-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Irish opera news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the central cornerstones of ancient Greek theology was the dual concept of &#8216;hubris&#8217; (overweening pride) and &#8216;nemesis&#8217; (being taught a lesson by the gods as a result, usually unpleasantly).  Icarus&#8217; ill-fated attempt at flying is the normal example of this given in the classroom, though the current state of the Irish economy also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2721534&amp;post=246&amp;subd=operapage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opera Theatre Company: Alcina (Handel)</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/opera-theatre-company-alcina-handel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alcina, opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel [1735], anonymous libretto based on L&#8217;isola d&#8217;Alcina (set by Broschi [1728]), after cantos VI-VII of Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto [1516].  New edition by Clifford Bartlett for Early Music Company, with English libretto translated by Amanda Holden. Touring production by Opera Theatre Company, given at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2721534&amp;post=233&amp;subd=operapage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IMC &#8211; extra screening</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/imc-extra-screening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news just in of a change to the screening timetable for IMC in Dún Laoghaire (and hopefully the rest of the chain as well): in addition to the lineup I gave on Sept 28, they are also going to include the Bolshoi production of Eugene Onegin, staged last year at the Paris Opèra.  If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2721534&amp;post=228&amp;subd=operapage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn roundup &#8211; time to be grateful&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://operapage.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/autumn-roundup-time-to-be-grateful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As there&#8217;s no established opera company (or house) in Ireland producing work through the year, we have to make do with the short seasons of Opera Ireland, and the valiant work of touring companies, leading to months where very little happens and then times, like the next month or so, when there&#8217;s almost too much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operapage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2721534&amp;post=215&amp;subd=operapage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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