The soloists were a diverse lot, coupling opera names (Elizabeth Llewellyn, an alumna of the English National Opera's "Marriage of Figaro") with Broadway and West End regulars.
A string of big opera names, including the ROH music director, Antonio Pappano, and singers Susan Bullock, Sarah Connolly and Stuart Skelton, have condemned the proposals.
This early Handel opera takes us to the world of the Roman Emperor Claudius and, more particularly, his scheming wife, Agrippina, and her unrestrained ploys to have her son, Nero (Nerone in the opera), named Claudius's successor.
After Tito (Mr. Rusinek, who gives an exuberant, strong-voiced performance) is thought to be dead, a meek assistant at the opera named Max (Mr. Plomgren, who blossoms delightfully into a confident singer) is persuaded to masquerade as the Italian star.
Opera 'AGRIPPINA' (Saturday and Wednesday) This early Handel opera takes us to the world of the Roman emperor Claudius and, more particularly, his scheming wife, Agrippina, and her unrestrained ploys to have her son, Nero (Nerone in the opera), named Claudius's successor.
"ROBERTO DEVEREUX" To open the New York City Opera season, Lauren Flanigan, the company's reigning diva, challenges her sainted predecessor, Beverly Sills, on Ms. Sills's own turf, as Elizabeth in Donizetti's opera named for an earl who, loved by the queen, loves another.
This early 1960s photograph shows a performance from a scene in a Soviet opera, named "Arkhimed," held at a Soviet club.
SUROOSH ALVI All Families Are Psychotic Douglas Coupland Random House So theres this family with a soap opera name (the Drummonds) who talk like they are on a soap opera (no real siblings call each other big brother and baby sister).
From 1977 until the first years of the present decade, Stockhausen sank his energies into a series of seven operas named after days of the week, the entire cycle entitled "Licht".
But the broadcasts still held out the distant beacon of "real" opera, with name singers and name conductors, and listeners would save up for annual trips to New York and to the Met.
(On "Killa Cam," from the 2004 album "Purple Haze," he enlisted an opera singer named Steven Santiago to belt his name like a prayer toward the east. Their live performance of the duet at the Apollo Theatre remains a surreal moment of flip-phone-era history).
