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Festival Ballet, Royal Opera House, London

Ballet is falling prey to recession, too. This year, English National Ballet have managed to squeeze only one mixed bill among the Nutcrackers and Sleeping Beauties that are its box-office bread and butter, and a wistful programme note from director Wayne Eagling points out that the funding for this triple bill had only been raised thanks to a special syndicate of sponsors.

Live performances from the Royal Opera House for cinema audiences

The Royal Opera House hopes to reach out to new audiences by copying the Metropolitan Opera in New York and beaming live performances of its opera, ballet and concerts straight from its auditorium into cinemas across Britain and beyond.

American Ballet Theater Visits Korea in 12 Years

Some 120 dancers and staffs of the American Ballet Theater came to Korea via Incheon International Airport for their performance at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts from July 31 to August 3. The American Ballet Theater, which is called one of the world’s three most renowned ballet companies along with the United Kingdom’s Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet of France, is visiting Korea in 12 years since 1996. Kevin McKenzie, the artistic director of the American Ballet Theater said, “Koreans will have a chance to enjoy outstanding performance of the world’s best dancers.” The American Ballet Theater will perform an opening gala on July 31 and perform “Don Quixote” for three days from August 1. For more information, call 02-399-1114.

Royal Opera House Tickets Confined to Sun???

Tickets for the opening night of Don Giovanni, the first production of the new Royal Opera House season, are being made available exclusively to readers of the Sun newspaper. The move comes as part of Royal Opera’s drive to attract new audiences, which will also include the screening of performances at cinemas nationwide.

Ballet Oklahoma Announces Season

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Ballet Oklahoma announced its performances for the 2008-2009 season. The season will begin with a celebration of the newly reinvented Ballet Oklahoma. For one night only, the Company will present "Stars of American Ballet - A Gala Celebration," featuring some of the best ballet talent from across the country including dancers from American Repertory Ballet, Louisville Ballet, Ballet San Jose and more. Sharing the program will be two works by Robert Mills. Ballet Oklahoma will perform his signature work "Still" and a world premier work.

China's acrobatic Swan Lake conquers audience at Royal Opera House

An innovative acrobatic rendition of Swan Lake from China won the hearts of the critical elite on Tuesday night at the prestigious Royal Opera House at London's Covent Garden, with a full house plus audiences bravoing, whistling and applauding for its spectacular first night appearance.

Dance: Faeries, Royal Opera House, London

Dance review: Richard Alston Dance Company and Strictly Gershwin / The Place, London and Royal Albert Hall, London

Ash Lawn Opera Festival And Red Light Management Partners To Restore Jefferson Theatre

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CelebrityAccess MediaWire) -- Ash Lawn Opera Company and Red Light Management announced that they have reached an agreement in principle for the Opera Festival to lease the Jefferson Theatre for the months of June, July and August for 20 years beginning in the summer of 2010. The Jefferson Theatre was built as a vaudeville house in the early 1900’s, and in recent years has been used as a movie theatre. Renovation of the theatre is designed to produce a unique facility which can be used as a live music venue from September to May by Red Light and an opera house from May through August. The renovation project will have a cost exceeding $7.5 million. Major structural repairs have already begun. The full renovation will include restoration of the fly loft and balconies, adding an orchestra pit for a 50-member orchestra, i

Panerai Sponsors the 36th Annual Nantucket Opera House Cup Regatta

PRNewswire/ -- The 36th annual Nantucket Opera House Cup Regatta presented by Panerai has come to a close. Demonstrated by the growing list of competitors, with 63 yachts participating this year, the event was an enormous success. The weather was ideal and the competition was well rounded, ranging from the 162ft Herreshoff designed Eleonora to several tiny and lovely Alerion class boats and of course a healthy showing of 12-Metres. For many, the Opera House Cup is the highlight of the season: the grand finale of Nantucket Race Week and the essence of a Nantucket summer. A crisp 15 - 20 knot breeze and sunny skies characterized the quintessential Nantucket day as the fleet of classic wooden sailing yachts competed for the prestige of winning the beloved Opera House Cup -- as well as a Panerai Luminor Chronograph Regatta watch.

Panerai Sponsors the 36th Annual Nantucket Opera House Cup Regatta

NANTUCKET ISLAND, Mass., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The 36th annual Nantucket Opera House Cup Regatta presented by Panerai has come to a close. Demonstrated by the growing list of competitors, with 63 yachts participating this year, the event was an enormous success. The weather was ideal and the competition was well rounded, ranging from the 162ft Herreshoff designed Eleonora to several tiny and lovely Alerion class boats and of course a healthy showing of 12-Metres. For many, the Opera House Cup is the highlight of the season: the grand finale of Nantucket Race Week and the essence of a Nantucket summer. A crisp 15 - 20 knot breeze and sunny skies characterized the quintessential Nantucket day as the fleet of classic wooden sailing yachts competed for the prestige of winning the beloved Opera House Cup -- as well as a Panerai Luminor Chron

Brands and art mix in Deloitte-sponsored Royal Opera House event

LONDON - The first event in accountancy firm Deloitte's five-year sponsorship of the Royal Opera House will involve brands such as Green & Black's and Jo Malone.

Bodrum readies for sixth ballet festival

The Bodrum International Ballet Festival, Turkey’s only festival devoted entirely to ballet, will present its sixth edition from Aug. 15-29, with a program that focuses more on modern choreography than world classical ballet repertoire.

Bayreuth's Wagner festival will offer opera online

View at the portal of the Festspielhaus the festival opera house in Bayreuth southern Germany July 17 2007. Germanys annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital next month streaming video and audio of its opening performance of Die Meistersinger ...

Houston Grand Opera's Anthony Freud Elected Chairman Of Opera America

Anthony Freud, OBE, general director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera, has been elected chairman of the Board of Directors of Opera America, the national service organization for opera. The election took place at the annual Opera America conference 2008 in Denver on June 11th. Freud will serve an initial term of two years and succeeds Charles MacKay, general director of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

Video Games Live at the London Games Festival 2008

Video Games Live, the biggest live performance in video games, is back with its 2008 show. Following last year’s smash hit sell-out, the London Games Festival is delighted to announce that there will be two performances at the Royal Festival Hall on 24th October at 4pm and 8pm. The event will launch this year’s festival celebrating all the excitement and variety of the gaming industry.

Video Games Live at the London Games Festival 2008

Video Games Live, the biggest live performance in video games, is back with its 2008 show. Following last year’s smash hit sell-out, the London Games Festival is delighted to announce that there will be two performances at the Royal Festival Hall on 24th October at 4pm and 8pm. The event will launch this year’s festival celebrating all the excitement and variety of the gaming industry.

Video Games Live at the London Games Festival 2008

Video Games Live, the biggest live performance in video games, is back with its 2008 show. Following last year's smash hit sell-out, the London Games Festival is delighted to announce that there will be two performances at the Royal Festival Hall on 24th October at 4pm and 8pm. The event will launch this year's festival celebrating all the excitement and variety of the gaming industry.

Opera adds Ask.com search to its Web browser

Opera added Ask.com, a leading search engine, to the latest version of the Opera desktop browser, Opera 9.51.Opera today added Ask.com, a leading search engine, to the latest version of the Opera desktop browser, Opera 9.51.

Mobile Content Bits: Opera Mobile 9.5; Verizon Mobile Banking; Google Mobile Reviews; Mobile Posse

Opera launches Mobile 9.5: Opera Software (OSL: OPERA) released today Opera Mobile 9.5 in beta, a new browser for Windows Mobile touchscreen devices. The browser can be downloaded at http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/. Opera Mobile 9.5 beta is supposed to be faster and is also nice because it defaults to the page overview mode, allowing the user to view the entire Web page to be able to recognize the Web site. The user can pan and zoom to focus on specific areas of the page.

Chinese ballet exploring future

While the Olympic excitement is already getting underway here in Beijing. China's National Ballet is over in London, performing "Swan Lake" at the Royal Opera House this week. The company's director talked about her understanding of the art in China and looked ahead to the future of ballet.

JVC Kicks Off World's Largest International Personal Video Festival

WAYNE, N.J., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest international video festival kicks off today, as the JVC Tokyo Video Festival, TVF2009, begins accepting contest submissions from professional and amateur filmmakers worldwide. In its 31st year, the JVC Tokyo Video Festival is the largest international personal video festival, open to filmmakers of all ages and skill sets. Last year, a record 2,010 entrants participated in the festival, including 750 from Japan and 1,260 from 53 countries and regions worldwide. Approximately 50,000 video entries from 100 countries and regions have been submitted since the first festival in 1978. One Video Grand Prize winner will receive 500,000 yen in prize money, a JVC Everio hard disk camcorder and a round-trip to Japan for the award ceremony (one person).

Do tabloid readers love opera? London will find out

Tickets for the opening night of the 2008 Royal Opera House season in London, England, will be awarded only to readers of one of the city's notorious tabloids.

The Rake's Progress, Royal Opera House, London

Comparisons between Robert Lepage's production of The Rake's Progress, newly arrived at Covent Garden, and Robert Carsen's Candide, recently imported by English National Opera, are inevitable. Two of the greatest operas of the immediate postwar era are given makeovers by leading Canadian directors, and both go for the same dramatic solution - translating the action to the US of the late 20th century - with profoundly disappointing results.

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