The soprano Denise Dupleix, whose death is reported today, burst onto the scene at Tours in 1950 with the Bell Song from Lakmé. For the next four decades she was a high-note star in both Paris opera houses. As you can hear below, she was astonishing in her prime.
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The Scottish Institute of Theatre, Dance, Film and Television has shut down overnight, leaving students unsure if they can graduate. The Institute left Edinburgh last year, moving into a former tax office in Livingston. Its […]
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Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, is streaming Die Fledermaus today. Johann Strauss II’s comic operetta in three acts premiered in 1874 and has become a synonym of the operetta genre. In only six years, the operetta […]
