Potts enjoys wild ride from penury to opera star
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Just five months ago, amateur opera singer Paul Potts was mired in debt and selling cell phones in Britain. Now he has a hit album and is due to tour the world.
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In opera, singing well is the best revenge. Neil Shicoff, savaged by the local media this summer for his bid to become director of the Vienna State Opera, celebrated a triumph Sunday on the stage of the same establishment. And no wonder. While there may be doubt about his managerial abilities, he is among the world's top tenors on a good night Â and this was one of them.
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Even for those who embrace opera as a celebration of excess, it seemed almost a provocation to open the Teatro alla ScalaÂs season on Thursday with an extravagantly lavish new production of ÂAida.Â
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The New York City Operaâs announcement this week that it had landed Gerard Mortier as its new leader was hailed as the beginning of a new era for the company.
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Opera-singing phone salesman Paul Potts has won the final of TV variety show Britain's Got Talent.
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Paul Potts wowed the judges of a hit ITV show last week with Nessun Dorma, but some allege he is professionally trained.
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Patrick Stewart is in the midst of a third act in his unlikely career that brings him full circle: back to England and back to the Shakespeare of his youth.
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Lincoln Center Theater's exhilarating production of Tom Stoppard's play is performed with freshness and vigor by a starry cast, led by Ethan Hawke and Billy Crudup.
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It's no small task for a tenor to take on a role that Placido Domingo dominated for decades Â Verdi's Otello.
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The Canadian Opera CompanyÂs decision to assign each opera in WagnerÂs ÂRingÂ to a different director creates a sequence of imagery and ideas that alternately baffled and dazzled.
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By Tim Cornwell  WHEN Welsh singing diva Katherine Jenkins replaced the traditional 20-stone heroine and G4 stormed the charts, suddenly opera seemed sexy. Now it appears opera is the new rock and roll - with tickets sales to younger audiences in Scotland up sevenfold this season.
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After the buildup to the opening night of the season, you can expect a certain falloff. But the second night of the Metropolitan Operaâs season on Tuesday was terrific.
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There were times when I despaired. The screaming point came at the Edinburgh Festival, where successive performances of Plleas et Mlisande , Il trovatore (both emanating from Hanover State Opera) and Orfeo ed ...
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Legal debate and lyricism in âMargaret Garner,â an opera imbued with gospel and spirituals.
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Arts & entertainment: Bryn Terfel shocked the opera world by dropping out of Covent Garden's Ring cycle. John Tomlinson was happy to pick up the pieces.
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Om Shanti Om is an out and out musical that captivates with its roaring polyphony and unabashed drama.
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Verdiâs opera has two faces. It is spectacle on a royal scale, but also a love story wedding jealousy, honor and revenge to regime change.