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	Gino Quilico: Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The opera career of Gino Quilico includes engagements with major opera houses, recording of complete operas and starring roles in opera videos and motion pictures.
		Recordings with Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Sony Classics and Philips have solidified Mr.
		Opera Recording in 1995 for Les Troyens (Decca).
	www.estey-hoover.com /quilico.htm (108 words)

	Thomas Z. Shepard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Z. Shepard is a recording producer who is most well-known for his recordings of Broadway musicals, especially the works of Stephen Sondheim.
		He has produced all the original cast recording of Sondheim, in addition to the original cast recordings of Mame, Gypsy and the revived No, No, Nanette.
		An accomplished pianist, composer, arranger and conductor, he is also a Grammy Award winning classical recording producer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Z._Shepard (197 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since her successful Metropolitan Opera debut as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio, Miss Esham has returned to the company for the roles of Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Mélisande in Debussy's Pelleas et Mélisande.
		At the Lyric Opera of Chicago she has performed the role of Melisande as well as Mimi in Puccini's La bohéme. Washington Opera audiences have enjoyed her performances of Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.
		The New York City Opera provided an artistic home to Miss Esham during the early years of her career, and it was around her that this company built its heralded French Festival.
	musicweb.rutgers.edu /info/Fac-bio/esham.txt (1469 words)

	Susan Graham: What's New (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The GRAMMY-nominated Warner recording of Ives songs, with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, was a critical favorite this year, garnering a Gramophone "Editor's Choice" and "Best of 2004" picks from publications such as the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times.
		The opera was given lavish treatment in 2003 (Berlioz's bicentennial year) at the Châtelet Theatre in Paris under conductor John Eliot Gardiner.
		Opera singers like her 'thrive on that exchange of energy between the stage and audience.
	www.susangraham.com /new_grammy.htm (582 words)

	Grammy Awards of 1970 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
		Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group
		Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Grammy_Awards_of_1970 (448 words)

	William and Gayle Cook Music Library: Special collections
		Recordings in the collection can be found in the online catalog with the local subject heading "Ehret (Alvin M.) Vocal Recording Collection." Because of the rarity of many of the items, and the significance of the collection as a whole, it is housed separately as a non-circulating archive intended for research purposes.
		Tibor Kozma (1909-1976) was a conductor of the Indiana University Philharmonic and the Opera Theatre from 1957 to 1976.
		He began conducting opera as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s, and in 1966 he was appointed assistant conductor of the San Francisco Opera by Kurt Herbert Adler.
	www.music.indiana.edu /collections/special.html (2739 words)

	The World's Very Best Opera For Kids - Dealer Access Only
		Opera tickets are comparable to the prices of other live entertainment, and in some cases cost less than a major league sporting event.
		Opera is one of the fastest growing of the performing arts with more than 20 million people attending annually.
		The Children’s Group, celebrated for its best-selling and award-winning classical music recordings for children, is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of The World’s Very Best Opera for Kids… in English – a CD that will change the way children -- their parents, grandparents, and teachers – perceive opera for generations to come.
	www.worldsverybestoperaforkids.com /sections/dealers/press.htm (2153 words)

	Ben Heppner - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the field of international opera, Heppner is the heavyweight champion, the world’s pre-eminent heldentenor, who excels at the most demanding roles Wagner and others have composed.
		It was the premiere broadcast of a Metropolitan Opera performance from December 1999.
		On March 15, 2001 the CBC aired their recording of the "My Secret Heart" concert which Ben performed with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, in Ottawa, on July 18, 2000.
	www.benheppner.com /News1.html (907 words)

	The Orchestra of Opera North
		Opera North is a founder partner of Yorkshire Young Musicians and is committed to helping provide the highest quality training to talented young musicians across the whole of the Yorkshire and Humber region.
		In the operatic field Opera North has made several important recordings, including Waltonâs Troilus and Cressida conducted by Richard Hickox, which won the prestigious Gramophone Award for best opera recording.
		In 2005, the Opera North Orchestra is participating in the Leeds International Concert Season and the Leeds Conductors' Competition and the Kirklees Concert Season.
	www.operanorth.co.uk /aboutus/Orchestra.aspx (438 words)

	Grammy Awards of 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing
		Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra, Not for Jazz or Dancing
		Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy)
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Grammy_Awards_of_1964 (501 words)

	NewOlde.com - Best Early Music CD Awards 2004
		I was relieved to discover a state-of-the-art studio recording rather than a live recording with substandard, bootleg quality sound, as, for example, in the disappointing recordings of Vivaldi's Rosmira Fedele by Dynamic and Farnace by Alia Vox.
		At least seven microphones were used by the recording engineer, Pierre-Antoine Signoret of Le Grenier à Son, to create outstanding balance among the singers and players.
		This is an exceptional recording of sonatas for violin and harpsichord and one sonata for unaccompanied violin.
	www.newolde.com /early_music_cd_awards_2004.htm (2034 words)

	classical music - andante - 2005 grammy nominations feature jennifer higdon, john adams, rené jacobs, emmanuelle ...
		Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra and City Scape, in a recording by Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, led the classical pack in the nominations for the 2005 Grammy Awards.
		In the Best Opera Recording category, two conductors received two nominations each: René Jacobs (for Mozart's Nozze di Figaro and Scarlatti's Griselda) and Emmanuelle Haïm (for Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Graham and Ian Bostridge).
		The countertenor-turned-conductor, in the midst of a string of triumphs leading operas by Mozart, Haydn and Gluck, discusses singing to the players in the pit, the return of embellishments in recitative and why he now tends to use female altos.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=24852 (1409 words)

	OperaWorld.com's North American Opera Zone- THE HANDMAID'S TALE: Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The new work, recently released on the Dacapo label, was nominated for two 2002 Grammy Awards (Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Contemporary Composition) and received the 2002 Cannes Classical Award for best work by a living composer.
		Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, the opera is a visionary tale that postulates the dangerous consequences of religious intolerance in America.
		One fundamental variant between the opera and the novel is that Atwood's story is relayed as an interior monologue, told in the first person in present time.
	www.operaworld.com /north/handmaid/background.shtml (2406 words)

	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| ANGELA GHEORGHIU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1996 Angela Gheorghiu made her first EMI Classics recording, an album of Duets and Arias with Roberto Alagna and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
		Angela Gheorghiu recorded Gounod's Roméo et Juliette for EMI Classics (released in April 1998) and a second album of Verdi duets, Verdi per due, with Roberto Alagna, and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (released in October 1998).
		She returned to Puccini with a recording of Gianni Schicchi (from Il Trittico), which was released in February 1999.
	www.emiclassics.com /artists/biogs/gheor.html (719 words)

	Definition of Grammy award
		Some feel that because Grammy voters tend to vote conservatively, and are marketed to by record companies (viewed as pushing artists that sell to "teenage girls and housewives"), the most widely-recognized Grammys tend to go to either well-established artists or those being hyped by the recording industry.
		Conductor Sir Georg Solti holds the record for most Grammys won, having won a total of thirty-eight awards before his death in 1997.
		Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra - Primarily Not Jazz or for Dancing
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Grammy_award (872 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The award-winning couple stole the show at the UK Gramophone Awards last November, receiving three prizes in total, including the coveted Record of the Year and Best Opera Recording for La Rondineand the additional Classic FM People's Choice award for their disc of Duets and Arias.
		The solo recordings Alagna has made for EMI Classics have won him enormous praise, and the couple's first disc,Duets and Arias (EMI 5 56117-2), was a runaway success.
		Selected from ten of Verdi's operas, the duets are united by the common theme of love.
	www.emiclassics.com /newreleases/oct98/alapress.html (591 words)

	Music \| Collaborators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They never made a commercial recording together, but they did give concerts together, and this disc reminds you how lucky you’d have been to be in their presence.
		His voice has blossomed, his comic timing has sharpened, and with his goatee and magic tricks (there’s evidently more than one card up his sleeve) and fire-engine-red tie and pocket handkerchief, he was the Devil incarnate.
		And mezzo-soprano Janice Felty was surely the most glamorous Baba the Turk in the history of this opera, looking like a hirsute Ava Gardner as the bearded lady whom Shadow talks Rakewell into marrying, and who emerges from her doomed marriage with infinite dignity ("I shall go back and grace the stage," she sings).
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/02678228.htm (2704 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: René Jacobs, John Adams Lead Grammy Nominations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jacobs' recording of Le nozze di Figaro, which won Gramophone magazine's Record of the Year in October, was nominated both for Best Classical Album and for Best Opera Recording.
		The New York Philharmonic's recording of Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls, a Pulitzer Prize-winning memorial for the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, was nominated for Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance, and Best Classical Contemporary Composition.
		The nominees in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, are the Bill Charlap Trio for Somewhere; Haynes for Fountain of Youth; the trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette for The Out-of-Towners; the Branford Marsalis Quartet for Eternal, and pianist McCoy Tyner for Illuminations.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/916.html (535 words)

	classical music - andante - the best baroque opera recording ever? larmore and lemieux in vivaldi's orlando furioso
		This might just be the best recording ever made of a Baroque opera.
		This new recording is more complete and more stylish, and the singing doesn't suffer by comparison with the Horne standard.
		Lately, most sopranos in new 18th-century opera recordings are mysteriously inadequate; not so the fresh-voiced Veronica Cangémi as Angelica.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25206 (252 words)

	Grammy Awards of 1976 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
		Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
		Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1976 (561 words)

	Julius Rudel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rudel was appointed Music Director of the City Center Opera in 1957 which in time developed into one of the best and most enterprising companies in the United States.
		He is especially respected in the opera world for his artistic control of the poetic rubato which is requisite to the interpretive demands of leading singers and vocal ensembles.
		His many opera recordings include Massenet's Manon and Cendrillon, Boito's Mefistofele, Verdi's Rigoletto, Bellini's I puritani, Weill's Silverlake and Lost in the Stars, Ginastera's Bomarzo, and Handel's Giulio Cesare which won the Schwann Award for Best Opera Recording.
	www.music.buffalo.edu /bpo/RUDEL.HTM (545 words)

	@csun.edu
		After a decade of building her career as a classical and opera recitalist to perform with some of the world's most renowned orchestras, the powerfully voiced mezzo-soprano hit another peak this spring by sharing in two Grammy Awards for classical music.
		After a short stay at San Francisco State, De Young said she transferred to Northridge in spring 1990 because the university's Music Department was considered the best in the Cal State system at the time.
		She would like to follow in the footsteps of another CSUN music alum, opera star Carol Vaness, by landing a major role with The Met.
	www.csun.edu /~hfoao102/@csun.edu/csun01-02/csun0402_02/music.html (835 words)

	CAMI News
		SHARON ISBIN won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance without Orchestra for her diverse folk-inspired "Dreams of a World" album.
		She is the first guitarist to win the award in 30 years.
		The Best Classical Crossover Album Grammy went to "Appalachian Journey," with MARK O'CONNOR, Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer.
	www.cami.com /news/getpress.asp?press=3 (80 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They learned (the opera) phonetically." Floyd said the general director for the Lyons Opera, Jean-Pierre Brossman, did not know the piece, but the intrigue generated from the conductor's and the principals' enthusiasm for the piece prompted the choice of Susannah for recording.
		Floyd is also co-director of the Houston Opera Studio, which was created as a joint effort between UH and the Houston Grand Opera.
		It received its premiere by the Seattle Opera in 1970 and was commissioned by the Ford Foundation.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol60/95-03-10.html (2305 words)

	OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In addition, he is co-founder with David Gockley of the Houston Opera Studio, a training and performance program for young singers and coaches-accompanists, jointly created by the University of Houston and Houston Grand Opera.
		The release won international acclaim and a Grammy for Best Opera Recording, an honor rarely given to a work by a living composer.
		In June 1976 it was performed by the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague where audiences saw their country’s official operatic salute to America’s bicentennial.
	www.operaphilly.com /03-04/floyd-bio.shtml (733 words)

	Nucci Leo - Welcome to the offical Webpage
		He commenced his singing studies in 1957 with Maestro Mario Bigazzi and later studied in Bologna with Maestro Giuseppe Marchesi, with whom he made his debut in the role of Figaro in Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" in 1967, a part which won him the A.Belli competition in Spoleto.
		He also produced a number of important recordings (some of the most outstanding ones are those related to the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Verdi's death: 2000 Opening with "il Trovatore"; 2001 "Rigoletto", "Macbeth" and the opening with "Otello").
		In 1979, he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in the part of Figaro, and this opera house was also to become hugely important for his career.
	www.leo-nucci.com (593 words)

	Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961.
		Karl Bohm (conductor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear Fritz Wunderlich and the German Opera Orchestra and Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck
		Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Birgit Nilsson, Giorgio Tozzi, Jussi Bjoerling, Renata Tebaldi and the Rome Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Turandot
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Opera_Recording (1316 words)

	GRAMMY.com
		The BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM field is dominated by distinguished opera recordings and a pair of fine contemporary-music programs.
		Conductor David Lloyd-Jones was cited for his recording of British composer Arnold Bax's lush, atmospheric Symphony No. 7 and tone poem Tintagel with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
		Violist Kim Kashkashian illuminated the ruminative â¦And Then I Was In Time Again by Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian, while four-time GRAMMY winner Anne-Sophie Mutter reveled in the luxurious romance of a Violin Concerto written especially for her by her husband, the distinguished composer-conductor André Previn, as well as the high spirits of Leonard Bernstein's Serenade.
	www.grammys.com /features/2005/0126_47RU_classical.aspx (1422 words)

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