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     Issue #278 -- Friday, March 12, 2010                                             Facebook  

In This Issue
New on the Board (1)
Forums & Deals (2)
Training (1)
ProBuilders in prog
Quick Links
New opera game
Vocal events
Arts in the Media
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Vocal artist faculty position (NC)



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Arts Ed Summit 3/27

25% off workshops, etc.
at ShowBiz Expo

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Tai Chi class, great price

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ProBuilders
teachers and coaches for pro singers

Launching March 15

Click here for more info or to apply
for a listing
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play coverListers' Learning Library:  Books and DVDs chosen just for us, in our own little corner of Amazon

Check! Music BagLister Bazaar:  Drink from it,
carry it, or write on it:  Original
designs for the vocal type

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Curse of the Opera


   Hope yet
    Opera grabs a new piece
    of the mainstream

If anything that gets classical music into the consciousness of the masses is a welcome development, then today brought good news to those of us who care.  Big Fish Games, one of the most popular game distributors online, have announced their new offering, 'Nightfall Mysteries:  Curse of the Opera', a hidden object game that is already showing good sales figures. Gamers play the role of stagehand in a story that takes the opera troupe to a lonely castle, and includes murder, mayhem and a mysterious Count.  (Just the basics!)

Hidden object games have been a steady success for this site and many others, and as this game is available for PC or Mac, hopes are high that it will share the romance of the opera world with hordes of game-hungry new fans.  A free one-hour demo is available here, and the game is available for only $6.95 if you join their game club.  (You can cancel that membership almost immediately.)

Give it a try.  Share it with friends.  Then maybe we can hope for our own reality show.  After all, don't you want to know what Anna Netrebko eats for breakfast?  (Just kidding!...)


To read more about 'Curse of the Opera'
or to download a free demo , click here.

Click here to see what else Big Fish Games has to offer.


No, we did not receive anything in exchange for this feature.
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Getting Vocal   
Next few on the Calendar    



Sat March 13
2pm -- ROC: 'La Traviata' (Pomona)
7pm -- Live at the Lounge (Hermosa Beach)
7:30pm -- Opera Cafe (Westwood)
8pm -- Lamentations & Jubilations (South Pasadena)

Sun March 14
2pm -- Megan Gillespie, Mezzo (Rolling Hills Estates)
2:30pm -- Second Sunday Concert (Pasadena)
3pm -- Lamentations & Jubilations (Santa Monica)
3pm -- Who's Afraid of Opera? (Thousand Oaks)

Mon March 15
6:30pm -- Callas and Wagner (Westwood)
6:30pm -- Salon with John Treleaven (Downtown LA)



See the Lauri's List Calendar for these and other vocal events.
Click here to submit your event via email.

To view the latest vocal events column from the
"Clickable Chamber Music Newsletter" , click here.
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Reviews & Rep
[NY Times]  'The Nose' gets discussed online, and how
    (see 'Related Articles' for comments and a whole lot more)

[NY Times]  NY City Opera announces new, short season filled with promise and favorites

[BBC News]  Anna Nicole coming to Covent Garden

[New Yorker]  Finley's gift for bonding text and music together

[Out West Arts]  Von Otter floats at UCLA

[Out West Arts]  LAMC teams with Musica Angelica to give the Oscars a run for their money

[South FL Classical Review]  Sarasota places focus on American opera in 2011

[South FL Classical Review]  Mostly magical 'Flute' at Sarasota Opera

[Baltimore Sun]  Peabody's 'Fledermaus' has so many good things, they overpower the rough spots  (Now there's a glowing, if confusing review!)

[Baltimore Sun]  New opera about Joe Louis, boxing legend, comes to Maryland Opera Studio


Biz and Marketing
[Guardian/UK]  Rumors of music's demise have been greatly exaggerated...

[Las Vegas Sun]  Recently-hopeful Vegas arts movement faltering, but not dead

[Guardian/UK]  Why getting the arts to everyone is such a daunting task

[Opera Chic]  Gelb and the iGen-ers (may have more validity than OC admits)


For (and About) the People
[NY Times]  Zambello comes to Glimmerglass

[NPR Music]  A century of perspective on Samuel Barber

[Opera Chic]  Health vs. vocal?  Villazón gets insistent


For Art's Sake:  News, Info and Opinion
[ARTicles]  Arts?  Good.  Teaching for tests?  Not so much.

[Miller McCune]  New methods to encourage the creative spark


All the Rest:  Fun & Miscellany
[New Music ReBlog]  Motion capture goes MIDI for making moving music

[Sweet Charity]  No acrophobia allowed:  Dallas Opera launches public search for fearless climbers

[Opera-tional]  Does time off make you nuts?



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