Opera News
 Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii? (CNET) Opera's updated software kit for consumer electronics could mean better browsing on the Wii.
Vancouver Opera sees brisk sales for Carmen (The Globe and Mail) The economic downturn has not dampened Vancouver's appetite for opera. Vancouver Opera announced yesterday that its forthcoming production of Carmen has proved the fastest-selling in the company's history, with 57 per cent sold despite two more weeks before opening night.
Peking Opera: Staging a revival (China Economic Net) Chen Kaige's Peking Opera themed movie Forever Enthralled about icon Mei Lanfang has given the traditional art form a new lease of life and even photographic studios are profiting.
Opera company sings praises of music man (Toronto Sun) The Canadian Opera Company took another major step forward yesterday, naming 34-year-old Johannes Debus as the company's new music director. A native of Germany, Debus is best known to Toronto audiences as the conductor of the COC's acclaimed 2008 production of Prokofiev's War and Peace.
French opera is a 'Pearl' for tenor (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) William Burden, an American tenor who likes French opera, plays a leading role in Seattle Opera's production in Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers," which opens Saturday night at McCaw Hall.
Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii? (cnet.com.au) Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES.
UCA will broadcast opera ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (North Little Rock Times) CONWAY — The Metropolitan Opera’s performance of “La Damnation de Faust” will be broadcast in high definition at noon on Sunday, Nov. 23, at the University of Central Arkansas’s Reynolds Performance Hall.
Opera With All The Chaos, Live On Camera The satellite TV network Sky Arts will simulcast opening night of the new ... (Arts Journal) Bohème at English National Opera on two channels: one showing the staged performance and the second capturing the goings-on backstage. ENO artistic director John Berry says, "It's about all of that furious paddling under the water that you don't normally see."
PTY students enjoy opera performance (The Marshall News Messenger) The Shreveport Opera Xpress (SOX) presented a performance to Price T. Young students.
Weapons expert’s death explored by new opera (The Herald) An opera based around the death of the government weapons expert Dr David Kelly is part of a new season from Scotland's national opera company.
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