It is time for B-team W to beat dubs, as we call it, around the office. Do I like VW. All right, so.So we're going to go to a bunch of stories that you might have missed during the week that we want to focus on and are only San Mateo is going to kick it off. All right. I want to start with you said beat it up straight away.I say beat it, but I do. I know you're sorry. I wanted to get that beat w Bloomberg this weekend as well.So there you go. All right. Let's start with one of the most read on the terminal ...

Returning to the Metropolitan Opera this month, the Italian classic uses the lilting three-beat form as a unifying element in its tragic drama of a woman’s struggle with Parisian polite society. https://t.co/zZ2PHUQOwj ...

Timothée Chalamet controversially claimed "no one cares" about ballet and opera anymore, causing uproar across the internet and the arts industry. CNN's Lisa Respers France reports. https://t.co/To9pKJmoRb ...

The real competition in Milan right now, Olympics versus opera. This is Lascala, the world's most iconic opera house. It's just a short walk from the Duomo at the center of Milan, which has been overtaken by the Winter Olympics.They're doing ghetto damarong. That's right. The only opera during the Olympics is Vagner's Ghetto Damarong or the Twilight of the Goats.As the city stages the Olympics, Lascala is staging the apocalypse. The opera is 5 and a half hours long. It features betrayal, treachery, corrupti ...

Jules Massenet’s classic work received a streamlined English adaptation from Heartbeat Opera, with musical-theater performers and a focus on the seamier side of the 18th-century setting. https://t.co/lqJQv9wEVz ...

The world’s most storied opera house is providing snobs a haven in the middle of a sports circus. https://t.co/N2aOPFh2rn ...

[applause] [applause] I am an opera director. I know it sounds like a madeup job, but I promise it's real and it's really fun. I actually get paid to be around beautiful singing and costumes and lights and sets, you know, really glamorous, over-the-top stuff. Now, in the classical music world, we sometimes joke that our work involves recreating the music of dead white guys, you know, Puchini, Veri, Mozart. And admittedly, opera can be offputting to some people. I mean, it's hard to relate to a guy in a powd ...

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York is opening its 142nd season without star singers, but with fictional superheroes: The Escapist and Lunar Moth https://t.co/yqBTDZocrM ...

Luciano Pavarotti's and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's voices consigned them to different fates. Tenors are the top guns of the operatic world; baritones often have less glamorous roles https://t.co/X7wJiRSld3 ...

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