Unilever partners with News Corp and Viacom for digital soap opera sponsorship

Source: Brand Republic

Unilever is set to reintroduce the FMCG tradition of sponsoring soap operas through a multimillion-dollar partnership with media giants Viacom and News Corporation, which will target sponsorship of their online shows. The move by Unilever indicate ...
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Classical music dead? Nico Muhly proves it isn’t

Source: Three Line Whip | Telegraph Blogs

Do you ever hum along with the vacuum cleaner? Or try and harmonise with the buzz of your fridge? Or even whistle with the wind? It’s fun, if a little weird for people around you. The Manhattan-based composer Nico Muhly – the hottest talent in con ...
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10 Great Fugues Not By Bach

Source: Top 10 Lists - Listverse

This lister originally intended to write a list of the ten greatest fugues ever, but all ten, and the next 300 or so, would be by Johann Sebastian Bach. So for some interesting diversity, here are ten outstanding fu ...
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Nigerian actors give 'Winter's Tale' African touch

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Lagos, Nigeria -- The deep, croaking-frog rhythm of the talking drums sound out across the stage as canoeists in animal hide row a condemned servant and royal infant into the unknown. The unified voice of ...
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Mangalore: Teenage Girls Falling Prey to Puppy Love

Source: DaijiWorld.com

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Opera review: Fort Worth Opera Festival’s ‘Lysistrata’ sexy

Source: Dallas Morning News

FORT WORTH — Let’s be honest: In varying proportions, under various degrees of camouflage, operas are about sex and power. But apart from Alban Berg’s Lulu, I can’t think of another opera quite so “out there” with sex as Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata, performe ...
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The Met on Mute

Source: New York Magazine

Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, presides over a gleefully quarrelsome universe. Opera is an art of exaggeration, and part of the pleasure of going is the hyperbolic arguments at intermission. Renée Fleming shouldn ...
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Things to do in Tampa Bay for week of May 28 to June 3

Source: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times

By Kelly Smith, Times Staff Writer Kelly Smith Tampa Bay Times In Print: Monday, May 28, 2012 Memorial Day: Today we remember our war dead at local ceremonies, but we also kick off summer (yes, including hurricane season Friday). Military m ...
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Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel

Source: The New York Times

LOS ANGELES — Maybe it’s because the movies provide this city with more than enough Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk. Whatever the reason, even though Puccini’s “Bohème” had its American premiere here in 1897, Los Angeles has never really been an opera town ...
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