CNET News.com:
roundup From Firefox to IE and from Chrome to Opera and Safari, there's no sitting still for browser makers looking to keep their products fresh and competitive. (Read More)
Yahoo! Developer Network blog:
This article is the second in a series and part of ongoing research on web app performance. Get updates on the latest YDN articles via Twitter, follow @ydn.The Domain Name System (DNS) is part of the "dark matter" of the inte (Read More)
Photographers:
Cantonese opera, one of the major categories of Chinese opera, targets tens of millions of people speaking the regional dialect, mostly based in the southern Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, including the cities of Hong Kong (Read More)
Mashable!:
With such strong competition from Mozilla and Microsoft, the only thing Opera can do to stay competitive is to innovate. And one has to hand it to them: although it doesn’t have a huge user base in the desktop web browser spa (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Minimalist composer Philip Glass talks about his newest opera, "Kepler," and the similar intellectual impulses that drive music and science. (Read More)
Interchanging Idioms:
December’s Opera News dedicates most of its pages to Jacques Offenbach’s masterpiece, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, which is receiving a new production this month at the Met. First is the cover story on tenor Joseph Calleja, who ta (Read More)
Interchanging Idioms:
Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher’s new production of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, starring Anna Netrebko as Antonia and Joseph Calleja in the title role, begins its run at the Metropolitan Opera on December 3, (Read More)
Interchanging Idioms:
New Production of Wagner’s Rheingold under Daniel BarenboimGerman bass René Pape impressed Chicago recently with his Lyric Opera portrayal of Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust (his only U.S. engagements this season); he now re (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
Hope University/Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolThe Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg was close to Shostakovich – they shared the same Moscow apartment block. But that proximity was not enough to save him from obscurity: the sh (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Opera just announced the release of Opera 10.10. This latest version of Opera's desktop browser now includes Opera Unite, the company's browser-based web server. With Unite, users can share photos, music, notes, websites, for (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
The Swedish soprano was not just a great singer and actor, but a remarkable womanThe newspaper obituaries of opera singers, which are invariably written by anorak-coated music critics, too often take a standard and not very i (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Last Friday's tipster was right on the money: The Omnia II lands December 2 for $200 on contract (after $100 mail-in rebate). It runs WinMo 6.5, but that sweet-looking 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen gets the 3D cube TouchWiz 2.0 (Read More)
New York Times:
Patricia Racette, a versatile, dramatically astute performer, tackled all the heroines of Puccini’s three one-act operas.
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guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
Royal Opera House, LondonComposers' attitudes to their own works are often curious. Tchaikovsky believed The Tsarina's Slippers (Cherevichki in Russian; more correctly "little boots" in English) was his finest opera. Posterit (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
That tireless pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt chose to celebrate his 80th birthday right outside his comfort zone of the baroque with this revival of Gershwin's opera. His mission is to persuade us that this is indeed an opera r (Read More)