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'Ozymandias: 'Breaking Bad' Opera Given Life by One World Symphony's Sung Jin Hong

Perhaps one of the most captivating cable shows of the last two years, Breaking Bad will again be "the one who knocks," yet this time on the operatic stage. And like the Breaking Bad musical before it, it's playing now.
  • 'How 'Hey Arnold!' Shaped Millennials' Notions of Jazz, Opera and Poetry [PHOTOS]

    For that linchpin of children shows, 'Hey Arnold!' made some serious allusions to jazz, opera and poetry that shaped the foundation of the current generation of mainstream culture.
  • 'EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Leon Botstein

    Be it a concert that reframes musical war horses or one that gives music, herself, a frame (during the middle of a labor dispute, no less), the American Symphony Orchestra is certainly one of the more daring ensembles you'll hear play Carnegie Hall. Under the baton and brain of Leon Botstein, the ASO takes its founder Leopold Stokowski's avowed intention--namely, "that orchestral music shall remain accessible and affordable for everyone"--and gives it a new charge: Orchestral music should also edify the public at large. But as Botstein duly notes in this exclusive discussion with Classicalite editor-in-chief Logan K. Young, in the sound world of late Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Elliott Carter, intellectual heft never does betray the "immensely musical."
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