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美国国家公共电台 NPR Art Exhibit Features Chagall's Works For Ballet And Opera

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Something many people don't know about Marc Chagall - most know the late artist for modernist paintings. But he was less known for designing costumes and sets for ballets and for an opera, which are now featured in an exhibition

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Maurice Sendak And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we tell about Maurice Sendak, an award winning writer and illustrator of more than one hundre

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VOA标准英语2009年-Rehearsals Begin for Australia's First Abo

By Phil Mercer Sydney 21 September 2009 Rehearsals are underway for Australia's first indigenous opera. Pecan Summer tells the story of a historic Aboriginal protest in the late 1930s. Over the years Aboriginal performers have been drawn to rock mus

VOA标准英语2012--Egypt's Morsi Urges Arab Action on Syria

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VOA标准英语2012--Opera Fallujah Shows US Veteran's Inner Battle

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VOA标准英语2011--Russia's Pro-Democracy Protests Cloud Putin's March Election Plan

Russia's Pro-Democracy Protests Cloud Putin's March Election Plan For Vladimir Putin, three months may feel like a political lifetime. The sudden rise of Russias democracy movement is posing the biggest challenge yet to his 12-year strongman rule. It

VOA标准英语2011--Indigestion Can Protect Africa's Lions

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VOA标准英语2011--Life in Haiti's Tent Cities Differs by Location

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LONDON, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The iconic British brand Burberry released its 2013 autumn and winter collection at the Kensington Gardens in royal park Monday afternoon. Although the palette remained oxblood, camel, black and white, the tradition check

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LONDON, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The sky of London cleared up on Sunday, when the sunshine brought a message of early spring, as well as the catwalk show of famous British brand Mulberry. Mulberry explores the earthy landscape of the English countryside a

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Some 150 kilometers northeast of London, students from Suffolk's local schools are practising in the Snape Maltings Concert Hall the Old Abram Brown, one of the twelve songs composed by Britten 80 years ago and published as Friday Afternoons. It so h

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An opera company from Belgium will stage a classic one-act opera in Beijing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. The opera, named Midnight in Paris, centers on a desperate young woman who lives in the 1950s. Naomi Beeldens is the young Belgian

2018年CRI Denmark's singer performs in an original Chinese opera production production

Danish tenor Peter Lohdahl is now in Beijing to headline an original Chinese opera production of Marco Polo. The opera revolves around exchanges during Marco Polo's time, along with his romance with a Chinese woman. CRI's Liu Min has more. Peter Lohd