This is Opera Australia's most ambitious project ever, costing $11.5m with over 130 performers, 240 Opera Australia staff and 60 volunteers. Staged under the night sky and against the spectacular backdrop of the Sydney skyline, performers and audiences alike will be lit up nightly by this sparkling opera production complete with fireworks on five barges. Featuring Mardi-Gras-inspired costumes, the world's largest Chesterfield and a live orchestra housed on the water line, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour is more than opera, it's an event. Already called the 'world-wide number #1 opera event of 2012' by The Guardian, it's set to dazzle 3000 people nightly, over its 3 week season. Directed by renowned US director Francesca Zambello and starring Australian sopranos Emma Matthews and Rachelle Durkin alternating in the role of Violetta, with two of the world's leading tenors, Italian, Gianluca Terranova and Korean, Ji-Min Park alternating as Alfredo. Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: La Traviata opens 24 March 2012 with tickets from $85. www.operaonsydneyharbour.com.au
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According to Genworth’s (NYSE: GNW) 2012 Cost of Care Survey, the cost to receive care in the home remained unchanged from 2011 to 2012 and home care costs have also risen less dramatically over the past five years than for other types of long term care services.
“Overwhelmingly, Americans prefer to receive long term care in the home and the relatively muted increase in home care costs over the past few years can be viewed as a positive for consumers,” said Steve Zabel, senior vice president of Long Term Care at Genworth. “Consumer demand for home care services has led to a proliferation of home care services providers and more choice for consumers. This competition has kept home care costs relatively stable, especially when compared to the cost of care in a nursing home or assisted living facility.”
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Every Wednesday on Fuse is a Hip Hop Invasion!
The brightest stars in the Hip Hop universe from Jay-Z to Lil' Wayne are taking over with Concerts, Documentaries, Music Videos and Interviews.
It's a full-scale Hip Hop Invasion. Every Wed. starting at 7pm/6c
With the RamaCity Open Beta set to launch today, Bigpoint is building up its portfolio of fun and exciting games. Starting immediately, players will be able to build their own online city and tend to the needs of their adorable, fun-loving citizens in the browser game RamaCity.
Bigpoint's RamaCity promises to attract the attention of a wide array of target groups: due to its intuitive controls and easy-to-navigate game start, typical of casual games, players will immediately feel right at home in RamaCity. Various game options, such as the ability to expand their city and customize it to their needs, invites fans and players of classic city-building simulation games to switch over to RamaCity. Visually stunning graphic design captures the essence of real city life.
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Memphis, TN/Concord, NC -Country music superstar Trace Adkins, and racing legend and NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty just can’t keep out of each other’s worlds. The latest video released as part of BC and Goody’s Pick A Powder campaign shows Richard Petty rocking out on the keyboard while waiting for Trace Adkins’ reaction. Since the campaign started in early 2010, they have been in a friendly rivalry with each other over the air waves, on Facebook, and in videos at PickAPowder.com, all in an effort to get the most fans to join their team and to show who experiences the most pain.
experimental video by the last rockband before the border green wave, germany, produced 2011 by Tino Francus as part of his bachelorwork in mediainformatics; song from
the double-cd “ …we used to cut the green grass…/…the war is over…”(2009), which, as well as the cd “the inner garden” (2000), belongs to the trilogy –concept-story “…green bdays on a planet blue…”.
This song is dedicated to the memory of Vivian Stanshall and Mario Schäfer
you can order the cds at green-wave48@web.de or as mp3 at amazon, iTunes, Napster, etc.
you find the story at http://www.green-wave48.blogspot.com/
you can hear all of the songs at www.imradio.com/greenwave
www.myspace.com/greenwavesaar
www.green-wave.nl
www.myspace.com/dhemm48
www.myspace.com/diesirae48
Issue #196 of Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate saw the publication award its highest rating over the entire Languedoc-Roussillon region for the 2009 vintage to La Pèira - a small wine domaine in the Terrasses du Larzac appellation.
David Schildknecht of the Wine Advocate names the domaine as one of the greatest of its region and among France’s finest, producing wines:
Six Flags Over Georgia’s 11th roller coaster, the highly anticipated DARE DEVIL DIVE, is now open for thrills! The innovative new coaster sends riders over a 10-story vertical lift at a spine-tingling 95 degrees: beyond vertical!
Media, roller coaster enthusiasts and professional test pilots from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics were on hand for the launch of the park’s latest thrill offering. DARE DEVIL DIVE boasts three inversions, zero-gravity hills and high-speed turns. Riders travel in the world’s first “v-shape” trains fitted with lap bar restraints and stadium seating, paying homage to World War II-era stunt planes and the daring pilots that thrilled onlookers with their incredible aerial acrobatics. The ride soars at a blistering 52 miles per hour as it makes its way through 2,090 feet of twisted steel track.
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The scene is set. Hundreds of glass beakers are stacked one on top of the next, containing every imaginable fuel source—from hydrogen to ethanol, natural gas and algae oil—to form a larger-than-life wall. Suddenly, a Lexus LS 600h approaches, accelerates and shatters the wall, creating a kaleidoscope of glass and liquids. The voice-over states: “Lexus Hybrid Drive technology is designed to optimize any fuel source on the planet, even those we don’t know about yet.”
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BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) today announced that its iShares® Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business, the world’s largest manager of ETFs, has published a fact sheet on tax efficiency and created a video to drive awareness among U.S. investors about ETFs’ tax efficiency as the U.S. tax filing deadline approaches. Today, there are over 1,000 different ETFs available and iShares is emphasizing tax efficiency during the current tax season to foster understanding and to encourage investors to take a careful examination of products with tax consequences in mind.
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Bang & Olufsen, the worldwide provider of exclusive, custom made audio and video products, announces the arrival of its BeoSound 5 Encore – a digital music system that allows for easy navigation to one’s preferred digital music library, access to over 13,000 internet radio stations and a high quality listening experience featuring an award winning playlist technology, intuitive graphical user interface, and an interactive, convenient operation for the end user. BeoSound 5 Encore is the new addition to the BeoSound 5 digital audio family. It is Bang & Olufsen’s plug-n-play answer to a growing demand in the era of digital music, as it allows for easy access of one’s music library without a complicated navigation process. BeoSound 5 Encore acts as an all-consuming sound hub with content conveniently and instantly arranged by album, artist, track, or ‘favorites’ category. It can be used as a stand-alone audio system or in a multi-source/multi-room application.
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