{"id":9426,"date":"2013-02-01T09:46:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2013-02-01T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:46:25","slug":"opera-tom-diamonds-new-production-of-xerxes-streams-online-friday-and-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/02\/01\/opera-tom-diamonds-new-production-of-xerxes-streams-online-friday-and-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera: Tom Diamond&#8217;s new production of Xerxes streams online Friday and Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9428\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9428\" alt=\"Katelyn Lee and Amanda Russo in Tom Diamond's Xerxes at Indiana University in Bloomington.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/xerxes.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from\u00a0 Tom Diamond&#8217;s production of Xerxes &#8212; designed by Robert Perdziola &#8212; at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toronto opera director Tom Diamond is raising the curtain on a stunningly beautiful new production of Handel&#8217;s <em>Xerxes<\/em> at Indiana University on Friday night &#8212; and the first two performances will be streamed online.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cast is made up of students from the Jacobs School of Music&#8217;s excellent opera programme &#8212; but the staging is all professional. The music itself is gorgeous; Handel at his best. And judging from the photos from the tech rehearsal earlier this week, full of all sorts of eye candy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9427\" alt=\"Chris and Cory Linger in Indiana University Jacobs School of Music production of Handel's Xerxes.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/xerxes1.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/xerxes1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/xerxes1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can find all the details <a href=\"http:\/\/music.indiana.edu\/operaballet\/xerxes\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Streaming will take place <a href=\"http:\/\/music.indiana.edu\/iumusiclive\/streaming\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> at 8 p.m. Eastern on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the creative team introducing the production:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvV5eb-JI3w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto opera director Tom Diamond is raising the curtain on a stunningly beautiful new production of Handel&#8217;s Xerxes at Indiana University on Friday night &#8212; and the first two performances will be streamed online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,36,43,62,1,69],"tags":[6451,1040,1237,1514,1615,6467,3154,3329,3624],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/xerxes1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-2s2","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}