The Stage: Danish start-up to launch ‘LinkedIn for opera artists’. “A Danish start-up hoping to overhaul the talent-booking process for opera has launched a platform that aims to foster closer relationships between artists and organisations. Founded by Danish opera singer Sune Hjerrild, Truelinked will launch in the UK later this year as an online platform for artists to connect directly with organisations, described as a professional self-management system.”
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Bdaily News: Opera house database acquired in six-figure deal with Truelinked
Bdaily News: Opera house database acquired in six-figure deal with Truelinked. “Operabase, an online database of opera performers, houses and companies, has recently been taken over by Truelinked. Founded in 1996 as a means of collating and sharing information on opera performances worldwide, Operabase’s catalogue is available in 27 languages and, at its peak, was collecting 25,000 new performances year-on-year.”
Open Culture: Hear Singers from the Metropolitan Opera Record Their Voices on Traditional Wax Cylinders
Open Culture: Hear Singers from the Metropolitan Opera Record Their Voices on Traditional Wax Cylinders. “Vinyl is back in a big way. Music lovers who booted their record collections during the compact disc’s approximately 15 year reign are scrambling to replace their old favorites, even in the age of streaming. They can’t get enough of that warm analog sound. Can a wax cylinder revival be far behind?”
The Wagnerian: Bayreuth To Digitize Richard Wagner Archive And Make Available To All
The Wagnerian: Bayreuth To Digitize Richard Wagner Archive And Make Available To All. “…thanks to a program of digitizing the entire archive, including letters between Wagner and Cosima, his notebooks, clean copies of his scores, and photos, this should soon become an easier process. The entire archive will be placed online and made available to anyone that wishes to search it.” Please note I could not find anything on the Wagner Museum site. I poked around and couldn’t find any more information about any Wagner initiative at this writing. I’ll keep an eye out.
Classic FM: We’ve put these opera arias through Google Translate and the result is bonkers
Classic FM: We’ve put these opera arias through Google Translate and the result is bonkers. “Translating operas is a notoriously tricky business – so we wanted to see if a computer could make sense of two arias by Verdi and Puccini. The result was… interesting.” Very funny.
MakeUseOf: I Switched From Chrome to Opera and I’m Never Going Back
MakeUseOf: I Switched From Chrome to Opera and I’m Never Going Back. “I personally have every major browser installed on my system — the needs of my job require it. But if I wasn’t burdened by that, I can confidently say that I’d be an Opera man. Despite using Chrome for the past eight months, I recently switched back to Opera, and here are my reasons why.”
Ars Technica: Vivaldi is building “Opera as it should’ve been”
Ars Technica: Vivaldi is building “Opera as it should’ve been”. “Working in tight niches occupied by the behemoths of the Internet world is hard; doing it as a startup without external funding is even harder. The 35-strong team of Vivaldi, the spiritual successor to Opera, is doing exactly that: two years after the first public beta and eight months after the release of version 1.0, the Web browser has about 1 million users—but it still isn’t turning a profit.”
