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The complete opera Rumor was broadcast live in the Scala opera programme from 8 pm on Saturday 31 March. You can listen to the Scala programme again up to a week after it was broadcast using the Klara radio-player.

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Following Samson et Dalila, which came out last year, Il Giasone is now available on DVD too. This little known and ‘unjustly forgotten masterpiece’ (Knack) was on at the Flanders Opera in the 2009-10 season.

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The programme for the 2012-13 season will be announced at the Flanders Opera on 18 April. Since 19 March, in the run-up to the big day, it has been possible to join in the countdown to the new season at www.vlaamseoperapreview.be. Every day it has a new tip that is in some way connected to the 2012-13 season.

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The Vlaamse Opera is recruiting for immediate opening an Artistic Coordinator (80% or full-time negotiable) for the The Artistic Department of the opera house in Antwerp.

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Did you know that most of our operas are recorded live and can be heard on Klara? This means you can enjoy (for the first or second time) compelling opera productions from Flanders on the radio.

All the operas the Klara radio channel records are broadcast in full during the Scala opera programme on Saturday nights.

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The Flanders Opera Children’s Chorus recently recorded a CD of children’s songs entitled Ozewiezewatte. It comes with a booklet that includes illustrations and facts about the history of the songs.

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In August 2011 Flanders Opera was a guest at the prestigious Edinburgh International Festival with its opera Semiramide. Quite a logistical undertaking, and all filmed by Cobra.be.

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The audience at the sold-out Heydar Aliyev Palace in Baku (Azerbaijan) thanked the Symphony Orchestra of the Flanders Opera with a standing ovation. The orchestra, led by our chief conductor Dmitri Jurowski, has just opened the fifth, and very prestigious, Rostropovich Festival there. 

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You couldn’t give anyone a finer gift than a heartwarming experience at the opera. Find it hard to choose from everything available? Then a gift voucher is the perfect answer: you choose the amount yourself and the voucher remains valid for two years.

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