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Opera demigod Luciano Pavarotti readily admits to an all-too-human frailty — “I always get very, very nervous before any performance” — but at the New York Metropolitan Opera he had a fast-acting ...

To reach the prompter's box at the home of the San Francisco Opera, Matthew Piatt heads under the stage and walks down a long, narrow passageway. Then he shimmies up a metal ladder. "I always have to ...

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails. The hidden world of an opera prompter To reach the ...