Renee Fleming is already a well-known name among opera enthusiasts. But her name is joining Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, and Maria Callas as household words nowadays. Renee Fleming sang the national anthem at Super Bowl XLVIII, showing previous pop diva…
Mobile Shoppers Most Active On Sundays [Report]
A new report out from Opera looks at mobile shopping habits, and has determined that Sunday is the best day of the week when it comes to sales from mobile shoppers. “Unlike desktop traffic to e-commerce sites, which tends to…
Andrea Bocelli Talks Opera and Fatherhood
Andrea Bocelli can’t get away from singing opera, even when he’s in the role of ‘Dad.’ The 56-year-old says even when he’s singing his two-year-old daughter Virginia a lullaby, she prefers opera. “My daughter … likes every kind of music,…
Shareaholic Browser Report: Safari Is On The Rise
Shareaholic has released its latest Browser Share Report, which indicates that Safari is creeping up in market share. The data comes from 250 million web users visiting over 200,000 publishers in Shareaholic’s network. Here’s how it shook out over the…
Andrea Bocelli Weds Longtime Girlfriend
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli married longtime companion Veronica Berti Friday, in the coastal town of Livorno, Italy. Bocelli, 55, had been dating Berti, 30, for 12 years, and the couple has a two-year-old daughter together named Virginia. The newlyweds married…
Harriet Tubman: The Underground Railroad Meets Opera
The story of Harriet Tubman has recently hit the performance arena in New York. “Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line To Freedom,” is an opera written by a third-generation Nigerian-American who practically grew up on the stories of Tubman and…
Maria Callas Gets A Google Doodle (Watch Her Perform Here)
Google is celebrating famed opera singer Maria Callas with its homepage doodle today, which would have been her 90th birthday. She died from a heart attack at the young age of 53 in 1977. Callas, born in New York, is…
The New Opera Is Out Of Beta And Available On Windows, Mac
Earlier this year, Opera said that it would be ditching its own rendering engine in favor of Google’s Blink. The new browser launched in beta in May, but now a final version is available for all who want to try…
The Chromium-Powered Opera Is Finally Here
Opera made a big stink a few months ago when it was announced it was ditching its own Presto Web rendering engine in favor of Webkit. After Google announced it was ditching Webkit in favor of its own forked version…