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 'Flying Dutchman' Opera at Kennedy Center,  Why We Love It Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" opens this month at the Kennedy Center and tickets are up to $129 off for two weekday performances next week The opera is the retelling of the nautical legend, about a captain condemned to wander the seas in search of unconditional love Grammy-winning star Eric Owens is the genre's "reigning and arguably most versatile bass-baritone" (Chicago Sun-Times)

Sandesh Shandilya Celebrated his First Symphony World music Composition “SEARCH FOR BUDDHA”, in Mumbai, following the World premier held in Cologne, Germany.  Sandesh Shandilya Celebrated his First Symphony Composition “SEARCH FOR BUDDHA”. The Celebration was graced by Music Lover Celebrities Anup Jalota, Uttam Singh, Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet, Sunidhi, Sanjeevni Bhilande, Irshad Kamil, Amar Haldipur...... The  World Premier was held on February 6th 2015 at the Funkhaus Wallrafplatz, WDR Cologne, Germany, with the WDR Funkhausorchester and the WDR Rundfunkchor, Conducted by Wayne Marshall. Sandesh Shandilya is an  Indian film composer, musician, and singer whose career in Indian film and music industry spans 20 rich years. His first album, Piya Basanti, a fusion of Indian classical, Jazz and Sufi, won the MTV album of the year award. He has composed songs for more than 27 Indian films, and the background score for more than 7 Hindi films. Search for Buddha  is A World Music Sy

CINEPLAY FELICITATES DR. MOHAN AGASHE AS THE ICON OF THE YEAR *** Mumbai, March 3rd, 2015:   As the lights dimmed in the auditorium at Mumbai’s art-house center Matterden CFC, signaling the first screening at the month-long CinePlay Festival ’15 Act 1, audiences were filled with a newly-kindled overwhelming respect for one of India’s most-esteemed actors - Dr. Mohan Agashe. Dr. Agashe’s expansive filmography and never-ending theatre credits span over 4 decades and include some of the best that the Indian theatre and film circuits have had to offer - ranging from  Aakrosh  to  Ghashiram Kotwal , and Train to Pakistan  to  Rang De Basanti . A Padmashri awardee, the versatile multilingual actor is as comfortable in front of the camera as he is on a stage in front of thousands. PHOTO CAPTION #1 Dr. Mohan Agashe being felicitated by Distinguished Director, Govind Nihalani, who presented him with the CinePlay Icon of the Year Award at the Opening Night of the Cinep

CINEPLAY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY WITH MONTH-LONG CINEPLAY FESTIVAL’15 ACT 1 Festival runs from February 27th - March 22nd, 2015 *** Mumbai, February 25th, 2015:   Following through on the promise of presenting a new genre of cinema adapted from the best in Indian theatre to a larger audience, CinePlay has teamed up with the Matterden Center For Creation (CFC) to celebrate the anniversary of its first release. CinePlays will be regularly exhibited at the latter’s newly-renovated 480 seat theatre in Lower Parel. Matterden CFC is India’s first international film center and aims to provide an opportunity for Indian audiences to experience alternative content unlike none other. This association, the CinePlay Festival Act 1, will set the stage for the first theatrical release of CinePlays beginning on Friday 27 th  February 2015, with the critically acclaimed CinePlay  Between the Lines . It features Nandita Das and her husband and founder of CinePlay, Subodh Maskara, and has