{"id":5277,"date":"2011-06-12T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T17:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2011-06-12T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T17:09:12","slug":"popstar-to-operstar-kicks-off-this-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5277\/popstar-to-operstar-kicks-off-this-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Popstar to Operstar Kicks Off This Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"popstar to operastar\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/realitytvspy\/operastar\/popstar_to_operastar.jpg \" alt=\"popstar to operastar\" width=\"301\" height=\"150\" \/>Popstar to Operastar returns to our screens again this evening with a few famous faces from the world of Pop taking up the challenge to ditch their pop training and become opera stars.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Myleene Klass, this year\u2019s celebrities include X Factor winner Joe McElderry, soul diva Jocelyn Brown, Erasure front man Andy Bell, singer\/songwriter Midge Ure, solo recording artist formerly of the Pussycat Dolls Melody Thornton, Steps singer Claire Richards, Toploader\u2019s Joseph Washbourn and Buck Fizz star and former Eurovision winner Cheryl Baker.<\/p>\n<p>Helping them to hit the high notes are mentors Katherine Jenkins and Rolando Villazon \u2013 the highly regarded operatic duo will be using their expertise to guide these celebrity novices as they attempt to control their falsetto and deliver a world class performance.<\/p>\n<p>Critically acclaimed actor, writer and theatre director Simon Callow and the award winning classical violinist Vanessa Mae will be joining Rolando and Katherine on the judging panel to offer their critiques on the performances.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7469702309\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popstar to Operastar returns to our screens again this evening with a few famous faces from the world of Pop taking up the \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5277\/popstar-to-operstar-kicks-off-this-evening\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reality-tv-spy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5280,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions\/5280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}