John Corigliano News

The Metropolitan Opera opens its 2008-09 season on September 22 with a gala performance that kicks off its 125th anniversary, starring Renée Fleming in three fully-staged scenes, including some of her most acclaimed portrayals. Costumes for Fleming have been specially created for each of the scenes in the Opening Night Gala by three of the world's legendary fashion designers: John Galliano, Christian Lacroix, and Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel.

Tickets for the third season of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's live transmissions in movie theaters around the world, go on sale to the general public on Friday August 22.

Tickets for the third season of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's live transmissions in movie theaters around the world, go on sale to the general public on Friday August 22.

New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), co-founded and directed by pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, who 'reinvented the song recital during the 1990's with daring and dramatic programming' (The New Yorker), announces its 21st season (2008-2009).

On Monday, May 19, 2008, The Westchester Broadway Theatre will again, be hosting the annual Cab Calloway Lifetime Achievement Awards for 2008.

Kristin Chenoweth to star in indie film 'Into Temptation.'

Composer Tan Dun's epic opera The First Emperor, which had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera last season, returns to the stage on Saturday, May 10, for the first of three performances.

Stage, film and television star Kristin Chenoweth joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for its annual Corporate Night celebration on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. Led by conductor Andrew Lippa, Chenoweth will perform songs from some of Broadway's most celebrated musicals, including 'Wicked,' 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown,' and 'The Music Man,' alongside beloved standards and opera classics.

Multi-award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch will make his New York Philharmonic debut as conductor and host of Broadway's Greatest Showstoppers, featuring songs from Les Misérables, Carousel, My Fair Lady, and his own Pulitzer Prize-winning score for A Chorus Line, among others, Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. Joining Mr. Hamlisch will be two of Broadway's brightest stars, Kristin Chenoweth and Raúl Esparza, in his Philharmonic debut.

WhatsOnStage.com reports Tony Award-winning Broadway actress, Kristin Chenoweth, will make her 'English National Opera debut in a new co-production, with Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and La Scala in Milan, of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. Chenoweth will play the part of Cunegonde in the production which opens at the London Coliseum for a limited season of 13 performances from June 23.'

Jewish Community Centers of Chicago (JCC) will hold its annual Benefit Concert, featuring Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Monday, November 5 at 7:30PM at Symphony Center

On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 7 p.m., the New York Festival of Song celebrates with a benefit concert titled 'Too Marvelous for Words!,' a gala evening of Johnny Mercer songs.

Kristin Chenoweth, the star of the Broadway musical stage who just finished her return to Broadway this season with her critically acclaimed performance in The Apple Tree, will host the 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, May 20, at 9:00 PM.

In her first public performance at the Metropolitan Opera, Tony Award-winning vocalist Kristin Chenoweth will grace the Met's stage for 'Kristin Chenoweth: Live at the Met'