Robert Lepage News

The National Circus School embarks on a pre-selection tour of some 20 cities, a cross-Canada quest for talented young people between the ages of 9 and 17.

Jay Hunter Morris will sing the title role in the new production of Wagner's Siegfried which opens on October 27 and continues on November 1 and 5 matinee. He replaces Gary Lehman who has withdrawn due to illness. The November 5 matinee will be transmitted worldwide as part of The Met: Live in HD series.

Karina Martins and McKenna Dabbs in conjunction with Fresh Ground Pepper, present a limited engagement of 'All the Rats and Rags' at 3LD Art and Technology Center from November 17-20.

National CineMedia (NCM), the operator of the largest digital in-theater network for cinema advertising, entertainment and events in North America, today announced an agreement with the Metropolitan Opera (the 'Met') to bring the Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Met: Live in HD series to U.S. movie theaters for the 2011-12 Met season.

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live transmissions to movie theaters around the world, returns for a sixth season Saturday, October 15 with the Met premiere production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, featuring Anna Netrebko in the title role.

Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX), via our Front Row Centre Events announces the very popular series The Met: Live in HD is returning to participating Cineplex theatres.

Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi will lead the opening performances of Siegfried, Robert Lepage's new production of the third opera in Wagner's Ring cycle. The new production, premiering October 27, will be Luisi's first time conducting this opera at the Met.

The Metropolitan Opera Guild has announced its Lectures and Community Programs for the 2011-12 Season: an extensive - 20 events in October alone! - and wide-ranging calendar of individual events and courses of study designed to deepen the love and appreciation of opera by fans and performers alike, at every level of engagement and expertise.

Verdi's early opera Nabucco will return to the Metropolitan Opera beginning today for a run of 12 performances.

Leading contemporary artist Peter Doig opens Siegfried + Poster Project, a new exhibition inspired by Wagner's epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, at the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met today.

The Metropolitan Opera's 2011-12 season will feature the world's leading singers, conductors, and stage directors in seven new productions, including a world premiere, a Met premiere, and the first complete performances of a new Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage.

Deborah Voigt launches her 2011-12 season on September 21 when she joins the New York Philharmonic in its season-opening gala in a performance to be broadcast live on public television's Live From Lincoln Center.

Leading contemporary artist Peter Doig will open Siegfried + Poster Project, a new exhibition inspired by Wagner's epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, at the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met on September 27.

Cirque du Soleil returns to the Bay Area with its latest big top production TOTEM premiering in San Francisco on October 28 under the blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) located at AT&T Park.

Cirque du Soleil is returning to Bay Area with its latest big top production TOTEM, written and directed by Robert Lepage.

Verdi's early opera Nabucco will return to the Metropolitan Opera beginning September 27 for a run of 12 performances.

Tune in to PBS on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. for Live From Lincoln Center's telecast of the New York Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala. Conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, the program will open with Samuel Barber's The School for Scandal Overture of 1931, and will also feature selections from Richard Strauss's Salome and Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser, as well as Barber's Andromache's Farewell.

Tune in to PBS on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m.* for Live From Lincoln Center's telecast of the New York Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala.

Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX), via our Front Row Centre Events announces the very popular series The Met: Live in HD is returning to participating Cineplex theatres.