Photo Flash: MidAtlantic Opera's Jason C. Tramm Leads Szeged National Symphony in Hungary
by BWW News Desk - June 14, 2013 Jason C. Tramm, MidAtlantic Opera's Artistic Director travels to Hungary June 12th-16th to lead the Szeged National Symphony and noted Canadian soprano Sharon Azrieli Perez in a recording engagement of French arias. Ms. Perez, a graduate of New York's renowned Julliard School is a great admirer of F...
Walt Disney Opera By Philip Glass Now Streaming
by Pat Cerasaro - February 07, 2013 THE PERFECT AMERICAN, a two-act opera with prologue by renowned opera, film and experimental composer Philip Glass is now available to view in full as presented by medici.tv...
Indianapolis Opera to Close 2011-12 Season With FAUST
by Kelsey Denette - April 03, 2012 Indianapolis Opera will close out the 2011-2012 season on May 4 & 6 with Charles Gounod's Faust, set to French lyrics by Jules Barbier and Michael Carre. Faust will feature members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Caraher. ...
FRANCESCA DI RIMINI Returns for Its First Met Performances in 27 Years
by Kelsey Denette - February 21, 2013 Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini will return to the Met March 4 for its first company performances since 1986....
St. Luke's Collection to Release DAS LIED VON DER ERDE
by Kelsey Denette - September 24, 2012 Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) announces the release of the seventh album on its record label St. Luke's Collection: a live recording of Schoenberg and Riehn's masterful chamber arrangement of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. The work was performed to great acclaim in September 2011 by St. Luke...
The Met Summer HD Festival Returns with Live Screenings, 8/24
by Christina Mancuso - July 19, 2013 The Met's Summer HD Festival returns for its fifth year on August 24, with ten free outdoor screenings of popular performances from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series. The festival, which more than 40,000 people attended last year, kicks off with a screening of the Met's acclaimed production ...
Nielsen Symphony Cycle, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Pixar in Concert and More Highlight Utah Symphony's 2013-14 Season
by BWW News Desk - February 06, 2013 Music Director Thierry Fischer, Principal Pops Conductor Jerry Steichen and Associate Conductor Vladimir Kulenovic today announced the Utah Symphony's complete 2013-2014 season, in which Fischer will again conduct 12 of the 18 Masterworks performances....
Max McLean Stars in THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS at Gallo Center for the Arts Tonight
by BWW News Desk - April 10, 2013 'The Screwtape Letters,' a smart, provocative and wickedly funny theatrical adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel about spiritual warfare from the Devil's point of view, will be performed at the Gallo Center for the Arts at 7:30 pm tonight, April 10. Veteran 'Screwtape' actor Max McLean stars in the pr...
STAGE TUBE: Behind The Scenes of Millikin University's MACBETH
by Stage Tube - November 28, 2012 The Department of Theatre at Millikin University in Decatur, IL, will present the Shakespearean tragedy MACBETH starting December 5 thru 9 at the Albert Taylor Theatre. Watch the video below for a behind-the-scenes peek at the rehearsal period!...
THE SHIELD Among April Programming Highlights on Crackle
by Caryn Robbins - April 01, 2013 Tune in to Crackle.com and all Crackle platforms this April to view top television titles including the award-winning series "The Shield," the thrilling original series "Chosen" starring Milo Ventimiglia, feature films including STARSHIP TROOPERS and LEGENDS OF THE FALL, and curated film Watchlists,...
STAGE TUBE: Behind The Scenes of Millikin University's MACBETH
by Stage Tube - November 28, 2012 The Department of Theatre at Millikin University in Decatur, IL, will present the Shakespearean tragedy MACBETH starting December 5 thru 9 at the Albert Taylor Theatre. Watch the video below for a behind-the-scenes peek at the rehearsal period!...
Renée Fleming and Susan Graham to Appear at Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1/24
by Kelsey Denette - January 11, 2013 Soprano Renée Fleming and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, world-renowned stars who are also great favorites of Lyric Opera audiences, will collaborate in Soirée française, an elegant evening of French music on Thursday, January 24, at 8pm at the Civic Opera House. Bradley Moore will be at the piano....
The Shakespeare OP Players Will Present MACBETH, 2/7-24
by Kelsey Denette - February 13, 2013 The Shakespeare OP Players present Shakespeare's Macbeth in original pronunciation (OP), i.e. Early Modern English as spoken in the late 16th-early 17th century in London. In OP, the subtleties, intimacy, puns, rhyming and characterizations in Shakespeare's plays and poetry are more audible than the...
The Shakespeare OP Players Will Present MACBETH, 2/7-24
by Kelsey Denette - January 31, 2013 The Shakespeare OP Players present Shakespeare's Macbeth in original pronunciation (OP), i.e. Early Modern English as spoken in the late 16th-early 17th century in London. In OP, the subtleties, intimacy, puns, rhyming and characterizations in Shakespeare's plays and poetry are more audible than the...
Renée Fleming and Susan Graham Appear at Lyric Opera of Chicago Tonight
by BWW News Desk - January 24, 2013 Soprano Renée Fleming and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, world-renowned stars who are also great favorites of Lyric Opera audiences, will collaborate in Soirée française, an elegant evening of French music tonight, January 24, at 8pm at the Civic Opera House. Bradley Moore will be at the piano....
'Rainbow's End' by C.M. Saunders is Released
by Christina Mancuso - September 04, 2013 This semi-autobiographical novel by C.M. Saunders begins as a bleak assessment of modern life in the South Wales valleys. The lead character has worked in the same local factory 'putting things in boxes' for eight years; he is bored in his long-term relationship and yearns for the freedom to explore...
Horror Author Clint Romag Releases First Collection of Short Stories 'Titanius Seven'
by Christina Mancuso - August 13, 2013 Horror author Clint Romag delivers his first collection of short stories. Titanius Seven includes seven dark tales - A mining facility where some rocks should remain unturned - A stranded man on an island where a cave holds a hungry secret - A dying planet where the only escape is disintegration - a...
Manfred Honeck Makes NY Philharmonic Debut; Jean-Yves Thibaudet Performs Grieg's Piano Concerto, Now thru 1/5
by BWW News Desk - January 03, 2013 Manfred Honeck will make his Philharmonic debut conducting Braunfels's Suite from Fantastic Apparitions on a Theme by Berlioz; Grieg's Piano Concerto, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist; and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 tonight, January 3, 2013, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, January 4 at 8:00 p.m.; and Satur...
BWW Reviews: Laguna Playhouse Celebrates an Early Easter with Sister's Hilarious CATECHISM Sequel
by Don Grigware - March 20, 2012 Funnylady MaryPat Donovan has been playing Sister for almost 20 years in her Late Nite Catechism, and it has spawned five sequels. The latest entitled Sister's Easter Catechism is full of silly, gossipy, laugh-out-loud anecdotes, mixing in popular secular issues with religion via totally clean humo...
Piotr Beczala Sings First Met Performances in Title Role of Gounod's FAUST Tonight
by BWW News Desk - March 21, 2013 Piotr Beczala will sing the title role in Gounod's Faust for the first time at the Met beginning tonight, March 21, opposite Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, a role she sang in the 2011 premiere of Des McAnuff's production. Alain Altinoglu, who led Faust at the Met last season, returns to conduct t...
Horror Author Clint Romag Releases Short Stories 'Titanius Seven'
by Christina Mancuso - August 05, 2013 Horror author Clint Romag delivers his first collection of short stories. Titanius Seven includes seven dark tales - A mining facility where some rocks should remain unturned - A stranded man on an island where a cave holds a hungry secret - A dying planet where the only escape is disintegration - a...
Piotr Beczala to Sing First Met Performances in Title Role of Gounod's FAUST, 3/21
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2013 Piotr Beczala will sing the title role in Gounod's Faust for the first time at the Met beginning March 21, opposite Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, a role she sang in the 2011 premiere of Des McAnuff's production. Alain Altinoglu, who led Faust at the Met last season, returns to conduct the opera,...
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Presents THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS Tonight
by BWW News Desk - July 29, 2013 Diversifying its offerings throughout the season with special one-night-only performances, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival presents Anthony Lawton's adaptation of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. The 90-minute, two-person play will be performed today, July 29 at 7:30pm on the Main Stage....
ART/WNY Presents JESUS HATES ME, Beginning Today
by BWW News Desk - January 18, 2013 The New Years finds a charmingly eccentric Americana dark comedy hitting the American Repertory Theater of WNY's 2013 stage. Wayne Lemon's JESUS HATES ME takes place in a religiously themed putt-putt golf course (Called The Blood of the Lamb) and finds five Texans on an existential quest to find sal...
BWW Reviews: THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, St Leonard's Church, April 20 2013
by Gary Naylor - April 20, 2013 Gary Naylor sees Judas, or is it everyone else, on trial.... |