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Richard Tucker Music Foundation Names 2025 Award Winner and Grant Recipients
by Josh Sharpe - May 8, 2025

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation has announced the recipients of its prestigious Richard Tucker Award, Richard Tucker Career Grant, and Sara Tucker Study Grant. 

Review: CLAYBOURNE ELDER: IF THE STARS WERE MINE at Feinstein's At The Nikko
by Steve Murray - Mar 1, 2025

What did our critic think of CLAYBOURNE ELDER: IF THE STARS WERE MINE at Feinstein's At The Nikko?

Broadway's Larry Ross Passes Away At Age 88
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 8, 2025

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the passing of actor Larry Ross, who died at the age of 88 in Philadelphia. Ross died at home on February 5, 2025. Mr. Ross enjoyed a career as an actor, dancer, singer and teacher of the performing arts.

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Announces 2024 Award Winner And Grant Recipients
by A.A. Cristi - May 11, 2024

Discover the 2024 award winner and grant recipients announced by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation.

Interview: How to Make a Cad�"BUTTERFLY's Pinkerton�"Appealing, According to Jonathan Tetelman
by Richard Sasanow - Apr 26, 2024

It’s a big season at the Met for tenor Jonathan Tetelman—born in Chile, raised in New Jersey—and he’s taking every advantage of it. He’s come to town with a reputation as a Puccini specialist (not that there’s anything wrong with that). How does he feel about that? “Well, I basically built my voice on Puccini repertoire. I’ve taken it as a gift because he’s a great writer for my voice.” His debut at the Met in March was in LA RONDINE but he’s looking forward to showing off more of his dramatic chops with Pinkerton in MADAMA BUTTERFLY, starting this week, because there’s more 'there' there.

THE CARETAKER Comes to The Edge of the Universe Theater
by Stephi Wild - Sep 1, 2023

The Edge of the Universe Theater follows up its 2022 Capital Fringe production of Caryl Churchill’s A Number with the work of another British playwright, Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter’s THE CARETAKER.

Mark Nadler Will Highlight Jewish Composers at Congregation Brith Shalom
by Stephi Wild - Apr 4, 2023

On Sunday, May 7, 2023, at 3pm, Congregation Brith Shalom of Houston, TX will present a singular performance featuring Broadway legend Mark Nadler (Drama Desk and Broadway World Award nominee cabaret artist) and Hazzan David Krohn (Brith Shalom).

VIDEO: The Ed Sullivan Show Releases Previously Unreleased Louis Armstrong Video Clips
by Michael Major - Jan 23, 2023

The archives of The Ed Sullivan Show have opened again to share rare vintage performances by Louis Armstrong. As dear friends who traveled together, were both born in the same year (1901), and had a great mutual respect, it is believed that Ed Sullivan himself lent these clips to Louis Armstrong and Universal Music Enterprises. Watch the videos!

Renée Fleming & Bryn Terfel Join the Richard Tucker Music Foundation 2022 Gala at David Geffen Hall
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 31, 2022

Internationally acclaimed American soprano Renée Fleming (1990 Richard Tucker Award Winner) and Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel will join the Richard Tucker Music Foundation for its 2022 Gala on Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 6:30pm at the new David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. This will mark Terfel’s first return to U.S. stages after a number of years performing primarily in Europe.

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Presents 2022 Gala At David Geffen Hall At Lincoln Center, November 13
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 14, 2022

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation presents its annual Gala on Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 6:30pm at the new David Geffen Hall's Wu Tsai Theater at Lincoln Center.

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Announces 2022 Award Winner And Grant Recipients
by A.A. Cristi - May 7, 2022

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation today announces the 2022 recipients of its prestigious Richard Tucker Award, Richard Tucker Career Grant, and Sara Tucker Study Grant.

Milnes VOICE Programs Announce 2022 Vocal Intensives National Training Program
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 2, 2022

The Milnes VOICE Programs have been nurturing and training vocal artists for 22 years. Led by opera legend Sherrill Milnes, and his wife soprano Maria Zouves, the organization's vocal intensive programs offer the highest level of training.

Metropolitan Opera Releases LEONTYNE PRICE AT THE MET
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 16, 2020

The Metropolitan Opera presents Leontyne Price at the Met, a 2-CD collection that features 34 live recordings highlighting soprano Leontyne Price's great Met performances. The collection is available for purchase beginning September 18, 2020,

CLIP JOINT Livestream Events Feature Judy Garland, THE BROADWAY MIXTAPE SOUTH PACIFIC & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 1, 2020

BWW Interview: Deborah Stone of HERE I AM! at The Beach Cafe
by Stephen Mosher - Jan 4, 2020

One of the cabaret community's newer artists, Deborah Stone, comes of age in her new show HERE I AM! After a run downtown at Pangea, she debuts at The Beach Cafe. In this interview with Stephen Mosher, Stone talks about the journey that got her where she is.

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Will Present 2019 Gala Concert Featuring Lisette Oropesa At Carnegie Hall
by Stephi Wild - Jul 9, 2019

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation presents one of the most highly anticipated events of the opera season, the 2019 Richard Tucker Gala, on Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 6:00pm in Stern Auditorium Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall.

Hollywood Bowl Announces New Museum Exhibit TAPES ROLLING: DAVID SWEDLOW RECORDS THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL (1954-1959)
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 14, 2019

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association today announced a new exhibition at the Hollywood Bowl Museum, Tapes Rolling: David Swedlow Records the Hollywood Bowl, 1954-1959. Launching June 15 in conjunction with the opening of the 2019 summer season and the continuing Centennial celebrations of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the exhibit showcases recordings of the orchestra made by David Swedlow. It will be on view through the spring of 2020.

IL VIOLINISTA SUL TETTO: dal 22 febbraio al 10 marzo al Teatro Nuovo di Milano
by Valeria Venturelli - Feb 15, 2019

Dopo il successo del 2003 torna al Teatro Nuovo di Milano Il Violinista sul tetto la commedia musicale tratta da un racconto di Sholem Aleichem, uno dei capolavori assoluti del teatro musicale americano. Il suo carattere di intensa e profonda umanita unitamente alle radici culturali della storia e delle musiche hanno fatto di questo spettacolo un evento tra i piu rivoluzionari nel panorama teatrale degli anni sessanta, contribuendo ad aprire insieme a West Side Story, una nuova era per il musical di Broadway.

Tucker Gala Brings Host of Opera Stars to Carnegie Hall
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 19, 2018

On Sunday, October 21, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation's annual gala concert - one of the most highly anticipated operatic events of the season - will bring a galaxy of opera stars to the stage of Carnegie Hall. And opera-lovers around the world unable to make it in person will still have the opportunity to watch the performance live. Thanks to the foundation's partnership with medici.tv, the gala concert will be webcast live (6pm ET/3pm PT), free of charge, both on medici.tv and on medici.tv's Facebook page; the stream will subsequently be available for on-demand viewing for a limited period. In addition, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation continues its collaboration with WQXR 105.9 FM, New York's sole dedicated classical radio station, which will broadcast the performance to listeners in the New York metropolitan region and online at www.wqxr.org on November 10 at 1pm ET/10am PT.

BWW Interview: Sean Panikkar of SATYAGRAHA at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
by Maria Nockin - Oct 18, 2018

Sean Panikkar is a tenor who appears in leading opera roles around the world. He is also a member of the crossover tenor trio, Forte, as a result of his foray into the world of America's Got Talent. This month he sings the role of Mohandas K. Gandhi in Philip Glass's SATYAGRAHA at Los Angeles Opera.