Charles Gounod News

The Dallas Opera is pleased to announce the five darkly dazzling operas that comprise the company's 2011-12 season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. With opening night on Friday, October 21, 2011, the 55th international season - "Tragic Obsessions" - will showcase compelling works by Donizetti, Janacek, Wagner, Verdi and Mozart, and will include an outstanding Dallas opera-in-concert, important debuts and some of the company's most renowned productions. Each opera will feature the superbly talented Dallas Opera Orchestra and Dallas Opera Chorus and will be performed in its original language, with English translations projected above the stage at every performance. Exclusive subscriber extras include "A Cabaret Evening with Patricia Racette" and a fun-filled family concert starring soprano Ava Pine and the Dallas Opera Orchestra.

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.

The Dallas Opera's 2010-11 season revolves around "Dangerous Desires," a theme of romantic drama and political intrigue, and the February 11-27 production of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette in the celebrated Winspear Opera House presents that most iconic story of love and conflict, starring two vocal up-and-comers, Russian soprano Lyubov Petrova and New York-born tenor Charles Castronovo.

The Dallas Opera is pleased to announce the five darkly dazzling operas that comprise the company's 2011-12 season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. With opening night on Friday, October 21, 2011, the 55th international season - "Tragic Obsessions" - will showcase compelling works by Donizetti, Janacek, Wagner, Verdi and Mozart, and will include an outstanding Dallas opera-in-concert, important debuts and some of the company's most renowned productions. Each opera will feature the superbly talented Dallas Opera Orchestra and Dallas Opera Chorus and will be performed in its original language, with English translations projected above the stage at every performance. Exclusive subscriber extras include "A Cabaret Evening with Patricia Racette" and a fun-filled family concert starring soprano Ava Pine and the Dallas Opera Orchestra.

The Dallas Opera's 2010-11 season revolves around "Dangerous Desires," a theme of romantic drama and political intrigue, and the February 11-27 production of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette in the celebrated Winspear Opera House presents that most iconic story of love and conflict, starring two vocal up-and-comers, Russian soprano Lyubov Petrova and New York-born tenor Charles Castronovo.

World renowned tenor Anthony Kearns will make his official full-scale U.S. operatic debut this weekend as the powerful tenor voice of 'Edgardo' in Lucia di Lammermoor - considered to be Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti's masterpiece.

World renowned tenor Anthony Kearns will make his official full-scale U.S. operatic debut this weekend as the powerful tenor voice of 'Edgardo' in Lucia di Lammermoor - considered to be Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti's masterpiece.

The Dallas Opera is pleased to announce the five darkly dazzling operas that comprise the company's 2011-12 season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. With opening night on Friday, October 21, 2011, the 55th international season - "Tragic Obsessions" - will showcase compelling works by Donizetti, Janacek, Wagner, Verdi and Mozart, and will include an outstanding Dallas opera-in-concert, important debuts and some of the company's most renowned productions. Each opera will feature the superbly talented Dallas Opera Orchestra and Dallas Opera Chorus and will be performed in its original language, with English translations projected above the stage at every performance. Exclusive subscriber extras include "A Cabaret Evening with Patricia Racette" and a fun-filled family concert starring soprano Ava Pine and the Dallas Opera Orchestra.

Opera San Jose General Director Irene Dalis has announced repertoire for the company's 28th season to begin Saturday, September 10 with the company premiere of Mozart's first dramatic masterwork Idomeneo, the mythical tale of the king of Crete set at the end of the Trojan War.

The Joyce Theater welcomed back LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE Monte Carlo for its biannual three-week NYC holiday engagement, which will end on January 2, 2011. The season will feature two different programs and two Joyce premieres, performed by the primo ballerinas that have made this beloved troupe the foremost all-male comic ballet company in the world. To purchase tickets, please call JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or via the internet at www.joyce.org. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue (@ 19th Street) in Chelsea.

The Joyce Theater is thrilled to welcome back LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO for its biannual three-week NYC holiday engagement, December 14, 2010 - January 2, 2011.

The Joyce Theater is thrilled to welcome back LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO for its biannual three-week NYC holiday engagement, December 14, 2010 - January 2, 2011.

Am Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2010, findet um 11.00 Uhr die zweite Matinee der neuen Reihe „Junge Stimmen' im Gustav Mahler-Saal der Wiener Staatsoper statt. Es präsentieren sich die zwei Ensemblemitglieder Anita Hartig (Sopran) und Stephanie Houtzeel (Mezzosopran), die für den erkrankten Benjamin Bruns einspringt, mit einem persönlichen Programm an Arien, Duetten und Liedern von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Léo Delibes, Charles Gounod, Giacomo Puccini und Jacques Offenbach. Am Klavier werden sie begleitet von der musikalischen Studienleiterin Kathleen Kelly.

Tomorrow night, The Dallas Opera opens its 2010-11 season, its second in the glittering new Winspear Opera House. With 30 performances in all, the new season comprises five productions exploring "Dangerous Desires" - themes of romantic drama and political intrigue - kicking off with Mozart's Don Giovanni, which stars Tony® Award-winner Paolo Szot.

Tomorrow night, The Dallas Opera opens its 2010-11 season, its second in the glittering new Winspear Opera House. With 30 performances in all, the new season comprises five productions exploring "Dangerous Desires" - themes of romantic drama and political intrigue - kicking off with Mozart's Don Giovanni, which stars Tony® Award-winner Paolo Szot.

Am Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2010, findet um 11.00 Uhr die zweite Matinee der neuen Reihe „Junge Stimmen' im Gustav Mahler-Saal der Wiener Staatsoper statt. Es präsentieren sich die zwei Ensemblemitglieder Anita Hartig (Sopran) und Stephanie Houtzeel (Mezzosopran), die für den erkrankten Benjamin Bruns einspringt, mit einem persönlichen Programm an Arien, Duetten und Liedern von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Léo Delibes, Charles Gounod, Giacomo Puccini und Jacques Offenbach. Am Klavier werden sie begleitet von der musikalischen Studienleiterin Kathleen Kelly.

Am Sonntag, 26. September 2010, findet um 11.00 Uhr die erste Matinee der neuen Reihe *Junge Stimmen“ an der Wiener Staatsoper statt.

Internationally renowned countertenor David Daniels will sing a concert to benefit Glimmerglass Opera on July 30 at 3:30 p.m. in the company's Alice Busch Opera Theater.

Internationally renowned countertenor David Daniels will sing a concert to benefit Glimmerglass Opera on July 30 at 3:30 p.m. in the company's Alice Busch Opera Theater.

Two world premieres, a number of new productions and some old favorites will be on exhibit at Bloomington's Musical Arts Center during Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater's 2010-2011 season.