Deborah Voigt News

The Opera Orchestra of New York will present an opera-in-concert performance of Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine conducted by the company's Music Director Eve Queler on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall.

Deborah Voigt has been wowing critics and fans alike with her turn as Puccini's quintessential New World heroine in the Metropolitan Opera's centenary staging of La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West).

Opera Index presents its 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award to two pioneering Metropolitan Opera artists-tenor George Shirley and posthumously to the late mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett-at its 27th annual black-tie winter gala on Sunday, January 16. The gala begins at 6 p.m. and will be held in the Grand Salon of the Jumeirah Essex House, the luxury hotel on Central Park South, following a reception in the Petit Salon. The awards will be presented by bass-baritone Spiro Malas. Last year's Distinguished Achievement Award recipient was soprano Patrice Munsel.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook, which explores the best of the golden age of musical standards through to the best in current songwriting, will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song. Week Three is a Grammy Awards fest, as three of the four acts are current and past nominees. On February 2nd one can experience life in the Piedmont hills of the Carolinas via the vibrant sound of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. This three-piece string band plays old-time roots music with virtuoso playing of the banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica, jug and more. Next up is the crown princess of bossa nova, Bebel Gilberto. Gilberto has taken classic bossa nova rhythms and mixed them with modern pop - for a sound that is up for a Grammy this year. On February 4th perennial Grammy nominee Joan Osborne will perform an emotionally-charged work she has written with Jack Petruzzelli: Love and Hate - A Song Cycle. On February 5th, actress/singer Anika Noni Rose, a Tony winner for Caroline, Or Change, will make her eagerly-anticipated solo concert debut.

The Opera Orchestra of New York will present its annual Vidda Award Recital featuring soprano Meagan Miller at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera's first world premiere, which took place exactly 100 years ago, was based on an unlikely source: a spaghetti western called The Girl of the Golden West that composer Giacomo Puccini happened to see in New York in 1907.

The Metropolitan Opera's 100th anniversary revival of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West will be transmitted to movie theaters worldwide on Saturday, January 8 at 1 pm ET as part of The Met: Live in HD series.

Deborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani star in Puccini's Wild West opera, broadcast live from the Met at Town Hall Theater, Saturday, January 8 at 1:00 pm.

The Metropolitan Opera's 100th anniversary revival of Puccini's Wild West opera, La Fanciulla del West, will be transmitted to movie theaters across the country and around the world on Saturday, January 8 at 1:00 pm ET as part of The Met: Live in HD initiative.

Elisabete Matos will sing the role of Minnie in La Fanciulla del West at this evening's performance, replacing Deborah Voigt who is ill.

Opera Index presents its 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award to two pioneering Metropolitan Opera artists-tenor George Shirley and posthumously to the late mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett-at its 27th annual black-tie winter gala on Sunday, January 16. The gala begins at 6 p.m. and will be held in the Grand Salon of the Jumeirah Essex House, the luxury hotel on Central Park South, following a reception in the Petit Salon. The awards will be presented by bass-baritone Spiro Malas. Last year's Distinguished Achievement Award recipient was soprano Patrice Munsel.

The Metropolitan Opera's first world premiere, which took place exactly 100 years ago, was based on an unlikely source: a spaghetti western called The Girl of the Golden West that composer Giacomo Puccini happened to see in New York in 1907.

Deborah Voigt has been wowing critics and fans alike with her turn as Puccini's quintessential New World heroine in the Metropolitan Opera's centenary staging of La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West).

It is a season of momentous anniversaries for the Metropolitan Opera Guild: the Guild began the season-long celebration of its 75th anniversary this fall; as publisher of Opera News, the Guild celebrates the magazine's own diamond anniversary in 2011; and the January issue of Opera News marks the 40th anniversary of James Levine's Metropolitan Opera debut (which was June 5, 1971, conducting Tosca). The cover feature sees Scott Rose take on the difficult task of choosing 40 highlights from Levine's 40 storied years at the Met.

The Metropolitan Opera's 100th anniversary revival of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West will be transmitted to movie theaters worldwide on Saturday, January 8 at 1 pm ET as part of The Met: Live in HD series.

On December 7, Classical 105.9 FM WQXR covered the Metropolitan Opera Guild's 75th Annual Luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, interviewing a bevy of opera singers past and present - including Nicole Cabell, Lucio Gallo, Marcello Giordani, Susan Graham, Catherine Malfitano, Carol Vaness, and Deborah Voigt - who were on hand (amongst more than 500 invited guests!).

The Metropolitan Opera celebrates its 80th season of Saturday Afternoon Radio Broadcasts-the longest-running classical music series in American broadcast history-with a 22-week season featuring many of the world's greatest operatic artists, beginning December 18.

On December 7, Classical 105.9 FM WQXR covered the Metropolitan Opera Guild's 75th Annual Luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, interviewing a bevy of opera singers past and present - including Nicole Cabell, Lucio Gallo, Marcello Giordani, Susan Graham, Catherine Malfitano, Carol Vaness, and Deborah Voigt - who were on hand (amongst more than 500 invited guests!).

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook, which explores the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic songwriting, will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song. Week Two starts on January 26th with a tribute to arguably the greatest songwriting team in American Songbook history: the brothers George and Ira Gershwin. Conductor, arranger and pianist (as well as Artistic Director of the Gershwin centenary) Rob Fisher will lead Victoria Clark (Tony winner for Light in the Piazza) and Norm Lewis (Les Miserables, The Little Mermaid) in a night of gorgeous Gershwin. On January 27th singer/songwriter Shara Worden (from the group My Brightest Diamond) performs her unique blend of vocal music that has her pegged as a star to watch. Week Two closes out with gritty veteran John Doe singing 'real' country, with all its understated empathy and rough poetry. Pfizer is a proud sponsor of Lincoln Center's American Songbook 2011.

Deborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani star in Puccini's Wild West opera, broadcast live from the Met at Town Hall Theater, Saturday, January 8 at 1:00 pm.