Howard Shore News

A new production of Gotterdammerung, the final opera in Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, will open January 27 in a performance led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi and directed by Robert Lepage.

The 2012 Orange British Academy Film Awards nominations were announced by Daniel Radcliffe and Holliday Grainger at BAFTA's headquarters in London. The Orange British Academy Film Awards take place on Sunday, February 12th at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London. This is the fifteenth year of Orange's sponsorship of the Film Awards. The ceremony will be hosted by Stephen Fry.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominees for the 17th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

The Hollywoodreporter.com reports that actress Jessica Chastain and composer Howard Shore join the esteemed list of honorees for the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival to be held on January 7th at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

Ninety-seven scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 84th Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association has announced its nominees for the 17th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. 'The Artist' and 'Hugo' tie for first place with 11 nominations each, while 'Drive' and 'The Help' each garnered 8 nominations.

Jay Hunter Morris will sing the role of Siegfried in SIEGFRIED on April 21 matinee and April 30, 2012, and in GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG on May 3, 2012. He replaces Gary Lehman who has withdrawn due to illness.

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 He replaces Gary Lehman who has withdrawn due to illness.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.

The Lord of the Rings In Concert: The Fellowship of the Ring is coming to the Orleans Arena Friday, October 14 at 8 p.m. This musical and theatrical event features Howard Shore's complete Academy Award® and Grammy®-winning score, performed live onstage by more than 200 musicians.

According to the Chinese Almanac, Tuesday, October 11th is a good day for starting a business. So the producers of CHINGLISH, the new comedy about an American businessman doing business in China by Tony Award-winning and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), have decided to start performances today. Find out how well you know Chinglish below!

According to the Chinese Almanac, Tuesday, October 11th is a good day for starting a business. So the producers of CHINGLISH, the new comedy about an American businessman doing business in China by Tony Award-winning and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), have decided to start performances today.

The Lord of the Rings In Concert: The Fellowship of the Ring is coming to the Orleans Arena Friday, October 14 at 8 p.m. This musical and theatrical event features Howard Shore's complete Academy Award® and Grammy®-winning score, performed live onstage by more than 200 musicians.

Today we are continuing our series on theatrically-related 2012 Oscar hopefuls with a look at the just-released trailer for David Cronenberg's new film A DANGEROUS METHOD starring Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel. Based on a play about the friendship, lives and studies of scientists/philosophers/doctors Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and how it pertains to a female patient, Sabina, penned by DANGEROUS LIASONS and ATONEMENT scribe Christopher Hampton, titled THE TALKING CURE, Hampton also penned the screenplay for this film adaptation, which also credits John Kerr's examination of Freud and Jung's studies and personal lives, A MOST DANGEROUS METHOD. Given the films R-rating, Cronenberg will evidently be given full reign to follow the story's explorations of the dark recesses of human psychology and how it manifests in our sexuality. While Cronenberg has repeatedly proven his prowess with intimate character studies in recent years with his superb string of dramas such as SPIDER starring Ralph Fiennes, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE with Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello and, most recently, the unforgettable EASTERN PROMISES with Mortensen and Naomi Watts, A DANGEROUS METHOD is his first bid for Oscar gold this decade and for the first time in his forty year career he may finally be awarded for his cinematic legacy given this perfect storm of his idiosyncratic cinematic sensibilities married to charismatic lead performances by four of the hottest names in drama telling a story that only Cronenberg could tell this well - with a screenplay by one of the great playwrights and screenwriters of our age, as well. If the early reviews from the Venice Film Festival, where the film premiered earlier this week, and spellbinding images and scenes on display in the new trailer for the film are any indication of what we can expect from A DANGEROUS METHOD onscreen, this could very well be the film to sweep all the statuettes at the Oscars.

Producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel previously announced that tickets for CHINGLISH would go on sale to the general public on Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 at 12:00am.

Producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel announced that tickets for CHINGLISH will be on sale exclusively to American Express Cardmembers from Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 at 10:00 am through Sunday, August 28th, 2011 at 11:59 pm, at Telecharge.com ( 212-239-6200 ). Also, Preferred Seating is available to American Express Gold Card, Platinum Card® and Centurion® members. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 at 12:00am.

This fall, the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents a series of events featuring world-class dance, music, and theater programs, from September through December. All programs take place in the acoustically superb Sosnoff Theater.

According to the Chinese Almanac, Tuesday, October 11th is a good day for starting a business. So the producers of CHINGLISH, the new comedy about an American businessman doing business in China by Tony Award-winning and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), have decided to start performances on that day. The opening night and casting will be announced soon.

David Henry Hwang, one of America's most dynamic and versatile playwrights, is the Honoree of the 31st Annual William Inge Theatre Festival, in Independence, Kansas, on the campus of Independence Community College.

The Lord of the Rings In Concert: The Fellowship of the Ring will be performed on Friday, October 14 at 8 p.m. in Las Vegas only at the Orleans Arena. This musical and theatrical event features Howard Shore's complete Academy Award® and Grammy®-winning score and is performed live on-stage by more than 200 musicians.

The Lord of the Rings In Concert: The Fellowship of the Ring will be performed on Friday, October 14 at 8 p.m. in Las Vegas only at the Orleans Arena. This musical and theatrical event features Howard Shore's complete Academy Award® and Grammy®-winning score and is performed live on-stage by more than 200 musicians.