James Levine News

Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel returns to the Met beginning December 14 as this year's special holiday presentation.

A new production of Bizet's Carmen, directed by Richard Eyre and starring El?na Garan?a in the title role and Roberto Alagna as Don José, premieres at a New Year's Eve gala performance. Garan?a makes her Met role debut as the gypsy femme fatale, reuniting with Alagna following their recent success in these parts at London's Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

Canadian tenor David Pomeroy will make his Met debut singing the title role in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann at this evening's performance, replacing Joseph Calleja, who is ill.

Three cast changes have been made for tonight's performance of Les Contes d'Hoffmann due to illness. Rachele Gilmore will make her Met debut replacing Kathleen Kim in the role of Olympia. Laura Vlasek Nolan replaces Ekaterina Gubanova as Giulietta.

Richard Strauss and George Bizet play Middlebury in January, as their most famous works are broadcast live from Lincoln Center.

Kathleen Battle, one of the greatest coloratura sopranos of our time, will perform in recital at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium, Perelman Stage) on Monday, February 8, 2010 at 8 p.m. Presented by Columbia Artists Management, Ms. Battle will be joined by Olga Kern, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalist.

A new production of Bizet's Carmen, directed by Richard Eyre and starring El?na Garan?a in the title role and Roberto Alagna as Don José, premieres at a New Year's Eve gala performance. Garan?a makes her Met role debut as the gypsy femme fatale, reuniting with Alagna following their recent success in these parts at London's Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

French composer Jacques Offenbach was known for silly, sexy and very popular operettas, best exemplified by the famous 'Can-Can' from Orpheus in the Underworld.

Alto Polis Music Management & Positive Motions Foundation, 'Positive Motions' Concert Series will present the Inaugural Concert of the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Mikael Avetisyan, Artistic Director & Principal Conductor, with Soloists, Ruslan Biryukov, Cello; Maksim Velichkin, Cello and Marine Abrahamyan-Abdasho, Soprano on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Glendale.

French composer Jacques Offenbach was known for silly, sexy and very popular operettas, best exemplified by the famous 'Can-Can' from Orpheus in the Underworld.

Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel returns to the Met beginning December 14 as this year's special holiday presentation.

The 79th consecutive season of the Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcasts launches on December 12, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. EST with a live performance of Puccini's Il Trittico, starring Patricia Racette singing all three leading soprano roles. Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe also appears in the Puccini triple-bill.

French composer Jacques Offenbach was known for silly, sexy and very popular operettas, best exemplified by the famous 'Can-Can' from Orpheus in the Underworld.

The 79th consecutive season of the Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcasts launches on December 12, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. EST with a live performance of Puccini's Il Trittico, starring Patricia Racette singing all three leading soprano roles. Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe also appears in the Puccini triple-bill.

The Nashville Symphony's Naxos recording of French composer Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells) and Shéhérazade has just received a GRAMMY® nomination in the category of Best Classical Album.

Take Wing And Soar Productions is proud to announce its Founder and Producing Artistic Director Debra Ann Byrd, has been named the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women. Ms. Byrd will receive the honor, which will be presented to her by award-winning Broadway and film actress, Jane White, at an awards celebration scheduled for Monday, December 7, 2009 at The National Arts Club.

Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel returns to the Met beginning December 14 as this year's special holiday presentation.

The Metropolitan Opera announced plans today to return to Japan for a three-week tour in June 2011, presenting 13 performances of three fully staged operas in Tokyo and Nagoya.

The 79th consecutive season of the Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcasts launches on December 12, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. EST with a live performance of Puccini's Il Trittico, starring Patricia Racette singing all three leading soprano roles.

Edo de Waart will conduct Der Rosenkavalier on January 1, 6, 9 mat., and 15, instead of James Levine.