The intendant designate of the Salzburg Festival, Alexander Pereira, has appointed Cecilia Bartoli to the post of artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival starting in 2012.
Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann ("The Tales of Hoffmann") returns to the Met stage in last season's acclaimed production directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher, with Giuseppe Filianoti singing the title role for the first time at the Met. Ildar Abdrazakov, who sang the title role in last season's Met premiere of Verdi's Attila, makes his career role debut as the four villains.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series of live performance transmissions into movie theaters around the world, will expand in its fifth season to 1500 theaters (an increase of 300 theaters), while adding Egypt, Portugal, and Spain to its network of now 46 participating countries.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
David Chesky's The Pig, The Farmer, and The Artist: A Musical Comedy About Sex, Music, and Art opens at the Fringe NYC Festival August 2010 at the Ellen Stewart Theater at LA MAMA
The Pig, The Farmer, and The Artist: A Musical Comedy About Sex, Music, and Art at the Fringe NYC Festival August 2010 at the Ellen Stewart Theater at LA MAMA 66-68 East 4th St, NYC
The Pig, The Farmer, and The Artist: An Adult Opera Satire about Art, Music, and Culture Opens at the Fringe NYC Festival August 2010 at the Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa, 66-68 East 4th Street
The Pig, The Farmer, and The Artist: A Musical Comedy About Sex, Music, and Art At the Fringe NYC Festival August 2010 at the Ellen Stewart Theater at LA MAMA 66-68 East 4th St, NYC.
After a wildly successful season that included a critically acclaimed company debut with the Los Angeles Opera in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, after which the Los Angeles Times exclaimed that she 'stole a show that was hard to steal', and her role debut as Elena in La donna del lago with the Paris Opera, which the Financial Times hailed as 'simply the best singing...heard in years,' mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato ends her 2009-10 season on a high note: nominated for a 2010 Gramophone 'Artist of the Year' Award and winning a 2010 ECHO Klassik Award in the category of female 'Singer of the Year' (tenor Jonas Kaufmann won the male equivalent).
On Tuesday, August 3, at Seattle Opera's Annual Meeting at McCaw Hall, the company announced that it expects to achieve a balanced budget for the 2009/10 season, no mean feat in today's difficult economy.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans for a series of free outdoor events this summer: operatic recitals that will take place in parks throughout the city and encore screenings of the Met's popular HD shows in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Pig, The Farmer, and The Artist: A Musical Comedy About Sex, Music, and Art at the Fringe NYC Festival August 2010 at the Ellen Stewart Theater at LA MAMA 66-68 East 4th St, NYC
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