Honorees Announced for Ninth Annual Opera News Awards
by Arielle Ozery
- Sep 11, 2013
The editors of Opera News are pleased to announce the honorees for the ninth annual Opera News Awards, paying tribute to five superb artists who have made invaluable contributions to the art form: director Patrice Chéreau, tenor Juan Diego Flórez, mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, bass-baritone James Morris and soprano Nina Stemme. The Opera News Awards ceremonywill take place on Sunday, April 13 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. All the winners - and a host of the city's cultural, civic, and social luminaries - will be present at the gala awards dinner, which will feature celebrity presenters speaking about the awardees and introducing video performance clips.
Dysfunctional Theatre Presents FINAL DEFENDERS, Now thru 7/26
by BWW News Desk
- Jul 6, 2013
The Brick Theater in association with the Dysfunctional Theatre Company presents FINAL DEFENDERS as part of the Game Play Festival, a festival of video game theater. The festival will run now through July 28 at The Brick. FINAL DEFENDERS plays: Sat July 6, 9pm; Thurs July 11, 8pm; Thurs July 18, 7pm; Sat July 20, 4pm; and Fri July 26, 9pm.
Michael Weyandt & Thomas Muraco Set for ASPS' First Summer of Song Series Tonight
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 20, 2013
ASPS (Art Song Preservation Society), will present a concert in conjunction with their first annual Summer of Song Series led by Baritone, Michael Weyandt, and International Piano Collaborator, Thomas Muraco today, June 20 at 7pm at Opera America (330 7th Avenue). The Art Song Preservation Society is New York's premiere Art Song Organization that serves the New York City area by creating opportunities and performance in the genre of classical art song vocal literature.
Michael Weyandt & Thomas Muraco Set for ASPS' First Summer of Song Series, 6/20
by Tyler Peterson
- Jun 17, 2013
ASPS (Art Song Preservation Society), will present a concert in conjunction with their first annual Summer of Song Series led by Baritone, Michael Weyandt, and International Piano Collaborator, Thomas Muraco on Thursday, June 20 at 7pm at Opera America (330 7th Avenue). The Art Song Preservation Society is New York's premiere Art Song Organization that serves the New York City area by creating opportunities and performance in the genre of classical art song vocal literature.
Dysfunctional Theatre to Present FINAL DEFENDERS, 7/6-26
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 13, 2013
The Brick Theater in association with the Dysfunctional Theatre Company presents FINAL DEFENDERS as part of the Game Play Festival, a festival of video game theater. The festival will run July 5 - 28 at The Brick. FINAL DEFENDERS plays: Sat July 6, 9pm; Thurs July 11, 8pm; Thurs July 18, 7pm; Sat July 20, 4pm; and Fri July 26, 9pm.
BWW Reviews: I WANT MAGIC
by Richard Sasanow
- Jan 9, 2013
I missed the debut and broadcast of Andre Previn's operatic setting of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" from the San Francisco Opera back in 1998. But I can't say that anything I've read would compel me choose it over a couple of hours with Brando and Leigh on TCM or even a less than stellar [Stella?] production of the play. The fact is, how can Previn's score compare with the music of Williams?
2012 Opera News Awards Honorees Announced
by Kelsey Denette
- Aug 7, 2012
The editors of Opera News have announced the honorees for the 2012 Opera News Awards, paying tribute to five superb artists who have made an invaluable contribution to the art form: sopranos Mirella Freni and Dawn Upshaw, countertenor David Daniels, baritone Simon Keenlyside, and bass-baritone Eric Owens. The eighth annual Opera News Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, April 21 at The Plaza in New York City. All the winners - and a host of the city's cultural, civic, and social luminaries - will be present at the gala awards dinner, which will feature celebrity presenters speaking about the awardees and introducing video performance clips.
2012 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awardees Announced
by Kelsey Denette
- Mar 5, 2012
Two-time Tony Award nominated costume designer Carrie Robbins, and scenic, lighting, costume designer and educator Lloyd Burlingame are among the 2012 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, May 4, at 6:30pm, at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Ms. Robbins was selected to receive the 2012 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design, and Mr. Burlingame will receive the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design.
Alec Baldwin Hosts NY Philharmonic Weekly Radio Broadcasts in February
by Jennie Mamary
- Dec 28, 2011
In February 2012 The New York Philharmonic This Week - the weekly radio series of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by Alec Baldwin - begins with an encore performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah from November 2010 led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, with soprano Carolyn Sampson, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, tenor Allan Clayton, bass-baritone Gerald Finley, and the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director. The second program - from the Orchestra's EUROPE / WINTER 2010 tour - is also led by Mr. Gilbert and includes EXPO by The Marie-Josee Kravis Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg; Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist; and Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 and Valse triste as performed in Cologne, Germany.
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