Ottavio News

Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale's Scapino! will be performed at the Main Street Theater (Chelsea Market) from May 8 - 10, 2009. The show is directed by Jonathan Gonzalez and will be performed Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 3:30 pm.

Ren?e Fleming and Thomas Hampson star in the Met's first new production of Jules Massenet's richly melodic Tha?s in thirty years. The rarely performed opera opens at the Met on Monday, December 8, and runs through January 8, with the December 20 matinee transmitted live worldwide as part of The Met: Live in HD series. 'Fleming and Hampson made a heavenly match,' Chicago Sun-Times critic Wynne Delacoma wrote when this production, which comes from the Lyric Opera of Chicago, opened there in 2002.

Dorothea Roschmann will sing Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni on December 1, 5, 9, 13, and 19, replacing Petra-Maria Schitzer, who has withdrawn. German soprano Roschmann has previously sung three roles at the Met, all in operas by Mozart. Her company debut in 2003 as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro was followed by Pamina in the new production of Die Zauberfl?te directed by Julie Taymor in 2004. Her most recent Met appearances were in 2006 as Ilia in Idomeneo.

Ren?e Fleming and Thomas Hampson star in the Met's first new production of Jules Massenet's richly melodic Tha?s in thirty years. The rarely performed opera opens at the Met on Monday, December 8, and runs through January 8, with the December 20 matinee transmitted live worldwide as part of The Met: Live in HD series. 'Fleming and Hampson made a heavenly match,' Chicago Sun-Times critic Wynne Delacoma wrote when this production, which comes from the Lyric Opera of Chicago, opened there in 2002.

Dorothea Roschmann will sing Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni on December 1, 5, 9, 13, and 19, replacing Petra-Maria Schitzer, who has withdrawn. German soprano Roschmann has previously sung three roles at the Met, all in operas by Mozart. Her company debut in 2003 as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro was followed by Pamina in the new production of Die Zauberfl?te directed by Julie Taymor in 2004. Her most recent Met appearances were in 2006 as Ilia in Idomeneo.

In anticipation of the beginning of Gerard Mortier's tenure as General Manager and Artistic Director in 2009-10, New York City Opera will present Looking Forward, a celebration of twentieth-century music, as part of a unique series of concerts and events planned for 2008-09.

When Erwin Schrott took on the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni last year at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, The New York Times wrote: 'The surprise was the riveting Giovanni: the seductively handsome young Uruguayan bass Erwin Schrott, who boasts a strong, dusky voice and chiseled physique. Exuding charisma, he galvanized the audience with his unabashedly narcissistic portrayal.' Now Schrott, who sang the role when the Met toured Japan in 2006, is bringing his portrayal to the Met stage for the first time beginning Saturday, September 27.

The national tour of Pippin, presented by Goodspeed Musicals, launched with a star-studded cast party