Seven new productions, including two company premieres and the first two parts of a new Ring cycle, featuring many of the world's greatest singers and conductors, will highlight the Metropolitan Opera's 2010-11 season.
Performance Space 122 will pay tribute to two critical pioneers in the world of dance and performance:
Choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones and Performance Critic C. Carr at 'Real Dancing with the Real Stars,' Performance Space 122's Spring Benefit 2009 to be held on Wednesday, May 27 at The Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street at Pitt Street, in Manhattan).
Rossini's comic masterpiece, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, will be broadcast on the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:30 pm EST on January 26, 2008. The inventive production by Bartlett Sher, which opened last season to rave reviews, features the Met Broadcast debuts of renowned mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as Rosina and bel canto specialist tenor José Manuel Zapata as Count Almaviva.
Peter Rose, who with Charles Moulton, Tim Miller, and Charles Dennis, helped to found Performance Space 122, will take that theatre's stage for Cleansing the Senses, a performance for one actor. The show will be presented from May 18th through May 28th