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The Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni will take another featured turn on the Met stage as Caliban, alongside Placido Domingo and Joyce DiDonato, in The Enchanted Island - the company's freshly conceived Shakespearean tableau of music by Handel, Vivaldi, and Rameau, conducted by renowned Baroque authority William Christie (Dec 31-Jan 30).
The Enchanted Island, a world premiere work that combines Baroque music with a new, English-language libretto featuring characters from Shakespeare's The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream, will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on December 31, 2011.
Elizabeth Swados' new music theatre work THE LA MAMA CANTATA -- given its world-premiere for two performances in November -- returns by popular demand to the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) for two additional performances during the holiday season on December 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m., it has been announced by La MaMa's artistic director Mia Yoo.
HERE is set to present Miranda, a HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) production by Kamala Sankaram (Creator / Composer / Librettist with Rob Reese). Directed by Rob Reese, Miranda will play 8 performances only from January 12 - 21 at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue) as a featured presentation within HERE's 2011-12 Season.
Ninety-seven scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 84th Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.
Comprised of a team of dancers, gymnasts, rock climbers, athletes, and actors, Diavolo and its large-scale interdisciplinary performances examine the funny and sometimes frightening ways individuals interact with their environment. In doing so, it has redefined dance, theatre, and thrills-taking movement, athleticism and risk to the extreme.
January 2012 will kick off the momentous 80th Anniversary of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a National Historic Landmark, National Medal of Arts honoree, and America’s longest-running international dance festival.
American Composers Orchestra will present Philip Glass at 75 on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium.
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announced today that President and CEO Terrence D. Jones will retire at the end of 2012 following 17 years of service leading the not for profit arts and education organization. Jones joined Wolf Trap in 1996 and during his tenure, has positioned the organization as a premier center for the integration of performing arts, education, technology, and environmental sustainability. Under Jones' leadership Wolf Trap has continued in the legacy of its founder, Catherine Filene Shouse, and has achieved numerous milestones and gained recognition as a top performing arts center.
Lincoln Center will celebrate the 25th birthday of New York's tirelessly inventive new music institution Bang on a Can with musical fireworks in an extraordinary three-part program that will include a U.S. and a New York premiere on Saturday, April 28, at 7 PM in Alice Tully Hall.
Dixon Place has announced a special one night event celebrating the release of Suzzy Roche's novel, Wayward Saints (Hyperion) on Sunday, January 29th 2012 at 6PM.
The Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni will take another featured turn on the Met stage as Caliban, alongside Placido Domingo and Joyce DiDonato, in The Enchanted Island - the company's freshly conceived Shakespearean tableau of music by Handel, Vivaldi, and Rameau, conducted by renowned Baroque authority William Christie (Dec 31-Jan 30).
Legendary composer Terry Riley - the father of minimalism - makes a rare Boston-area appearance at MIT's Kresge Auditorium on Thursday, December 15, 7:30 pm, in performance with Boston's own Gamelan Galak Tika.
The New York Times will hold its 11th annual Arts & Leisure Weekend on Jan. 5 to 8, 2012. The Times's signature event is a four-day celebration of the arts featuring TimesTalks interviews between New York Times journalists and celebrated guests from film, media, music, television and theater.
To start the new year, Museum of the Moving Image introduces a brand new showcase for inventive, groundbreaking international cinema.
Music for the American Wing- a weekend of events- marks the completed renovation of the New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture.
The Flea Theater will present The Flying Latke by Arthur Yorinks, a heart-warming tale of Chanukah celebrations, holiday dysfunction and the miracle of a certain soaring potato pancake directed by four Flea Resident Directors. This limited engagement runs Saturday & Sunday mornings only December 3 through 18 Downstairs @ The Flea. Tickets are $12 per person.
Since its world premiere in Ljubljana nearly three years ago, the Mini teater (Ljubljana, Slovenia) / Novo kazalište Zagreb (Croatia) co-production of Heiner Müller's controversial Macbeth after Shakespeare has garnered critical praise and awards all over the world, including such far-flung locales as Seoul and Havana.
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announced today that President and CEO Terrence D. Jones will retire at the end of 2011 following 17 years of service leading the not for profit arts and education organization.
Andreas Mitisek, Artistic and General Director of Long Beach Opera (LBO), will become the General Director of Chicago Opera Theater (COT) on September 1, 2012.
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