Placido Domingo News

The 2008-2009 Reprise Theatre Company season continues with the classic international hit 'Man of La Mancha,' starring Brent Spiner, written by Dale Wasserman with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion. The production will be directed by Michael Michetti, co-artistic director of The Theatre at Boston Cout.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents ROUGH CROSSING by TOM STOPPARD, from an original play by FERENC MOLNÁR, directed by MARK RUCKER at the University Theatre (222 York Street, New Haven) beginning November 28 through December 20. Opening Night is Thursday, December 4.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents ROUGH CROSSING by TOM STOPPARD, from an original play by FERENC MOLN?R, directed by MARK RUCKER at the University Theatre (222 York Street, New Haven) beginning November 28 through December 20. Opening Night is Thursday, December 4.

After an absence of more than 15 years, maestro Seiji Ozawa returns to the Met to conduct six performances of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, from November 21 to December 13, 2008.

Monsters, Witches and Ogres... OH MY! What better place to celebrate the spooks and creeps of HALLOWEEN than The Great Fright Way? In the spirit of good fun and festivities, BroadwayWorld asked some of New York's finest Broadway and Off-Broadway actors to share their craziest MEMORIES of Halloween... with PHOTOS!

On Wednesday, October 15, 2008, Glenn Close was honored at the Princess Grace Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

Polydor Records celebrates the 60th birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber, indisputably the most successful composer of our time, with the release of '60'. This amazing 3 CD, 60 track set spans the whole of Andrew's illustrious career and includes hits from all of his most famous musicals - Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Starlight Express, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and of course The Phantom Of The Opera.

The Associated Press is reported that the 1988 horror movie 'The Fly' will be the latest in a growing line of films to be converted into an opera.

The Associated Press is reported that the 1988 horror movie 'The Fly' will be the latest in a growing line of films to be converted into an opera.

Guthrie director Joe Dowling will be featured on National Public Radio's 'Performance Today' on Friday, May 23, airing in Minnesota on KSJN classical 99.5 at noon.

Bartlett Sher, who has received great acclaim as well as a Tony nomination and Drama Desk Award as Best Director of A Musical for the current Lincoln Center Theater production of South Pacific, will direct the new musical BRUCE LEE: JOURNEY TO THE WEST, to be produced on Broadway by Elephant Eye Theatrical. Joining Sher are Tony nominees David Yazbek (The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) composing the music and writing the lyrics and David Henry Hwang (M Butterfly, Yellow Face) penning the book.

Red Lotus Productions presents Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway, a concert to benefit World Hunger Year staged at Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, New York on Saturday,May 24th. Founded in 1975, WHY is a leader in the fight against hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world.

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) continues its 20th Anniversary season by presenting Bastianello and Lucrezia, two newly commissioned comic operas by composers John Musto and William Bolcom with libretti by Mark Campbell. The concerts will take place on Tuesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 13 at 8PM, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, West 57th Street and 7th Avenue.

The Metropolitan Opera's 'Live in High Definition' series of live satellite transmissions into movie theaters achieved record-breaking attendance in its first weekend of the new 2007-08 season. The first transmission on Saturday, December 15-Romeo et Juliette, starring Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna, conducted by Placido Domingo-drew a worldwide audience of 97,000.

The Guthrie will debut a new musical, Little House on the Prairie, based on the beloved 'Little House' books by writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Francesca Zambello, an internationally recognized director of opera and theater, will direct the world premiere, slated for summer 2008 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage.

Red Lotus Productions presents Neil Berg's '100 Years of Broadway,' a concert to benefit World Hunger Year staged at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center in Purchase, New York with special guests Tom Chapin, Ray McLeod, Carter Calvert, Erick Buckley, Rita Harvey and Danny Zolli on November 3.

Emmy Rossum, star of the 2004 film adaptation of 'The Phantom of the Opera,' is set to release her debut EP Inside Out, through Geffen Records, exclusively through iTunes on July 31st, 2007...

Kristen Chenoweth and Jason Alexander were on hand for the Hollywood Bowl's 86th season where they helped induct Placido Domingo and John Mauceri into the Bowl's Hall of Fame...

Oscar-winning film legend Woody Allen will make his first foray into the opera world in fall of 2008.

'Not to brag, but I've stood upon some pretty rarified podiums,' writes Glen Roven. 'But to be honest, nothing competes in the thrill department with playing a piano for a Broadway legend who is recreating an original performance. Talk about musical comedy heaven.'