Richard Strauss News

Metropolitan Opera on SIRIUS Satellite Radio channel 78 launches its regular live broadcasts of the company's 2008-09 season with the Opening Night Gala starring Renée Fleming, which airs on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. The third season of Met Opera Radio on SIRIUS features four live broadcasts weekly as the Met celebrates its 125th anniversary with six new productions, including the company premiere of John Adams's Doctor Atomic, 18 revivals, and the season grand finale of Wagner's epic Ring cycle, conducted by Music Director James Levine.

The Metropolitan Opera opens its 2008-09 season on September 22 with a gala performance that kicks off its 125th anniversary, starring Renée Fleming in three fully-staged scenes, including some of her most acclaimed portrayals. Costumes for Fleming have been specially created for each of the scenes in the Opening Night Gala by three of the world's legendary fashion designers: John Galliano, Christian Lacroix, and Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel.

New York City Opera will present a series of concerts, showcases, discussions, screenings, and master classes in 2008-09, designed to bring the company's unique brand of music-making and cultural conversation to all five boroughs of New York City while renovations take place at its home, the New York State Theater.

International opera star Deborah Voigt will kick off New York Theatre Workshop's 25th Anniversary season on Monday, February 12, 2007, when she presents A Voigt Valentine, an intimate cabaret performance at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center.

Baltimore premiere of 'Opus' is delightful.

On May 22nd, Judy Kaye, Roger Rees, Kate Burton, Jan Maxwell and more will star in the benefit A Swell Night for Romance

Los Angeles theatregoers can now obtain rush tickets to see Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde's Salome

Al Pacino, Kevin Anderson and Jessica Chastain will appear in a presentation with music of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece SALOME at the Wadsworth Theatre for 26 performances only, April 14 to May 14.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will be featured and Bob Balaban will be interviewd on the August 14th episode of A&E's Breakfast with the Arts

Good Opinions, Anne Fizzard's send up of the theatre and its preoccupation with good reviews, will open on July 23rd as part of the Sixth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival

In the upcoming and much anticipated 'Sweeney Todd' at NYCO, Andrew Drost tackles the role of Pirelli. BWW's Marie Forbes sat down with Andrew to talk about his NYCO Debut...