Tuesday, September 6, 2011
James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera's music director, has withdrawn from all performances at the Met for the rest of the year after falling while on vacation in Vermont and damaging a vert…
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
when temperatures push into the upper 90s, as happened on Thursday for a rehearsal of "Sweeney Todd" at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va., a whole new set of concerns arises to make sure the sopranos…
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
The soprano Deborah Voigt, known for portraying Strauss and Wagner heroines, will be packing heat in the title role of "Annie Get Your Gun" at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The New York City Opera's musicians, chorus, stage directors and stage managers have a dim view of the company's plans for the future, and have repeatedly staged protests to make their displ…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Opera fans have been waiting for months to hear the company's plans for next season, especially since its general manager and artistic director, George Steel, announced in May that City Oper…
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
The orchestra will perform with the tenor Andrea Bocelli on Sept. 15 on Central Park's Great Lawn, a special event outside its usual parks series.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
A technical problem left an estimated 175,000 people sitting in movie theaters around the world (and nearly 4,000 people at the Metropolitan Opera itself) twiddling their thumbs while waitin…
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, said in a message to the company that the decision was based on a recent advisory from the State Department.
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For the third season in a row, the Metropolitan Opera is offering recitals instead of full scale operas for it's free summer parks series.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:07PM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2011
The musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will take a major pay cut and will be reduced in number but will not have their jobs redefined, according to details of a new contract agreeme…
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Joseph Bertolozzi, who has created music by harvesting percussive sounds from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., said he received approval for a similar pro…
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Six letters by Frédéric Chopin went on display this week at the Chopin museum in Warsaw after having been lost from view since the early years of World War II.
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The pianist Maurizio Pollini has canceled a United States recital tour because of illness, Carnegie Hall said in a statement on Wednesday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:13PM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2011
The Metropolitan Opera said on Monday that Mr. Levine, who is music director of both the Met and the symphony, will cut back on opera performances in the spring.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
The Aspen Music Festival and School, a rite of passage for many of the nation's leading musicians but an institution fraught with dissension in the recent past, has hired the conductor Rober…
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The family of the Metropolitan Opera bass Cesare Siepi is holding a celebration of his life at the Bruno Walter Auditorium on Saturday.
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