Monday, December 15, 2014
Deborah Voigt, host of Encores! Great Performances at the Met, is included in the highlights of past Metropolitan Opera production. Voigt performed the role of Isolde in Tristan and Isolde, …
SOURCE: PBS at 02:23PMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year’s celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vi…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:35PMFrom Natalie Dessay and Anna Netrebko to Juan Diego Flórez and Jonas Kaufmann, see show-stopping excerpts from “Carmen,” “Rigoletto,” “La Bohème,” and more, hosted by soprano D…
SOURCE: PBS at 11:10AMWednesday, November 19, 2014
The most famous song from the musical Cats is the bittersweet ballad, “Memory,” sung by the ostracized character, Grizabella, “the Glamour Cat.” She once led a more g…
SOURCE: PBS at 04:19PMMonday, November 10, 2014
In the ensemble number “Invitation to the Jellicle Ball,” the cats discuss the much-anticipated annual event, the Jellicle Ball. The character Munkustrap explains the purpose of …
SOURCE: PBS at 11:18AMTuesday, November 4, 2014
The Rum Tum Tugger is the bad boy of the cast of Cats. He’s sexy and he knows it and takes pleasure in teasing his many admirers. Andrew Lloyd Webber gives Rum Tum Tugger’s theme…
SOURCE: PBS at 10:24AMFriday, October 24, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, the second longest-running Broadway musical (only surpassed by Lloyd Webber’s own “The Phantom of the Opera”), and fourth longest-running West End musical…
SOURCE: PBS at 06:38PMWednesday, August 27, 2014
Joyce DiDonato sings the title role in Rossini’s Cinderella story, La Cenerentola, with bel canto master Juan Diego Flórez as her dashing prince. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads…
SOURCE: PBS at 09:53AMThursday, August 14, 2014
The women are not a united front in Mozart’s comic opera, Così fan tutte. Sisters succumb to the deceit of their fiancés at different times, and the maid they employ is out to fool t…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:13PMFriday, November 30, 2012
Rocco Landesman announced on Tuesday that he will step down as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts at the end of the calendar year. His appointment by the White House in 2009 w…
SOURCE: WNET | Channel 13 at 08:11AM 
