Bard Music Festival Tackles the Puccini Paradox
The event will examine why he was enormously successful but critically underrated.
The event will examine why he was enormously successful but critically underrated.
The production will be part of a season of notable projects including a "Macbeth" set in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The freshman class includes Louis Armstrong, Plácido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Audra McDonald, Leontyne Price and Harold Prince.
The company is to have a three-week engagement at the Théâtre du Châtelet as part of Les Etés de la Danse.
The festival, which will feature 49 performances at seven different venues at Lincoln Center and beyond, will run from July 13 through 31.
Nearly 670 people, who had bought roughly $323,000 worth of tickets for performances that were canceled when City Opera went bankrupt in 2013, will get their money back.
His departure came less than a year after Mr. Perelman was tapped to be the chairman of Carnegie's board, beginning a rocky era of clashes with the hall's administration.
Matthew Aucoin, 25, will conduct and compose, and work with young artists over the next three seasons.
A series of experimental workshop performances re-examining Mr. Gordon's past is also coming.
The choreographer Stephen Petronio, who is beginning a $3 million campaign to establish a choreographic residency program in Pawling, N.Y., announced Thursday that he had received a gift fro…
The institute is to break ground on a new four-building complex in May with help from a $500,000 Empire State Development grant.
Jesse Kovarsky strikes Chagall-worthy poses onstage, while the violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins makes the music come alive in the orchestra pit.
The winners will be Joseph Calleja, Elina Garanca, Waltraud Meier, Anna Netrebko and José van Dam.
"We are setting a new, more nimble course that will allow us to excel in today's changing arts and culture climate," Kate Lear, the chairwoman of the troupe's board, said in a statement.
The New York premiere of "Charlie Parker's Yardbird" will go on, at the Apollo Theater in April, even after the closure of Gotham Chamber Opera, its original presenter.
The Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey Foundation filed a demand for arbitration this week.
With 360-degree videos, fans of the performing arts can feel what it's like to be in the middle of the Philadelphia Orchestra or the Paris Opera Ballet.
Led by Plácido Domingo, the opera cast and audience sang "La Marseillaise" on Saturday.
The season will feature a wealth of works by Alexei Ratmansky, and Misty Copeland in lead roles including "Swan Lake" and "La Fille Mal Gardée."
Misty Copeland and Tracy Oliver, of "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl," are developing a drama about the dance world for 20th Century Fox Television.
Robert Fairchild will return to City Ballet for three Broadway-flavored performances this fall.
David Snead, vice president for marketing at the New York Philharmonic, is leaving the orchestra after 14 years to become president and chief executive of the Handel and Haydn Society in Bos…
The baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who is being treated for a brain tumor, will return to the stage for three coming Met performances of Verdi's "Il Trovatore."
Ms. Kent, the former American Ballet Theater principal who retired in June, will be artistic director of the summer intensive programs and will teach and coach the studio company and at the …
The production of the whimsical, magical piece " based on the children's book by Beni Montresor " will be directed and choreographed by Karole Armitage for Opera Saratoga.