NEW YORK (AP) -- Mimis come and Rodolfos go, but one thing never changes in "La Boheme" at the Metropolitan Opera: When the curtain goes up on Act 2, the audience al…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:32AMNEW YORK (AP) -- You've probably heard how all three original stars dropped out of the Metropolitan Opera's new "Tosca" and how the conductor had t…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:31AMPHILADELPHIA (AP) -- In a downtown theater, five teenagers take refuge at a site once occupied by members of the radical group MOVE. Across the street, a serial killer terrorizes Vict…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:22AMNEW YORK (AP) -- No monsters of depravity for Waltraud Meier, thank you. The German mezzo-soprano takes a very different view of the Greek queen Klytemnestra than the one usually seen…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:53PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- For the Washington National Opera, completing Wagner's "Ring Cycle" has been an endeavor worthy of its epic subject: Launched with great …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:52PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Portraying an aging, embittered Queen Elizabeth is hard work, but for Sondra Radvanovsky there's a moment late in Donizetti's opera "Robert…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:59PMNEW YORK (AP) -- You won't hear Nina Stemme singing in Act 1 of Puccini's "Turandot," but watch closely and you'll spot her - looming over…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:08PMAnd sad to say, despite the expenditure of considerable talent and money — and a splendid performance by Eva-Maria Westbroek in the title role — the question remains unanswered f…
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 05:58PMNEW YORK (AP) -- When the Metropolitan Opera closes out its HD broadcast season this Saturday, tenor Marcelo Alvarez will be doing double duty. In a relatively rare feat, he'll sing the …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:23AMWhen King Philip II of Spain faces off against the Grand Inquisitor in Verdi's "Don Carlo" at the Academy of Music, they won't just be portraying history, they'll be making a bit of it, too.…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:26AMTake a little brainwashing, add a few political assassinations and stir in a villainess evil enough to rival Lady Macbeth. The enduring result is "The Manchurian Candidate," first as a novel…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:07PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Soprano Deborah Voigt keeps a picture of herself performing alongside tenor Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera - both as a treasured memory of a great triumph and…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:17AMCHICAGO (AP) -- When Anthony Freud was 14, his favorite pastime was going to the opera in London and then, on the train ride home to Wimbledon where he lived with his parents, "dreaming …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:36AMNEW YORK (AP) -- In a bare rehearsal room three floors underground at the Metropolitan Opera, Michael Volle was learning how to move around on a set that wasn't there....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:11AMNEW YORK (AP) -- When the Metropolitan Opera announced in February that it would present John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" this fall, there was, as Peter Gelb recalls it, "absolutel…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:59AMNEW YORK (AP) -- After a summer of uncertainty, the sounds of discord gave way to joyful music-making as the Metropolitan Opera opened its season Monday night with a sparkling new produc…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:48PMNEW YORK (AP) -- For Ildar Abdrazakov, this may go down as the biggest opening night that almost didn't happen....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:47PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Figaro might not be getting married anytime soon. Mimi and Rodolfo might not fall in love in that cold Parisian garret. And Macbeth might never murder his way to the thr…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:49AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Suddenly, it seems, Olga is everywhere....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:53AMNEW YORK (AP) -- For longtime Broadway actor Danny Burstein, the big challenge in preparing for his Metropolitan Opera debut has been "trying to find the funny."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:18AMCHICAGO (AP) -- There are baritones who sing opera, and then there are "Verdi baritones." Quinn Kelsey has no doubts about which camp he is in....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:17AMNEW YORK (AP) -- It's an opera singer's nightmare: Suddenly, in mid-performance, the voice fails to respond - and instead of a high note, the audience hears a painful croak....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:14AMNEW YORK (AP) -- For Patricia Racette, this was already shaping up as a memorable year at the San Francisco Opera, opening the season in Boito's "Mefistofele" and returning in June to he…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:43AMSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Ask Susan Graham how she reacted when Santa Fe Opera first offered her the title role in Offenbach's "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:21AMHOUSTON (AP) -- Thunderbolts and torrential rains greeted the audience arriving for Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at the Worth Theater Center on Saturday night. Inside the opera house th…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:10AMNEW YORK (AP) -- The very title tells you this is no traditional version of the biblical story: "The Gospel According to the Other Mary."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:54AMNEW YORK (AP) -- When it comes to operatic ghost stories, none is more creepily effective than Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:52AMNEW YORK (AP) -- In Wagner's "Parsifal," the leader of the Knights of the Holy Grail suffers from an agonizing wound that will not heal. In Francois Girard's vision of the opera, this wo…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:39AMPHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A melancholy sense of lost opportunity pervades "Silent Night," an opera that tells of a moment in World War I when soldiers from hostile nations joined together for…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:24AMST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- "Only the children's voices soothe me," an anguished Sister Aloysius sings at the conclusion of "Doubt," the new opera based on John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Pr…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:54PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Metropolitan Opera may have pretty much turned opening night over to the glamorous Anna Netrebko, but New Year's Eve belongs to a very different diva - Joyce DiDonat…
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