'Meistersinger' has fine return to Met
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Like a beloved friend who faithfully comes to visit every few years, Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" has returned to the Metropolitan Opera, as welcome as ever even if beginning to show the effects of age.
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Playbill - Now, nobody at this column is accusing the New York drama critics of collusion, but if they wanted to make Spring Awakening sound like the second coming of the American Musical, they couldn't have done a better job than they did with the reviews they unleashed the day after the Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater rock musical's Dec. 10 opening.
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Vivica Genaux, an international star, particularly in the early-music world, is making her return to New York opera.
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Let the news ring out from Lincoln Center. Send word by satellite radio. Trumpet it in Times Square. An exciting new era was born at the staid old Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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BERLIN -- A production of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo," dropped for fear of a Muslim backlash over a scene with the severed head of the Prophet Mohammed, returned to the stage under heavy security yesterday at Berlin's Deutsche Oper.
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Phantom of the Opera, the film, is reviving theatrical interest.
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By RONALD BLUM  NEW YORK - The Met will be on the air almost as much as the Mets.
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On Sunday at City Center, two of the seasonâs revivals offered richly nuanced performances by both established and rising stars.
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A must-hear violinist returns to New York in full force.
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It&#39;s never too soon to lobby for anything in this city, and Laura Meissner didn&#39;t wait for Wednesday&#39;s confirmation that the Montreal Expos are moving to the nation&#39;s
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LOS ANGELES  - Annette Bening is back  on the scene.
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The attractionof the annual Christmas Eve performance at Carnegie Hall by the New York String Orchestra is in the spirit of renewal that has consistently animated these performances by this ensemble of students.
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Itâs no disgrace that âAlmost an Evening,â the new bill of bite-size plays by Ethan Coen, lives up to the modesty of its title.
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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Returning from two years of self-imposed exile in Queens, the Museum of Modern Art reopened its new midtown Manhattan quarters Saturday, a $425 million glass-and-granite temple
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The character of Alma Winemiller has resurfaced with a new authoritative calm in the Hartford StageÂs gentle, insightful revival of Tennessee WilliamsÂs ÂSummer and Smoke.Â
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Separated since the late 1700s,  two pieces were reunited on Friday in one frame for the first time for âPoussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions,â an exhibition that opens on Tuesday at the Met.