Levine to conduct just 4 operas at Met
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James Levine will conduct just 33 performances of four operas with the Met next season, a sharp break from his workaholic schedule since he became chief conductor in 1973.
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The New York City Opera will likely produce four pared-down operas, down from the company's typical 12 productions, while its Lincoln Center theater is renovated next season, officials said.
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Alan Gilbert is part of a one-two punch of dynamic new conductors facing New York audiences this fall.
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This weekend there seemed to be more banners on streetlights and bridges in Boston hailing James Levine&#39;s arrival as the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Gerard Mortier will take over as general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, putting him in prime position to mount an avant-garde challenge to the Metropolitan Opera across Lincoln Center Plaza.
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The Met plans to raise operaâs visibility, with help from other companies.
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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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Leading the Met Chamber Ensemble on Sunday afternoon at Zankel Hall, James Levine performed seemingly equal measures of music by Schoenberg and his star pupils, Webern and Berg: two works each.
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If the people won't go to the opera, bring the opera to them -- and when they least expect it.
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Denyce Graves will sing Carmen to open the Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2005-6 season, which also will include new productions of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut," Tippett's "The Midsummer Marriage," Verdi's "Rigoletto" and Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice."
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The fourth Handel opera in the Metropolitan Opera's history, which opened Thursday, is a landmark production including the radiant RenÃ©e Fleming.
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Mr. Maazel, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, will lead five performances of Wagnerâs âWalkÃ¼reâ in 2008.
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The Met will be on the air almost as much as the Mets.
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In his concerts with the Met Chamber Ensemble, James Levine takes musicians from the Met Orchestra about as far as you can get from the opera repertory that occupies them night after night.
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The Metropolitan Opera has narrowed its list of candidates for general manager, and it includes the tenor PlÃ¡cido Domingo, two Met officials said.
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When the New York State Theater closes next year for renovations, the homeless New York City Opera will probably put on four stripped-down productions at other locations.
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Four of five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were relinquished by Austria this year after a long legal battle are to be auctioned on Nov. 8 at ChristieÂs.