Minghella to write Met opera libretto
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Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella will write the libretto and direct a new work by composer Osvaldo Golijov that has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.
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Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. on  Wednesday said it will launch a channel programmed primarily by  New York's Metropolitan Opera, which will feature live and  archived broadcasts.
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Natalie Dessay thrived under pressure, singing the touchstone title role of Donizettiâs âLucia di Lammermoorâ in a new production to open the Metropolitan Operaâs season on Monday night.
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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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Ian Rankin may be best known for his Inspector Rebus mysteries. Alexander McCall Smith, right, may be best known for chronicling the exploits of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. So what have they been up to lately? Writing 15-minute operas. They are participants in âFive:15,â a Scottish Opera initiative intended to attract young audiences by joining authors and composers like Craig Armstrong (âLove Actuallyâ) to create 15-minute operas. The results range from Mr. Rankinâs âGesualdo,â about the murderous 16th-century composer Carlo Gesualdo, to âQueens of Govan,â about a 15-year-old girl who works in a kebab shop in a gritty Glasgow neighborhood, The Independent of London reported. Mr. McCall Smithâs work is based on âDream Angus,â his collection of Celtic myths. The five operas will be presented in March in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The performances are sold out.
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Rail companies will be able to add the presence of an orchestra and the cast of an opera to the litany of excuses used for delayed trains this autumn.
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With new music directors at both companies, New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera are poised to prod each other into making New York a hotbed of operatic innovation.
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There was basically one reason the Metropolitan Opera dusted off its drearily realistic, unbecoming old production of Pucciniâs âManon Lescautâ and brought it back to the house for the first time in 18 years on Tuesday night: the soprano Karita Mattila.
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Philip Glass' "Satyagraha" will be given its Metropolitan Opera premiere next season as part of a co-production with the English National Opera.
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The Metropolitan Opera has named Margaret Juntwait as the new announcer for the opera's Saturday afternoon radio broadcast series.
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If the people won&#39;t go to the opera, bring the opera to them - and when they least expect it. In a somewhat unorthodox addition to its autumn television schedules, the BBC has announced that next month it
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The San Francisco Opera announced a plan to transmit operas to movie theaters using a system it says is superior to that of the Metropolitan Opera.
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The Metropolitan Opera is bringing in the chief makeup artist from âSaturday Night Liveâ for its production of âHansel and Gretel.â
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David Gockley will become general director of the San Francisco Opera after three decades of running the Houston Grand Opera.
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Presentata una fiction con Castellitto professore a Scampia
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Verdiâs âMacbethâ returns to the Met, and the director plans to keep the air of tragedy dominant.
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Arts & entertainment: This summer's biggest opera premieres are composed by a Britpop star, a jazz virtuoso and an electro-experimentalist. Tom Service reports.