Composer Tan Dun to make Met Opera debut
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He collected folk songs in villages in his native China, then planted rice during the Cultural Revolution. Later, he played music on the streets of New York to buy food.
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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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To Met fans who had grown used to the baritonal colorings of PlÃ¡cido Domingo's Otello, Ben Heppner's true-tenor sound will be a revelation.
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The Metropolitan Opera and Sirius Satellite Radio will collaborate on a channel to broadcast four performances live from the Met each week.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Bombay Dreams," a hit musical in London which received mixed reviews on Broadway, could soon open in the city that inspired the story.
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Lorin Maazel, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, is to open a run of Wagnerâs âWalkÃ¼reâ at the Metropolitan Opera, 45 seasons after making his debut at the house.
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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.
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The Met hosts a season-opening gala, dripping with wealth and celebrity, that nearly upstages its own opera.
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The first soloist to take to the  stage of China&#39;s futuristic new National Grand Theater was not  an opera star but former leader and opera enthusiast Jiang  Zemin.
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Margaret Juntwait, a classical music host at WNYC-FM radio, has been picked as the new announcer for the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday afternoon broadcasts.
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The city has been waiting three years for James Levine's arrival as the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His inaugural program was Friday night.
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, led by its new artistic directors, the pianist Wu Han and the cellist David Fincke, opened its 39th season on Thursday with a classical sampler.
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Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.SIRI.O 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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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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Eighteen months after the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater announced an innovative commissioning project, few notes have been written. But the effort is gathering steam.
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Do not look for the Viennese soul in the waltzes of Johann Strauss. Try instead the dark places of Anton Webernâs Six Pieces for Orchestra or Alban Bergâs Three Orchestra Pieces, both played by James Levine and his Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Sunday.
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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.