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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Claire Danes will make  her Broadway debut as Eliza Doolittle in a new production of  George Bernard Shaw&#39;s &quot;Pygmalion&quot; on the Great White Way.
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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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More than 30 years after his seminal  &quot;Tommy&quot; and &quot;Quadrophenia,&quot; The Who&#39;s Pete Townshend has  written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a  theater festival in New York this weekend.
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Every opera season demands a scene-chewing scandal to feed fansâ appetites for outsize drama, and this summer that niche has been filled in Europe by the new production here of Wagnerâs âMeistersinger.â
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In the middle of the first act of a packed English National Opera performance of Donizettiâs âLucia di Lammermoorâ on Saturday, a chest infection claimed the voice of the bass Clive Bayley, who was singing the leading role of Raimondo, Luciaâs tutor. Could the show be saved? Yes indeed, Reuters reported. Out from the audience came Paul Whelan, 38, who just happened to have been studying the role and was scheduled to take over from Mr. Bayley in a few weeks, through he had had no chance to rehearse. As the performance continued, Mr. Whelan sang from the wings and Mr. Bayley mimed the action. At the conclusion Mr. Whelan, wearing suit and tie, joined the cast for a bow onstage, above. The performers received a standing ovation. âIâm just so glad I was wearing my Armani tie,â he said.
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A new production of Straussâs âFrau Ohne Schattenâ for the Lyric Opera of Chicago is making news for a casting coup.
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Conductor Lorin Maazel will return to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in nearly 45 years when he conducts Wagner's "Die Walkuere" next season.
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Elvis Costello is to compose an opera based on fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen's unrequited love
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On Tuesday night the New York City Opera opened its season with a new production of âMargaret Garner,â an opera by Richard Danielpour with a libretto by Toni Morrison.
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NEW YORK  --  Sirius Satellite Radio and the Metropolitan Opera announced Wednesday that they will start a new channel to broadcast four performances a week during the company's 32-week season. It's part of the Met's vast media expansion under new general manager Peter Gelb.
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There should always be room at the Met for wonderfully old-fashioned productions like this production of Wagnerâs âMeistersinger von NÃ¼rnberg.â
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Apre stagione del Teatro Massimo con Furlanetto
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The opera is in negotiations to build a new home on the site of the former American Red Cross New York headquarters near Lincoln Center.
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The Dallas Opera plans a world premiere of the opera "Moby Dick" as part of its first season in its new digs.
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The Marin Symphony opens its new season Sunday with a night at the opera. The season's first guest soloist, British soprano Rebecca Evans, joins the orchestra in a program of arias from operas by Rossini, ...
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Elvis Costello is creating an opera based on Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen's impossible romance with a Swedish woman.