Music: You Go to the Movie Theater, and an Opera Breaks Out
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The Metropolitan Operaâs high-definition transmissions to movie theaters add crucial elements of live theater and collective excitement to the experience of opera on screen.
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A quiz on movie titles inspired from old songs.
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The Phantom of the Opera, a rare big screen adaptation of a musical, opens this weekend. With the musical grossing $3.2 billion worldwide with stints in New York, London, and Toronto, it was worth the gamble to producers.
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Can one orchestraâs audacious experiment save classical music?
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It's one musical performance where your   cell phone can -- and should -- ring.
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Da ottobre sessantuno appuntamenti con musica e teatro
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La Scala, one of the world's most celebrated opera theaters, reopened to the public and to music Tuesday after nearly three years of renovation that cost about &#36;67 million.
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Yell for a doctor in an Italian movie theatre and you risk a stampede. Almost everybody here, it seems, is a "dottore." Or "professore" or "maestro" or some other honorific.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs affecting revival of its 1997 production of Tchaikovskyâs âEugene Oneginâ is all the more impressive because it might have turned out so differently.
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Giuseppe Verdi's Aida fits the cliched concept of grand opera: a visual feast with big emotions, majestic scenes and an exotic touch like this love story set in ancient Egypt.
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It tries to turn its live music show into a TV star.
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There is a rough science to choosing performance-enhancing music.
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Phantom of the Opera, the film, is reviving theatrical interest.
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ItÂs not often that the background score of a film makes a lasting impact on music listeners of this country.
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Guy Maddinâs âBrand Upon the Brain!â is a baroque entertainment with one foot in silent cinema and the other gingerly toeing the sound waves.
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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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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.