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Opera watch.(news about opera singers, halls, performances and so on)(Calendar)
1. On February 24, at 6:15 P.M., THOMAS HAMPSON and director MARTHE KELLER, currently in rehearsal for the Met's new DON GIOVANNI, will talk about the production with Met assistant manager SARAH BILLINGHURST at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse. For information on this and other events in the Metropolitan Opera Guild Lecture Series, check www.metguild.org/education.
2. On February 7, the newly refurbished LONDON COLISEUM, home of ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA since 1968, marks its centenary and reopening with Peter Sellars's production of NIXON IN CHINA. The Coliseum has undergone a four-year restoration to its Edwardian splendor, supervised by the Arts Team at the restoration firm RHWL, with minimum disruption to ENO's performance schedule.
3. Descendants of ENRICO CARUSO celebrated the centennial of the tenor's November 23, 1903 debut at the Metropolitan Opera with a tour of the Met's current Caruso exhibit, led by company archivist ROBERT TUGGLE, and afterwards attended a Met performance of La Boheme. Among those admiring the Caruso memorabilia were Caruso's grandson, ERIC D. MURRAY; Murray's daughter, JENNIFER FUNARO; and Funaro's children, JOSEPHINE and JULIAN.
OPERA AND SOCIETY, a conference at which musicologists and historians can discuss areas of mutual interest in times and places from seventeenth-century Venice to modern America, ...
- WHERE New York Announces Sponsorship of the Dahesh Museum of Art Re-Opening.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 5, 2003 700+ words
...sponsor of the re-opening of the Dahesh Museum of Art as well as its first exhibition...publisher of WHERE New York. The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only institution in the...November 2, 2003 at the newly relaunched Dahesh Museum of Art at Madison Avenue and 57th Street...
- Dahesh Museum to move to 590 Madison Ave. (Retail New York).
- Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly October 9, 2002 700+ words
...retail space on three-levels will be the new home of the Dahesh Museum. The space has its very own address, independent of the...large portion of the space, which will be occupied by the Dahesh Museum, was originally the IBM Gallery. The museum, whose previous...
- What is strange about the Dahesh Museum?
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Panero, James December 1, 2003 700+ words
...real-life history of an institution in New York called the Dahesh Museum of Art. This is the only New York museum, one is relentlessly...Dr. Dahesh. Yet when it comes to the full history of the Dahesh Museum, perhaps no art institution in recent memory has similarly...
- The Academy, Postmodernism and the Education of the Artist.(painter Alexandre...
- Magazine article from: Art in America TILLIM, SIDNEY April 1, 1999 700+ words
Reflecting on a Cabanel show at the Dahesh Museum, the author finds surprising links between Academic art...Photo-Realism I've seen look abstract. Now there is the Dahesh Museum. Opened in New York in 1995 on the second floor of a midtown...
- Dahesh Museum. (People).(Peter Trippi is appointed new director)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie Ebony, David June 1, 2003 700+ words
Peter Trippi is the new director of the Dahesh Museum in New York, which will reopen in the former IBM Gallery space on 57th Street in September. Since 1998, he had been assistant vice director for development at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
- Dahesh Museum relocates. (Front Page).(New York City)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art in America November 1, 2002 700+ words
The Dahesh Museum of Art is in the process of moving to the former IBM Gallery in New York at 580 Madison Ave. between 56th and 57th Streets. The...
- Napoleon on the Nile.(art exhibition, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York)
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) September 1, 2006 700+ words
"NAPOLEON ON THE NILE: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt" brings together more than 80 large, exquisitely detailed engraved plate illustrations from the massive, encyclopedic compendium known as Description de l'Egypte, long considered the foundational work of modern Egyptology, along
- LA SCALA ROAD SHOW AT DAHESH.(Staging the Orient: Visions of the East at La...
- Magazine article from: WWD Feitelberg, Rosemary March 9, 2004 700+ words
...opera fans can get a look into its past at a new exhibition at the Dahesh Museum of Art here. "Staging the Orient: Visions of the East at La Scala and The Metropolitan Opera" features regal gowns, miniature models of stages, costume sketches...
