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Opera watch.(Ben Heppner, Great Performances on Public Broadcasting Service, Deutsche Grammophon to issues DVDs)
1. On October 1, at 6:15 P.M., BEN HEPPNER will be interviewed at Lincoln Center's Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse by Rudolph S. Rauch, as part of THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD LECTURE SERIES. Other October events will include a lecture by Bridget Paolucci on THE ART OF MARIA CALLAS (Oct. 21). For tickets and information on these and other events in the series, call 212-769-7028 or 212-769-7021.
2. Thirteeen/WNET NewYork's GREAT PERFORMANCES begins its thirty-first season on PBS on October 29 at 8 P.M. (EST), with a compendium of three gala performances by the LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, led by ESA-PEKKA SALONEN. The concerts, taped at WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, the Philharmonic's new home, will feature new works by JOHN ADAMS and JOHN WILLIAMS, as well as a star turn by special guest AUDRA MCDONALD. Check local listings or Great Performances Online at pbs.org for more information.
3. DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON soon will issue eleven new DVDs of telecasts by the METROPOLITAN OPERA. The first tide available will be FIDELIO, with JAMES LEVINE leading KARITA MATTILA, BEN HEPPNER, FALK STRUCKMANN and RENE PAPE in Jurgen Flimm's 2000 production. The release date for Fidelio is November 11; other titles will follow in 2004.
DAVID A. DIK has been appointed managing director of THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD, succeeding Rudolph S. Rauch. Dik joined the MOG in 1988, as a program coordinator in its education ...
- Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera and the American Symphony Orchestra....
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil December 22, 2002 700+ words
...October, it appeared as if the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera and the American...production of Salome at the New York City Opera in the afternoon...not quite a musical triumph, New York City Opera's Salome--directed...
- Live HD Performances From Metropolitan Opera New York Come to Cinemas in France...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 22, 2008 700+ words
...definition performance transmissions direct from New York's Metropolitan Opera to cinema complexes. Following the success on April...1 satellite will transmit the signal direct from New York to the UK where subtitles will be added for the...
- Opera: A Midsummer Night's Dream Metropolitan Opera, New York
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London David Patrick Stearns December 3, 1996 700+ words
...significant presence in New York's autumn opera season...office success at the New York City Opera - that was...Night's Dream back to New York after an absence of more...rate last Monday at the Metropolitan Opera. However stylish with...
- Der Ring des Nibelungen. (Metropolitan Opera, New York City)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Said, Edward W. June 18, 1990 700+ words
...the second spring in a row that the Metropolitan Opera has mounted three cycles of Wagner...and certainly an unexpected feature of New York musical life that so large, risky and...this means is, as Donal Henahan, The New York Times's chief music critic, noted...
- Der Rosenkavalier. (Metropolitan Opera, New York City )
- Magazine article from: The Nation Said, Edward W. January 7, 1991 700+ words
Although he conducted only seven performances of Der Rosenkavalier (1911) at New York City's Metropolitan Opera this past fall, Carlos Kleiber nevertheless made a stunning impression. The opera is the best known and most palatable of Richard...
- Lohengrin.(Metropolitan Opera House, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Adams, Brooks September 1, 1998 700+ words
...production of Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera had already become a runaway...production is technically Wilson's Metropolitan Opera debut, it should also be understood...medieval sale at Sotheby's in New York, featuring "fragments" of...
- Mayerling. (Metropolitan Opera House, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Barnes, Clive November 1, 1994 700+ words
...found a second home in New York City. And for a long...summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House. One fascinating...reestablished itself as New York City's favorite visiting...reasons, the company in New York City was missing four...
- Kata Kabanova.(Metropolitan Opera House, New York, New York)(Review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Simon, John March 1, 1999 700+ words
Kata Kabanova, by Leos Janacek, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Jonathan Miller's staging of Janacek's Kata Kabanova at the Metropolitan Opera was ghastly in 1991; revived in 1999, it...
