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Opera watch.(performances, awards)
1. Tenor SALVATORE LICITRA, whose last-minute Met debut as Cavaradossi made headlines last spring, returns to New York this month in a concert La Forza del Destino at Carnegie Hall with ROBERT BASS and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Remaining tickets for the January 23 performance are available through Carnegie-Charge at (212) 247-7800. Wiener Staatsoper has announced that Licitra will sing its June Andrea Cheniers, replacing PLACIDO DOMINGO, who has dropped the opera from his repertory.
2. JAMES CONLON, principal conductor and music administrator of Paris Opera since 1995, was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French Government in a September 20 ceremony in Paris. French president JACQUES CHIRAC made the presentation at the Palais de l'Elysee to Conlon, who conducts this month's Chevron Texaco broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera's Dialogues des Carmelites.
3. THE PIANIST, the ROMAN POLANSKI film that won top honors at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, will be released this month in selected U.S. cities, after brief late-December runs in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Based on the autobiography of composer/pianist WLADYSLAW SZPILMAN, a Polish Jew who spent World War II hidden in the devastated city of Warsaw, The Pianist stars ADRIEN BRODY as Szpilman.
MusicalAmerica.com, the subscription website companion to Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts, was awarded the 2002 ASCAP Deems Taylor Internet Award.... Opera Index has given its ...
- Juilliard Dance Ensemble.(Juilliard Theater, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Solomons, Gus June 1, 1996 700+ words
JUILLIARD THEATER FEBRUARY 15-18, 1996 REVIEWED BY GUS SOLOMONS JR Student performances can test the mettle of even the masters' choreography...
- Juilliard Dance Ensemble; Juilliard Theater; New York, New York; February...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Garafola, Lynn July 1, 1998 700+ words
JUILLIARD THEATER FEBRUARY 19-22, 1998 The Juilliard Dance Ensemble offered an unusually well-balanced program to the public for its "Spring...
- School of American Ballet.(Juilliard Theater, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Tobias, Anne September 1, 1996 700+ words
...the ideal dancer. And the general caliber of dancing at the thirty-second annual workshop, held June I and 3 at the Juilliard Theater, was quite high. Yes, there were the bodies, especially the women's--the hyperfacile extensions, the exaggerated...
- School of American Ballet. (Juilliard Theater, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Hering, Doris October 1, 1994 700+ words
The word "American" took on a special flavor in the thirtieth annual workshop performance of the School of American Ballet. This was particularly true of the premiere, Jerome Robbins's 2 & 3 Part Inventions, and of the spirited version of George Balanchine's Western Symphony. In this series of
- School of American Ballet, Juilliard Theater, June 7 & 9, 1997.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Greskovic, Robert September 1, 1997 700+ words
There was only one awkward position evident from the triple bill presented at the thirty-third Annual Workshop Performances of the School of American Ballet. And it wasn't onstage. Faced with the program's impressive range, how was an audience member to decide which bad the greater breadth --
- Classical music: Cremation or reincarnation?
- Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt) October 1, 2009 700+ words
...state of our culture on the rocks, classical music falls as one of its first victims. In Egypt, classical music has not only been considered historically...researches, books and articles mourning classical music have been released over the past...
- Fortuna Classical Music Announces Podcast Service Through Partnership With San...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 25, 2006 700+ words
...Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortuna Classical Music is proud to announce a partnership...device. For the 2007 season, Fortuna Classical Music created 5 video podcast "shows...Reveles. This partnership with Fortuna Classical Music has eliminated the need for more computer...
- Classical music still has a future in Canada
- Magazine article from: Canadian Mennonite Longhurst, John May 11, 2009 700+ words
...CMU Is there a role and place for classical music in Canada today? Yes, according...Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. "Classical music still matters as much as it ever did...experiences it provides." Friesen defined classical music as "that which survives when all...
