AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Blackout: Barry Singer looks at the bleak future of opera on public television.(Column)

Opera News

| February 01, 2003 | Singer, Barry | COPYRIGHT 2003 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ask William Mason, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, about the future of opera on public television, and you get a one-word answer:

The prospect is not a pretty one for full-length opera on PBS. Shadowed by ever-diminishing ratings, opera telecasts are being chased even from the not-for-profit airwaves. This coming season, the most familiar, and once constant, "content providers"--the Metropolitan and New York City Operas, respectively--find their programming plans in disarray. After twenty-five years of televising three to four operas a year, the Met has only one scheduled for 2002-2003--a December 26 telecast of Fidelio, taped two years ago in the ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Crawford juggles ads and opera.(Bruce Crawford appointed chairman of New York's...
Magazine article from: Advertising Age Thomaselli, Rich July 22, 2002 700+ words
...role of chairman of New York City's Lincoln Center. Some wonder whether...getting everybody at Lincoln Center on board ``is...equal weight to both Lincoln Center and Omnicom. But...AdMedia Partners, New York. ``I think he...
Regina Carter plays priceless Paganini violin during special concert at New...
Magazine article from: Jet December 1, 2003 700+ words
...performance at the Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. The priceless instrument was...produces. Her performance at Lincoln Center marked the instrument's first visit to New York in three years. Earlier that...
Franck: Psyche,.(New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, New York)(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion Penrose, James F. January 1, 1998 700+ words
Psyche, by Cesar Franck, at the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, New York. Psyche, the last and most ambitious of Cesar...partial. Though the entire piece received its New York premiere in October, Psyche has still not...
New York, New York.(Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business DeNitto, edited by Emily March 5, 2001 700+ words
...groups do not think Lincoln Center for the Performing...presenter itself. One of Lincoln Center's most popular events...infringes on its space. Lincoln Center executives have a different...to buy the 54-unit New York-based company as...
New York City's Lincoln Center brings world of lessons to schools.
News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire July 18, 2006 700+ words
...Schoolchildren in New York City will learn...performances offered to New York public schools by the Lincoln Center for the Performing...at schools in the New York metropolitan area...being performed at Lincoln Center. At the same time...
Umabatha: The Zulu Macbeth.(New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York)
Magazine article from: Variety Evans, Greg July 28, 1997 700+ words
NEW YORK A Lincoln Center Festival 97 presentation of the Johannesburg Civic Theater production...Mncedi Dayi. Opened, reviewed July 21, 1997, at Lincoln Center's New York State Theater; 2,800 seats; $60 top. Running time: 2 HOURS...
New York City's Lincoln Center Offers $100M Issue for Capital Expansion.(News)
Magazine article from: The Bond Buyer November 12, 2008 700+ words
...Byline: Ted Phillips Lincoln Center for the Performing...Resources of the City of New York will issue the bonds...five-year term on Lincoln Center's series 2008B...America Securities LLC. Lincoln Center agreed to pay 60 basis...
'CLOUDS' to Premiere at New York City's Lincoln Center on Sept 5th.
Press release article from: PR Newswire August 29, 2000 700+ words
...winning feature film debut of New York playwright/filmmaker Don...world theatrical premiere in New York City on September 5th at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, followed by a theatrical run in New York, Los Angeles and several...
Balanchine's castle.(New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, New...
Magazine article from: New Criterion Jacobs, Laura March 1, 1998 700+ words
...winter, Jewels reappeared in New York City Ballet repertory the way...still from City Center [to the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center] and I think that was one of...part in a masterpiece. In The New York City Ballet, Lincoln Kirstein...
Meier: The Drefus Affair.(New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, New...
Magazine article from: Opera News Teachout, Terry July 1, 1996 700+ words
Meanwhile, across the plaza at Lincoln Center, the U.S. premiere of The Dreyfus. Affair (April 2...Andreas Reinhardt for Deutsche Oper Berlin and restaged for New York City Opera by Laura Alley, was agitprop of the crudest...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA