Opera (genre)

They conduct classical, but they love pop and rock too

2013-01-05 05:00:00

Ever wonder what longhairs listen to when they let their hair down? Once upon a time, when conductors were regarded as remote intellectual titans, no one would have thought to ask. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, once described...

Kinsley: For love of 'Downton Abbey'

2012-12-06 00:00:00

As an Anglophile, I'm as pathetic as the next chap. My idea of a good time is to be in London, drinking at lunch with some well-lubricated British journalist friends, stumbling out when it's getting dark, tea at a fancy hotel and then theater in the...

Review: Zubin Mehta re-creates a night 50 years ago

2012-12-14 17:29:00

Zubin Mehta was not in exactly unfamiliar circumstances, either standing in front of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Thursday night or in receiving honors. He first faced this orchestra more than half a century ago as a 24-year-old guest conductor. The...

'Butterfly' subtext in 'Fatal Attraction' still can't be ignored

2012-11-28 13:49:00

A man has a casual affair with a woman and then dumps her. The woman, now with child, longs for his return but is coldly rebuffed. Humiliated and left with nothing to live for, she kills herself with a sharp blade to the throat. The story of Puccini's...

Prospect Park to revive 'All My Children,' 'One Life to Live'

2013-01-07 14:06:00

The production company Prospect Park, having secured agreements with Hollywood guilds, plans to revive the canceled ABC soap operas "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" as Web productions. "We are pleased to confirm that Prospect Park is reviving...

2012 in review: A rebel scene arises in classical music world

2012-12-14 14:00:00

It's been a year of hand-wringing at arts institutions on both sides of the Atlantic. The world economy has been particularly effective in scarifying orchestras and opera companies. In the United States, several orchestras are in various states of...

PASSINGS: Galina Vishnevskaya, Lisa della Casa, Paul Rauch

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Galina Vishnevskaya Russian opera singer, wife of Rostropovich Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, a world-renowned Russian opera diva who with her husband defied the Soviet regime to give shelter to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and suffered exile from her...

Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Two and a Half Men' on CBS

2012-12-12 20:05:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES The Big Bang Theory:� Sheldon (Jim Parsons) revisits his special Christmas memories, while Amy, Penny and Bernadette (Mayim...

Patrick Stewart: ‘Next Generation,’ ‘X-Men’ and Hollywood history

2012-12-26 07:23:31

Soprano Lisa della Casa, an opera beauty, dies at 93

2012-12-11 07:19:00

Lisa della Casa, a Swiss-born soprano known for her sweet voice and exquisite elegance, has died at 93, the Vienna Opera announced Tuesday. The late English music critic Sir Neville Cardus reportedly once said of Della Casa that one should go to her...

Critic's Notebook: Gustavo Dudamel wraps up an ambitious year

2013-01-01 00:00:00

NEW YORK — The hair jokes may have grown old, what with a slight fleck of gray peeking through his now shortened and tamed curls. The Dude nickname is pretty much over as well. And no longer is Gustavo Dudamel as tempted to head for Pink's hot dog...

'Les Miserables' aims to hit high note in history of film musicals

2012-12-24 13:36:00

This story has been updated. See below. Few things are more carefully choreographed than a movie musical, but director Tom Hooper wanted to steep his big-screen adaptation of "Les Mis�rables" in some gritty reality. So he took a page from Ridley Scott's...

Grand opera's most enduringly popular tear-jerker returns to the Lyric for two series of winter performances, each with a different pair of central lovers. Mimi in the January-February series will be sung by Ana Maria Martinez, with Dimitri Pittas making his house debut as Rodolfo.

2013-01-04 00:00:00

Take my diva, please! Lyric Opera collaborates for the first time with the world-renowned Chicago comedy troupe in a comedy-with-music revue featuring soprano Renee Fleming (Lyric's creative consultant) and actor Patrick Stewart (�Star Trek,� �X-Men�).

2013-01-02 14:55:00

The German baritone died in May at 86. Throughout his career, he championed German lieder, or songs, by Schubert, Mahler and other composers. He appeared at opera houses around the world and sang operas by Mozart, Wagner and many others.

2012-12-27 12:57:28