Category: music

Buffalo Philharmonic musician Martha Malkiewicz returned from a weeklong break to find that her instrument had been taken from atop a row of lockers backstage at Kleinhans Music Hall.

“Ms. Wilson, 34, made a noteworthy debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2014 singing the title role in Verdi’s Aida, and was nominated for a 2016 Olivier Award for her highly praised performance in Verdi’s Force of Destiny at English National Opera.”

“It may be the biggest unfiring in opera since Maria Callas’s New York comeback: Kathleen Battle, a prima donna whose dismissal by the Metropolitan Opera more than two decades ago made front-page news, will return to the Met next season to sing a recital of spirituals.”

“Zhang and the orchestra will be playing a mix of Russian and American music this weekend — a program that will obviously getting a bit more scrutiny than was originally intended. ‘We programmed this two years ago — we just thought it was beautiful music. No one thought it would have this much attention at all,’ she said.”

“This delicate question hovers over the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Verdi’s ‘Simon Boccanegra,’ conducted by James Levine and starring Plácido Domingo in the title role.”

“The most requested song on Kampala’s Radio One station, from listeners of all ages, is Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colours.”

In court documents seen by the BBC, Goldscheider claims that in 2012 his hearing was “irreversibly damaged” during rehearsals of Richard Wagner’s thunderous Die Walkure “from brass instruments placed immediately behind him” in the famous “pit” at the Royal Opera House.

For the last 15 years, it has operated out of a modest fourth-floor space in East Harlem, while developing big plans for a permanent home.

The sheep currently thrilling New York audiences in Louis Andriessen’s De Materie are by no means the first farm animals to triumph on the lyric stage.

“Anew crop of commissions for U.S. opera houses are focusing on the home front, adapting works that are distinctly American in scope and are set in the country.” Commenters offer a few more candidates. (includes video clips)