Franco Zeffirelli's 1981 production of Puccini's "La Bohème" is the only Metropolitan Opera production in which the Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu will appear this season. But that doesn't mean her performance won't be widely viewed. On Saturday, the matinee performance of the production will be transmitted in HD to more than 500 movie theaters around the world. Mimì was Ms. Gheorghiu's debut
Richard Wagner's "Goetterdaemmerung" and "Das Rheingold" are among the four new productions being staged by the Vienna State Opera for its coming season ahead of a full staging of the German master's Ring Cycle.
Vienna State Opera, one of the world's most prestigious opera houses, unveiled its programme for next season on Thursday and announced it would introduce a total smoking ban from September and raise ticket prices for the first time since 1999.
Tenor Kaludi Kaludov and baritone Niko Isakov will perform the lead parts. During the NATO Summit, the activity of the National Opera will host a fabulous event.
AVERY FISHER HALL:The New York Philharmonic performs a program including Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 and Vaughn Williams' Fourth Symphony today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. Lincoln Center; (212) 875-5656. BARGEMUSIC:I Musici de Montreal chamber
Basso Eric Owens, who sings the first and last big numbers in the Opera Company of Philadelphia production of "Norma," took advantage of virtually every one of Philadelphia's musical stepping-stones to stardom while growing up in Mount Airy.
Arizona Repertory Singers are celebrating America's musical spirit in their spring "Made in America" concert series. The 50-voice mixed choir will perform works by the giants of 20th-century American composing Randall Thompson ("Alleluia"), Samuel Barber ("Reincarnations") and Morten Lauridsen ("Les Chansons des Roses") among them. The program also includes Daniel Pinkham's "Wedding Cantata."
La commedia may finally be finita. By now, it's no state secret that Opera Cleveland's first season last year was as operatic offstage as on. Revolving-door syndrome struck early. The new company said goodbye to recently arrived artistic and executive directors and its principal conductor.
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