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The Artist Vs. The Critic

Howard Sherman | Posted 05.24.2012

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Howard Sherman

Artists writing to newspapers to complain about reviews is hardly a new phenomenon. However, in my experience, it's an impotent gesture at best and a counterproductive one at worst.

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Singer Bows Out Mid-Opera

AP | Posted 04.22.2012

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NEW YORK -- Natalie Dessay needed a relief soprano at the Metropolitan Opera. After struggling through the first act of Verdi's "La Traviata" on Satu...

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People Like Opera, Virtually

AP | Posted 04.16.2012

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NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera in New York has reached a landmark in its movie-theater broadcasts from the stage to the world: 10 million tic...

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The Understudy Steps In For 'La Traviata.' How'd She Do?

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 04.08.2012

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NEW YORK — Last season Willy Decker's radical restaging of Verdi's "La Traviata" took the Metropolitan Opera by storm, with soprano Marina Popla...

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How 'The Ring' Was Staged

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 04.04.2012

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When Richard Wagner wrote his Ring Cycle, did he dream of a giant steel machine twisting and sliding on stage? Probably not. But the Metropolitan O...

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Soprano Fills Title Role In 'Aida' At Last Minute

AP | By RONALD BLUM | Posted 04.30.2012

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NEW YORK -- Sometimes opera performances come together best with little rehearsal. Having flown in from Toronto the previous night for a costume fitt...

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'Rigoletto' At The Met Opera: Company Abandons Luc Bondy For Vegas Version

AP | By RONALD BLUM | Posted 02.23.2012

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NEW YORK -- The Metropolitan Opera has abandoned a new production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" by director Luc Bondy, whose grim version of Puccini's "Tosca...

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The 'Ring' Cycle Ends, Disappoints

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 03.29.2012

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NEW YORK — Sometimes less is more, and sometimes it's just ... less. That was the mixed verdict as Robert Lepage brought his high-tech producti...

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Amy Lee

The Mash-Up Of The Opera World

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 01.07.2012

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Famous singers, a score that plays like a mash-up of greatest hits and a plot that takes two famous romances and mixes them together -- no, it's not t...

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'Faust' Performer Hurt In 8-Foot Fall During Show

AP | Posted 02.17.2012

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NEW YORK — Mezzo-soprano Wendy White has been hospitalized after falling about eight feet from a platform to the stage during a performance of C...

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'Hansel And Gretel' Opera Is A Dark Look At Hunger And Food

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 02.16.2012

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NEW YORK — "Is the witch really dead now?" my 6-year-old seatmate, Claudia, leaned over anxiously to ask. Hansel and Gretel had just shoved the...

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Met Opera Music Director Out For 2012-2013 Season

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.09.2011

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NEW YORK — The music director of New York's Metropolitan Opera will take a break from conducting for the rest of the company's current season and th...

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The Show Must Go On

Susanne Mentzer | Posted 12.20.2011

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Susanne Mentzer

Some theaters, like the Met, have at least one or more covers for each solo role. My own Met debut in 1989 came when I was contracted to cover Anne Sofie von Otter for four performances (her debut) and then sing four of my own.

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Met Opera's Music Director Cancels All Fall Performances

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 11.06.2011

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The end of an era: James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera's musical director, has canceled his fall performances. According to the Met's press releas...

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Amy Lee

The Met Brings Opera To The Movies

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 10.29.2011

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Richard Nixon is watching ballet in Beijing with Chairman Mao as wife Pat Nixon looks on with her hands clasped to her face. A young girl is beaten un...

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More 'Tosca' Trouble At The Met

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Puccini's "Tosca" has run into more bumps. Spokesman Peter Clark says baritone George Gagnid...

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Met Opera BOOED: 'Tosca' Performance Outrages Crowd

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — When was there last an opening night quite like this at the staid old Metropolitan Opera? It had just about everything: a new produc...

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Culture Zohn: Be Afraid, Be Very, Very Afraid!

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patricia Zohn

2008-09-05-20080905BrundleVeronica3_pull.jpg David Cronenberg and Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore have gotten together to reconceive The Fly for the LA Opera.

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