Metropolitan Opera

The Artist Vs. The Critic

Howard Sherman | Posted 05.24.2012

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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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NEA Has No Love For PBS

AP | Posted 04.26.2012

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NEW YORK — The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded significantly smaller grants to established PBS programs this year. "Live From Linco...

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National Endowment For The Arts Sharply Cuts PBS Grants

The New York Times | ELIZABETH JENSEN | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Pbs, Neal Shaper, Bps Newshour, Metropolitan Opera, Alyce Myatt, Great Performances at the Met, Betsy Voice, Independent Lens, Pov, Paula Kerger, American Masters, Live From Lincoln Center, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Media News

The National Endowment for the Arts made sweeping cuts in its support of established PBS shows on Wednesday, and for the first time awarded significan...

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Dynamic Pricing: Fair or Foul

Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Not-for-Profits, Non-Profits, Arts Management, Arts, Demand-Based Pricing, Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, Ticket Costs, Dynamic Pricing, Arts News

Despite the heartfelt concerns expressed by those who find this form of pricing abhorrent, dynamic pricing has won many converts.

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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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(Video) The Metropolitan Opera Now Streaming 400 Performances on the iPad

Andy Plesser | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Clasical Music, Metropolitan Opera, Brightcove, Opera, Ipad, Video, Culture News

The Metropolitan Opera, which has been streaming performances on demand on the Web since 2008, recently released an iPad App featuring the institutio...

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How 'The Ring' Was Staged

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 04.04.2012

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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A Nun-Turned-Prostitute Story Done Right

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 03.27.2012

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NEW YORK -- Unlike some recent productions that bury the music in hyperactive theatrics, the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Manon" comes aliv...

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On the Culture Front: A New Generation of New Yorker Cartoonists, No Place to Go, and more

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Jimmy's No. 43, Tribes, An Iliad, David Cromer, Manon, New Yorker, No Place to Go, Denis O'Hare, New York Theatre Workshop, Sixpoint Craft Ales, Benares, Taylor Mac, Ethan Lipton, Bianca Leigh, Joe's Pub, Jasper Hill Farm, NY Around Town, New York News

Singer/songwriter/playwright Ethan Lipton evokes the pain of being displaced from one's job and world, both literary and metaphorically as his character's job in No Place to Go is being relocated to Mars.

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Classical YouTube Gems: The Performance That Earned A 20 Minute Encore

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 03.15.2012

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In a new occasional series, we'll comb the depths of YouTube to bring you the best classical music and opera gems lurking out there. You go to You...

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On the Culture Front: Belle de Jour Comes to Blu-ray and Anthony Minghella's Madama Butterfly Returns to the Met

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Anthony Minghella, Madama Butterfly, Belle De Jour, Catherine Deneuve, Luis Bunuel, Blu-Ray, Criterion, NY Around Town, New York News

I never quite understood the thrill of Blu-ray until I watched Criterion's new release of Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour.

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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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How Soprano Angela Meade Lost And Won The National Council Auditions

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 04.22.2012

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NEW YORK — The story of soprano Angela Meade's "overnight success" at the Metropolitan Opera is well known: She wins the National Council Auditi...

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The Met's Most Prolific Singer Dies At 82

AP | By RONALD BLUM | Posted 02.16.2012

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NEW YORK -- Character singer Charles Anthony, who set the record for most appearances at the Metropolitan Opera – 2,928 – during a career ...

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Aida Redeemed! Here's Why...

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 04.11.2012

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NEW YORK — In 1872, a dissatisfied opera-goer who had attended a performance of Verdi's "Aida" in Parma, Italy, wrote to the composer asking for...

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Like & Dislike List: Back to the Future on Broadway, Office Spin-Off, New Hunger Games and More!

Kris LoPresto | Posted 04.04.2012

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Like: The Ferris Bueller Honda Super Bowl Spot. Over 10 million views and counting! For a commercial! Does anyone not love this spot?

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Mixed-Media Extravaganza -- and a Global Message

David Tereshchuk | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Danielle De Niese, Anti-Colonialism, Placido Domingo, Mixed Media, The Enchanted Island, Kenya, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Video, Arts News

New York's Metropolitan Opera is currently wowing much of its faithful audience and, as hoped, enticing a newer public with its decidedly multimedia -- and multi-sourced -- confection, The Enchanted Island.

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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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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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The Ring Arrives

Peter Gelb | Posted 02.29.2012

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Little did I realize when I approached Robert Lepage six years ago to invite him to direct a new Ring that we would be unleashing the most challenging production in the history of the Met.

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Classical Music In 2011: Ape Opera, Gehry In Miami, OWS And More

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Year-in-Review, Metropolitan Opera, Frank Gehry, Occupy Lincoln Center, Opera, Opera 2011, City Opera, Dr Dee, Shostakovich, New World Symphony, Classical Music, Video, Karen O Opera, New York City Opera, Orange, Damon Albarn Opera, Franz Liszt, Classical Music 2011, Liszt Bicentennial, Slidepollajax, James Levine, Rufus Wainwright, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Liszt, Turn of the Screw, Stop the Virgens, Philip Glass, Culture News

To evaluate classical music in 2011 shows us a divided land. One troubling trend shows the continued financial struggles of classical music organizati...

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Inspired To Inspire

Danielle de Niese | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Danielle De Niese, Opera, Arts News

In the age we live in, where everything moves so fast, when instant gratification is considered a virtue, and when faster is usually better, it's a true gift when we are captivated -- when we simply stand still and witness a moment of inspiration.

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The Met's New Faust

Howard Kissel | Posted 01.30.2012

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For a star-studded -- Jonas Kaufman, Marina Poplovskaya and Rene Pape -- new production of Charles Gounod's Faust, Met managing director Peter Gelb continues his habit of bringing directors from the contemporary theater. In this case it's Des MacAnuff.

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Totem -- An Artistic Triumph for Cirque du Soleil

George Heymont | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Carl Fillion, Pedro Pires, Guy Laliberté, Guy Dubuc, Metropolitan Opera, Marc Lessard, Kym Barrett, Rosalie Ducharme, Cirque Du Soleil, Robert Lepage, Louis-David Simoneau, Totem, Video, Arts News

Not only does Cirque du Soleil's Totem deal with the process that allowed man to take his first steps, it also marks a turning point in the company's artistic standards.

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