Placido Domingo Will Sing This Famous Opera For The First Time
LONDON — Placido Domingo will sing the title character in Verdi's "Nabucco" for the first time at The Royal Opera next year. The new production...
LONDON — Placido Domingo will sing the title character in Verdi's "Nabucco" for the first time at The Royal Opera next year. The new production...
AP | Posted 04.25.2012
NEW YORK — The Opera Orchestra of New York has canceled its March 7 concert performance of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" with Placido Domingo after...
Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.14.2012
While not every child today has the opportunity to dance, act, sing or play an instrument, there will always be a group of extraordinary people who have a need to express themselves and the have ability to do so. We need to continue to provide vehicles for these young artists.
John Merrow | Posted 04.11.2012
Why is the notion of trying to give poor kids the opportunities that rich kids take for granted anti-American?
David Tereshchuk | Posted 04.03.2012
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.
AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 03.18.2012
NEW YORK — Opera superstar Placido Domingo is getting ready to conduct 35 New York City schoolchildren who are studying music five days a week u...
AP | Posted 03.11.2012
JERUSALEM — Acclaimed tenor Placido Domingo has been named a winner of Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize, along with seven other American, British...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 01.07.2012
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...
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 09.28.2011
Celebrated opera star Placido Domingo has been named as chairman of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a worldwide orga...
AP | Posted 09.11.2011
NEW YORK — Musicians of the New York City Opera are staging a protest as the company announces its new season. The union members say they're be...
Jay Weston | Posted 08.21.2011
Along the Cherry Lane chronicles Milt Okun's life from his music school teaching days to singing and writing folk songs to working with some of the biggest names in music.
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 07.19.2011
NEW YORK — The New York City Opera, a pillar of American culture that for decades has built daring new productions along with the careers of sta...
Stephanie Green | Posted 07.09.2011
She may be an aging widow, but Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg proves she's still got it going on in the style department.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Ana Maria Martinez is a quintessential modern diva, juggling opera and concert dates along with her busy family life.
George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1964, when a new musical based on the tales of Sholem Aleichem began its pre-Broadway tryout in Detroit, the producers feared the show might be "to...
Posted 05.25.2011
This week, HuffPost's Arts page watched as Flight of the Conchords and The Simpsons came together for some deserved art-world-mockery, our bloggers se...
Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011
First came the play, then the Oscar-winning movie, followed by the novel, and now the opera: Daniel Catán's Il Postino. Who says the postman rings but twice?
Jay Weston | Posted 05.25.2011
I am an opera buff. Unlikely as that may seem, considering my upbringing in a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, I had the advantage of a wonderful father who loved that music (and he wasn't even Italian).
Nicole Campoy-Leffler | Posted 05.25.2011
IL POSTINO WHO: LA Opera WHAT:Il Postino, music by Daniel Catan WHEN: September 23 - October 16, 2010 WHERE: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 North Gran...
Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011
A deficit this stunning could only have happened as a result of world-class incompetence. It is a management failure without parallel in American opera history.
Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011
Just about the time the Lakers hit training camp this fall, LA Opera will return from the outer space of Achim Freyer's Ring cycle and launch a blockbuster new season.
Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.25.2011
When we hear that the American medical system is "broken," and hear that doctors here will cut off your foot or cut out your child's tonsils unnecessarily just for the fees, we should all protest.
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.25.2011
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Carol Jean Delmar | Posted 05.25.2011
Although music critics never cease to be amazed at the longevity of Placido Domingo's vocal apparatus, they are now critical of his management of LA Opera and Washington National Opera, which are both in financial disarray.
David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011
From my privileged position backstage writing Music's Biggest Night, I offer you the people My Top 11 Reasons To Watch The GRAMMY Awards Sunday night on CBS.
AP | Posted 05.14.2012