Tosca

Pope Donates Gigantic Chocolate Easter Egg

AP | Posted 04.04.2012

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VATICAN CITY -- The Easter Bunny has arrived early at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI was presented Wednesday with an enormous, 250-kilogram (550-poun...

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Astoria Characters: The Svelte Soprano

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Strauss, Butler University, Puccini, Astoria, Rene Fleming, Jenny Searles, Soprano, Tosca, Opera Singer, Wagner, Real Estate Agent, Carnegie Hall, Zionsville Indiana, Kennedy Center, Piano, Violin, Symphony, Metropolitan Opera, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Even when she's not on stage, Jenny, a Valkyrie whose waves of golden ringlets cascade down her shoulders, has quite a stage presence. Runway-model slim, she stands nearly six feet tall in her flat gold sandals.

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Soprano Patricia Racette Talks About Tosca as Washington National Opera Launches its Fall Season

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: The Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Susan Dormady Eisenberg

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Is Sharing a Good Thing After All?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts Management, Carmen, Franco Zeffirelli, La Bohème, Eugene Berman, Die Meistersinger, Tristan Und Isolde, Opera, Don Giovanni, La Forza Del Destino, Le Nozze Di Figaro, Tosca, Aida, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

There is no doubt that sharing productions allows an opera company to show more new works than when every company builds each of its own productions. But is something lost in this endeavor? I think so.

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Stage Door: Venus In Fur, Tosca E Le Altre Due

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theater, Off-Broadway, Sadomasochism, Entertainment, Puccini, Opera, Tosca, New York News
Fern Siegel

The new show at the CSC is a smart, provocative, clever adaptation of a 19th-century erotic tale of power and submission. It deserves an extended run and a wider audience.

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Culture Zohn: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann), or, a Four-Way Gets Complicated

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Jacques Offenbach, Contes D'Hoffman, ETA Hoffman, Anna Netrebko, Tales of Hoffman, The Nutcracker, Outsiders, Roman Polanski, Tosca, Coppelia, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2009-12-03-netreb.jpgCharles Fabius, former director of artistic programming of the Paris Opera, helps me lay out the complexities of the new opera at the Met.

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Summer's End

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Weather, Belmont Harbor, Election Day, Acis and Galatea, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Election Day 2008, Elisabeth Futral, Music-of-the-Baroque, Tosca, Harris Theater, Jane Glover, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

This chilly fall is premature, I think. While technically we are in the autumn, we should remember that on election day last Nov. 4 we were basking i...

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Peter Gelb and His Met: No Booing Please

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Finkle

What occurs to me about the booing is that it might begin to color attitudes towards the Met under Peter Gelb for whom this 2009-10 season is the first with no vestigial ties to Joseph Volpe.

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Obama and the K Street Set

Thomas Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, K Street, Hope, Lobbyists, Tom Daschle, Steve Elmendorf, Shepard Fairey, Barack Obama, Tosca, Politics News
Thomas Frank

Barack Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

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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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Tosca in Times Square, or, the Piazza di Nuova York

Alex Henry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy, Metropolitan Opera, Karita Mattila, Tosca, Times Square, Luc Bondy, San Pellegrino, Peter Gelb, Franco Zeffirelli, New York News
Alex Henry

Having gone just to witness the scene, I stayed for the second and third acts, foraging for some pizza and Pellegrino at one of the intermissions to complete the Italian effect.

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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 Off the C(H)uff: Milena Canonero, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer Collaborates at the Metropolitan Opera

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Costume Design, Karita Mattila, Metropolitan-Opera, Luc Bondy, Milena Canonero, Tosca, Opera, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2009-09-21-zohnbox.jpg "In opera after the first night you don't know what will happen; it's a moveable feast!"

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To the Presidential Candidates....Debate This!

Deirdre Imus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Deirdre Imus

No question, the energy and economic crisis affect us all. But noticeably absent from the primaries and now the presidential debates have been any discussions about America's children.

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