Jay Hunter Morris scored a major Met triumph last fall when he took over mere days before the premiere to sing the title role of Robert Lepage's new production of Siegfried. Now he's back for G ==>
In a major endorsement of General Director Dominique Meyer's first two years as Intendant of the Vienna State Opera, Austria's Culture Minister announced that his contract has been extended until the end of August 2020. ==>
On Nov. 4, 5 and 6 Nina Ananiashvili, one of the world's greatest Prima Ballerinas, will return to perform with 13 dancers from the State Ballet of Georgia in a program that will include three ballets all choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky. ==>
Last Wednesday evening would have been a highlight of New York artist Karen Kilimnik's year, if not for a strike that day by unions representing backstage workers at the Opera National de Paris. ==>
On New Year's Eve, the Met will usher in 2012 with The Enchanted Island, a world premiere Baroque extravaganza. The creative team and members of the cast explained what it took to bring this captivating new work to the stage. ==>
Ensemble players, chamber collaborators, soloists: in just one week in November, musicians from the New York Philharmonic are being called on to be any and all of these, as Stuart Isacoff explains. ==>
First-prize winner of the 2000 Leeds Competition and, more recently, a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, pianist Alessio Bax is a performer whose star is rapidly on the rise. His new Rachmaninov recording is due for a June 28 release in the U.S. ==>
Kristin Chenoweth, Marvin Hamlisch, Nathan Gunn and others duet with Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell on his new CD, "At Home with Friends," which is due in stores on the Sony Classical label September 29. ==>
Peter de Caluwe, director of the Brussels opera, La Monnaie (De Munt in Flemish), has been named President of the trade organization Opera Europa. He was elected during the October conference in Warsaw, Poland. ==>
Violinist Leila Josefowicz returns to The Philadelphia Orchestra as Artist-in-Residence. ==>
For his first season as music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra—beginning in October 2012— Yannick Nezet-Seguin promises a breathtaking range of music.
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The Cinderella that Houston Ballet will revive in February, the one Stanton Welch originally choreographed for The Australian Ballet in 1997, is dark. And Cinderella does not end up with the prince.
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