The popular 2010 Summer HD Festival concludes tonight with one more great screening. Come to the plaza at Lincoln Center (near Columbus and 64th) to see a free screening of one of Lincoln Center’s amazing opera performances that took place at The Metropolitan Opera, Carmen. Director Richard Eyre’s acclaimed new production of Bizet’s masterpiece stars [...]
It’s time for the 2010 season of another fabulous series at Lincoln Center. The Met’s Summer HD Festival, with a hugely popular debut in summer 2009, returns tonight, bringing screenings of ten productions from the company’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Live in HD series. The HD productions will be shown for free in Lincoln Center [...]
Come to the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (Central Park West at 79th) tonight for “Machover, Minsky, and Music in the Dome.” Legendary composer and inventor Tod Machover and Artificial Intelligence visionary Marvin Minsky explor how our brain creates and conjures thoughts, emotions and memories when they revisit their landmark [...]
Stars came out by the many to Lincoln Center (near Columbus and 64th) on Monday to enjoy the Metropolitan Opera’s premiere of Rossini’s Armida, starring Renée Fleming. The event was sponsored by Yves Saint Laurent, giving celebrities even more reason to get dressed to the nines. Above, actress Chlöe Sevigny arrives to the [...]
The New York City Opera is hosting a special event for “opera queens and cultural gays” tomorrow. “Boys’ Night at L’Étoile” is a special evening of drinks, light fare, opera, and fun socializing. Come to David H. Koch Theater (Columbus and 62nd) and see Mistress of Ceremonies Shequida, a Juilliard-trained opera singer and [...]
An Upper West Side woman is so irritated with her opera singing neighbors that she has filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court to get the noise to stop, according to the New York Post. Elizabeth Connors claims that her neighbors’ opera practice in the building next store to hers at 23 West 85th [...]
Come to the Metropolitan Opera House (near Columbus and 64th) for a special limited engagement of the opera Hansel and Gretel. The classic tale is “haunting, charming, and a little wicked.” The series is Humperdinck’s take on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, and features Miah Persson and Angelika Kirchschlager as the lost siblings and Philip [...]
Come to the Beacon Theatre (Broadway at 74th) this week to celebrate the holidays with a performance by the wildly popular multinational operatic group, Il Divo. Joining the band are special guests including Emmy and Tony-award winning Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth and international violin virtuoso Vanessa-Mae. Singing will be accompanied by the Opera Orchestra of [...]
Every year on December 7th, the world renowned opera house in Milan, La Scala, celebrates the opening night of their season, and many regard the evening as Europe’s most important cultural events. This year, the opera house opens with the popular Bizet’s Carmen, featuring Jonas Kaufmann, Erwin Schrott, Adriana Damata, and Anita Rachvelishvili. Not heading [...]
Are you an opera fan? Then come to Symphony Space (Broadway and 95th) tomorrow night for a fun opera competition. “Who Wants to be an Opera Star!” is a performance by six highly talented young opera singers and Career Bridges Prize Winners with comments and suggestions from three leading experts in opera. After the performance, [...]
