Franco Zeffirelli's glittering production of Puccini's Turandot returns on October 28 with Maria Guleghina in the title role and Marcello Giordani as Calàf, both singing these demanding roles for the first time in their Met careers. Marina Poplavskaya and Samuel Ramey make company role debuts as Liù and Timur respectively, and conductor Andris Nelsons makes his Met debut.
Bartlett Sher?s hit production of Rossini?s comic masterpiece, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (?The Barber of Seville?), returns to the Met stage on October 3. Joyce DiDonato stars in the role of Rosina, with Barry Banks in his first Met performances as Count Almaviva and Rodion Pogossov in his company role debut as Figaro. John Del Carlo sings the role of Dr. Bartolo, and Orlin Anastassov makes his Met role debut as Don Basilio. Maurizio Benini conducts.
Choice Theatricals and in association with Vital Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of Tony Glazer's new play, In the Daylight, directed by John Gould Rubin. Performances will begin on Tuesday, September 8th; opening on Sunday, September 20th and will run through October 11th, 2009 at the McGinn Cazale Theatre (2162 Broadway, 4th floor at 76th Street).
Choice Theatricals and in association with Vital Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of Tony Glazer's new play, In the Daylight, directed by John Gould Rubin. Performances will begin on Tuesday, September 8th; opening on Sunday, September 20th and will run through October 11th, 2009 at the McGinn Cazale Theatre (2162 Broadway, 4th floor at 76th Street).
The Hartt Symphony Orchestra, Hartt Choruses, and New Haven Chorale join together to present GRANT US PEACE. Dramatic readings will link musical metaphors for life's potential, the tragedy of war, and the universal longing for peace. Two concerts will take place. The first concert is Thursday April 30, 2009, at 7.30 PM at the Belding Theater, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Hartford. For tickets, call 860.987.5900. The second concert is on Saturday, May 2, 2009, 7.30 PM, in Woolsey Hall, New Haven. For tickets to the New Haven concert, please call 203.776.SONG (7664), or visit Books and Company in Hamden, Foundry Music in New Haven, or R J Julia in Madison.
The Hartt Symphony Orchestra, Hartt Choruses, and New Haven Chorale join together to present GRANT US PEACE. Dramatic readings will link musical metaphors for life's potential, the tragedy of war, and the universal longing for peace. Two concerts will take place. The first concert is Thursday April 30, 2009, at 7.30 PM at the Belding Theater, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Hartford. For tickets, call 860.987.5900. The second concert is on Saturday, May 2, 2009, 7.30 PM, in Woolsey Hall, New Haven. For tickets to the New Haven concert, please call 203.776.SONG (7664), or visit Books and Company in Hamden, Foundry Music in New Haven, or R J Julia in Madison.
Kirsten Chavez will sing the role of Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Met on January 14, replacing Stephanie Blythe, who is ill.
Director-choreographer Mark Morris's much-lauded 2007 production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice returns to the repertoire, with Stephanie Blythe taking on one of the pinnacles of the mezzo-soprano repertory, the role of Orfeo, for the first time in her career. Soprano Danielle de Niese, an acclaimed singer of eighteenth-century music and a graduate of the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, sings Euridice for the first time at the Met. Heidi Grant Murphy returns as Amor, which she performed at the production's premiere in 2007.
Heather Goldenhersh and Paul Sparks will star in Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense at Playwrights Horizons
Producer Jeffrey Finn announced today that Academy Award-winning film and stage star Hayley Mills will join legendary star Richard Chamberlain to headline the upcoming National Tour of the beloved play ON GOLDEN POND. The 30-week tour of the two-time 2005 Tony Award-nominated production will launch September 5, 2006 in Fort Worth, Texas at Bass Performance Hall. A complete list of touring cities and venues will be announced in the coming weeks.
The tour of the two-time 2005 Tony Award-nominated production will launch September 2006.
The Public Theater, George C. Wolfe, producer; Mara Manus, executive director, announces the New York premiere of THE CONTROVERSY OF VALLADOLID, an exciting new masterwork by French playwright and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière that brings to life the stunning real-life debates of the Catholic Church in the 16th century, as it tried to determine whether or not natives an ocean away were indeed human.
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