City Opera News
-
Red roses and gold trim decked the Waldorf Astoria ballroom last night at the Boston College Wall Street Council black-tie dinner, which raised $2.7 million for scholarships.
-
Fiona Shaw plays the mother of God, the Tribeca Film Festival is under way and flash Brit band Muse brings “The 2nd Law” to our area.
-
Glyndebourne’s hit 2005 production of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” sailed into the Metropolitan Opera last Thursday, dropping the original Cleopatra and Julius Caesar along the way.
-
The New York City Opera , which just reported a $19.9 million deficit in 2008-09, paid Gerard Mortier $400,000 for his stint as part-time general-manager in-waiting.
-
The New York City Opera renewed the contract of its general manager and artistic director, George Steel, as the company continued on its uncertain path into a diminished future.
-
In a protest as melodious as it was rueful, New York City Opera musicians and singers took to the sidewalk outside Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to pan General Manager George Steel’s plan to vacate the David H. Koch Theater for an undisclosed location or locations.
-
The only prop absent yesterday from the protests against the New York City Opera’s announcement of its 2011-2012 season was an inflatable gray rat.
-
Unions representing New York City Opera singers and musicians petitioned New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman yesterday to block the company’s plan to leave Lincoln Center.
-
Imagine opera singers accompanied by Klezmer musicians, a rock and roll band or Yo-Yo Ma.
-
Unions representing New York City Opera singers and musicians said yesterday that they have lost confidence in artistic director and general manager George Steel.
|
|
Most Popular on Bloomberg
|
| |