Meryl Streep will play Maria Callas in a filmed version of Terrence McNally‘s play Master Class. New York Post’s Page Six reported that HBO would start filming in January of 2015. Mike Nichols – who directed Streep in Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge and Angels in America – will team up again with the Oscar-laden actress for this project….
There are comebacks and comebacks: the rather sad, end-of-the-pier affair, because money’s run out and there’s alimony to pay; the small cameo ‘because I miss the applause’; and Alessandra Ferri. Ferri’s various comeback projects are classy with a piece being created for her by Martha Clarke based on Colette’s novel Cherì with ABT’s Herman Cornejo, a new ballet about Eleonora…
The Los Angeles Times asked Patti Lupone to name four people who have influenced her artistically: Edith Piaf I’m an Italian and my emotions are just under my skin…. There’s just a purity and rawness in her singing that goes straight to my heart and my gut and it always has. There’s such expression in…
Broadway stars Patti LuPone and Barbara Cook joined director Francis Ford Coppola and playwright John Guare on Sunday to present this year’s Opera News Awards. Five artists were recognized for their international musical achievements: German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, American soprano Patricia Racette, New Zealand soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel and Italian conductor…
Maria Callas was someone I’ve thought about since I was a very young person when I first heard her voice on the radio growing up in Texas. I fell in love with the sound of her voice. She has fascinated me. And then her life! That kind of inner turmoil of falling in love with…
The role of Mama Rose in “Gypsy” has always attracted great divas, from Ethel Merman to Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly to Patti LuPone. And now comes word that the greatest diva of them all — Barbra Streisand — is next in line. Streisand is deep in negotiations to direct, produce and star in a movie version…
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