Pressure mounts for San Francisco Ballet to cancel Trump Kennedy Center appearance
Pressure mounts on San Francisco Ballet to rethink its Washington performances as criticism swirls around President Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center.
Renée Fleming
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Interview: Angela Gheorghiu, betrayed by Pappano and Kaufmann, and still loving Alagna
Angela Gheorghiu never hides her true thoughts… here she talks about Callas, Pappano, Kaufmann, Alagna’s jealousy and her present happiness.
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Dance impresario Daniele Cipriani to direct the Spoleto Festival
The Italian Minister of Culture has nominated dance impresario Daniele Cipriani to direct the Spoleto Festival from 2026.
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Interview with mezzo soprano Rihab Chaieb – from goths to Mozart, Tunisia to Glyndebourne – a life of contrast
Glyndebourne’s Carmen, Rihab Chaieb, gives an upfront interview about life and career so far – heavy metal, opera, and Arabic music, her dog and her voice.
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Misty Copeland and Stevie Wonder receive the Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance
Misty Copeland and Stevie Wonder rewarded for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance.
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The Met: Live at Home – new streaming platform makes opera simulcasts available at home
‘The Met: Live at Home’ is a new streaming platform for those who do not have access to participating cinemas for the Met’s Live in HD transmissions.
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Jacquelyn Wagner answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Jacquelyn Wagner answers the Gramilano Questionnaire reflecting on her life, career, passions, thoughts and opinions.
When did you start singing?
I always sang as a kid – operatically, even though I had no idea what an opera was – and my parents encouraged me a lot. I started singing solos in church when I was 10, and really seriously studying when I was 14.
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Lawrence Brownlee answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… singers’ edition!
Q&A When and why did you start singing? When I was a kid… I come from a musical family, and so music has always been a part of who I am. But I got serious about singing in high school when people told me girls would think I was cute. So my love for singing…
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Joyce DiDonato joins opera singers from 70 years of Desert Island Discs
As a committed fan of BBC 4’s Desert Island Discs, I am delighted that Joyce DiDonato will be revealing her list of eight recordings, a book and a luxury item that she would take if she was to be cast away on a desert island. Of course, it’s the chat between the music that is the captivating aspect…
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Renée Fleming to perform world premiere of Kevin Puts’ song cycle, Letters from Georgia
Letters from Georgia is based on the letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and the work will be premiered at Eastman Theater in Rochester on 12 November and then at Lincoln Center‘s Alice Tully Hall on 14 November. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts wrote the cycle especially for, and in close collaboration with, Renée Fleming using O’Keeffe’s letters, written mainly to her…
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ROYAL OPERA SEASON 2016 – 2017: theatre, cinema and radio
All the details of the 2016-2017 Opera Season at London’s Royal Opera House: skip to section: ROYAL OPERA 2016-2017 SEASON – IN BRIEF THE ROYAL OPERA 2016-2017 SEASON THE ROYAL OPERA SEASON 2016-2017 – IN FULL BBC RADIO 3 AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LIVE CINEMA SEASON ROYAL OPERA 2016-2017 SEASON…
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s 100th birthday celebrated with remastered recordings
The 100th birthday of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf falls on 9 December 2015. She died in 2006, but her recordings are a timeless treasure of the Warner Classics catalogue, like those of her contemporary and friend, Maria Callas. The 31-CD deluxe box set, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: The Complete Recitals 1952-1974, to be released on 6 November, gathers together all the…
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Stream Opera brings popular and rare delights to your PC
If you haven’t heard of StreamOpera – and you’re interested in opera – then visit their site to enrich your Christmas hols, as it is full of exciting and unusual titles which can be streamed to your computer. The Italian opera site is run by Videoerre which has published over 2,000 videos in collaboration with Italian State Television,…
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Luca Pisaroni: Do I miss Italy? No.
Luca Pisaroni is one of the best known Italian voices on the international opera circuit. He sings in all the important opera houses, except for those in Italy. He’s not the first Italian artist to be largely ignored in his homeland (think Cecilia Bartoli!) but it is extraordinary to think that his last opera appearance…
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Opera singer Rosalind Plowright comments on booing Bartoli at La Scala
Renée Fleming described it as the worst night of her operatic life, after Celeste Aida Roberto Alagna gave a military salute and walked off stage, Katia Ricciarelli quit the opera house refusing to come back, and Callas, Pavarotti, Verrett, Caballé and many others have all been on the receiving end. Being booed by the loggionisti at Milan‘s Teatro alla Scala…
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La Scala’s Makhar Vaziev: It’s our first time in Oman, but we really hope it isn’t our last”
When Makhar Vaziev, the artistic director of Milan‘s Scala Ballet, first received an invitation for the company to perform at a new opera house in Muscat, he admits he drew a blank. Honestly, when we received the invitation from Oman, we weren’t sure what to do because we really didn’t know anything about the place….
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