Muhly commissioned to write Internet-themed opera

2010-02-22T09:49:36Z

<div id="subtitle">Nico Muhly commissioned by Met and ENO to write Internet-themed opera</div><div><p>Talk about modern opera.</p><p>Nico Muhly, a 28-year-old composer based in New York, has been commissioned to create a fictionalized account of a British teenager who used the Internet in an attempt to arrange his ...

NY's Met Opera announces new season, budget cuts

2010-03-02T01:25:38Z

<div id="subtitle">NYC's Metropolitan Opera scales back 2009-2010 season because of worsening economy</div><div><p>The Metropolitan Opera announced eight new productions Tuesday for its 2009-2010 season — including a rarely heard Verdi work with costumes by Italian fashion legend

APNewsBreak: Met Opera to cut `Ghosts'

2010-03-01T20:23:00Z

<div id="subtitle">APNewsBreak: Met Opera to cut `The Ghosts of Versailles' to cut costs</div><div><p>The Metropolitan Opera is giving up "The Ghosts."</p><p>Cutting costs in the wake of the economic downturn, the Met is dropping next season's highly anticipated revival of Robert Lepage prepared for Wagner's Ring Cycle in Las Vegas</div><div><p>To prepare for his Metropolitan Opera debut, Robert Lepage went to Las Vegas.</p><p>The Canadian director perfected "the toys...

Streetwise Met kickstarts revival with Puccini on the pavement

2010-03-02T05:29:53Z

<div><p>It is unclear whether Giacomo Puccini would have been weeping or cheering in his grave. He might well have been dismayed by the acoustic competition his Madame Butterfly was facing from honking New York taxi drivers. He would have winced at the visual clash between the singers' Japanese costumes and flashing neon adverts for

From pop to opera: petrified Rufus Wainwright embraces 'the dark religion'

2010-02-27T18:39:48Z

<div><p>Rufus Wainwright's plangent, melancholic pop songs, pulsating with emotion and drama, might be said to have an operatic perfume about them. And now the singer-songwriter is going the whole way - composing a two-act, two-hour opera for four singers and full orchestra, to be premiered in Manchester next year.</p><p>"I wa...

Met Opera opening a formal affair, even from afar

2010-02-28T10:17:48Z