Singer and songwriter Rufus Wainwright’s first opera ‘Prima Donna’ is set to premiere in the UK this July. After it was turned away from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Rufus has secured a spot at the Manchester’s Palace Theatre as part of the Manchester International Festival. The opera was rejected at the Met because [...]
‘Brokeback Mountain? is to become an opera.The Oscar-winning film, which starred the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, is to be adapted by New York City Opera. Composer Charles Wuorinen, who is working on the show, said: ?Ever since encountering Annie Proulx’s extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it [...]
Bon Jovi, Jerry Seinfeld, Brian Wilson and Andrea Bocelli, among others, will perform in various New York City venues throughout 2008 as part of the inaugural Stand Up For A Cure concert series, designed to raise funds and awareness for lung cancer research at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In the week [...]
Legendary opera singer Luciano Pavarotti was believed to have had a fortune of more than $400 million when he passed but according to new reports, he was in debt for more than $24 million. Ha ha, so much for his two wills oh no sorry lost the count three and third one being the only [...]
Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, who has been battling cancer, has left hospital after more than two weeks of treatment. The 71-year-old tenor was admitted to hospital in Modena, Italy, on 8 August with a fever, and has since had tests related to his pancreatic cancer. Frankly speaking I do not have much idea about this [...]
Joseph Kaiser will make his Metropolitan Opera debut Oct. 3, taking over from tenor Rolando Villazon opposite Anna Netrebko in Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette.” Kaiser also will sing at the Met on Oct. 6 and Oct. 11. The Met announced last week that Roberto Alagna would sing on Sept. 25 and Sept. 29 in place [...]
More than 30 years after his seminal “Tommy” and “Quadrophenia,” The Who’s Pete Townshend has written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a theater festival in New York this weekend. Townshend, 62, who wrote over 100 songs for the classic British rock band The Who as well Tommy” in [...]
Celebrated tenor Jerry Hadley remained hospitalized Thursday for a gunshot wound police said was self-inflicted. Hadley created the title role in composer John Harbison’s “The Great Gatsby” at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as the lead in Paul McCartney’s “Liverpool Oratorio.” Leonard Bernstein chose him to sing the main part in a 1989 production of [...]
Pavarotti had surgery for pancreatic cancer last year Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, who is battling pancreatic cancer, is “very positive” and recording a new album, according to his manager. Terri Robson dismissed a story in Italian magazine Diva e Donna which claimed one of Pavarotti’s daughters said he knew he would “die soon”. Ms Robson [...]
How lazy can you get when the matter concerns your profession? Shirley Bassey certainly likes being lazy when it comes to being an Opera singer and the reason behind it is she was too lazy to put in the practice. The Goldfinger hitmaker – who has performed the title songs for three James Bond movies [...]
New York-based filmmaker Woody Allen is to direct a Los Angeles Opera production later this year. Why would an Academy Award winning director wanna direct a LA Opera? Folks, Hollywood are not churning well enough scripts for the man to get interested and then what?s bad with having a profile that includes directing a LA [...]
