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Here is the second part of the José +10 Adidas commercial that has been running during the broadcasts of the World Cup Games. It's a re...

We are now less than a month away from the opening of the 2006 Bayreuth Festival and the new production of The Ring , which will be directe...

The first part of the Adidas commercial that is being run during the World Cup coverage. The greatest fantasy football ever played. I'l...

Last week I went to see Giselle in order to see Cuban dancer Xiomara Reyes , and instead found myself at one of the the last performances o...

The American musical is not dead, let's get that out of the way right now! What is dead, buried and pretty much decomposing is the cultu...

My first Tony Awards Ceremony was really memorable. The seats were great, and the program itself was very enjoyable, probably more enjoyab...

The Tony Awards are this Sunday -- and I'm going! I'll be attending the broadcast for the first time, and I am looking forward to ...

The book Bayreuth, A History of the Wagner Festival is one of the best written accounts of the history of this famous institution. The oper...

The Festival Management of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus has announced the following cast lists for the Bayreuth Festival 2006 . These lists a...

It started at 5:30 pm in the house, and it ended about six hours later. On the radio, WQXR started at 8:00 pm in the East Coast and the br...

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It seems to me that if you have a product to sell these days that has something to do, even vaguely, with the Holy Grail, that your numbers ...

After much gossip, a great deal of drama, and impending portents of cancellation throughout the week, tenor Ben Heppner went ahead and sang...

The Broadway play to see last year was The Pillowman , so much so that I made sure that I got to the Booth Theater a couple of times; also, ...

Not an uptown New York law firm, but the three tenors, anyone of whom might be singing the title role in Wagner's Parsifal this Friday ...

A good friend of mine who attended the Tuesday rehearsal of Parsifal reported that Ben Heppne r did not show up and that his understudy for...

The Berlin Deutsche Oper opened on November 12, 1912 with a performance of Beethoven 's Fidelio . By 1933, the Nazis were in power and ...

This is the second time that I have heard tenor Ben Heppner 's voice crack in the middle of a Wagner opera at the MET . The first time ...

It's wonderful to experience Lohengrin again at the MET , and even more wonderful to have a chance to re-explore Robert Wilson 's u...