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I received the following from the Film Society of Lincoln Center: New York, NY (July 29, 2015) – The Film Society of Lincoln Center ann...

The following review appeared today in the New York Times . BAYREUTH, Germany — It’s the season of re-evaluating well-loved characters we...

The following article appeared on The Guardian : It’s that time of year again: the balmy nights of late spring are the augurs ...

Lots of news to report.  First, a poster advertising Opening Night of the Bayreuth Festival (on the left) is now available. The festival ...

Jon Vickers , the great Canadian tenor who excelled in such operatic roles as Otello , Tristan and Peter Grimes died at the age of 88 of...

Mankind's twisted dream to play God is at the heart of the best horror movies in cinema history. It is the driving force behind not ju...

The opening night performance of the opera William Tell , by Giacomo Rossini was booed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden because o...

The following appeared in the New York Times a few days ago:   The celebrated Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has a brain tum...

A.O. Scott , in his insightful review in the New York Times of the film Mad Max: Fury Road , wrote that this film isn’t "about heroi...

Julie Kent , who for many ballet fans represent the epitome of the all-American ballerina, bid farewell to her artistic home, American Bal...

  I received the following announcement from the Film Society of Lincoln Center: The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced toda...

Margaret Juntwait , Former WNYC Host, and the Voice of the Metropolitan Opera , died today at the age of 58. In the history of the Metrop...

The basic premise of Tomorrowland , the new Disney film from director Brad Bird , is that half the world tries to build up Mother Earth i...

In his own words, Mad Men creator Matt Wiener could not believe that 150 people kept the ending to the show a secret. Well, make ...

All Hail Helen Mirren !  She is not only the Toast of Broadway, she is its reigning current queen as long as she plays Queen Elizabeth II ...

 Last Saturday afternoon I attended the New York City Ballet . They performed four of the great Igor Stravinsky, George Balanchine collab...

The New York Times reported today that Calixto Bieito , the iconoclastic, Catalan opera director will be making his Metropolitan Opera d...

Arguably Giuseppe Verdi 's greatest work, Don Carlo is a massive five act affair that started its life at the Paris Opéra in 1867 as ...

The MGM motion picture Gigi is perhaps the studio's last great musical before the genre became a dinosaur. This original musical for...

 It's that time of the year once again, when masked men and women, wearing the garb of medieval penitents, carrying candles, walk alon...