Angela Gheorghiu News

The Opera Orchestra of New York presents an opera-in-concert performance of Umberto Giordano's verismo opera, Andrea Chénier conducted by Music Director Alberto Veronesi at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 4:00 pm. Tenor Roberto Alagna sings the title role of Andrea Chénier, one of opera's most dramatic lyric-tenor roles, for the first time, with soprano Kristin Lewis as Maddalena di Coigny, baritone George Petean as Carlo Gérard, with a special appearance by mezzo soprano Rosalind Elias as Madelon.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts is thrilled to announce after its wildly successful screenings of National Theatre Live productions from London, it will begin screenings of San Francisco's Grand Opera Series. The series features screenings of Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, La Rondine, and Samson and Delilah.

Already in this young season, Rene Pape has given a star turn as Philip II in Verdi's Don Carlos at the Vienna State Opera and made his recital debut at La Scala in Milan. The German singer - "the world's most charismatic bass," according to Opera News - is currently reprising his acclaimed Wotan at the Berlin State Opera in a production of Die Walkure conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts is thrilled to announce after its wildly successful screenings of National Theatre Live productions from London, it will begin screenings of San Francisco's Grand Opera Series. The series features screenings of Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, La Rondine, and Samson and Delilah.

Washington National Opera (WNO) will present famed Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu in concert on Saturday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Opera House. Accompanied by the WNO Orchestra under the baton of Eugene Kohn, Gheorghiu will perform selections from operas by Mozart, Massenet, Puccini, and others that have made her an international sensation.

Washington National Opera (WNO) will present famed Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu in concert on Saturday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Opera House. Accompanied by the WNO Orchestra under the baton of Eugene Kohn, Gheorghiu will perform selections from operas by Mozart, Massenet, Puccini, and others that have made her an international sensation.

Marina Poplavskaya will make her Met role debut as Marguerite in the initial run of performances of the Met's new production of Gounod's Faust this fall.

The Paramount Center For The Arts will be showing The Bolshoi Theatre Re-Opening Gala on screen on Saturday, November 5th at 7:30 pm. The Bolshoi Grand Re-Opening Gala is a celebration of the theatre's renovation -- after six years and $750 million.

The Bolshoi Grand Re-Opening Gala is a celebration of the theatre's renovation --- after six years and $750 million.

The Bolshoi Grand Re-Opening Gala is a celebration of the theatre's renovation --- after six years and $750 million.

The Opera Orchestra of New York opens its 41st season with an opera-in-concert performance of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur conducted by new Music Director Alberto Veronesi at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera's 2011-12 season will feature the world's leading singers, conductors, and stage directors in seven new productions, including a world premiere, a Met premiere, and the first complete performances of a new Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage.

The Royal Opera House today launches Royal Opera House Cinema, its new cinema screening venture which will transmit select performances of opera and ballet to more than 700 cinemas worldwide.

Peerless bass René Pape - honored last season as a 'Mastersinger' by the Metropolitan Opera for such triumphs as his universally acclaimed Boris Godunov - launches his 2011-12 season on September 18, when he stars as Méphistophélès in the all-star David McVicar production of Gounod's Faust at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Peerless bass René Pape - honored last season as a 'Mastersinger' by the Metropolitan Opera for such triumphs as his universally acclaimed Boris Godunov - launches his 2011-12 season on September 18, when he stars as Méphistophélès in the all-star David McVicar production of Gounod's Faust at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

The Met's popular free Summer HD Festival returns for the third year beginning on Saturday, August 27 in Lincoln Center Plaza with Donizetti's Don Pasquale starring Anna Netrebko, conducted by Maestro James Levine.

Due to weather reports that predict hurricane-force winds and rain for New York City this weekend, the Metropolitan Opera has cancelled the first two Summer HD Festival outdoor screenings on Lincoln Center Plaza, originally scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.

The Met's popular free Summer HD Festival returns for the third year beginning on Saturday, August 27 in Lincoln Center Plaza with Donizetti's Don Pasquale starring Anna Netrebko, conducted by Maestro James Levine.

Washington National Opera (WNO) today announced that American director Francesca Zambello has been appointed the company's Artistic Advisor. Simultaneously, Chief Operating Officer Michael L. Mael has been named Executive Director. With these appointments, WNO enters into its affiliation with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (effective July 1, 2011) with a complete roster of artistic and administrative executives.

Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra present Mahler's Symphony No. 3 as the grand finale of the orchestra's 2010-11 classical season. Mezzo-soprano Mireille Lebel, the Montclair State University Chorale women and the American Boychoir join the NJSO for the blockbuster symphony.