Prima Voce Treasury of Opera, Vol. 1 Prima Voce Treasury of Opera, Vol. 1 Binding: Audio CD Manufacturer: Nimbus Records Amazon.com: This spectacular collection of more than 90 arias sung by 46 of the greatest singers of the century consists of recordings made between 1906 and 1943. Naturally, they are in far from high fidelity, but this is more charming than disturbing. And all the greats are here: from the tenors Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, John McCormack, and Jussi Bjoerlong, to the sopranos Rosa Ponselle, Amelita.Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni Theater Tickets.

Currently in Line: Angry Old People and Funny Young People Currently in Line: Angry Old People and Funny Young People From: at 12:00 pm Photos: James Estrin/The New York Times/Redux; Courtesy of The Line Today's New York Times celebrates August, National Slow News Day Month, by exploring the excitement of standing in line in two separate articles. The less-funny article is about The Line, the online TV series written by Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader and Simon Rich. The more-funny one is about the five-hour line yesterday at Lincoln Center. Tickets.

TT: Scene stealing (II) Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni Tickets, Richard Diebenkorn wasn't the only modern American painter to have been stirr.ed by the New Mexico landscape. It hit Marsden Hartley just as hard.".I want to paint the livingness of appearances.".Hartley said. He did just that when he came to Santa Fe in 1918, often to unforgettable effect. I can't help but wonder what Hartley, who died in 1943, would have thought of the Santa Fe Opera's mesa-top theater, which opened its doors a decade ago. As eye-catching as it is, the Crosby Theater doesn't .

TT: Scene stealing (II) Cheap Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni Tickets, Richard Diebenkorn wasn't the only modern American painter to have been stirred by the New Mexico landscape. It hit Marsden Hartley just as hard.".I want to paint the livingness of appearances.".Hartley said. He did just that when he came to Santa Fe in 1918, often to unforgettable effect. I can't help but wonder what Hartley, who died in 1943, would have thought of the Santa Fe Opera's mesa-top theater, which opened its doors a decade ago. As eye-catching as it is, the Crosby Theater doesn't .

I Want My O-P-E-R-A Theater, The Metropolitan Opera in New York City has sparked a buzz and ticket sales, and it has some purist keepers of the .".opera brand.".upset. Peter Gelb, a former record industry guy, tore up the rulebook that has kept the opera experience frozen somewhere between the excitement of watching paint dry, and the surprise of discovering Sunday just after midnight on Saturday. He's opened dress rehearsals to the public, slashed weekday ticket prices, added performances to the schedule, and simulcast.

I Want My O-P-E-R-A Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni, The Metropolitan Opera in New York City has sparked a buzz and ticket sales, and it has some purist keepers of the .".opera brand.".upset. Peter Gelb, a former record industry guy, tore up the rulebook that has kept the opera experience frozen somewhere between the excitement of watching paint dry, and the surprise of discovering Sunday just after midnight on Saturday. He's opened dress rehearsals to the public, slashed weekday ticket prices, added performances to the schedule, and simulcast.

?and at least one day spent practicing knots. Metropolitan Opera, What have I been up to? For those playing along at home, it should come as no surprise that I recently attended a Pearl Jam concert. It was, undoubtedly, the best concert I've attended to date. This summer, I have several small vacations planned. I've already spent a few days at the beach where I found that water temperature can dramatically change from one day to the next. The first day in the ocean, the waves were amazing but the water had us literally shivering. The second day saw tamer.

Puritanical I Puritani Isn?t Normally.Seattle Opera pulls out all its stops for its sumnmer production, usually the biggest event of the Seattle Opera year, but I can't see even this August's Aida outshining the current production of Bellini's I Puritani, which opened Saturday night at McCaw Hall. The opera is nominally set in England during its Civil War of 1642-1651 between Royalists and Puritans. There is not much historically accurate about the set (a new one by Robert A. Dahlstrom) or costumes (from 1976 for the . New York.

Anna Netrebko Biography NY, Anna Netrebko was born on September 18, 1971, in Krasnodar, a southern Russian city. It is said she was discovered, Cinderella style, by the head of the Kirov Opera, Valery Gergiev, while cleaning the floors of St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater. Not quite. Anna made local headlines when she won a singing prize in Moscow in 1993, and took part in a gala concert in the Bolshoi Theater. She originally wanted to be an actress, but her voice teachers told her she'd have a better shot at singing.

Winter of Content: Southern California Opera 2007-08, Part II January in Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County  In the previous part of this celebration of Southern California's 2007-08 Operatic Winter Wonderland, I lauded the Los Angeles Opera's ?Don Giovanni.  This was followed by the ?California Does Wagner? festivities in January, with the Los Angeles Opera performing ?Tristan und Isolde? and the San Diego Opera presenting ?Tannhauser.  William's reviews of these  blockbuster Wagnerian productions may be found on the following pages: 1 -Liebesn. Metropolitan Opera Tickets.