Bruno David Ussher's "Music In Film" Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (Matinee), 6/9/1933 HCN Elizabeth Yeaman Charles R. Rogers is very much excited about a story he is to produce this year under the title of Green Gold. It is to be based on the dramatic and colorful career of Samuel Zemurray, managing director of the United Fruit Company. The full cooperation of Zemurray has been obtained for the making of this picture. The great banana plantations, thousands of natives, and the Great White Fleet will be available for Rogers, who says he has interested a famous novelist.

An Evening of Arias with Leah Partridge and Norman Reinhardt Soprano Leah Partridge and tenor Norman Reinhardt delight with arias from the popular to the obscure on a stunning Hudson River setting. .".American soprano Leah Partridge has received consistent praise for her virtuosic technique and dramatic insight. She has made some of the great bel canto roles her own, and her career includes performances of the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Violetta in La Traviata, and Gilda in Rigoletto. In the 2007-08 season Leah Partridge made her Metropolitan Opera . Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (Matinee) Tickets.

First Name Basis With The Opera - May 5, 2008 I am a conniving and ultimately resourcefully manipulative person. Let's face it: it is a skill that I tend to unintentionally employ regularly - it seems to be an accidental fabric of my being. Perhaps this is why I love courtroom litigation. Anyhow, where an opportunity exists that I may be precluded from undertaking, I do whatever it takes, within reason, to enable myself to appreciate the occasion (usually accom.plished by taking part in the opportunity, itself). Before I get ahead of myse. Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (Matinee) theater ticket.

L.A. Opera accessorizes ?Tosca? revival with Maria Callas? jewelry HOW DO you add sparkle to a fatigued operatic war horse? Bring out the jewelry and let it shine under the spotlight. But not just any old jewelry. For its latest revival of ?Tosca? opening Saturday, Los Angeles Opera has obtained a rare stage artifact ? the jewelry worn by Maria Callas in 1956 for her Metropolitan Opera debut as Giacomo Puccini's tragic heroine. Made of nearly 200 tear-shaped Swarovski crystals, the jewelry was created specifically for Callas by the Atelier Marangoni. Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (Matinee) theatre tickets.

La Boheme Comes Back to Life Maria Vasilova First staged in 1981, La Boheme became the most performed opera ever in the history of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Thanks to its unforgettable realistic sets, it is the 347th performance, that was staged on Saturday. Brightly costumed actors, famous cast, perfectly detailed interior and exterior scenes, all this came back to life for the first time this season, followed by a special event after the second part. The famous film and theater director, Franco Zeffirelli, was honored on the . theater tickets .

American hit musicals belong on nation's opera stages I don't like repeating myself, but sometimes it has to be done to bring great new ideas to the fore. In this case, the ?repeat? is occasioned by the Metropolitan Opera's present season and the unusual tactics employed by the company's new director, Peter Gelb, to draw attention to opera and all the glamorous things that attend it. When the Met opened its season, Gelb decided to erect giant screens in the plaza of New York's Lincoln Center so that spectators could get a firsthand look. theatre.

Placido Domingo Gets a 21-Screen Salute Placido Domingo's concert celebrating his 40 years of appearing in Los Angeles opera productions will be shown May 11 on 21 Landmark theater screens. L.A. Opera's gala concert on Friday featured Domingo, soprano Patricia Racette and James Conlon conducting the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. Program included Domingo singing familiar roles such.".Gia nella notte densa.".from Verdi's .".Otello.".in duet with Racette and .".Wintersturme.".from Wagner's .".Die Walkure.".Program also included lighter fare. tickets for Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (Matinee).

You Got To Know When To Hold 'Em Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (Matinee) show tickets, Yes, it's difficult for some of us not to start channeling Kenny Rogers when the words .".The Gambler.".

Unprecedented concert remembers Pat Corbett, "Queen of the Queen City" tickets, Thousands poured into Music Hall on Saturday morning for an unprecedented performance by Cincinnati's performing arts groups to remember arts patron Patricia Corbett, who died Jan. 28 at age 99. It was a heartfelt tribute, a free concert that brought out families with small children as well as most of Cincinnati's cultural movers and shakers - art museum heads, conductors, musicians, CCM faculty members, NKU's Provost, patrons of the arts and many more. As you walked up to Music Hall .

TT: The Met goes to the movies Here's an excerpt from.".Sightings.".column I wrote for The Wall Street Journal in 2006 about Peter Gelb, the then-new general manager of the Metropolitan Opera: Mr. Gelb has set music lovers to buzzing yet again, this time about his latest innovation. Starting in December, the company will beam a half-dozen of its Saturday matinees into movie theaters in the U.S. Canada and Europe-live.".We want to make the Met as available electronically to its followers as the Yankees are to theirs.".Mr.tickets.