70 stories by "Christina Knight"
Verdi's powerful Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth airs on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, February 1 at 12 noon (check local listings; in New York, THIRTEEN will air the opera at 12:30 pm…
This star-studded, 90-minute performance documentary offers an overview of the Kennedy Center's American Voices weekend-long festival, which was created and hosted by Renée Fleming in Novem…
Mozart's elegant masterpiece of marital discord, Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and staged by Richard Eyre, is the season nine premiere of Great Performance…
Sutton Foster has won Tony Awards for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical in 2002 for the role of Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie and in 2011 for her perfor…
Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vien…
Acclaimed opera soprano Renée Fleming sings “Danny Boy,” a song dear to Irish Americans, at the American Voices Concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The performance …
Julie Andrews takes a coffee break from hosting From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2015 in Café Griensteidl, right beside Vienna’s Imperial Palace. The original Café Griensteidl…
This star-studded 90-minute performance documentary offers an overview of the Kennedy Center's weekend-long American Voices festival, which was created and hosted by Renée Fleming in Novemb…
Patricia Racette performed the role of Cio-Cio-San in the 2009 Met production of Puccini’s tragic love story opera, Madama Butterfly. Racette sings the heartbreaking aria of hope, "Un …
The deadly rage and passion of Don José, played by Roberto Alagna, is unleashed upon his former lover, Carmen, played by ElÄ«na GaranÄa, in this final scene of Bizet’s Carmen. De…
Deborah Voigt, host of Encores! Great Performances at the Met, is included in the highlights of past Metropolitan Opera production. Voigt performed the role of Isolde in Tristan and Isolde, …
Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vien…
From Natalie Dessay and Anna Netrebko to Juan Diego Flórez and Jonas Kaufmann, see show-stopping excerpts from "Carmen," "Rigoletto," "La Bohème," and more, hosted by soprano Deborah Voi…
The most famous song from the musical Cats is the bittersweet ballad, “Memory,” sung by the ostracized character, Grizabella, “the Glamour Cat.” She once led a more g…
In the ensemble number “Invitation to the Jellicle Ball,” the cats discuss the much-anticipated annual event, the Jellicle Ball. The character Munkustrap explains the purpose of …
The Rum Tum Tugger is the bad boy of the cast of Cats. He’s sexy and he knows it and takes pleasure in teasing his many admirers. Andrew Lloyd Webber gives Rum Tum Tugger’s theme…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, the second longest-running Broadway musical (only surpassed by Lloyd Webber's own "The Phantom of the Opera"), and fourth longest-running West End musical, return…
Joyce DiDonato sings the title role in Rossini's Cinderella story, La Cenerentola, with bel canto master Juan Diego Flórez as her dashing prince. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads…
The women are not a united front in Mozart’s comic opera, Così fan tutte. Sisters succumb to the deceit of their fiancés at different times, and the maid they employ is out to fool…
Rocco Landesman announced on Tuesday that he will step down as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts at the end of the calendar year. His appointment by the White House in 2009 w…
