The American composer Philip Glass (born 1937) had a tremendous impact on all contemporary music. His brand of music, called minimalism, merged Eastern concepts of time with Western musical elements, ...
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The Metropolitan Opera and the English National Opera will co-produce stagings of John Adams' "Doctor Atomic" and a new work by Osvaldo Golijov."Doctor Atomic," which had its world premiere at the ...
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Well-knowns like Philip Glass, Anderson Cooper and Amy Sacco recount nightmare New Year’s Eve tales. Sean McEnroe, son of tennis legend John and actress Tatum O’Neal, threw a tantrum w...
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The Spoleto Festival USA will celebrate the life of the late Gian Carlo Menotti, who founded Spoleto 30 years ago, and organizers envision doing so with least one additional presentation this sprin...
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Works by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass and the Mariinsky Theater's staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle highlight this year's Lincoln Center Festival.The festival, held from July 10-29, includes 93 perf...
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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2007. There are 334 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 31, 1606, Guy Fawkes, convicted of treason for his part in the "Gunpowder...
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The Metropolitan Opera hopes to tour China for the first time, negotiating to perform Tan Dun's "The First Emperor" there with tenor Placido Domingo to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.As pa...
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The Metropolitan Opera hopes to tour China for the first time, negotiating to perform Tan Dun's "The First Emperor" there with tenor Placido Domingo to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.As pa...
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Thirty years ago, the curtain rose on the first Spoleto Festival USA, sparking the renaissance of this small coastal city.This year's edition of Spoleto opens Friday amid a traditional brass fanfar...
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Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella will write the libretto and direct a new work by composer Osvaldo Golijov that has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.Golijov went to Botswana last m...
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