Opera
Torn No More: Metropolitan Opera and Peter Gelb End Contract Negotiations and Avoid Lockout, Season Starts September 22
Castleton Festival Returns in 2015: Honoring Late Maestro Lorin Maazel, Partnering with Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Castleton Festival will continue on its rich and educating history in 2015, honoring the legacy late founder Maestro Lorin Maazel and partnering with Jazz at Lincoln Center. Four weeks of opera, concerts, chamber music and more will once again come to Virginia from June 27 to July 19, 2015. Italian Soprano, Puccini Star Licia Albanese Dies Aged 105
Licia Albanese, one of the great Italian sopranos of the 20th century, has died. There has been some discussion about her precise age, but general agreement is that she was 105 (older than had been previously thought). She was a rare kind of talent--which is meant not just in the conventional sense of payig a compliment, but the voice itself was an unusual combination of soft-edged delicacy and bursts of piercing power that sung 'through' rather than over the orchestra.
