NOTÍCIAS

Gérard Mortier Wants to Bring Audiences from the Movies to the Opera (Not the Other Way Around)
Playbill Arts Mon, 01 Oct 2007 7:29 AM PDTObservers in the Big Apple already know that Gérard Mortier has big plans to remake New York City Opera when he becomes the company's artistic director in the fall of 2009. What they may not know so well - yet - is his penchant for tossing ideological cherry bombs.
IN OPERA IT'S OFTEN BEST TO AVOID WORLD WAR II
New York Post Mon, 01 Oct 2007 2:44 AM PDTTHIS weekend New York saw two very different ap proaches to the art of operatic renewal - conceptual and traditional. First up was New York City Opera on Friday night with its new "conceptual" production of that indestructible double-bill...
Raw Power for a Late Reunion
The New York Sun Sun, 30 Sep 2007 9:41 PM PDTIn years, opera companies have experimented by pairing Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" with operas other than each other. And in an attempt to cater to diminishing viewer attention span, each has even been offered as stand-alone entertainment. But the operatic twins once thought inseparable were happily reunited by the New York City Opera on Friday night in a

Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian Withdraws from This Week's Met Marriage of Figaro]
Playbill Arts Mon, 01 Oct 2007 1:14 PM PDTCanadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, who was to play Susanna in the Metropolitan Opera revival of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro opening tomorrow evening, has withdrawn from the production. She is now in her last weeks of pregnancy.