VIENNA OPERA’S FIRST LIVE STREAMING PERFORMANCE

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Don’t miss this first-ever live-streamed performance from the Vienna State Opera!

RENEE FLEMING IN DER ROSENKAVALIER

SUNDAY OCT. 27, 2013  11 am CDT

Renee Fleming“Whenever Renee Fleming has sung the role of the Marschallin…the audience has been virtually at the American soprano’s feet. Visitors to the State Opera can now see for themselves why this is so. Fleming’s Viennese debut in the role made it clear: such an intense, captivating Marschallin is rarely found today. Fleming sings and acts with elegance and a deep knowledge of all facets of this character: noble, passionate, sad, mellow and always polished in the use of her vocal gifts. What arching lyricism, what gorgeous silver tones, what wonderful vocal nuances – Fleming leaves little to be desired.”
Kurier, October 21, 2013

renee2Live from Vienna- Renée in Der Rosenkavalier

This Sunday evening, the Vienna State Opera will inaugurate its ambitious live-streaming program with Der Rosenkavalier, featuring Renée’s first appearances in her calling-card role of the Marschallin in the city where the opera is set. The fee-based live stream can be watched on computers and televisions connected to the internet. Viewers will be able to choose between two perspectives at any time: an overall view of the stage and a live-edited film of the opera. The live stream will be time zone delayed for convenient starting times around the world. Viewers will also be able to receive subtitles on tablets or smartphones via a special app.

Click here to visit the Vienna State Opera streaming portal

Renee Fleming

MUSIC MEMORY CONTEST: A Four-Generation Texas Tradition

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FOUR GENERATIONS OF MUSIC MEMORY When Mollie Tower-Gregory got the idea for a Music Memory Contest in Texas elementary schools in 1977, encouraged by her father’s elementary school music experiences, she never dreamed that it would one day involve thousands of students and spread across the country. The Music Memory program now encompasses thousands of… Continue Reading

Opera at the Movies: Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD 2012-13 Season

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2012–13 Live in HD Schedule Enjoy another spectacular season of the Metropolitan Opera in movie theaters around the world. Find a movie theater near you. Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore–New Production October 13, 2012, 12:55 pm ET U.S. Encore: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 6:30 pm local time Canada Encores: Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 12:00 pm local time Monday, November… Continue Reading

Metropolitan Opera at the Movies, 2011-12 Season

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Take advantage of “front row” seats at the Met’s new 2011-12 HD Live opera season, and watch opening day performances (or encore evening showings) at local movie theaters throughout the world. Although nothing beats a live performance at the Met in Lincoln Center, these simulcast live performances on screen are the next best thing, and… Continue Reading

Opera for Kids: Free Resources from the Met

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 Educator Guides to the Operas Plan an opera study unit for your students based on one of the operas in the 2010-11 Metropolitan Opera season, climaxing with a Night at the Opera in a local movie theater or at your school. The Met Live in HD series offers free opera-specific educational guides you can use… Continue Reading

Catch the Met’s 2010-11 Operas in Movie Theaters

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The fifth season of the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series is coming to a movie theater near you! Enjoy front row seats at these live opening night productions. It is so easy to feel more engaged with opera on a large screen, where you can see everything “up close and personal.”  Feel the pre-performance… Continue Reading

World Cup Music: Shostakovich’s Soccer Match

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Don’t underestimate the power of either sports or music when it comes to exciting a crowd. Even as a tormented composer writing under the harsh restrictions and demands of Communism, in his 1929 ballet  The Golden Age big-time soccer fan and sometime soccer referee Shostakovich recreated a soccer match. In this ballet, a communist soccer team… Continue Reading

Hidden Musical Code in Plato’s Writings

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A scholar in England just announced his discovery of a secret music code in the writings of Plato.  As a closeted follower of Pythagoras, whose heretical beliefs threatened traditional religion, Plato believed that music and mathematics were closely related, and that music was a reflection of the mathematical principles that governed the universe. Pythagoras codified… Continue Reading

Jazz Festivals 2010

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Here are links & dates for jazz festivals around the world, so plan a trip around an  enticing jazz venue that beckons you to kick back and enjoy live jazz at its convivial best. Jazz Festivals in USA Jazz Festivals in Canada UK Jazz Festivals European Jazz Festivals Worldwide jazz festivals are also listed geographically,… Continue Reading

The Met Brings Opera into the Classroom

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Bring full-scale Metropolitan Opera productions into your classroom! The free Live in HD school program from the Met is now available in some school districts around the country, and online educational guides put the icing on the cake.  Teaching guides for each Metropolitan opera production include classroom activities, musical highlights, story synopses, accompanying audio clips,… Continue Reading

Arts & Language Requirement for High School Graduation at Risk in California: Fight Back!

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These are hard times, especially in nearly bankrupt California. But are we content to see the California legislature gut the heart (i.e., the arts) out of education? The arts and foreign languages are fundamental to education, especially in the world we live in today. If creative thinking and global communications were ever needed in this… Continue Reading

Enjoy Operas from the Met: At the Movies or Online!

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Can’t go to the opera? Does your busy schedule or a pinched pocketbook or an illness make you miss the magic of the live performance? While there is nothing like the excitement of being in the theater for the real event, there are now 2 wonderful and affordable alternatives: Option 1. Opera Night at the… Continue Reading

Opera/Ballet Live in Cinema series: Dallas metroplex

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This took a little research to find, but thought that opera and ballet fans in the  Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex would find this theater schedule handy for upcoming productions from major opera/ballet companies around the world. How exciting is this! Gather up your friends or your music class and plan a night at the opera, Texas… Continue Reading

See Live European Operas in Local Movie Theaters

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Enjoy front row seats at the latest operatic productions from Milan’s La Scala and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, as well as from other European venues, all in the comfort of your local movie theater.  Join opening night audiences throughout the world to experience these outstanding operas in digital HD.  Oh brave new world that… Continue Reading

Jennifer Higdon Wins Pulitzer for Violin Concerto

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Photo by Candace DiCarlo                  PRODIGY (not), PULITZER WINNER (yes) Brooklyn-born Jennifer Higdon was a late comer to music, not beginning formal studies until she was 18.  A self-taught flutist, she did not begin to study composition until she was 21.  From this laid-back musical beginning, she has since catapulted herself onto center stage, becoming… Continue Reading