Pavarotti sings with friends
MODENA, Italy (Top40 Charts) - It isn't over until the fat man sings. He was hoarse, but Luciano Pavarotti didn't skip one singing engagement that is close to his heart - his annual star-studded charity concert in his hometown of Modena, Italy, Tuesday night. Pavarotti sang "Miserere" in a duet with ...
| Pavarotti (sick) Sends Fans A Letter
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - The text of a statement issued by tenor Luciano Pavarotti issued on Sunday: "I am writing, because today I have influenza, a common disease which would mean nothing were I not a tenor. This virus has unfortunately forced me to cancel two performances of "Tosca" scheduled at ...
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Domingo Dreams of Playing Composer
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Spanish Classical News) Spanish tenor Placido Domingo says he dreams of starring in a film about Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini . Domingo sees the film as focusing on Puccini's adult life, when the composer wrote his most celebrated operas including "La ...
| Eriksson launches classical album
LONDON, UK (Radio 1) - England coach Sven Goran Eriksson has launched his own compilation album of classical music at a London press conference. The Swede's album, which was released on Monday, features an even-handed array of European musical talent. Sven Goran Eriksson's Classical Favourites is a ...
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Dutoit quits as chief of Montreal symphony orchestra
MONTREAL (OSM) - Conductor Charles Dutoit, who led the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal (OSM) to international acclaim over the past 25 years, has quit, the Grammy Award-winning orchestra said Thursday. His resignation as musical director of the symphony caps a bitter personality dispute between maestro ...
| Canada's oldest symphony orchestra to turn 100
Quebec (Top40 Charts) - While many Canadian symphony orchestras are struggling, one of the oldest is doing better than ever and getting ready to celebrate its 100th anniversary this fall. In September the Toronto Symphony said it was on the verge of going broke and issued a plea to patrons and the government ...
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Verdi opera dismissed as 'silly'
LONDON, UK (Times) - A new version of Verdi's A Masked Ball at the English National Opera (ENO) has received scathing comments from some national newspapers. The opera, directed by Calixto Bieito, contains scenes of sex, violence and rape. Rupert Christiansen, the Daily Telegraph opera critic, wrote ...
| Lorin Maazel To Lead NY Philharmonic
NEW YORK (MTV) - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conductor to succeed Kurt Masur during 2002-03 season. After weeks of speculation and innuendo, the New York Philharmonic announced it would choose current Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel as its next Music Director. The long, ...
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Luciano Pavarotti's Mother Buried
MODENA, Italy (AP) - Adele Venturi's funeral ended Sunday with a recorded version of "Ave Maria'' sung by her son, Luciano Pavarotti. The Rev. Mauro Campani praised Venturi for her "industriousness, simplicity, delicacy, prudence and faith.'' The funeral for Venturi, 86, brought the opera star back ...
| Pavarotti makes emotional return to London stage
LONDON - Luciano Pavarotti, the world's most famous tenor, made an emotional return to London's Royal Opera House Friday, dedicating the rare performance to his mother who died in Italy just the day before. While his voice sounded strained at times and his movements were often stiff, this was more about ...
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Qualcomm CEO to give $100 mln to San Diego Symphony
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Irwin Jacobs, the founder and chief executive of wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc. , plans to give $100 million to the San Diego Symphony, making the once-bankrupt orchestra one of the richest in the country, a spokeswoman for the symphony said Friday. The donation, to ...
| 'Chubby' Pavarotti in London, coy on retirement
LONDON (Reuters) - Luciano Pavarotti, the world's most famous tenor, makes a long-awaited return to London's Royal Opera House on Friday amid mounting speculation it could be his swan song at a theater he sees as a spiritual home. With full opera appearances increasingly rare and mobility impaired by ...
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Philharmonic Season to Start With Ode
NEW YORK (AP) - Lorin Maazel will start his first season as the New York Philharmonic's music director with an unfinished ode to Sept. 11 and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The 2002-2003 season, the philharmonic's first under the 71-year-old maestro after 11 with Kurt Masur, will include four other world ...
| German Opera Singer Moedl Dies
BERLIN (AP) - German opera singer Martha Moedl, who rose to international fame with her performances of Wagner in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. She was 89. Moedl died Monday at a hospital in Stuttgart after a long illness, the Bavarian State Opera said. Born March 22, 1912 in the southern city of Nuremberg, ...
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Conductor Masur to Resume Duties
NEW YORK (AP) - When Kurt Masur returns from Germany to resume his duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic after his recent kidney transplant, he'll bring back more than memories of his German relatives. The 74-year-old conductor said his nephew, a German sculptor, donated the kidney. ...
| Masur Recovering From Transplant
LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) - Kurt Masur, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, was recovering well after undergoing a kidney transplant in Germany, the hospital said Monday. The 74-year-old conductor suffered no complications during the operation, which was done Nov. 29, the University Clinic ...
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Florida Philharmonic Names Director
MIAMI (AP) - Joseph Silverstein, a concertmaster for more than two decades at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has been named acting music director for the Florida Philharmonic. Silverstein, 69, a violinist and conductor, is artistic adviser to 10 orchestras in the United States and Canada, including ...
| Opera Opens With Patriotic Flair
NEW YORK (AP) - "Viva Italia!'' the opera begins - and the chorus seems to repeat it every five minutes. "La Battaglia di Legano,'' among the works being re-examined in the centennial year of Verdi's death, is the most patriotic of the composer's operas and opened the season of Eve Queler's Opera Orchestra ...
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Eschenbach to Head Phila. Orchestra
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Conductor Christoph Eschenbach has signed a contract that will make him the seventh music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Eleven months after agreeing to take over from Wolfgang Sawallisch in September 2003, Eschenbach made it official Thursday, agreeing to what amounts to ...
| Orchestra Cancels Work on Hijacking
BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Symphony, citing the Sept. 11 attacks, has canceled performances of choruses from "The Death of Klinghoffer,'' an opera about the 1984 hijacking of a cruise ship. The 1990 opera by John Adams meditates on the attack on the Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists, who killed ...
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