Maria Callas News

Today is Wednesday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2009 with 29 to follow. The moon is full.

Criminologist Yiannis Panousis of the University of Athens will discuss juvenile delinquency in a lecture at the Hellenic Cosmos Cafe, starting at 6.30 p.m. Admission is free.

A Modesto native who has sung in the great opera houses of Europe will perform Sunday in the Manteca Kindred Arts Concert Association series.

Date : Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31:49 +0400 ARDA MANDIKIAN: SOPRANO CHAMPIONED BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN The Times/uk November 17, 2009 Arda Mandikian, left, as the ghost of Miss Jessel with Jennifer Vyvyan in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw A singer whose repertoire ranges, with authority, over more than 2,000 years is likely to be unusual.

MARIO Lanza belting out Be My Love from our battered wind-up gramophone is one of my earliest memories.

Anna Kazakova teaches piano to Isabella Koh, 7. Kazakova came to this country from Russia, where she had a successful career as an opera singer with several companies in Moscow.

Six rising stars from the Metropolitan Opera and European stage will perform a benefit concert on Sunday, Nov.

A stalwart of the New York stage since the mid-1960s, Terrence McNally has gained distinction on and off Broadway as a playwright and, to a much lesser extent, as a screenwriter.

"It takes a village to make a solo," Monique Jenkinson, a.k.a. Fauxnique, quips over drinks at the Lone Palm, before finding a sequin from her blouse in the peanut jar.

Colorado State University School of the Arts will present internationally-acclaimed mezzo-soprano Joy Davidson for one night only in 'Maria: The Life and Loves of Maria Callas' at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Organ Recital Hall at the University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington St.

It was my pleasure and privilege to attend the stunning performance of the Fort Collins Symphony on Oct.

A few days ago, I got an email from our editor here at Bay Area Bites asking me if I would incorporate "in my own very special way" a Halloween theme into this week's post.

The last time I interviewed Oscar winner Faye Dunaway , I asked her what was taking so long with her proposed film adaptation of Master Class , in which she would recreate her L.A. stage role of opera diva Maria Callas.

Graeme Jenkins, music director of the Dallas Opera , put it bluntly the morning after Verdi's Otello opened the season on Friday: "In five years we should be operating on a par with Chicago and San Francisco." His bold forecast was based less on the quality of the performance than on confidence that the spectacular new Margot and Bill Winspear ...

She calls Cedar Lake home, but Brenda Roberts is an opera singer with artistic experiences that extend way beyond Hoosier soil.

Tyne Daly has signed to play the role of Maria Callas in the Kennedy Center's spring production of Terrence McNally's "Master Class." Stephen Wadsworth will direct the production, running March 25-April 18 at the Eisenhower Theater as part of a five-week festival of McNally plays to run concurrently on three stages.

Actress Faye Dunaway really was scouting locations a few months ago when she had a private party at the Book-Cadillac Hotel's champagne bar.

"MASTER CLASS," through Nov. 8, Salt Lake Acting Company, 801-363-7522. Running time: two hours 15 minutes .

Theremin phenomenon Armen Ra will be presenting an excerpt from METAL, a tribute to Maria Callas, at the REDCAT Fall Studio 09 Program in the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater , part of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Some of the most powerful, most musical voices we hear are the ones that aren't technically perfect.A This is even true in opera, where the great Maria Callas remains an iconic figure even though her most ardent fans will acknowledge there were some technical flaws in that dramatic, emotive instrument of ...