Callas News

Disc of the week Pieczonka stretches her repertoire Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka's approach to Wagner is very much informed by her approach to Puccini.

When ITV finally decided to retire The South Bank Show, there was much gnashing of teeth a ' some of it, you suspect, from people who had never actually got around to watching it.

A 1945 photograph of the River Class HMCS Stormont, which eventually became luxury yacht 'Christina O.' Photograph by: Handout, Canwest News Service A Canadian warship that was reborn as the world's most famous luxury yacht is set to be transformed again into a floating opera house.

Heddy Honigmann speaks at Beijing Film Academy. Known for her elegant cinematic language and uncanny power to capture emotional truth on film, acclaimed Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann is being honored by the inaugural Beijing International Documentary Forum underway in the capital this week.

Celine Byrne was accompanied on cello by Ailbhe McDonagh, and on piano by Dearbhla Brosnan, at the recent Killeen Castle opera night.

But she could be beaten to the big screen by the American Eva Mendes , playing the same role in another similar production.

Two British screenplays are competing for the chance to be the first to tell the compelling life story of the opera star Maria Callas on film.

Still don't know what to get that special someone for Christmas? How about a voyage on Aristotle Onassis's yacht, 'Christina O', the hottest new milestone journey.

Size actually does make a difference in the world of opera. NaGuanda Nobles laughs good-naturedly about that reality.

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

Date : Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:18:09 PST Arda Mandikian Arda Mandikian, the Greek soprano, who died on November 8 aged 85, was a great favourite of Benjamin Britten and created the role of Miss Jessel, the ghostly former governess in Turn of the Screw; but her international singing career came to a premature end in the 1960s after she spoke out ...

These days, Vienna-based soprano Hasmik Papian is the go-to Norma, a truly operatic role that's had many legendary names associated with it.

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.

Spontaneity doesn't come naturally to everyone. Neither is it welcomed by everyone.

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.