Best of Mozart

Newest artistic partner ready for a month of Mozart (Pioneer Press)
The Met, La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper and now St. Paul. It sounds like an unusual career path, but Italian conductor Roberto Abbado whose international esteem is growing by the year becomes the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's newest artistic partner this weekend. His tenure begins with a "Mozart Festival," which opens with the composer's final three symphonies and concludes with John
Naples' first opera company is born with a crucial first night of ... - Naples Daily News (subscription)

Naples' first opera company is born with a crucial first night of ... Naples Daily News (subscription), FL - 7 hours ago ... here. The best theaters are booked. ... says. Last season saw the Czech Opera Prague, Teatro Lirico D Europa and the Mozart Festival Opera. ...

SLSO and Opera Theatre of St. Louis
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The dual joys of Mozart and chamber music were displayed Wednesday evening at the Sheldon by performers from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre of St. Louis. This was the final entry in the "Genius of Mozart" series, a nod to the ...
Twin Cities choirs will perform rare Bach scores (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
This is officially the Mozart Year, but suddenly (at least in the Twin Cities) there's a lot of Bach, Mozart's favorite composer, coming up. And, happily, it's Bach less-often-heard. This afternoon, for instance, the University of Minnesota Chamber Singers, Concert Choir and Orchestra will perform Bach Psalm settings, along with Mendelssohn's Psalm 42, at First Lutheran Church of Columbia

Placido Domingo: A new success under his nose (Independent)
In New York, a headline dubbed it "The Schnozz". But Franco Alfano's opera Cyrano de Bergerac is about more than the super-sized snout that the unfortunate hero declares "precedes me by 15 minutes": it presents an unusual and thrilling challenge for its starring tenor. When it opens at Covent Garden next week - a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where it has been highly
Winner by a nose - Guardian Unlimited

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Winner by a nose Guardian Unlimited, UK - 1 hour ago ... of the Requiem into a performable state as a favour to Mozart's widow, Constanze. ... Yet nobody has ever doubted that S ssmayr acted out of the best of motives. ...

Ice dancers take second at national competition in Texas
Rockford Register-Star - A pair of Rockford ice dancers skated themselves to quite a finish at the U.S. National Adult Ice Dancing competition in Grapevine, Texas. Jeri Wysong and Bill Barrett, both of Rockford, earned second place during the bronze-level national event at ...
Swan Lake is big ticket of new NAC dance season (The Ottawa Sun)
Wed, April 19, 2006 Swan Lake is big ticket of new NAC dance season By ANN MARIE MCQUEEN, OTTAWA SUN Russian-born New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine said it best: All leading dancers want to dance Swan Lake at least once in their careers and all audiences want to see them dance it. And so it was a major highlight today when the National Arts Centre announced Russia s famed The

Mozart's 'birthday effect' propels composer to No 1 (Independent)
Following a surge in his popularity described as "the birthday effect", Mozart has been named Britain's favourite composer on the 250th anniversary of his birth
After 10 years, Lilly the mouse returns in new tale - Columbus Dispatch

After 10 years, Lilly the mouse returns in new tale Columbus Dispatch, OH - 5 hours ago ... Other Sea Monsters (Candlewick, $27.99, age 5 and older) Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart, who produced the best-selling Encylopedia ... Play, Mozart, Play! ...

Ears will ring to the sound of Ninths
Allentown Morning Call - Three big Ninth Symphonies Beethoven's, Dvorak's and Schubert's will be presented this weekend. These three are on any short list of the greatest symphonies ever composed. The Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra is concluding its 25th anniversary ...
In the end, Mozart's music shines (San Jose Mercury News)
In his 250th birthday year, Mozart has been tossed into too many concert programs as the obligatory bonbon. But the Music@Menlo chamber music festival, coming back this summer for its fourth season, will look at Mozart in a very different way: as universal source of inspiration and even redemption, as music to which one returns in order to be restored.

Two Kindred Spirits Celebrate Shostakovich (The New York Sun)
Tomorrow night, the New York Philharmonic will begin a four-concert subscription series of particular interest. What's so interesting? Mstislav Rostropovich will be on the podium, and Maxim Vengerov will be the soloist. They will perform music of Shostakovich: the Violin Concerto No. 1 and the Symphony No. 10. Mr. Rostropovich is the best cellist in history, and no mean conductor. Next year we
Masters Unite! Westchester Arts Council Hosts an Evening of ... - AmericanTowns.com

Masters Unite! Westchester Arts Council Hosts an Evening of ... AmericanTowns.com, CT - 17 hours ago ... The Music of Musto & Mozart is part of the Arts Council's LIVE @ the Arts ... with and showcasing the extraordinary work of some of our best local performers and ...

From whistling to wrestling to Passover Seders on 'E' at film festival
Los Angeles Daily News - LANCASTER - Feature films, documentaries and short films from around the world will be showcased next weekend at the 10th annual Antelope Valley Independent Film Festival. More than 70 filmmakers and hundreds of film fans are expected to attend the ...
Pop, country & jazz (San Jose Mercury News)
Major concerts APRIL 17 David Gilmour. 8 p.m. April 17. Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakland. $65.75-$125.75 (sold out). (408) 998-8497, www.ticketmaster.com.

Scroll over Beethoven
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - When you think of the stereotypical classical music fan -- graying at the temples, tweed suit, pipe (we're only joking a little) -- he is most definitely not wearing an iPod. Surprisingly, however, that kid over there under the headphones? There's a

Weekend 'Flute' honors Mozart's great score (Reno Gazette-Journal)
Behind the relatively simple story of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" lies the epic Enlightenment battle of superstition versus reason, which is accompanied by one of the most beautiful scores written for the opera stage. The Nevada Opera's production, performed tonight and Sunday, strongly conveys the wonders of the music and lends humor and beauty to the story.
Is this any way to treat a prima donna? - The Observer

Is this any way to treat a prima donna? The Observer, UK - 11 hours ago ... Where are all the wondrous ensembles that characterise the great Mozart-da Ponte ... a South American dictator in his all-white, medal-laden military best, with eye ... Il Re Pastore Guardian Unlimited all 2 related

In the end, Mozart's music shines
San Jose Mercury News - In his 250th birthday year, Mozart has been tossed into too many concert programs as the obligatory bonbon. But the Music@Menlo chamber music festival, coming back this summer for its fourth season, will look at Mozart in a very different way: as ...
In the end, Mozart's music shines (San Jose Mercury News)
In his 250th birthday year, Mozart has been tossed into too many concert programs as the obligatory bonbon. But the Music@Menlo chamber music festival, coming back this summer for its fourth season, will look at Mozart in a very different way: as universal source of inspiration and even redemption, as music to which one returns in order to be restored.
Theater REVIEW : Requiem dramatic, diction precise - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription)

Theater REVIEW : Requiem dramatic, diction precise Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription), AR - 2 hours ago ... performance of the Requiem in d minor, K.626, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Saturday night ... what used to be called the University Theatre is not the best venue on ...