New York City Opera is proud to announce a special two-night event celebrating the centennial of Giacomo Puccini’s passing. The “Puccini Celebration” will be a part of the Bryant Park Picnic Performances presented by Bank of America on May 31 and June 1, 2024, at 7:00 Pm. This tribute to one of opera’s greatest composers will take place at Bryant Park, NYC.
Event Details Date & Time: May 31 & June 1, 2024, at 7:00 Pm Location: Bryant Park, 42nd Street (Between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas), NYC, NY Entry: First-come, first-served basis. No tickets required. Amenities: Free picnic blankets available for borrowing. A Casual and Inclusive Experience
Bryant Park’s Picnic Performances are designed to be enjoyed in a relaxed atmosphere. Audience members can expect ample seating and are encouraged to bring their own picnics to enjoy during the performances. For those unable to attend in person, a free nationwide livestream will be...
Event Details Date & Time: May 31 & June 1, 2024, at 7:00 Pm Location: Bryant Park, 42nd Street (Between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas), NYC, NY Entry: First-come, first-served basis. No tickets required. Amenities: Free picnic blankets available for borrowing. A Casual and Inclusive Experience
Bryant Park’s Picnic Performances are designed to be enjoyed in a relaxed atmosphere. Audience members can expect ample seating and are encouraged to bring their own picnics to enjoy during the performances. For those unable to attend in person, a free nationwide livestream will be...
- 5/24/2024
- by Alice Lange
- Martin Cid Music
On Feb. 20, 1939, more than 20,000 yelling, cheering people packed New York City’s Madison Square Garden. They weren’t there for a basketball game or a concert. They were supporters of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization that was ready for an alternative to democracy. They waved Swastika flags and raised quite a ruckus. And they were hardly alone in their mission, as the new PBS American Experience documentary Nazi Town, USA makes abundantly clear.
While most Americans identified fascism and the Third Reich as existential threats to civilization, many...
While most Americans identified fascism and the Third Reich as existential threats to civilization, many...
- 1/23/2024
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
New York City Opera’s Bryant Park summer series continues with From Vienna to Broadway!, a charming review of songs, duets, and ensembles that takes the audience on a musical journey through the 20th century. Beginning with Lehar’s The Merry Widow from 1905 and culminating with Sondhiem’s A Little Night Music from 1973, and in between featuring works by Herbert, Romberg, Gershwin, Loesser, and Bernstein, this performance features a stellar cast of seven New York City Opera stars. Performances are designed to be enjoyed casually – no tickets required – with ample seating available and free picnic blankets for audience members to borrow. For more information, visit https://bryantpark.org/calendar/event/new-york-city-opera-from-vienna-to-broadway/2023-08-18.
For anyone unable to attend in person, free livestream broadcasts of the performances will be available nationwide via Bryant Park’s website and social media platforms.
“We are delighted to return as a part Bryant Park Picnic...
For anyone unable to attend in person, free livestream broadcasts of the performances will be available nationwide via Bryant Park’s website and social media platforms.
“We are delighted to return as a part Bryant Park Picnic...
- 8/16/2023
- by Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
New York City Opera’s Bryant Park summer series continues with Tenor Alessandro Lora in Concert on Saturday, August 19th at 7pm. An exciting young talent, tenor Alessandro Lora of Vicenza, Italy will perform a crowd-pleasing concert of diverse Italian repertoire including folk, popular, and traditional Neapolitan songs alongside operatic favorites, sure to delight the whole family. Featuring the New York City Opera Orchestra, the concert will be led by two great conductors, Maestro Maurizio Barbacini and Maestro Diego Basso, founder of the Orchestra Musico Sinfonica Italiana and the prestigious Art of Voice Academy. Produced in cooperation with Sandro di Benedetto, Bruno Benetti, and OneArt, the evening promises to be an unforgettable night of classic Italian romance and passion, sure to bring the audience to their feet.
Entry is on a first-come, first-served basis. Performances are designed to be enjoyed casually – no tickets required – with ample seating available and free...
Entry is on a first-come, first-served basis. Performances are designed to be enjoyed casually – no tickets required – with ample seating available and free...
- 7/29/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Tony Bennett, the treasured American storyteller, singer and showman whose joyful impact on the pop and jazz landscape spanned 70 years and stretched from Queens to San Francisco and all around the world, died Friday. He was 96.
Bennett died in his hometown of New York, his publicist Sylvia Weiner said. In February 2021, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease five years earlier, but he soldiered on, in the recording studio and on tour, rarely performing a song the same way twice.
He and Lady Gaga headlined two shows at New York’s Radio City Music Hall in August 2021, after which he announced he was canceling his fall tour.
On his Facebook page, it was noted Friday that Bennett was “still singing the other day at his piano, and his last song was ‘Because of You.'” That was his first No. 1 hit.
The recipient of 20 Grammy Awards...
Bennett died in his hometown of New York, his publicist Sylvia Weiner said. In February 2021, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease five years earlier, but he soldiered on, in the recording studio and on tour, rarely performing a song the same way twice.
He and Lady Gaga headlined two shows at New York’s Radio City Music Hall in August 2021, after which he announced he was canceling his fall tour.
On his Facebook page, it was noted Friday that Bennett was “still singing the other day at his piano, and his last song was ‘Because of You.'” That was his first No. 1 hit.
The recipient of 20 Grammy Awards...
- 7/21/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Who would even take an hour and a half out of their busy day to watch a movie about the legal battle that saved Pinball back in 1976? Clairvoyance or self-awareness, the Braggs brothers knew just how far the horse they’d gambled on would go on the racetrack. But we can’t have an unfinished race now, can we? So, fusing the acknowledgement of the subject matter’s limitations with an endearingly meta “distraction” in the form of a grounded and adorable love story, Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game crosses the finish line and does a remarkable job at that. Let’s see how the film plays out and if there’s a thing or two to learn from the story of Roger Sharpe.
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In ‘Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game’?
However difficult it may be for us to digest right now, the game of Pinball was,...
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In ‘Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game’?
However difficult it may be for us to digest right now, the game of Pinball was,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Lopamudra Mukherjee
- Film Fugitives
Sheldon Harnick, the nimble lyricist who partnered with composer Jerry Bock to create the songs for some of Broadway’s greatest musicals, including Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello! and She Loves Me, has died Friday. He was 99.
Harnick died of natural causes at his apartment overlooking Central Park on the Upper West Side, spokesperson Sean Katz told The Hollywood Reporter.
Harnick, who credited actress Charlotte Rae for inspiring him to become a Broadway lyricist, had an uncanny knack of making it sound as if the singer were having a conversation with the audience. His lyrics for such tunes as “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” “She Loves Me” and “Little Tin Box” were simple and straightforward yet deeply moving at the same time.
“A theater lyricist is a playwright who writes short plays in verse that have to be set to music,” Harnick said in a 2016 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Harnick died of natural causes at his apartment overlooking Central Park on the Upper West Side, spokesperson Sean Katz told The Hollywood Reporter.
Harnick, who credited actress Charlotte Rae for inspiring him to become a Broadway lyricist, had an uncanny knack of making it sound as if the singer were having a conversation with the audience. His lyrics for such tunes as “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” “She Loves Me” and “Little Tin Box” were simple and straightforward yet deeply moving at the same time.
“A theater lyricist is a playwright who writes short plays in verse that have to be set to music,” Harnick said in a 2016 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
- 6/23/2023
- by Chris Koseluk
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York City Opera proudly announces the winners of the 2023 Duncan Williams Voice Competition. Hosted by J’Nai Bridges, the competition spotlights Black and Latinx singers and awards over $50,000 in prize money. On February 3, 2023 at Manhattan School of Music, 11 winners were announced in 4 categories: The Emerging Artists category, awarding $8,000 to Cierra Byrd, Daniel Rich, and César Andrés Parreño; the Developing Artists category, awarding $5,000 to Elizabeth Hanje, Benjamin Ruiz, and Jazmine Saunders; the Encouragement Award, awarding $3,500 to Joseph Parrish; and the Black and Latinx Song Presentation category, awarding $750 to Daniel Espinal, Kresley Figueroa, Lwazi Hlati, and Ardeen Pierre.
The Duncan Williams Voice Competition is named for baritone Todd Duncan and soprano Camilla Williams, the first African American singers to sing with a major United States opera company when they made their debuts with New York City Opera in 1945 and 1946, respectively. The Duncan Williams Voice Competition aims to address systemic barriers faced by...
The Duncan Williams Voice Competition is named for baritone Todd Duncan and soprano Camilla Williams, the first African American singers to sing with a major United States opera company when they made their debuts with New York City Opera in 1945 and 1946, respectively. The Duncan Williams Voice Competition aims to address systemic barriers faced by...
- 2/28/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
When Philip Roth published The Plot Against America in 2004 — an alternate history where pilot Charles Lindbergh is elected president in 1940 on an antiwar and barely veiled anti-Semitic platform — George W. Bush was nearing re-election and NBC was debuting the second season of The Apprentice, a game show judged by the cartoonish New York real estate mogul Donald Trump. With the country at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, this wasn’t a happy time for the U.S., but Roth’s story read more like a path thankfully avoided (the real...
- 3/10/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
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