When the heirs of Italian chemist, author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi gave final approval for Antony Sher’s stage adaptation of Levi’s concentration camp memoir Survival in Auschwitz (U.S. title), they insisted the play should never be performed by anyone other than the distinguished actor ...
Scott Suchman/Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts Segments YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK Project Bandaloop Choreography: Amelia Rudolph Dancer: Kimm E. Ward Dancer/Risk Manager: Peter Mayfield Music: Robert Mirabal Animal Dances Luminescent Flights VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK & CORAL REEF NATIONAL MONUMENT Donald Byrd/The Group U.S. ...
Peter McBride/Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts Four of the country's most innovative choreographers combine the grandeur of America's national parks with the art of the camera in Dance in America: Wolf Trap's Face of America, an on-location spectacular, Monday, April 21 at 10 ...
Ken Howard/The Metropolitan Opera Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Librettists: Emanuel Schikaneder; English translation by J.D. McClatchy Production: Julie Taymor Conductor: James Levine Performers: Ying Huang (Pamina), Matthew Polenzani (Tamino), Nathan Gunn (Papageno), Erika Miklósa (The Queen of the Night), and René Pape (Sarastro) Synopsis: Three ...
Ken Howard/The Metropolitan Opera Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Librettists: Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei Production: Adrian Noble Conductor: James Levine Performers: Željko Lucic (Macbeth), Maria Guleghina (Lady Macbeth), Dimitri Pittas (Macduff), John Relyea (Banquo) Synopsis: Director Adrian Noble calls Macbeth “the greatest story Verdi ever ...
Composer: Charles Gounod Librettists: Jules Barbier and Michel Carré Production: Guy Joosten Conductor: Plácido Domingo Performers: Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Marc Heller (Tybalt), Louis Otey (Paris), Charles Taylor (Capulet), Jane Bunnell (Gertrude), David Won (Grégorio), Tony Stevenson (Benvolio), Dean Peterson (Duke of Verona) ...