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Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the Gypsy troubadour in Verdi's opera, Il Trovatore. Netrebko sings Leonora's aria from Act IV --- "D'amor sull'ali rosee" --- ...

As part of From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2016, host Julie Andrews visits the Lusthaus cafe in Vienna's Prater park. The Prater grounds were once the hunting grounds of the Habsburg royalty before Emperor Joseph II opened it to the public in 1766. Today ...

Chita Rivera co-starred with Liza Minnelli in The Rink, the tenth Kander and Ebb musical collaboration with book by Terrence McNally. It opened February 9, 1984. See Chita Rivera, who won a Tony Award for her role, perform "Chief Cook and Bottle Washer" at her ...

Chita Rivera's fiery performance of the role Anita in the original Broadway cast of West Side Story made her a star. Rivera says a highlight of the experience was watching Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins create the musical. In Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin' ...

Dancer, singer and actress Chita Rivera has performed in front of millions on Broadway, London's West End, around the world, on national television and on the silver screen. She's a two-time Tony Award winner, with eight additional Tony nominations to her credit (Rivera and Julie Harris are ...

In the original Broadway cast of Chicago the Musical, Chita Rivera played Velma Kelly and Gwen Verdon played Roxie Hart. Both were nominated for a Tony Award. "Nowadays," a Roxie Hart song, is also part of a duet between Roxie and Velma. The two Broadway ...

Daisy Werthan (Angela Lansbury) and her daughter-in-law Florine are both Jewish, but it is only Florine who celebrates the Christmas holiday with relish. Miss Daisy complains about Florine to her chauffeur Hoke Colburn (James Earl Jones) while on her way to her son and Florine's ...

Broadway star Kelli O'Hara makes her Met Opera debut as the Baron’s coquettish wife Valencienne in Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow. O'Hara and the women's ensemble perform the Grisettes' Song from Act III, with a dance choreographed by the production's director, Susan Stroman.

Elaine Young, a real estate agent to Hollywood stars, and Henry "Keith" Watson, a co-assailant of Reginald Denny, are two of the real people depicted in Anna Deveare Smith's one-woman show Twilight: Los Angeles, about the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots in 1992. See ...

In 1991, Soon Ja Du, a Korean store owner, received a light sentence in the shooting death of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African-American. Anna Deveare Smith portrays an African-American community activist who repudiates defense attorney Charles Lloyd and draws a parallel between Latasha and Rodney ...