Annie Lennox sings "I Put a Spell on You" in her live concert of her Grammy-nominated album Nostalgia. Her performance of the song at the 2015 Grammy Awards was one of the most talked about highlights of that broadcast. The song was originally written and ...
Russian star soprano Anna Netrebko makes her North American debut as the fatally ambitious Lady Macbeth. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts his first-ever performances of Verdi’s thrilling drama Macbeth, which is the 2007 production directed by former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Adrian Noble. ...
The star of young bassist and vocalist Kate Davis is on the rise. In 2013, she got the unexpected chance to perform at the American Voices weekend festival and concert hosted by Renée Fleming. The Kennedy Center audience was expecting Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, ...
Sutton Foster, who has won Tony Awards for her leading roles in the musicals Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes, talks about her belated voice training and performs Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" at the American Voices Concert. The documentary American Voices with Renée Fleming airs ...
Acclaimed opera soprano Renée Fleming sings "Danny Boy," a song dear to Irish Americans, at the American Voices Concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The performance was part of the weekend-long American Voices festival that Fleming produced and led. The documentary American Voices ...
Julie Andrews takes a coffee break from hosting From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2015 at Café Griensteidl. She explains the Viennese culture of the "Kaffeehaus," where people gather not only drink coffee but also read, write, play cards, and chat with friends. From Vienna: ...
No recent Met Opera collection of highlights would be complete without soprano, Deborah Voigt. The host of Encores! Great Performances at the Met, Voigt is, of course, included as one of the highlights of past Metropolitan Opera productions. Known around the world for her excellence and mastery of ...
The most famous song from the musical Cats is the bittersweet ballad, "Memory," sung by the ostracized character, Grizabella, "the Glamour Cat." She once led a more glamorous life, and now that she is older, she struggles to be accepted back into the tribe of ...
In this very special web exclusive, Lady Gaga performs the Cher hit, “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” from the eagerly anticipated live concert television event “Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!” featuring hits from the duo’s brand new album Cheek ...