Brokeback Mounrain
is being turned into
an opera. American composer Charles Wuorinen's second opera will be
performed in New York during the 2013 season.
An Inconvenient
Truth will be transformed into an opera by
Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli and will be performed at La
Scala in Milan in 2011
Deborah Voigt, dropped four years ago by Covent Garden
for being too fat (she was unable to fit into the slinky black
dress), was called to sing in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos after she lost about 100 pounds!
John Cage's As Slow As Possible, may possibly be the world's slowest composition.
The latest performance, currently at the church of St. Burchard in
Halberstadt, Germany, began September 2001 and is scheduled to finish
in 2639!
James Levine , conductor of the Boston Symphony,
canceled all his concerts with the BSO at Tanglewood this summer due
to kidney surgery.
Asimo , the
Honda robot, conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a
performance of The
Impossible Dream from the
musical Man of La
Mancha.
Youngest ever
pianist signs with Yamaha.
11 year old Alice Burla (Canada) has performed in major concert halls
around the world and was one of the youngest students to be accepted
by the Juilliard School pre-college division.