Brokeback
Mountain
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.