Soprano Nadine Sierra has won the 2017 Richard Tucker Award, dubbed the Heisman Trophy of opera.
Soprano Nadine Sierra wins 2017 Richard Tucker Award
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Make Music Day festival is coming to dozens of US cities
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2017 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts
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Winners of London’s 2017 Olivier stage awards
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German town stops playing kids’ song after vegan complains
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NY Philharmonic president quits for University of Michigan
Matthew VanBesien will become the third executive to depart this year with the orchestra in the midst of fundraising to renovate its Lincoln Center home.
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Mahler manuscript sells for record $5.6 million in London
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Powder sprinkled into opera pit may have been human ashes
NEW YORK (AP) — A powdery substance a man sprinkled into the orchestra pit at New York’s Metropolitan Opera may have been an opera lover’s ashes, police said Saturday. The freakish incident during an afternoon performance of Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell” forced Met officials to cancel the rest of the show as well as an evening performance of a second opera. …
