opera: Last News

Carolyn Giardina The Future of Cinema Summit at the NAB Show opened Saturday morning with speakers who agreed that AI can make production faster and cheaper, but it can’t do everything. Meanwhile, the issue of jobs remained murky. “This is the age of the generalist,” suggested Eric Shamlin, CEO of AI-driven production studio Secret Level and co-chair of the TV Academy’s AI Task Force, during the SMPTE-produced summit.

Anita Rachvelishvili was contracted to perform various shows at the legendary Manhattan opera, including “Aida,” “La Gioconda,” “Carmen” and “Don Carlo” from 2022 to 2025 — a deal worth upwards of $400,000.But instead of using her “sonorous voice” to belt out the famed works, the opera cancelled her remaining performances in January 2023, accusing Rachvelishvili, 40, of “deterioration of vocal quality,” she said in court papers.Rachvelishvili, who gave birth to her daughter in November 2021, admitted she was “temporarily limited in her very highest vocal range” after becoming a mom but said there was never an impact on her work.“She was nonetheless at all times ready, willing and able to perform the roles for which she was contracted,” she said in court papers, noting she has since “recovered her full vocal range.”She claims the Met and the union discriminated against her because she was pregnant.“I loved performing on the Met stage and looked forward to returning after the birth of my first child. I was shocked that I was not given a chance to recover and all of my contracts for the next two years were immediately canceled without pay,” she said in a statement.“After supporting the Met throughout the pandemic, I am disappointed, to say the least, at this harmful treatment.”Rachvelishvili, who hails from the former Soviet republic of Georgia and now lives in Tbilisi, was once heralded as the “greatest dramatic mezzo-soprano” by her Metropolitan Opera boss, Peter Gelb.

A Days of Our Lives cast member is officially exiting the series…and it’s not an April Fool’s Joke.

The composer and lyricist of Fellow Travelers, an opera based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel about the anti-gay lavender scare of the 1950s, have withdrawn the work from the 2025-26 season of the Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., citing concern over Donald Trump’s takeover of the institution’s leadership.

stole the show singing the “Star Spangled Banner” at President Trump’s second inauguration — earning the nickname “America’s Tenor” — continues hitting high notes in his musical career now as a nationwide sensation.“As a teenager, I really wanted to keep it a secret that I could sing because I did not want anybody to ask me to perform,” Macchio, 46, told The Post.The once timid Holbrook native has a homecoming show Saturday night at the Paramount Theater in Huntington and will be honored by his high school alma mater through the Sachem district’s education foundation on Thursday.It was, after all, at Sachem High School where a very shy Macchio found his God given talents.“I discovered I could sing when I was 13 by listening to and mimicking the soundtrack to ‘The Godfather Part III,'” he recalled. “But at the time, I was a bookworm.

because she wanted to be bejeweled and he didn’t. And while that characterization of their attitudes may be true, it wasn’t what led to the split, says Affleck. In fact, it wasn’t anything remotely dramatic.“There are a lot of people who I think have handled celebrity more adeptly and more adroitly than I have, among them.

Beyond the Gates is the newest soap opera to hit TV, and there are already some casting updates!

Days of Our Lives continues to keep us guessing, and there’s just been another huge shakeup with the cast.

CPH:DOX, the renowned documentary festival in Copenhagen, is presenting what might be called an Ai Weiwei double feature.

Heather Tom is taking her talents behind-the-scenes for an upcoming episode of The Bold and the Beautiful!

Daniel Cosgrove has booked his next soap opera role!

Lise Pedersen Maxim Derevianko’s “Ai Weiwei’s Turandot” has been picked up by Berlin-based doc specialist Rise and Shine World Sales, ahead of its international premiere on March 21 in the Highlights section of the Copenhagen documentary festival CPH:DOX. The film follows Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he makes his debut as an opera director at the Rome Opera House, with a radical interpretation of Puccini’s century-old masterpiece. As well as presenting “Ai Weiwei’s Turandot,” Ai will also debut his latest documentary as a director, “Animality,” at CPH:DOX, which will have its world premiere on March 21, followed by a Q&A with the artist.

The Bold and the Beautiful star Jacqueline McInnes Wood made an exciting, surprise announcement!

Cherie Jimenez is addressing the rumors.

Sadie Sink is hitting the red carpet at the premiere of her new Hulu movie!

Rosemary Rossi After 10 years playing Chad DiMera on the Peacock soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” Billy Flynn is heading to CBS’ “Young and the Restless” in a character not yet revealed. He credits his personal and professional growth during that time to the show that he calls “the little engine that could.” “We do the best work we can despite the obstacles that we’ve faced as a show. Part of that move I’m excited about is [that] they move slower and there’s more time to do stuff.

Billy Flynn is speaking to his decision to leave Days of Our Lives.

Chad DiMera actor Billy Flynn is leaving Days Of Our Lives and headed to a new soap opera instead.

ITV has severed ties with Martin Fustes, a writer on long-running soap opera Emmerdale, after he admitted to charges of attacking his girlfriend.

Actor Paul Danan‘s cause of death has been confirmed.

Stephen Saito There are a handful of title cards to explain the fantastical world in which “O’Dessa” takes place, but perhaps it would be more instructive if there were a few more to lead audiences back to a time before the acquisition of Fox by Disney, when Geremy Jasper’s ambitious rock opera first started to be developed at Searchlight with great enthusiasm in the wake of the director’s Sundance hit “Patti Cakes.” Now shredded into ribbons, the story of a girl (Sadie Sink) and her guitar feels like the end product of various executive regimes that couldn’t agree on a single vision, ultimately settling on the simplest of stories inside an ornate setting that’s been rendered largely incomprehensible by studio notes. “O’Dessa” envisions the end of civilization, but when it debuts on Hulu a week after its premiere at SXSW, it’ll seem like the end of a certain era for its studio, where the project was hatched by alumni of “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Call it a relic of a time when Searchlight invested in second features from filmmakers whose bold debuts they’d acquired in Park City during the mid-2010s.