Topic: music
Charlie Gillett, a DJ and music historian who helped bring music from around the world to wider attention, has died at the age of 68, his employer, the British Broadcasting Corp., said Thursday. The BBC said Gillett died in a London hospital on Wednesday. He had ...
Johnnie High, a north Texas country music showman who gave such performers as LeAnn Rimes and Boxcar Willie their early exposure, has died at the age of 80. High's daughter, Luanne Dorman, says her father died Wednesday after battling heart disease. The impresario of "Johnnie ...
South America's most famous opera house will reopen May 24, nearly four years after it shut down for a monumental restoration that has run two years over schedule. Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri set the date in a Wednesday announcement revealing that the Teatro Colon ...
Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet" was last performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1897, and it's easy to see why more than a century passed before its revival. Even with two outstanding singing actors in the lead roles, the work exudes at best a fragile ...
