In 1957, when Maria Callas prepared to take on the role of Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena,” she worked for months with a coach; with the conductor, Gianandrea Gavazzeni; and with the stage director, Luchino ...

Anna Netrebko is a soprano fit for a queen. Her sound possesses the opulence and attention-grabbing power of a necklace dripping with jewels. She projects a regal, authoritative presence to match. If ...

CONWAY — A new production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena will open the 2011-12 season of Captured Live from the Met at UCA at 2 p.m. today in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of ...

2 Review: AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Is a Horror Story of Brutality and Abuse Generally considered one of Donizetti's finest operas, Anna Bolena is the first in a trilogy of works based on the lives of Tudor ...

The Metropolitan Opera 2011/2012 HD opera broadcasts resumes at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Eileen and Paul Finke Auditorium at Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge with the production of Gaetano ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Met came late to Donizetti operas about British queens, when it finally ...

The Metropolitan Opera's choice to open its 2011-12 season with its first-ever production of Donizetti's not-so-well-known "Anna Bolena" was a no-brainer: Anna Netrebko, whose voice has darkened ...

Soprano Anna Netrebko stars in the Vienna State Opera production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena. Two years before her Oscar-winning role in Black Swan, Natalie Portman appeared in the period drama The ...

Nights (and Afternoons) at the Opera / This is the first entry in a series examining the works that the Metropolitan Opera will present through June during its "The Met: Live in HD" series in local ...

Kneeling on stage as she sang the last notes of a heart-rending aria, Anna Netrebko felt the tumultuous applause wash over her — and smiled. It was a break in character for the tragic heroine of ...

Two years before her Oscar-winning role in Black Swan, Natalie Portman appeared in the period drama The Other Boleyn Girl. And that title says a lot about the character Portman played in the film — an ...