In the closing weekend of its summer season in Saratoga Springs, City Ballet will present preview performances of "Diva Verdi" and Quartet for Strings by Peter Martins, which will be seen in New York in January.
— In the finals of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the young American soprano Angela Meade knocked out an audience at the Met with a magisterial and vocally sumptuous performance of "Casta Diva," Norma's famous aria from the great Bellini opera that bears her name.
As part of her June 30 performance, the diva will perform her new single "Woman's World" from her forthcoming "Closer to the Truth" album, which is due out in September, along with several of her classic hits.
Coughing and talking will be endured with equanimity, and not even an earthquake or tornado will be able to abort an instrumentalist's performance of a Mozart concerto or a diva's aria — if only these budding artists can survive the renovation until 2011 without losing their sense of hearing altogether!
While historians, by scouring reviews and photographs, can approximate what made a given performance memorable, a diva of the theatre, that most ephemeral of art forms, relies, for the most part, on fans to keep her mystique alive.
However, if you know which Broadway diva once stopped a performance of Gypsy to yell at an audience member taking a photo, and which Broadway show closed this year after its leading lady announced she was expecting, then step right up.
Not a hint of diva about it.
"That's kind of diva," Ms. Simmons said.
This was because of the success of Diva.
Writer discusses various milestones in the diva's career, including her performance of the title role in Alban Berg's "Lulu," with the Paris Opera in 1979, and with the Metropolitan here last month.
