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...most years, the opera is an old one that has not been performed for hundreds of years. But in June 2005, BEMF will present the world premiere of a recently rediscovered opera, Boris Goudenow by Johann Mattheson...
...philanthropy bug continues to spread. In Regensburg, Johann Vielberth, a real estate developer, set up a foundation earlier this year to finance a new institute of real estate studies with four professorships at the university. Next year he will put up a new building to house it. Vielberth, 72, says that although his family has backed local causes for 150 years, he is formalizing that tradition and taking the generosity to a new level: the donation to the university exceeds $10 million. "It's time for a culture of philanthropy to begin again," he says. Given Europe's growing funding...
...beginning of August, she will travel with former Harvard women’s basketball player Laela Sturdy ’00 and her younger sister, Alexis, to Kimpala, Uganda on a goodwill trip with Right to Play, a Canadian-based NGO founded in 1994 by Norwegian speedskater Johann Olav Koss that uses Olympic athletes to provide humanitarian aid and promote sport in developing countries. Members of the organization include NHL great Wayne Gretzky, NBA star Dikembe Mutumbo, and of course Angela Ruggiero...
...Carnegie Hall’s upcoming season alone, the gamut of modern music’s luminaries—from Caetano Veloso and Pierre Boulez to Emmylou Harris, John Cage and Johann Sebastian Bach—will be celebrated in the same space as Adams...
...sing in a very disciplined way," she says. "Now I can just sing." Whatever the opera's larger musical legacy, for Kirchschlager Sophie has been a transforming experience. She'll soon begin to prepare her next roles - she's back in Vienna on New Year's Eve for Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus and in January will head to Berlin, where she'll reunite with Rattle for Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette. But Sophie will stay with her. "I think my artistic life will definitely be divided," she says. "Before Sophie and After Sophie...