Sarah Urwin Jones of Scotland on Sunday reviews recitals by Simon Keenlyside and by Gerald Finley and other Edinburgh Festival performances.

Barnes & Noble has announced it will close its store near Lincoln Center in New York at the end of January, says the New York Times.

“Agnes Varis, a prominent patron and board member of the Metropolitan Opera, has donated $250,000 to Opera Orchestra of New York, the company said Monday. The money will go toward a concert performance of Meyerbeer’s ‘Africaine’ at Avery Fisher Hall on March 2.”–artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

Angela Gheorghiu pulls out of ROH Japan tour–Intermezzo

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Anna Nicole–The Opera “is due to be broadcast on BBC4 [television] in early 2011 but it’s unknown if a U.S. network will pick it up.”–newsfeed.time.com

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BroadwayWorld.com article about Met Talks at Metropolitan Opera, New York, for 2010-2011 season

September 28, 2010, is the scheduled release date for the United States of a new recording, in English, of Richard Strauss’s opera Ariadne on Naxos, as part of the Opera in English series of Chandos records. The cast includes Christine Brewer, Gillian Keith, Alice Coote, Robert Dean Smith, and Stephen Fry. Richard Armstrong conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Opera In English – Strauss: Ariadne On Naxos / Armstrong, Brewer, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, arkivmusic.com

August 31, 2010, is the scheduled release date for the United Kingdom, says amazon.co.uk.

Hyperion has assembled their recordings of the songs of Robert Schumann into a 10-CD set of the complete songs of Robert Schumann, arranged in chronological order. Release is scheduled for the end of August in the United Kingdom and Germany, and for mid September in the United States. Among the vocal soloists are Dorothea Röschmann, Juliane Banse, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, and Christopher Maltman.

Today, August 17, 2010, Belinda Carlisle is 52.

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