The Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center

http://www.kennedy-center.org

Kennedy Center Honors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors

Opera

http://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/index

OUR 2017-2018 SEASON HAS JUST BEEN ANNOUNCED! — BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO

http://wno-blog.kennedycenterblogs.org/tag/francesca-zambello/?_ga=2.15727926.1466784801.1503187863-121798550.1503187863

http://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/index

The Kennedy Center Announces 2017–2018

Season Highlights

http://www.kennedy-center.org/pages/specialevents/seasonannouncement?_ga=2.43904549.1466784801.1503187863-121798550.1503187863

Watch & Listen

http://www.kennedy-center.org/WNO/MTO/Video/0

Honors

https://www.kennedy-center.org/pages/specialevents/honors/

2017 Kennedy Center Honorees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7925AC4BE38ED9D2&v=TyHxd3UR1Z0

BREAKING NEWS 8 19 17 Trump, Melania To Skip Kennedy Center Honors After Artists’ Boycott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdRB6hlmjw

Trump cancels Kennedy Center Honors reception

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CswLeHWQm8

Melania Trump And Donald Announce They Will Not Attend The Kennedy Center Honors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_np6zzq_w

The Kennedy Center

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheKennedyCenter

"The president and first lady have decided not to participate to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction," White House says

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/donald-trump-wont-attend-kennedy-center-honors-ceremony-w498559

 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts

 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. The Center, which opened September 8, 1971, is a multi-dimensional facility, and as memorial to John F. Kennedy and a cultural center, it produces a wide array of performances encompassing the genres of theater, dance, ballet, and orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular, and folk music, offers multi-media performances for adults and children, and is a nexus of arts education.

In addition to the approximately 2,000 performances held annually for audiences totaling nearly two million, the Center hosts touring productions and television and radio broadcasts that, collectively, are seen by 20 million more. Now in its 45th season, the Center presents music, dance and theater and supports artists in the creation of new work. With its artistic affiliate, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Center's achievements as a commissioner, producer, and nurturer of developing artists have resulted in over 200 theatrical productions, dozens of new ballets, operas, and musical works.

Tracing its beginning to the National Cultural Center Act of Congress in 1958, which requires that its programming be sustained through private funds, the center represents a public-private partnership. It is both the nation's public memorial to President John F. Kennedy and the "national center for the performing arts." Its activities include educational and outreach initiatives, almost entirely funded through ticket sales and gifts from individuals, corporations and private foundations.

The building, designed by architect Edward Durell Stone, was constructed by Philadelphia contractor John McShain, and is administered by a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution. It receives annual federal funding to pay for its maintenance and operation.

Rose Kennedy and Ted Kennedy in the presidential box during the Center's opening gala on September 8, 1971

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts#/media/File:Gala_opening_of_J.F.K._Performing_Arts_Center_(Presidential_box_-_Kennedy_family,_including_Rose_Kennedy)_(cropped1).jpg

The Marian Anderson Vocal Award

https://www.kennedy-center.org/pages/specialevents/andersonAward

 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Washington National Opera (WNO) announced that countertenor John Holiday is the 2017 winner of the Marian Anderson Vocal Award. The award celebrates excellence in performance by recognizing a young American singer who has achieved initial professional success in the area of opera, oratorio, or recital repertory, and who exhibits promise for a significant career. In order to honor Ms. Anderson's personal and humanitarian achievements, the award encourages service and education. In addition to receiving a $10,000 cash prize and a Kennedy Center recital, award winners are asked to participate in a short residency at the opera workshop program of Washington's Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

Past Marian Anderson Vocal Award Recipients

Janai Brugger, soprano (2016) Jamie Barton, soprano (2014) J'nai Bridges, mezzo soprano (2012) Sasha Cooke, mezzo soprano (2010) Indira Mahajan, soprano (2008) Lawrence Brownlee, tenor (2006)

http://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/A3688

Janai Brugger, soprano

http://www.janaibrugger.com

2012 Operalia Competition - Janai Brugger - De España vengo (HD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nUoDGRUMOU

Janai Brugger "Summertime" from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzENfUt47Dg

 Jamie Barton, soprano

http://www.jamiebartonmezzo.com

Jamie Barton | All Who Wander | Ich ging mit Lust (Mahler)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weAZGaaZCJM

Jamie Barton - Samson and Delilah "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" - Saint-Saëns: Tucker Opera Gala 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHucgyRRitY

J’Nai Nominated to be a 2017 SF Opera Emerging Star!

http://jnaibridgesmezzo.com

J’Nai Bridges

http://jnaibridgesmezzo.com/biography/

Meet J'nai Bridges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSsbLQeUfU

J'nai Bridges sings 'Sgombra è la sacra selva' from Norma

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhLx-ZqP2O4

Sasha Cooke

http://sashacooke.instantencore.com/web/bio.aspx

Sasha Cooke Concert (Promo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX267DmgQGk

Gypsy Sasha Cooke is Carmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTESdL2uuTQ

Indira Mahajan

https://www.randsman.com/indira-mahajan

"Madama Butterfly" Finale Act I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpRIRL0QomI

Indira Mahajan - O Patria Mia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRf_kcCEdYM

LAWRENCE BROWNLEE

http://www.lawrencebrownlee.com

Lawrence Brownlee - I Puritani - A te, o cara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAqd0hWSPhY

Lawrence Brownlee - L'elisir d'amore - Una furtiva lagrima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWXpmyqEbBk

Lawrence Brownlee Ah mes amis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQjnJqNuU8

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/14/arts/music-bernstein-mass-kennedy-center-washington-time-can-put-patina-significance.html