By Daniel D'Addario 5/07/12 2:50pm

Opera

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Have We Met? Opera Stars Go Behind-the-Scenes In ‘Wagner’s Dream’

“It was all good,” said the tenor Jay Hunter Morris at the recent Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Wagner’s Dream. “I said yes to everything. The cameras aren’t the hardest part. The hardest part is singing Siegfried.”

Mr. Morris was discussing his role in Wagner’s Dream, a documentary about the production process of the Ring cycle at the Metropolitan Opera. Filmmaker Susan Froemke took her cameras through the planning of Robert Lepage’s complicated set and through the rehearsals at which Deborah Voigt and Mr. Morris learned their challenging roles. “There really were no limits,” Ms. Froemke told us. Read More

By Drew Grant 4/27/12 1:18pm

Tribeca Film Festival

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What Indie Starlet is Missing From This Tribeca Post-Party Pic?

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: So Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister Jones, Allison Williams and Whitney Cummings walk into a bar…

(Well, not just a bar, but  Bunker Club. And they don’t ‘walk in,’ so much as get escorted to the venue which is hosting an after-party for Tribeca Film Festival’s screening of Lola Versus…)

Anyway,  Ms. Gerwig turns to Ms. Cummings and says, “Hey, did we lose somebody on the way over?”

And Ms. Cummings looks around the room and replies: Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 3/26/12 1:10pm

Film Festivals

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Streep, De Niro, Sarandon to Attend Tribeca Special Events

This year’s Tribeca Film Festival has announced its special events for this year’s program. The events New Yorkers can catch are to include an April 22 interview between movie-industry stalwarts and prominent political commentators Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon–warning, first three rows may get politically awakened!

Jim Sheridan, director of In the Name of the Father and My Left Foot is to be interviewed by his screenwriter daughter Naomi Sheridan on April 28. As for special talks, classic thriller WarGames is to come with a post-show discussion with actress Ally Sheedy, director John Badham, and officials from BitCoin and the U.S. Air Force on April 28; the documentary Let Fury Have the Hour comes with a post-screening talk with artist Shepard Fairey and Eve Ensler among others on April 23. Read More