Billy Joel‘s Madison Square Garden (Msg) concerts are coming to an end, but there’s still time to see him at the famous New York City arena.
The New York local first began performing for Msg in 2014 and, in October, started the countdown to his last ten shows. The “Uptown Girl” singer currently holds the record for most appearances at Msg.
“Madison Square Garden is the center of the universe as far as I’m concerned,” Joel is known to have said. “It has the best acoustics, the best audiences, the best reputation, and the best history of great artists who have played there. It is the iconic, holy temple of rock and roll for most touring acts and, being a New Yorker, it holds a special significance to me.”
Joel is not only busy doing the last shows at Msg but is also performing around the country with...
The New York local first began performing for Msg in 2014 and, in October, started the countdown to his last ten shows. The “Uptown Girl” singer currently holds the record for most appearances at Msg.
“Madison Square Garden is the center of the universe as far as I’m concerned,” Joel is known to have said. “It has the best acoustics, the best audiences, the best reputation, and the best history of great artists who have played there. It is the iconic, holy temple of rock and roll for most touring acts and, being a New Yorker, it holds a special significance to me.”
Joel is not only busy doing the last shows at Msg but is also performing around the country with...
- 12/19/2023
- by Rose Anne Cox-Peralta
- Uinterview
Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli is currently on tour and has concerts all throughout 2024.
A few days ago, Bocelli announced some concert postponements due to “health challenges” and offered rescheduled dates. In a Facebook post, the Italian singer made another announcement that his voice was back and that he would be performing at both the original and rescheduled dates.
“I’m double honored and grateful because in my heart, I am already at Madison Square Garden, where I’ll be singing to celebrate Christmas on Wednesday and Thursday,” Bocelli’s post read. “I want to embrace New York and the entire nation in song, thanking them again for their love, and also for their patience. Speaking of patience, it’s a virtue I’ve had to practice recently by stopping and listening silently to what my body needed: some time to recover from a winter cold.”
Shortly after his doctors...
A few days ago, Bocelli announced some concert postponements due to “health challenges” and offered rescheduled dates. In a Facebook post, the Italian singer made another announcement that his voice was back and that he would be performing at both the original and rescheduled dates.
“I’m double honored and grateful because in my heart, I am already at Madison Square Garden, where I’ll be singing to celebrate Christmas on Wednesday and Thursday,” Bocelli’s post read. “I want to embrace New York and the entire nation in song, thanking them again for their love, and also for their patience. Speaking of patience, it’s a virtue I’ve had to practice recently by stopping and listening silently to what my body needed: some time to recover from a winter cold.”
Shortly after his doctors...
- 12/17/2023
- by Rose Anne Cox-Peralta
- Uinterview
AI musicians Metaphysic had the “America’s Got Talent” judges on their feet after their performance Tuesday, but viewers weren’t so sure about it.
The team had judges Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel and host Terry Crews belting out their very own rendition of “Nessun Dorma” on screen, and the whole thing was very realistic.
Cowell even called the performance “the best act, I believe, of the series so far,” praising the group’s originality and talent.
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@Metaphysic_ai continues to blow our minds. #AGT pic.twitter.com/t9QUEH0x8R
— America’s Got Talent (@AGT) August 31, 2022
Mandel jokingly added of the “deepfake”: “It’s like Il Divo, but it’s Il Stupido. The fact that you had the gumption to actually use my own voice is amazing.”
Klum gushed, “Beautiful singing, the opera was amazing.
The team had judges Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel and host Terry Crews belting out their very own rendition of “Nessun Dorma” on screen, and the whole thing was very realistic.
Cowell even called the performance “the best act, I believe, of the series so far,” praising the group’s originality and talent.
Read More: ‘AGT’: Opera Singer Merissa Beddows Serves Up Musical Impressions Of Cher, ‘Family Guy’ & More
@Metaphysic_ai continues to blow our minds. #AGT pic.twitter.com/t9QUEH0x8R
— America’s Got Talent (@AGT) August 31, 2022
Mandel jokingly added of the “deepfake”: “It’s like Il Divo, but it’s Il Stupido. The fact that you had the gumption to actually use my own voice is amazing.”
Klum gushed, “Beautiful singing, the opera was amazing.
- 8/31/2022
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
Exclusive: Ron Howard’s Afm buyer presentation for documentary Pavarotti, about iconic opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, was one of the hot tickets at last month’s market. Distributors have responded well to the project with a string of key deals inked by White Horse Pictures and HanWay Films.
Deals have closed for Germany and Austria (Wild Bunch), Spain (A Contracorriente), China (Ddd Dream), Australia/Nz (Madman), Japan (Gaga) and South Korea (Aud). Italy has been licensed in collaboration with TIMVision and Wildside, the former being Telecom Italia’s growing streaming platform, which has picked up films and hit shows such as The Handmaid’s Tale and Elena Ferrante adaptation My Brilliant Friend. Wildside execs across the Italy deal included Lorenzo Gangarossa, Mario Gianani, and Lorenzo Mieli.
Pre-sales have also been finalized for Benelux (The Searchers), Cis / Baltics (Volga Film), Czech Rep, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania (Prorom), Former Yugoslavia (Discovery...
Deals have closed for Germany and Austria (Wild Bunch), Spain (A Contracorriente), China (Ddd Dream), Australia/Nz (Madman), Japan (Gaga) and South Korea (Aud). Italy has been licensed in collaboration with TIMVision and Wildside, the former being Telecom Italia’s growing streaming platform, which has picked up films and hit shows such as The Handmaid’s Tale and Elena Ferrante adaptation My Brilliant Friend. Wildside execs across the Italy deal included Lorenzo Gangarossa, Mario Gianani, and Lorenzo Mieli.
Pre-sales have also been finalized for Benelux (The Searchers), Cis / Baltics (Volga Film), Czech Rep, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania (Prorom), Former Yugoslavia (Discovery...
- 11/26/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
I hear people ask, “Who’s gonna be the next queen?” Shut up! Aretha Franklin was the one. She could take a jazz song and make it Aretha. She could take blues and make it Aretha. Puccini’s aria “Nessun Dorma”: She could make it Aretha. There were only two people who could do that — her and Ray Charles.
At the Grammys in 1998, when Pavarotti had a cold and canceled, the producers had an emergency on their hands. They asked: Could she do “Nessun Dorma”? She had been studying opera and she had sung the aria two nights earlier at the MusiCares dinner. That first night, she did it in her key, with her arrangement. But when she was called to fill in for Pavarotti at the Grammys, with almost no rehearsal, she had to do it in his key, with his arrangement. She’d always been great, but...
At the Grammys in 1998, when Pavarotti had a cold and canceled, the producers had an emergency on their hands. They asked: Could she do “Nessun Dorma”? She had been studying opera and she had sung the aria two nights earlier at the MusiCares dinner. That first night, she did it in her key, with her arrangement. But when she was called to fill in for Pavarotti at the Grammys, with almost no rehearsal, she had to do it in his key, with his arrangement. She’d always been great, but...
- 8/21/2018
- by Sam Moore
- Variety Film + TV
There are a lot of things that Billy Joel couldn’t possibly have imagined when he first played Madison Square Garden on December 14th, 1978. He couldn’t have imagined that 40 years later he’d sit on the same stage with his three-year-old daughter in his lap while the venue hoisted a banner into the rafters commemorating his 100th show at the arena. He couldn’t have imagined he’d be popular enough at age 69 to pack the place every single month for years on end despite effectively retiring as a...
- 7/19/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Neal Boyd, a former winner of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent, has died. He was 42.
Boyd died around 6 p.m. Sunday at his mother’s house in Sikeston, Mo., Scott County Coroner Scott Amick told the Associated Press. Boyd, who was in a car accident in 2017, had suffered from various medical ailments the last few years, including heart failure, kidney failure and liver disease.
An opera singer, Boyd won Season 3 of “America’s Got Talent” in 2008 after performing “Nessun Dorma” in the finals. His 2009 debut album, “My American Dream” debuted at No. 3 on the Top Classical Albums chart on “Billboard.”
See In memoriam: Look back at stars we’ve lost this year
Boyd also twice ran for a Missouri House of Representative seat, losing in the general election in 2012 and in the primary in 2014. He performed at the Republican National Convention in 2012.
After news of his passing broke, former...
Boyd died around 6 p.m. Sunday at his mother’s house in Sikeston, Mo., Scott County Coroner Scott Amick told the Associated Press. Boyd, who was in a car accident in 2017, had suffered from various medical ailments the last few years, including heart failure, kidney failure and liver disease.
An opera singer, Boyd won Season 3 of “America’s Got Talent” in 2008 after performing “Nessun Dorma” in the finals. His 2009 debut album, “My American Dream” debuted at No. 3 on the Top Classical Albums chart on “Billboard.”
See In memoriam: Look back at stars we’ve lost this year
Boyd also twice ran for a Missouri House of Representative seat, losing in the general election in 2012 and in the primary in 2014. He performed at the Republican National Convention in 2012.
After news of his passing broke, former...
- 6/11/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Opera singer Neal Boyd, who won Season 3 of America’s Got Talent, died Sunday of heart failure, kidney failure and liver disease, our sister site Variety reports. He was 42.
Boyd’s death comes one year after he and his mother were involved in a serious car accident, in which their vehicle ran off the right side of the road and struck a tree.
Formerly the co-owner of an insurance agency, Boyd rose to fame on the NBC reality competition’s third season, where he shared the emotional story of his impoverished childhood and wowed judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and...
Boyd’s death comes one year after he and his mother were involved in a serious car accident, in which their vehicle ran off the right side of the road and struck a tree.
Formerly the co-owner of an insurance agency, Boyd rose to fame on the NBC reality competition’s third season, where he shared the emotional story of his impoverished childhood and wowed judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and...
- 6/11/2018
- TVLine.com
As the world’s attention turns to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics opening ceremony — airing Friday morning stateside — take a look back at the most dramatic and emotional moments of opening ceremonies past.
2014 Sochi
The most expensive Olympics to date ($51 billion) got underway with a spectacular opening ceremony that included dizzying light displays, locomotives, five sailing ships, a giant dancing bear, tributes to Russian arts and literature, and an inflatable replica of St. Basil’s cathedral.
Controversy began long before the Games, however, as Vladimir Putin’s regime was accused of civil rights violations, including anti-lgbtq measures that made it a...
2014 Sochi
The most expensive Olympics to date ($51 billion) got underway with a spectacular opening ceremony that included dizzying light displays, locomotives, five sailing ships, a giant dancing bear, tributes to Russian arts and literature, and an inflatable replica of St. Basil’s cathedral.
Controversy began long before the Games, however, as Vladimir Putin’s regime was accused of civil rights violations, including anti-lgbtq measures that made it a...
- 2/7/2018
- by Kurt Pitzer
- PEOPLE.com
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