It has been a year since Canadian tenor Ben Heppner shocked a Toronto audience by cracking several notes and then calling a halt to his recital mid-aria. Heppner, long considered the most talented operatic tenor in a generation, has spent the last 12 months struggling to find out what it was that caused his voice to suddenly abandon him. He’s cagey about specifics, but the answer appears to have been found in the side effects from a medication he was taking. He is scheduled to return to New York’s Metropolitan Opera next month.
Tag: 01.09.02
Heppner Ready For A Comeback
It has been a year since Canadian tenor Ben Heppner shocked a Toronto audience by cracking several notes and then calling a halt to his recital mid-aria. Heppner, long considered the most talented operatic tenor in a generation, has spent the last 12 months struggling to find out what it was that caused his voice to suddenly abandon him. He’s cagey about specifics, but the answer appears to have been found in the side effects from a medication he was taking. He is scheduled to return to New York’s Metropolitan Opera next month.
Clear Channel Pulls Out Of Netcasting
The nation’s largest corporate radio conglomerate, Clear Channel Communications, has told its stations that they must individually bear the cost of broadcasting their signals over the internet, causing 150 of them to yank their webcasts entirely. The cost of streaming a traditional radio signal has become increasingly prohibitive with courts issuing rulings mandating payments to musicians and actors whose work appears on the streams.