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Happy New Year from CityArts!
We thank you -- our readers, our advertisers and our supporters -- for taking our reader survey, for participating in our new online ticket sweepstakes, and for spreading the word that CityArts is an important new stop for arts news, commentary and criticism. We look forward in 2011 to continuing our conversation about all things cultural in the visual and performing arts in New York City and beyond.
In the new year we will add regular film reviews and features to our popular coverage of galleries and museums, art shows and auctions, theater, dance, music, opera, books ... and more!
As our online presence grows in 2011 we hope that more readers of our print edition will check us out at www.cityartsnyc.com. And loyal online readers will soon be enjoying a regularly updated home page! Go to www.cityartsnyc.com to find out how to get the print edition of CityArts which will continue to be printed twenty times next year.
All of us at CityArts and Manhattan Media wish you and your friends and families a healthy and prosperous 2011.
Kate Walsh
Publisher, CityArts
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Still No New Years Plans?
Check out this list of concerts & performances with seats still available
Friday, December 31
George Balanchine's The Nutcraker New York City Ballet
to purchase tickets.
 G&S Fest: The Mikado
Symphony Space New Year's Eve Gala - Updated topical references, The Mikado's beloved score, and a little bubbly at intermission is just the beginning. An exclusive invitation to the cast party afterward, completes the elegant affair. to purchase tickets.
 La Traviata
The Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera will premiere a new production of Verdi's La Traviata on New Year's Eve, December 31. The modern-dress staging, directed by Willy Decker in his Met debut, opened at the Salzburg Festival in 2005 and caused a sensation. The Times of London review was one of many glowing critical notices: "This production is something special: a Traviata so dramatically intense...that no other contemporary contender can beat it." to purchase tickets.
 New Years Eve with Sistermonk
Symphony Space
Join the Thalia Cafe NYE!! No Cover Live Music Free Champagne Toast at Midnight! Gypsy funk, Arabesque trance, deep Latin grooves, soulful vocal and instrumental performances create a uniquely powerful experience. to purchase tickets.
 A Champagne New Year's Eve with Sharon Isbin
92nd Street Y
Sharon Isbin, guitar, with special guest Mark O'Connor, violin.
"One of the world's preeminent virtuosos of the classical guitar."-Chicago Tribune
Ring in the New Year with one of the world's finest guitarists and toast 2011 with champagne at intermission. for details.
 New Year's Eve Hustle Bash!
92nd Street Y Get ready for a hopping New Year's Eve dance party hosted by Lori Brizzi and some of New York's hottest dancers and DJs! Admission includes light hors d'oeuvres as well as complimentary champagne at midnight. for details.
Saturday, January 1
Pelléas et Mélisande
The Metropolitan Opera Simon Rattle, Artistic Director of the Berlin Philharmonic, will make his Metropolitan Opera debut December 17 leading a revival of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. The cast will feature Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená as Mélisande and French baritone Stéphane Degout as Pelléas. Gerald Finley will sing the role of Pelléas's jealous brother Golaud, Felicity Palmer will sing the role of his mother Geneviève, and Willard White will complete the cast as the aged monarch Arkel. All five singers are making their Met role debuts. to purchase tickets. 
Sunday, January 2
George Balanchine's The Nutcraker New York City Ballet to purchase tickets.
"There and Then"-Love and Madness in the Italian Baroque: Music of Scarlatti, Corelli, Marini, Castello, Fontana, and Mazzocchi Symphony Space Christine Gunmere, Baroque Cello; Judson Griffin, Baroque Violin; Grant Herreid, Lute & Theorbo; Nell Snaidas, Soprano & Baroque Guitar. For more information and complete listings see the concerts calendar. Information on reservations and purchasing tickets.
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Gallery Openings This Week
Saturday, January 1
Bushwick, Brooklyn
New Year, New Work, New Faces: STOREFRONT: 16 Wilson Avenue, ground floor, January 1 - January 23, 2011
Join gallery directors Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown as we open our next year of exciting exhibitions at Storefront in Bushwick. Hot off a fresh review in The New York Times, the gallery hosts an exciting new show in the new year featuring new work by a new group of rising art stars. The exhibition can be previewed at a fundraiser for the Bushwick based non-profit NORTE MAAR, on Tuesday, December 28, 7-9PM. $20, beer + pizza. The official opening reception will a brunch held on New Years Day, January 1, from 1PM-3PM. Exhibition continues through January 23. Storefront hours and directions can be found at www.storefrontbk.com
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