Domingo Cancels Performances After Being Hospitalized in Madrid

Dan Steinberg/Invision, via Associated Press Mr. Domingo in Los Angeles in June.

The tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo was hospitalized in Madrid on Monday with a pulmonary embolism, and though his spokeswoman, Nancy Seltzer, said on Tuesday afternoon that Mr. Domingo had responded well to treatment and was out of danger, she added that “he has been asked to rest for three or four weeks.”

Mr. Domingo, 72, was in Madrid for performances at the Teatro Real, where he was to sing the role of Pablo Neruda in “Il Postino,” an opera by Daniel Catán that Mr. Domingo has performed in Vienna and with the Los Angeles Opera, where he is the general director. He has had to withdraw from the production, which opens on July 17. He has also canceled plans to conduct the Orchestra Valencia in in a July 21 concert at the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, an event meant to support the city’s bid to host the Olympics in 2020.

Ms. Seltzer said that Mr. Domingo’s illness was caused by deep vein thrombosis, a condition in which a blood clot forms in the leg and travels up to the lung. She said that he was treated with blood thinners, which dissolved the clot, and that he was in good spirits.

Is Mr. Domingo, the opera world’s biggest workaholic (Neruda in “Il Postino” was his 134th role) likely to sit still for the three to four weeks of rest his doctors have ordered?

Ms. Seltzer would not speculate.

“It’s impossible to understand the strength and grace that this man has,” she said.

Randy Travis in Hospital in Critical Condition

Randy Travis, the country singer, has been hospitalized in Dallas with heart problems and was listed in critical condition, his publicist told The Associated Press.

The singer, who is 54, was admitted to the hospital Sunday night. He was being treated for viral cardiomyopathy, a condition caused by a virus that weakens and enlarges the heart muscle. The condition can lead to heart failure in some cases. Citing a sister-in-law, USA Today reported Tuesday that Mr. Travis had undergone surgery to repair his heart. “We have been told he has had surgery,” the sister-in-law, Teresa Traywick, said in a statement. “Their mother passed away at an early age with her heart, so it is like these boys are following right in their footsteps. My prayers are with them. That’s all I can say right now.”

Mr. Travis, best known for hits like “Three Wooden Crosses” and “Forever and Ever, Amen,” has been through a turbulent period. In August 2012, he was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated and obstruction after he was found inebriated and naked on a Texas highway by state troopers. He had crashed his Pontiac Trans Am. Two weeks later, he was cited for assault after a fight in a church parking lot.

But he has also done some high-profile performances, appearing in the Country Music Association Festival’s nightly concert series and singing at George Jones’s funeral.

A winner of multiple Grammy Awards, Mr. Travis is known for his mellow voice and a back-to-basics style that evoked Mr. Jones and Merle Haggard. He emerged as a major star in the 1980s after the release of “Storms of Life” in 1986 and has recorded a score of studio albums and has had more than 50 songs on the country charts.

Coming From Stephen Schwartz: A Musical About an Opera Impresario — in German

With the Broadway hits “Pippin,” and “Wicked” under his belt, Stephen Schwartz tried his hand at opera, to mixed response, with “Séance on a Wet Afternoon’ in 2011. In a new project, he is bringing together the two worlds: composing the score for “Schikaneder,” a German-language musical about the creative and sometimes tempestuous relationship between Emanuel Schikaneder, the 18th- and 19th-century impresario, composer, librettist and singer, and his wife and sometime business partner Eleonore.

The work will have a libretto by Christian Struppeck, the general artistic director of the Raimund and Ronacher Theaters, in Vienna. It is scheduled to have its premiere at one of the theaters during the 2015-16 season, according to a report in the Kurier, a Viennese daily newspaper.

Opera fans will immediately recognize Schikaneder as the librettist of Mozart’s 1791 opera, “The Magic Flute,” who also sang the role of Papageno in the original production. He had, in fact, been a friend of Mozart and his family since 1780, when he met them during a visit to Salzburg, When the young Beethoven moved to Vienna, Schikaneder presented concerts of his music and encouraged him to write the opera that became “Fidelio.”
Eleonore, an actress when Schikaneder met her, became an important impresario as well, both as her husband’s partner and on her own.

Their joint career will give Mr. Schwartz’s work a historical patina, but he told the Kurier that audiences need not be familiar with “Magic Flute” or the early 19th-century theater scene in Vienna to enjoy the piece. Some of it, after all, will be driven by Schikaneder’s serial infidelities and the toll it took on the couple’s marriage.

Whether the show will make its way to New York is an open question. “We’re just thinking about writing it,” Mr. Struppeck told the Kurier.

Michael Hartman, a spokesman for “Houdini,” which had been announced as Mr. Schwartz’s next Broadway venture, said on Tuesday that the Viennese project “won’t interfere” with that musical’s progress. Earlier this year Aaron Sorkin dropped out as the book writer for the show, which has Hugh Jackman attached to star. Mr. Hartman said it was too early to announce new details on a creative team or production schedule for “Houdini.”

July 9: Where the Candidates Are Today

Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Joseph Burgess and Nicholas Wells contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.

Events by candidate

Albanese

Catsimatidis

Liu

McDonald

Quinn

Thompson

Weiner

Group event

John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

11 a.m.
Attends the opening of the Police Athletic League’s annual Summer Play Streets program, which has been closing off streets and giving children supervised outdoor places to play everything from stickball and jump rope to Nok hockey and mancala, for roughly a century, in Harlem.

5:30 p.m.
Joins supportors for a campaign “friendraiser,” hosted by David Rappa, at a private residence in Midtown.

7 p.m.
Zips to Staten Island to join Vito Fossella and Mark DeFazio for a second campaign “friendraiser,” this one at the home of Lee and Lisa Armstrong, on Staten Island.

John C. Liu
Democrat

7 a.m.
Greets voters in Harlem.

11 a.m.
Visits with seniors at the Hamilton-Madison House, in Lower Manhattan.

6:45 p.m.
Attends Manhattan’s Community Board 7 monthly meeting, whose agenda includes the East Midtown rezoning and remarks from the Department of City Planning on flood resiliance, at Lincoln Center.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

6:30 p.m.
Joins Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell and others at a $25-per-head “Summer Night Out” fund-raiser for City Councilman Mark Weprin, at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street.

Some of Ms. Quinn’s events may not be shown because the campaign declines to release her advance schedule for publication.

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

7:15 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the 72nd Street subway station at Broadway.

12 p.m.
Accepts endorsement of the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, at the corner of Broome and Pitt Streets.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

9:30 a.m.
Attends a Community Service Society briefing on the New York City Housing Authority’s draft plan for 2014, at the Community Service Society.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

8:15 a.m.
Attends the Shema Kolainu 11th Annual Legislative Breakfast, an event to raise awareness of childhood autism, at the Renaissance Ballroom in Brooklyn.

5:15 p.m.
Meets with riders on the ferry to Rockaway and advocates for permanent ferry service to the peninsula, departing from Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan.

7 p.m.
Greets concert-goers at State Senator Marty Golden’s summer concert series, at Shore Road Park in Brooklyn.

Adolfo Carrión Jr.
Independent

8 a.m.
Attends the Manhattan Institute’s briefing on “The Future of N.Y.C. Education” forum, with opening remarks by Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, at the Harvard Club.

George T. McDonald
Republican

7 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the East 77th Street subway station, on Lexington Avenue.

8:30 a.m.
Attends the Manhattan Institute’s briefing on “The Future of N.Y.C. Education” forum, with opening remarks by Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, at the Harvard Club.

Donald Glover Reduces His Course Load on ‘Community’

Kevin Scanlon for The New York Times The “Community” star Donald Glover in Los Angeles.

There has been another setback at Greendale Community College, the home of the NBC sitcom “Community,” and the school year hasn’t even started yet. Though that cult comedy series about a group of mismatched students recently regained the services of Dan Harmon, its deposed creator and show runner, it is losing its co-star Donald Glover for more than half of its coming fifth season, Vulture.com reported. Mr. Glover, who plays the former high school football star Troy Barnes, will appear in only 5 episodes of a planned 13-episode season. Vulture.com said Mr. Glover, who has also appeared on “Girls” and wrote for “30 Rock,” plans to focus more attention on his musical career, rapping under the nme Childish Gambino.

“Community” has dealt with key losses from its cast, having parted ways with co-star Chevy Chase last year. But the exit of Mr. Glover seems somewhat harder for the show to absorb; he and Danny Pudi, who plays Troy’s pop-culture-obsessed friend and roommate, Abed, were practically the Bert and Ernie of the show.

Mr. Harmon did not directly acknowledge the change in Mr. Glover’s status on “Community” but appeared to allude to it in a post on his Twitter account Monday night:

Listen. It’s Community. The day it’s quiet is the day we need to panic. #sixseasonsandamovie #bestonecoming

â€" Dan Harmon (@danharmon) 9 Jul 13

A Couple, Getting Better

Dear Diary:

On the F train a few days ago in Brooklyn, I saw two people sitting next to each other, who were not traveling together, reading self-help books from vastly different places.

She, wearing jeans and a sweater, was reading, “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures.”

He, wearing a Harlem R.B.I. youth program coach’s shirt, was reading, “Rod Carew: The Art and Science of Hitting.”

Either way, sitting together, but clearly not together, they were trying to get better.

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In Performance: ‘Choir Boy’

“Choir Boy,” a new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, follows a group of young black prep school students as they struggle with issues of identity and sexuality. In this scene, the boys, members of the school’s choir, sing the spiritual “Motherless Child.” The Manhattan Theater Club production continues through July 21 at City Center.

Recent videos in this series include Carla Gugino in a scene from Daniel Pearle’s play “A Kid Like Jake,” at LCT3’s Clare Tow Theater, and Steven Pasquale singing “I Never Knew” from the new musical “Far From Heaven,” at Playwrights Horizons.

Coming soon: Christopher Denham in a scene from “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin.”

New York Today: Beach Work Day

Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Time to set up and get to work, beach-goers.

It’s Tuesday morning. Time to go to work - on the beach.

About 100 young New Yorkers will start their city summer jobs cleaning up the shore and waterfront.

On Coney Island, the city will begin its program to educate people about how litter on city streets ends up as litter on the beach.

If you want to bring your office work to the beach, you can do that, too.

Starting Tuesday, solar charging units will pop up at beaches in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx â€" so you can remain just as tethered to your phone as ever.

Here’s what else you need to know to start your Tuesday.

WEATHER

Still hot, stickier than Monday, highs around 87. Decent chance of thunderstorms from mid-afternoon on, with significant rainfall possible. Bring the umbrella.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Roads: The ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge from the B.Q.E. is closed, 1010 WINS reports. Otherwise O.K. so far.

Alternate-side parking rules: in effect.

- Mass Transit: Delays on the G train. Click for the latest subway and bus status.

COMING UP TODAY

- Officials will release harmless, odorless gases in subway stations and on streets in Manhattan this morning to study how not-so-harmless gases would disperse in case of a terror attack.

- Mayor Bloomberg will sign a bill allowing newsstands to sell items for as much as $10, up from the current ceiling of $5, as long as they’re not “apparel, jewelry, hair ornaments, handbags or video cassettes.” When was the last time you bought a video cassette at a newsstand?

- On the campaign trail: Christine C. Quinn will be on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC at 7:15 a.m. William C. Thompson Jr. will greet subway commuters at 72nd Street and Broadway at 7:15 a.m. Sal Albanese will greet ferry riders in Rockaway and make the case for permanent ferry service from the peninsula to Manhattan.

- Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president who is running for city comptroller, will discuss a new report on hunger in the city and recommendations for the next mayor.

- The City Parks Foundation will kick off its free sports and arts programs for children in 60 parks across the city, including a circus workshop at a Columbus Park in Chinatown at 10:30 a.m.

- Gov. Cuomo’s new education reform commission will hold a public forum at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at noon.

- Meet the birds in Bryant Park: a shelter for parrots, macaws and other exotic pets, Arcadia Bird Sanctuary and Educational Center, will bring its beautiful winged residents to the park from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

- Free concert in Bay Ridge: Head Over Heels, which bills itself as “Bay Ridge’s Party Band,” will play at Shore Road Park at 79th Street at 7 p.m.

- For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.

E.C. Gogolak contributed reporting.

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