The Connecticut Virtuosi has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a rundown of the vocal events in store for audiences. Frst up is “Vissi d’arte,” a concert in tribute to Maria Callas featuring soprano Jurate Svedaite. Performance Dates: Oct. 8 & 15, 2023 The company will then join forces with the Connecticut Lyric Opera to honor the latter’s 20th anniversary. The {…}
St. Louis’ Union Avenue Opera is set to host a concert to celebrate the announcement of its 30th anniversary series. The event, set for Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, will be hosted by Artistic Director Scott Schoonover, who will announce the new season. There will be performances by Marsha Thompson, Meroë Khalia Adeeb (Governess) and James Stevens (Peter Quint) from the {…}
Photo credit: GDM In its inaugural season the performing arts collective counter codex presents “POLYMATH: La comédie de la Mort.” Countertenor and co-founder of the organization Jordan Rutter-Covatto (he/they) performs alongside soprano Sydney Anderson (she/her), pianist Mila Henry, and actor Saul Nache in “POLYMATH: La comédie de la Mort.” The team presents two world premiere song cycles by Joseph N. {…}
The Belle Mehus Auditorium in Bismarck, North Dakota is set to present the “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín” on Oct. 20 and 21, 2023. The concert-drama, which commemorates Jewish prisoners of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp during World War II, will feature a performance of Verdi’s Requiem” interspersed with historic film and testimony from survivors. It showcases the Bismark-Mandan Symphony Orchestra under {…}
Opera on Tap is joining forcing with Kinesis Project Dance Theatre to present “Capacity, or: the Work of Crackling” as part of Summer on the Hudson. The showcase, scheduled for Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 2023, is an outdoor exploration of joy, grief, and how it all relates to the natural processes of the earth’s cracking. It is set to {…}
Mini Masterworks is set to present Berlioz’s “Les Nuits d’Été” in New York. The ensemble will feature soloist Elisabeth Stevens as they take the work to St. John’s in the Village on Sept. 30, 2023; a Private Residence in The Sheffield on Oct. 7; and to Madison Avenue Baptist Church on Oct. 14, 2023. Stevens has appeared with such organizations {…}
Pacific Opera Project is set to give the LA premiere of “Scalia/Ginsburg” in a double bill with Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Trial by Jury.” The opera is set to be presented between Nov. 17 and 26 at The Highland Park Ebell Club. It will include food and wine at table seating. Artistic Director Josh Shaw’s new libretto for “Trial by Jury” {…}
Boston’s Opera del West is set to present “La Clemenza di Tito” on Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2023. The Mozart opera will be showcased in an updated production that features additional dialogue in English; the opera will still be performed in the original Italian. Lucas Hickman takes on the title role and is joined by a cast that includes {…}
Madison Lyric Stage is set to present “Maidens, Witches and Femme Fatales: The Women of Opera.” The concert will be performed on Oct. 14 and 15, and will feature an all-female evening of the greatest arias and scenes from Bizet, Barber, Britten, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi Strauss, and Wagner. There will be selections from “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Madama Butterfly,” “Carmen,” {…}
Michael Dellaira’s “Arctic Explorations: a Folk Opera in One Act” is set to premiere in 2024. The opera, which was commissioned by, and will be presented in a collaboration between Nancy Manocherian’s The Cell Theater and the New Amsterdam Singers, features a libretto based on 19th century explorer Elisha Kent Kane’s “Arctic Explorations.” It tells the story of Kane and {…}
Following its successful 15th anniversary season, Ensemble for These Times (E4TT), an award-winning San Francisco-based contemporary chamber group, in partnership with Luna Composition Lab, has unveiled the winners of its 2023 Call for Scores. During the selection phase, the E4TT was presented with 22 scores from 13 emerging women and nonbinary composers. From this pool, they chose six outstanding pieces {…}