The Opera Revue is heading on tour this October. From Oct. 19 – Nov. 19, 2023, the company will take its gala, “Ruckus! On the Road” through Peterborough, Barrie, Fort Erie, Windsor, and Picton. “Ruckus! On the Road” features classic opera arias and ensembles portrayed in non-traditional and even irreverent ways with the intention of introducing classic opera to new {…}
New York City Opera’s Bryant Park summer series is set to continue with Tenor Alessandro Lora in Concert on August 19. Tenor Alessandro Lora will perform a concert of diverse Italian repertoire including folk, popular, and traditional Neapolitan songs alongside operatic favorites. The concert will feature the New York City Opera Orchestra led by two conductors, Maurizio Barbacini and Diego {…}
Los Angeles-based MUSE/IQUE is set to present “Bernstein At Heart: Learning is Living” as part of its “MUSIC = POWER” concert series. The showcase, which is set to take place on August 3 at The Huntington Library and August 6 at The Skirball Cultural Center, will feature soprano Anna Schubert, tenor Ashley Faatoalia, and violinist James Birch. The program will {…}
The PROTOTYPE Festival has announced its 2024 season, the 11th in the company’s history. Kicking things off will be the world premiere of Heather Christian’s “Terce.” The “radical rethinking of a monastic 9 am mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the ‘Holy Spirit’ through the lens of the Divine Feminine” features a 30-person choir, among others. Kennan {…}
Los Angeles’ The Industry is set to present the world premiere of “STAR CHOIR” on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 2023. The interstellar chamber opera by Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, explores a starship crew seeking refuge on a hostile planet. “Once there, the colonists encounter intelligent life imperceptible to their all-too-human awareness. As the planet defends itself from their {…}
U.K.’s Opera Greenwich will make its debut with a production of “Suor Angelica” at St. Alfege Church in Greenwich. The production, which will be directed by Valeria Perboni and conducted by Dominic Veall, is scheduled for August 19, 2023; there will be two shows – one at 5 p.m. and another at 8 p.m. local time. The opera will star {…}
Opera Prelude is set to present OperaWorks on Oct. 24, 2023 at the Chelsea Theatre in London. The showcase will include a number of opera professionals and educations aiming to help opera students and early career artists in navigating the modern opera world. OperaWorks will include panels, talks, and workshops. Industry participants include Elaine Kidd, Thando Mjandana, Camilla Kerslake, Héloïse {…}
Angels Vocal Art Opera Festival is set to present Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Consul” at the Manoukian Performing Arts Center in Pasadena on July 29 and 30, 2023. The production, which will be conducted by Artistic Director Kristof Van Gysperre, will star Victoria Livengood as The Mother, Elizabeth Baldwin as Magda Sorel, Jacob Bowman as John Sorel, Laura Zahn as {…}
Jennifer Pyron’s live performance of “Soul Cymatics” will take place during the Flux Factory’s Feralpy Festival on Governors Island on July 22 at 2 pm EST. A live stream will be made available. “Soul Cymatics” promotes deep listening awareness through breathing and humming exercises. The piece experiments with vocal textures, impulses, breathing techniques, microtones, timbres, rhythm, and text and site-specific {…}
(Photo credit: Yvette Marie Dostatni/Chicago Puppet Studio) Activist opera company, White Snake Projects, is set to the world premiere of “MONKEY: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable” on Sep. 22-24, 2023. Per an official press statement issued by the company, composer Jorge Sosa and creator/librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs‘ “Monkey” is a family-friendly transmedia show featuring life-scaled Bunraku puppetry, Kung Fu, computer {…}
Glow Lyric Theatre is set to present “The Handmaid’s Tale” on July 28, 2023. The production by the South Carolina-based company will be part of the organization’s 2023 Festival season, which kicks off on July 21, 2023 and runs through August 6, 2023. The opera, which is based on Margaret Atwood’s famed novel and features a libretto by Paul Bentley {…}