Arguably the biggest New York City opera event of the summer is the New York Opera Festival, which will be entering its fourth iteration this summer. The beauty of the festival is that it features a plethora of major companies coming together to express themselves through opera. This has not changed in 2019, which features performances throughout May and June. {…}
The American Opera Projects’ Board of Directors has announced the appointment of new artistic leaders who will continue the organization’s 30-year legacy of creating contemporary opera in the U.S. Effective July 1, 2019. Matt Gray will become General Director and Mila Henry will join the company as Artistic Director. “It was a unanimous decision on the part of the Board {…}
The American Opera Projects has announced that it will showcase an evening of six scenes from a number of upcoming operas on Sept. 28 and Sept. 29, 2018. The program is part of the Composers & The Voice series. Per a press release, the performance will showcase scenes from such works as “Salt,” “Dark Exhalation,” Better Than It Sounds,” “State {…}
With the New York Opera Fest 2018 officially underway, OperaWire will be showcasing small previews for each major participant at the festival, as we did during last year’s event. However, we are doing things a bit differently this year and giving the floor directly to each company to speak to you, the reader, directly. Enjoy! Maybe you’ve had your fill {…}
Opera America has announced the recipients of the second cycle of Innovation Grants. The grants, which are “generously funded by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation,” were launched in 2016 in support companies that have shown tremendous innovation in diverse areas of the art form. The grants total $1.5 million. This year, 20 companies were awarded the prestigious grants. They {…}
This week’s offerings range from the modern to the classical in an assortment of options all around the continent. Six. Twenty. Outrageous – American Opera Projects For three days, the American Opera Projects world premieres the new opera by Daniel Thomas Davis with a cast that includes Ariadne Greif, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, and Andrew Fuchs. The performances will take place at {…}
On Feb. 9 the American Opera Projects, in collaboration with Symphony Space, will present the world premiere “Six. Twenty. Outrageous.” The opera, based on three Gertrude Stein plays, tells the story of an expedition that turns into an erotic adventure to a presidential election party that goes prophetically and horribly wrong. The work was composed by Daniel Thomas Davis with a {…}
The Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood, FL and New York City’s American Opera Projects has announced the second Opera Genesis Fellowships to composer Joseph N. Rubinstein and librettist Jason Kim. The award will include a six-week Hermitage residency, in which the artists will work on their new opera “Legendary.” The accolade, which was inaugurated last year, is presented to artists {…}
The American Opera Projects has announced previews of new opera it will showcase this fall. In total there will be five major showcases, the first of which kicks off on Sept. 18, 2017. On that day, audiences will get a chance to see “Six. Twenty. Outrageous,” an opera by Daniel Thomas Davis and librettist Adam Frank. The opera is slated {…}
American Opera Projects and Composers & the Voice Artistic Director Steven Osgood has announced the selection of six composers and three librettists who will receive fellowships for the upcoming ninth season of “Composers & the Voice.” The composers include Matthew Browne, Scott Ordway, Frances Pollock, Pamela Stein Lynde, Liliya Ugay, and Amber Vistein, while the librettists are Laura Barati, Kim Davies, and Sokunthary Svay. These artists will get a chance to {…}
American Opera Projects has announced the six singers who will comprise the organization’s Resident Ensemble for the upcoming ninth season of its Composers & the Voice training program. They include soprano Tookah Sapper, soprano Jennifer Goode Cooper, mezzo-Soprano Blythe Gaissert, tenor Blake Friedman, baritone Mario Diaz-Moresco and bass Adrian Rosas. For one year, these young artists with work with composers and librettists who have received fellowships. The Resident {…}