Chelsea Factory is set to present “luzAzul,” an opera for babies this June. The 30-minute experience for babies between 0 – 24 months, is set for June 7 and 8; there will be six shows in total. Per the official website for the show, “luzAzul explores symmetry, the awareness of feelings and connection, the mirror that the interaction offers to {…}
Opera on Tap has announced the winner of its Tik Tok Composition Competition. Laura Jobin-Acosta’s “I Am Lying in the Bed” won. Vocalist Eugenia Forteza performed the work. Voting was done via Instagram and Tik Tok with the winner receiving $500. Laura Jobin-Acosta is a New York City-based multicultural composer and soprano. She was recently named the American Opera Initiative {…}
The Columbia University School of Music will present a symposium on March 25, 2023, titled “Operatic Feminisms,” which aims to explore the possibilities for feminist opera studies and the role of women in opera in the 21st century. The symposium will include public panels, workshops, and roundtable discussions featuring scholarly works and cross-disciplinary exchanges. The New Opera Workshop and Columbia {…}
Spotlight Artists Management and Production has announced that it will present “Love Popsicle” on Feb. 3, 2023. The showcase, which will take place at St. John’s in the Village in New York City, will be headlined by Alexander Chaplinskiy, Eugenia Forteza, Zoya Gramagin, Joshua Oxyer, and Stanislav Serebriannikov. Per the official event page for the concert, the program will bring {…}
Spotlight Artists Management is set to present “Christmas in the Village” on Dec. 9, 2022 at St. John’s in the Village in New York City. The showcase will feature music by Korngold, Strauss, Bach, Catalani, Schubert, Ravel, Guastavino, de Falla, Offenbach, Piazzola, and Nataliya Medvedovskaya. Performers include Eugenia Forteza, Zoya Gramagin, Lucas Levy, Sara Beth Pearson, and Daniel Scofield. Alexander {…}
Bel Canto in Tuscany has announced its fall 2022 slate. The company kicks things off with “Prima della Prima,” a conversation on Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” The event will take place at The Alexandria History Museum at the Lyceum in Alexandria, Virginia. Giovanni Reggioli will lead the conversation. Joining him will be tenor Steven Murray, mezzo-soprano Cara Schaefer, and soprano Lyndsey {…}
The Opera People will present the Singapore premiere of Benjamin Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia” on Oct. 14 and 16, 2022, at The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theater at Wild Rice, Funan. In this story about ancient Rome, the tyrant Tarquinius has camped with his army outside the city. After conversing with Junius and Collatinus about the fickleness of women, Tarquinius {…}
The Harrison Friends of Opera and Teatro Grattacielo will present an evening of Neapolitan song and favorite melodies at the Harrison, New York, Public Library on July 11, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. Artists performing include soprano Clara Luz Iranzo, mezzo-soprano Eugenia Forteza, and tenors Diego Valdez, David Santiago, and Enzo Pizzimenti. Pianist Alla Milchtein and accordionist Ezio Pelliteri will accompany. {…}
In February 2022, OperaWire got a sneak peek at Thomas Cabaniss’ new song cycle, “FireSongs” at Bare Opera’s season opening gala. Cabaniss took to the stage himself and sang a few selections, and in doing so, brought the audience inside of his creative process. Cabaniss, in a June 2022 interview with OperaWire, stated, “I spend a lot of time speaking, {…}
National Sawdust and Chelsea Factory are set to present Bare Opera’s production of “Fire Songs” on June 18, 2022. The production, which will be directed by Malena Dayen, will features a song cycle by composer Thomas Cabaniss under the musical direction of David Rosenmeyer. The work will feature vocal performances by such artists as Anicet Castel, Inna Dukach, Eugenia Forteza, {…}
We’ve seen the photos, the videos, the horror of invasion through our iPhones. And yet, amid the destruction, music continues, it endures—from a child singing “Let it Go” in a makeshift bomb shelter to a soldier playing the country’s national anthem on the violin for their brothers and sisters in arms; it’s an unstoppable force for uniting people, bringing comfort {…}