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Derrell Acon, Shelley Washington, James Darrah Headline Long Beach Opera’s 2022 Season

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Long Beach Opera in California, has announced its 2022 season which will include four operas and is set to begin in March 2022. First up will be Stockhausen’s “Stimmung.” The new production will be directed by Alexander Gedeon and conducted by Jenny Wong. Performance Dates: March 19 – 27, 2022 Next up will be a video production and live production {…}
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James Darrah is New Artistic Director of Long Beach Opera

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(photo credit: Simona Kessler) Long Beach Opera has announced that James Darrah will be the organization’s next Artistic Director and Chief Creative Officer. Darrah, who will make his company debut directing “Les Enfant Terribles” this May, will begin his tenure immediately. He is set to remain in his position until at least 2024. Darrah has worked with a wide range {…}
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James Darrah Reveals Cinematic Vision for the 2020-21 Opera Season

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Director James Darrah is set to work in Boston, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, Omaha, and his hometown of Los Angeles to guide, reinvent, and execute programming for the increasingly prevalent digital stage. Darrah will collaborate alongside the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as its new Creative Director of Digital Content and will build an entire season out of his dream Digital Studio {…}
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Zachary James, Lauren Michelle & Andriana Chuchmann Lead Opera Omaha’s 2021-22 Season

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Opera Omaha has announced its 2021-22 season featuring three operas in new productions. The season opens in the fall with a new production originally slated for Opera Omaha’s 2020 ONE Festival of “The Capulets and the Montagues” by Bellini. The production will be directed by ONE Festival Artistic Director James Darrah and will star Andriana Chuchman, Cecelia Hall, Jesus Garcia, and Jeffrey Beruan. {…}
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Angel Blue, Tracy Cox, Matthew Anchel, James Valenti Headline ‘New Era Voice Festival’

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The M Institute for the Arts in Washington D.C. has launched the “New Era Voice Festival.” The Festival is a month-long series of six online workshops, four masterclasses, and three live streams focused on “Artistic Autonomy and Creative Courage for Singers in a New Era.” “This industry so often asks singers to be passive — from the dynamic in the {…}
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Michael Spyres, Pene Pati, Sabine Devieilhe, Étienne Dupuis & Stéphane Degout Lead Opera Comique’s 2025-26 Season

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Opera Comique has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera  The season opens with Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” with Michael Spyres, Héloïse Mas, Amina Edris, and Jean-Sébastien Bou. Pierre Dumoussaud conducts the production by Lotte De Beer. Performance Dates: Sept. 25-Oct. 5, 2025 Gluck’s “Iphigénie en Tauride” will star Tamara Bounazou, Theo Hoffman, Philippe Talbot, Jean-Fernand Setti, Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin, Fanny Soyer, and Lysandre Châlon. Louis {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Sonya Yoncheva, Magdalena Kožená, Michael Volle, Anja Kampe, Serena Sáenz, Lisette Oropesa & Ludovic Tézier Lead Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s 2025-26 Season

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The Staatsoper Berlin has unveiled its 2025-26 season. Premieres Bertrand de Billy conducts Lydia Steier’s new production of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” The cast includes Pene Pati, Nina Minasyan, Julia Kleiter, Clara Nadeshdin, Roberto Tagliavini, and Ema Nikolovska. A second cast will include Benjamin Bernheim, Regina Koncz, Siobhan Stagg, Clara Nadeshdin, Alex Esposito, and Samantha Hankey. Pierre Dumoussaud conducts. Performance {…}
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Long Beach Opera’s 2025 Season to Spotlight the Work of Pauline Oliveros

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(Photo by Claire Harvie) Long Beach Opera has announced that its 2025 programming will center on the work of Pauline Oliveros. Oliveros (1932-2016) is a famed American composer known for her work in experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center and explored the concepts of “deep listening” and “sonic awareness” in {…}
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Boston Lyric Opera 2024 Review: Mitridate

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(Photo credit: Nile Scott Studios) What can one expect from an opera that the one and only Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed when he was a mere fourteen years young? It is impressive considering the age of its composer and disappointing if we bear in mind what came next—like listening to Wagner’s “Die Feen,” Verdi’s “I Due Foscari” or even Puccini’s {…}

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