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Q & A: Composer Jeanine Tesori, Lincoln Center’s Visionary Artist 2025, on Her New Opera ‘Blue’ & Her Experiences as a Composer Writing Across Genres

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(Photo: Nina Wurtzel-Horiz) Jeanine Tesori is one of today’s pioneering composers. Her work transcends boundaries and spans genres, including film and opera. Her new opera, “Blue,” which received the MCANA Award for Best New Opera, and “Grounded,” the first female commissioned opera by The Metropolitan Opera, are making history. Her work focuses on political and societal complexities, woven into the {…}

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Jeanine Tesori & Dawn Upshaw Join Yale Faculty of Arts & Sciences

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Jeannine Tesori and Dawn Upshaw have joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), as professors in the practice. Both joined the faculty in July and will each teach one course per semester. Both are appointed in the Department of Music and Tesori also holds a fully joint appointment in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. In a statement, Marc Robinson, {…}

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Jeanine Tesori Signs with Boosey & Hawkes

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(Photo credit: Nina Wurtzel) Composer Jeanine Tesori has joined the roster of Boosey & Hawkes and the company will now represent the composer’s entire operatic catalog and all existing and future compositions. Included in her operatic catalog are “Grounded,” “Blue,” “The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me, and “A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck.” “It’s an honor to join the Boosey & {…}

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Jeanine Tesori & Ellis Ludwig-Leone Selected for MacDowell Artist-In-Residence Program

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MacDowell, the nation’s first artist residency program, has awarded 149 Fellowships to artists working in seven disciplines from 25 states and 15 countries for the Spring-Summer season. Composers Jeanine Tesori and Ellis Ludwig-Leone are among the selected. Artists will arrive at MacDowell’s campus in Peterborough, NH from March through August 2025 for an average stay of four weeks. The incoming {…}

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Jeanine Tesori, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Elkhanah Pulitzer Headline OPERA America’s 2024-25 Season

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OPERA America has revealed its 2024-25 Onstage Season. First up is a conversation with composer Jeanine Tesori ahead of the Met Opera’s premiere of “Grounded.” Event Date: Sept. 18, 2024 Next up is a conversation with Anthony Roth Costanzo as he takes over as general director of Opera Philadelphia. Event Date: Oct. 24, 2024 In December comes the 2024 Awards for Digital {…}

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Metropolitan Opera to Open 2024-25 Season with Jeanine Tesori’s ‘Grounded’

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The Metropolitan Opera will open its 2024-25 season with Jeanine Tesori’s “Grounded.” The Met revealed the news in an article regarding the retirement of Sonja Frisell’s “Aida” as the new “Aida” production will premiere during the same 2024-25 season. Tesori’s opera will first make its world premiere at the Washington National Opera during the 2023-24 season and will star Emily {…}

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Jeanine Tesori & Tazewell Thompson’s ‘Blue’ Leads Seattle Opera’s Season Lineup

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(Credit: Karli Cadel) Seattle Opera is set to continue its 2021-22 season with a number of performances and events. Leading the season’s lineup is Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue,” named the 2020 winner of Best New Opera by the Music Critics Association of North America. The story follows a family and their community coming together in the wake of {…}

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Derrell Acon, Julia Bullock, Jeanine Tesori Headline Heartbeat Opera’s 2020-21 Online Season

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(Credit: Christopher Ash) Heartbeat Opera has announced the works that will make up the company’s 2020–21 season. In a show of solidarity with artists during this time, 85 percent of the company’s budget will be devoted to employing more than 50 collaborators. The season will open in September with “The Secret Sauce,” described as a soiree-style reflection on Heartbeat Opera’s {…}

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Xabier Anduaga, Jeanine Tesori, Susanna Phillips Headline Mostly Mozart 2020

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The Mostly Mozart Festival has announced its 2020 festival. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on vocal performances. The season kicks off with “Divine Connection,” a world premiere staging of Mozart’s Requiem and works by Arvo Pärt. The performance will feature Sunhae Im, Daniela Mack, Matthew Swensen, Ryan Speedo Green, and the Choir of Trinity Wall {…}