Tri-Cities Opera has announced the premiere of “Acis and Galatea.” The company has reimagined the Handel work to film in collaboration with the Annapolis Opera. The film will premiere on May 14 and will be streamed on-demand through May 23. Filmed in various locations, the production features a wedding, dueling guitars, and underscores the resilience of love in the face {…}
MassOpera and OperaHub have announced the selection for the New Opera Workshop. The opera in question is “Caravana de Mujeres” by composer Nicolas Lell Benavides and librettist Laura Barati. The opera, which features a cast of four women and three men, tells the story of Luz, a Colombian woman in her sixties who is searching for love. Throughout the opera, {…}
West Edge Opera is set to present an outdoor production “Eliogabalo” this summer at the Bruns Theater in Berkeley, California. The performances are set for July 31, August 6, and 8 and will star Randall Scotting in the title role. “I will be performing the part of the bad boy, the youthful and sex-obsessed Roman emperor, Heliogabalus. He is opera’s {…}
Madison Lyric Stage has announced a return to live, in-person performances starting this June. For this return, the company will showcase three evenings of “The Sun Sits Low: An Evening of Stephen Sondheim” with a cast of 14 singers and several musicians. Performances will take place outdoors at the Deacon John Grave House on June 11, 12, and 13. Among {…}
Sarasota Opera has announced that Stephen Baker will take over as Director of Marketing. Baker’s career includes a stint as Director of Marketing and Audience Development for the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall as well as Associate Marketing Director of Carnegie Hall. He also worked with the Minnesota Orchestra as Vice President of Marketing and Audience Services and was Associate {…}
Teatro Nuovo has announced the first full opera performances in New York City in over a year. The company will offer Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” on July 27 and 28 on the summer stage at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. In a statement, Artistic Director Will Crutchfield said that “The Barber” was chosen because “it is the longest-lasting and most {…}
“Betty’s Notebook,” a multi-media choral piece created by Verdigris Ensemble has been sold for over $375,000 to several bidders. The work was sold on auction at Async Art, a digital art auction blockchain platform. The work was composed by Texan Nicholas Reeves in 2018 and premiered in 2019. Sam Brukhman, the founder and Artistic Director of Verdigris Ensemble, recorded the {…}
The Princeton Festival has announced that it will be returning to live, in-person performances this June. Audiences will be able to make reservations directly via the company’s website, with each reservation admitting up to two people. Audience members must bring their own blankets and chairs into the socially distanced outdoor space where the concert will take place. “We are thrilled {…}
The Boston Art Song Society has announced that Ethan DePuy will be the company’s next Artistic Director. DePuy will succeed Ann Schaefer in the role; Schaefer led the Boston Art Song Society for the past three seasons and will now be moving on to a teaching position at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. DePuy, a tenor, has appeared with such {…}
Aqua Net & Funyuns has announced a podcast opera featuring five newly-commissioned, original stories, each written by a different librettist/composer combo. The 25-minute, serial episodes will be designed specifically to tell compelling narratives with voices, instruments, and immersive sound design. The new podcast will feature music by Tariq Al-Sabir, Jason Cady, Kamala Sankaram, Aaron Siegel, and Michi Wiancko, and librettos {…}
On May 27, 2021, Kaufman Music Center will present an exclusive, work-in-progress performance of composer and producer Lisa Bielawa’s upcoming opera “Centuries in the Hours.” The work culminates Bielawa’s 2020-21 KMC Artist-in-Residence appointment. “Centuries in the Hours” sets to music excerpts from women’s diaries which span three centuries; Bielawa found these excerpts during her time as a William Randolph Hearst {…}