The Encompass New Opera Theatre has announced that it will be showcasing the world premiere of “Anna Christie,” a new opera by Edward Thomas with a libretto by Joseph Masteroff, during the 2018 season. The showcase, which will take place on Oct. 4, 2018 (with additional performances running through the 21st of October) at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. The {…}
OperaRox Productions will premiere the workshop version of the new opera “Ghost Variations.” The workshop, set for August 19, 2018 at Scorca Hall at the National Opera Center, represents Tony Manfredonia’s first opera. The opera was chosen after a call to scores in 2017 by OperaRox. Seven other submissions were produced as art song in last year’s New Works Concerts as {…}
The Pinchgut Opera has announced its 2019 season, which will feature two operas, two concerts, and performances in two different cities. The company is billed as Australia’s only Baroque Opera Company, specializing in staging early opera since 2002. This season, the company is set to showcase Monteverdi’s “The Return of Ulysses,” which will be directed by Chas Rader-Shieber and will star {…}
Carriageworks and the Sydney Chamber Opera have announced that they will collaborate on the Sydney premiere of Resonant Bodies, an international festival of new vocal music. Resonant Bodies was founded in New York in 2013 by Lucy Dhegrae, and in its first Sydney iteration, the festival will showcase six vocalists over the course of two evenings. They including Swedish-Ethiopian composer-improviser {…}
Composer Felix Jarrar has announced an immersive recital this August that will preview his fifth opera “Mother Goose.” The composer of “Tabula Rasa” announced, via press release, that the recital, entitled “Queens Without Boundaries” would take place on August 19, 2018 at the Cornelia Street Café. The performance will kick off at 6 p.m. The recital, which will feature contralto {…}
Bare Opera has announced its 2018-19 season, which will feature operas from the art forms very beginnings and another from a more recent time. The season starts in November with performances of Monteverdi’s seminal “L’Incoronazione di Poppea.” The production will be directed by David Paul. “He enthusiastically approached me last year with the concept of his edgy production of Poppea {…}
The Beth Morrison Projects has announced its 2018-19 season, featuring a number of world premieres and stops at numerous festivals. Here is a look. New York The Beth Morrison Projects will make a stop in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival with “Place’s” world premiere. The opera with music by Ted Hearne and a libretto {…}
As their 2018 Festival season draws to a close, Central City Opera has announced a run of performances certain to end things with a bang. “Encore: A Musical Revue,” running August 8, 9, and 11, 2018, will offer audiences in the Colorado region a night of musical theatre, with old and new selections from Broadway and Off-Broadway’s most celebrated names. {…}
The 14th Annual Festival of the Aegean, founded in 2005 by Greek-American Conductor/Producer/Artistic Director Peter Tiboris and popularly dubbed “The Salzburg of the Aegean,” has opened on Greece’s Island of Syros. This year, the festival will celebrate Rossini on the 150th anniversary of his death performing “La Cenerentola” and the “Stabat Mater.” Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” is set to star soprano {…}
On Sept. 1, 2018, the Pacific Opera Project will return to the newly renovated Ford Theatre for a fully staged production of Bizet’s “Carmen.” The performance, which will be held for one night only for an audience of 1200, will be directed and designed by Artistic Director Josh Shaw. The opera will be conducted by Music Director Michael Powers, choreographed by Amy {…}
On Site Opera, in partnership with MetLiveArts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Lyric Theater, has been awarded a Female Composer Grant from Opera America. The grant will help create and produce “Lady Murasaki and the Tale of Genji,” a one-act, site-specific opera composed by Michi Wiancko with a libretto by Deborah Brevoort. The work will premiere in {…}