The Princeton Festival has received a $13,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for its upcoming production of “Nixon in China.” “Nixon in China” will be performed on June 23 and 30 at the Matthews Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. Sean Anderson will take on the title role while Rainelle Krause will be Pat Nixon. Cameron Schutza {…}
The Angel’s Share will present “Epilogues and Epitaphs” with countertenor Daniel Moody and violinist Augusta McKay Lodge. The performances, set for June 24-26 at the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, will also feature Voyage Sonique, which is comprised of cellist Keiran Campbel, theorbo player Adam Cockerham, and harpsichordist Robert Warner. The ensemble will perform Rebel’s “Tombeau de Lully,” Handel’s “Waft her {…}
The New York Festival of Song will present “Manning the Canon: Songs of Gay Life” on June 25, 2019 at the LGBT Community Center. The performance will feature music by such composers as Berg, Bernstein, Blitzstein, Bolcom, Britten, Coleman, de Blasio, De Falla, Griffes, Porter, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Wallowitch as performed by tenor Daniel McGrew, Scott Murphree, Efraín {…}
Eighty students, aged between 9-21, from across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and beyond will take part in a youth opera premiere with the Garsington Opera. The work in question is “The Happy Princess,” which is based on Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince,” and it will be composed by Paul Fincham with a libretto by Jessica Duchen. The performance is set for {…}
Miller Theatre of Columbia University’s School of the Arts has announced its 2019-20 season, which includes a new chamber opera. For the purposes of this article, we will include only vocal performances in the lineup. Director Rachel Dickstein and Music Director Daniela Candillari will lead the world premiere of Cori Ellison and Hannah Lash’s chamber opera “Desire,” with Kirsten Sollek, Daniel Moody, Christopher {…}
The New York Opera Fest 2019 kicked off on Monday, April 29 and for the next several weeks, New Yorkers will get ample opportunity to enjoy opera in a variety of unique ways. As has been OperaWire’s tradition over the years, we have reached out to a number of the companies participating in the festival and have asked them a {…}
The Victorian Opera is introducing students to the world of opera through Access All Areas: Livestream Program for its Education production of “Alice Through The Opera Glass.” The program is set up as a series of 45-minute workshops that showcase different aspects of how the opera world works, including different voice types, characters and story, costumes and sets, languages in {…}
The Juventus Lyrica, which operates in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is inviting millennials to the opera in hopes of expanding their experience of the art form. The company sent out the invitation via Instagram, noting that 20 free tickets would be available for millennials. The company will allow them to attend a performance and enhance their experience via social media with {…}
The Bel Cantanti Opera is set to showcase performances of “The Tsar’s Bride” on May 18 and 19, 2019. This production will make just the third time that the work is produced in the United States and it will feature a cast that includes Asmik Arutiuniants, Rob McGinness, Viktoriya Koreneva, John Scherch, Michael Butler, Peter Bourough, Alyssa Cox, Marie Herrington, {…}
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn is set to perform a new works by Phil Kline and Gregory Spears at Roulette. The performance, scheduled for June 8, 2019, will showcase Kline’s “Four Songs from Florida Man” with Theo Bleckmann. Meanwhile Spears’ Concerto for Two Trumpets and Strings will also get its world premeire. Kline’s song cycle features four songs, including “Florida {…}
Collectio Musicorum (“Collection of Music”) is set to present highlights from Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and explore the many sounds behind the masterpiece. The opera, which was composed in 1850 was based on Victor Hugo’s “Le Roi S’Amuse” and the title character in Rigoletto was based on a real jester, Nicolas Ferrial, called Triboulet who lived from 1479 to 1536. In this concert, {…}