“A lot of the time it’s just like jumping off a cliff because you don’t know how it’s going to go,” said Kimberly Feltkamp, the general manager of OperaRox Productions in a recent conversation with OperaWire. “I didn’t conceive of it as a company when I started it,” Feltkamp added. But strong reception to her initial project with OperaRox in 2015 {…}
You know Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” But few know the final piece in the Beaumarchais Trilogy, “The Guilty Mother.” Well, now New Yorkers will get a chance to experience Darius Milhaud’s adaptation known as “La mère coupable,” which will be performed this summer at The Garage on W. 50th Street. Performances will take {…}
In less than one month, opera audiences in New York will be greeted with the New York Opera Fest, a massive celebration of the art form across the city. The festival kicks off on May 1 and runs all the way through the end of June thanks to the New York Opera Alliances (NYOA), a consortium of New York opera companies {…}
This was an April Fool’s Joke, clarified by the company via Twitter. Apologies for anyone that was excited by this announcement. Utopia Opera’s 2017-18 was released on its Facebook page this past week. The company’s productions will be staged by William Remmers, in English, and will have a chamber orchestra accompanying the performances. To kick off the season, “Tosca,” by Giacomo {…}
The Tri-Cities Opera released their new 2017-18 season this past week at its Preview Gala. The company’s resident artists, including Soprano Stacey Geyer, Mezzo-Soprano Mary Beth Nelsom, Tenor Jordan Schreiner, and Baritone Scott, all teased the audience with selections from the upcoming productions. Puccini’s classic “La Bohème” will kickstart the season on Sunday, October 15th at the Fordum Theatre. The next {…}
Whenever someone thinks of opera, children and teenagers aren’t usually their first thought. However, Opera Grand Rapids, in collaboration with their Emerging artists, and Ellington Academy, Creative Connections, has put a program together that reaches out to younger students and introduces them to the art form. “Children’s Sketch Days,” incorporates 50 students that are split up into classes that acclimate {…}
Opera Orlando is opening its new 2017-2018 season in the park! The company’s first production will open on August 21, 2017, at 2 P.M., featuring Mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider. The next weekend “The Three Baritones,” Nathan Stark, Brain Myer, and Gabriel Pressier, will perform. Finally, Tenor Marco Panuccio will end the summer series for Opera Orlando. All of the concerts will {…}
Eugene Opera General Director Mark Beudert will not renew his contract with the company. Beudert said on Monday that he would remain until June 30 but after the tumultuous year, ending in more than $200,000 in debt, he would no longer continue. The company had to cancel two full productions that it had remaining for this current season. Opera board chair {…}
Starting April 15, “La Boheme” will open for the Opera San José, CA, directed by Michael Shell. “I am excited to direct ‘La Boheme’ for Opera San Jose,” Shell told OperaWire. The whole two hours and forty-five-minute performance will be sung in Italian with English super-titles. “The opera will be set at the end of WWI, when Paris was delirious {…}
Opera San José has announced its offering for the 2017-18 season. The company will start the proceedings with a run of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” on Sept. 9, 2017. Subsequent performances will be held on the Sept. 10, 14, 17, 22 and 24. Peter Grunberg conducts a production directed by Brad Dalton. Puccini’s “La Rondine” gets some time on the {…}
The Hartford Opera Theatre presents a new opera “The Faith Operas.” Debuting to the world on April 8, 2017, at the Charter Oak Cultural Center, the work is split into four performances, revolving around four central issues: faith, religion, love, and family. The composer, David Wolfson, developed the idea about four short operas revolving around faith and ran with the {…}