Regina Opera has announced its 50th anniversary season. The Brooklyn-based organization, which was founded in 1970, will present three new productions of beloved operas. All performances will take place at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy of Brooklyn. All of the performances, with the exception of the opening nights for each production, will start at 3 p.m. local time. {…}
Music of Remembrance is set to open its 22nd season with the world premieres of two works. The company will present Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Passage” and Shinji Eshima’s “Veritas.” Sakamoto’s “Passage” is a compelling work for string quartet with text by Kareem Lotfy and depicts the struggle of a refugee seeking to escape violence and persecution in his home country in {…}
The Guarani opera “Ñomongeta” is set to have its Paraguayan debut on August 27, 2019 at the Centro Cultural de la República “El Cabildo,” after successful showcases in Rome, Brussels, and Paris this past May. The work, written by Paraguayan composer Diego Sánchez Haase and librettist Modesto Escobar Quino, lasts around 40 minutes and is written entirely in the indigenous {…}
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble has announced its 2019-20 season opener, “Changing and Unchanging Things” will take place on Oct. 5 and 6 in San Francisco and Berkeley, California, respectively. The concert aims to explore and celebrate Japanese culture and will feature the world premiere“Sharaku Unframed,” a micro opera by Hiroya Miura, which explores the mysteries surrounding 18th century Japanese artist {…}
Fresh Squeezed Opera Company NYC has announced its 2019-20 season. Entitled “Delicate Systems,” the new season begins with a 2019 showcase at the National Opera Center in New York. This performance will feature works by Sunny Knable, Julia Seeholzer, and the premiere of an FSO commission by Kaley Lane Eaton. Performance Date: Nov. 5, 2019 The season continues with “Electronic {…}
Chicago Fringe Opera has won the American Prize in Opera Performance, professional division, 2018-19 for its world premiere performance of Rosśa Crean’s “The Great God Pan.” The supernatural chamber opera, based on Arthur Machen’s novella which “explores themes of scientific hubris, transcendental medicine, and unexplainable supernatural behavior,” premiered on Mar. 10, 2018. The production starred Christina Pecce as Helen, Aaron Wardell as {…}
Opera Parallèle is set to celebrate its 10th season gala on Oct. 2, 2019 at the War Memorial Green Room in San Francisco. The gala, entitled “Because of You,” will feature performances from such artists as Marnie Breckenridge, Catherine Cook, Bojan Knezevic, Matthew Worth, and pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi. The Opera Parallèle Gala Chorus will also perform with all proceeds heading {…}
Opera Southwest is set to showcase “Ali Babà” to open its 2019-20 season. The opera by Giovanni Bottesini will be showcased on Oct. 20, 2019 with subsequent performances on the 25th and 27th of the same month. All presentation will take place at the Albuquerque’s Journal Theatre. The opera will be conducted by Anthony Barese with Ashraf Sewailam in the {…}
Opera San José has unveiled its complete cast for the company’s upcoming production of “Die Fledermaus.” The opera will open on Sept. 14, 2019 at the California Theatre, marking the start of the company’s new season. It will feature Michael Morgan, the music director of Festival Opera in Walnut Creek in his company debut with a cast that includes Eugene {…}
The Catskills’ Delaware Valley Opera will soon present Gilbert & Sullivan’s popular operetta “H. M. S. Pinafore.” The production, directed by General Manager Ken Parks, will star Nicholas Wuehrmann as Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B., Elise Mark as Josephine, Cole Tornberg as Ralph Rickshaw, and Adam Cioffari as Dick Deadeye. Audiences can expect to experience “a sea of tunes ranging from bouncy to {…}
Animator, composer, and performer Anna Lindemann is set to premiere her work, “The Colony,” an art-science performance about sisterhood and the evolution of communication in two of the most social creatures on earth: humans and ants. The work is set to see Lindemann portray the loving, bookish, and stubborn Mona as she struggles to reconnect with her estranged relatives, performed by soprano {…}