Opera On Tap has announced its fall slate for New York City performances. Everything will kick off with the OOT GALAween, which aims to celebrate Halloween. The event, which will take place at The Old Stone House, with Joanie Brittingham, David Gordon, Eric McKeever, and Krista Wozniak performing. Christopher Berg will accompany at the piano. Famed soprano Sylvia McNair will {…}
The South Shore Opera Company of Chicago is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a concert gala on Oct. 27, 2019. The event, which will take place the Robeson Theater & Solarium in Chicago, will feature a wide range of major artists Carl Alexander, Warnell Berry, Jeffrey Burish, Brandon Brown, Dana Campbell, Leah Dexter, Adrian Dunn, Cornelius Johnson, Kimberly {…}
The Madison Lyric Stage will showcase tenor Marc Deaton in “Hotel Fables: Episodes in a Life” on Nov. 15-17 at the Deacon John Grave House in Madison, Connecticut. The program will feature scenes from “Billy Budd,” “The Rape of Lucretia,” “Samson et Dalila,” “Manon Lescaut,” “Play,” “The Dressers,” “Cavalleria Rusticana,” “Fidelio,” and “Die Tote Stadt.” The perfomance will also feature {…}
(Credit: Joshua South) ChamberQueer is set to showcase “Narcissus” on Nov. 16, 2019 at the Christ & Stephen’s Church in New York. The concert will feature tenor Andrew Fuchs and harpist Parker Ramsay in music by gay composers over the last two centuries. Among the pieces performed will be Schubert’s “Songs of the Harper,” songs by Reynaldo Hahn, and Britten’s {…}
OperaFest is set to return to Roosevelt University on Oct. 19, 2019. The festival, which will run for two days will showcase one-act performances of 30 Chicago College of Performing Arts graduate-level voice students. The festival will also present the world premiere of “Frideswide and the Devil” by composer Dorian Cunningham and writer Debra Mitchell. The opera tells the story {…}
The National Opera Center in New York will showcase “The Latin American Song: A Celebration” starring sopranos Celia Castro and Ilya Martinez, as well as tenor Mario Arevalo and baritone Rafael LeBron. The performance, which will be accompanied by Max Lifchitz, is set for Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 and will feature music from Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and {…}
The Boston Camerata will soon take its “Free America! Songs of Resistance and Rebellion (1790 – 1860)” to Boston and Portland, ME. The ensemble recently performed the program of early American music to a sold-out crowd in Boston’s sister city of Strasbourg, France in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the two cities’ pairing. They were joined by two local {…}
MassOpera will showcase a special concert performance of composer Dan Shore’s “Freedom Ride” on Nov. 3, 2019. The concert, which will take place in Boston, is presented in collaboration with Chicago Opera Theater. The opera, a COT commission, is set to star soprano Alicia Russell, mezzo Imani Francis, tenor Fred C. VanNess, baritone Ron Williams, Melinda Davis, and tenor Steven {…}
Composer Rossa Crean is set to showcase their new work “The Harbingers” on Oct. 31, 2019 at the Horatio N. May Chapel in Rosehill Cemetary in Chicago, Illinois. The new work, which was written by Kendra Leonard, tells the story of different cultural figures of death who convene on Halloween Night to pass judgment on the fate of a recently {…}
Numi Opera has announced that it will be showcasing Korngold’s “Der Ring Des Polykrates” on Dec. 19 and 22 at the Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, California. The performance will feature Shana Blake Hill, Scott Ramsay, Roberto Perlas Gómez, Alex Boyer, and Emily Rosenberg. Gail R. Gordon, Executive Director of Numi Opera, will direct the production while Francesco Miloto will {…}
Pinchgut Opera is set to present the first Australian performances of Vivaldi’s “Farnace.” Performances are set for Dec. 4-10, 2019 at the City Recital Hall Sydney. The cast will include Christopher Lowrey, Helen Sherman, Jacqueline Dark, Taryn Fiebig, and Max Riebl, among others. Erin Helyard will conduct a production directed by Mark Gaal. “‘Farnace’ is characterized by women who make moral {…}