(Credit: Dane Suarez) San Diego, California-based Opera Neo has announced its 2021 Summer Opera Festival, which is set to run between August 6 and 15, 2021. All performances will take place at the Palisades Presbyterian Church. Performances will also be made available online. Main Stage Productions The company will kick things off its 10th anniversary season with a production of {…}
This article was written in collaboration with David Salazar. The U.K.’s Tête à Tête’s Festival 2021 will gaze into the future, both utopian and dystopian with programming that includes opera dating apps, sword-wielding sopranos, and an interactive operatic ritual. Here’s a look at what’s in store for festival-goers. Kicking off the Festival is a live performance of “Her War.” The {…}
Composer Peter M. Wyer and The American Opera Project will present the online premiere of “Spring Street” on Saturday, July 24, 2021. The unique opera, which features poems by Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo, was inspired by Spring Street in New York City. The opera tells the story of three characters who live in the same apartment block and have {…}
The London Festival of American Music has announced its 2021 slate. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on operatic and vocal performances. First up will be a concert showcase featuring music by Margaret Bonds, August Read Thomas, Odaline de la Martinez, Fred Lerdahl, and Florence Price. The performance will star mezzo-soprano Simone Ibbett-Brown alongside the Lontano {…}
***Correction: A previous version of this article claimed that “Voss was being presented for the first time in 50 years; that number was incorrect. The article has been altered to reflect this change. Victorian Opera in Australia is set to present “Voss” for the first time in 30 years. The showcase is set to take place on August 4, 2021 {…}
(Credit: Peter Adamik) The Spoleto Festival USA in South Carolina has appointed Mena Mark Hanna as its new General Director. The new Director brings more than a decade of experience working in the performing arts field, both in leadership roles and as an educator. He was previously at Berlin’s Barenboim-Said Akademie where he was the Founding Dean and Professor of {…}
City Opera Online has released a performance of “At the Statue of Venus.” The opera, written by Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally, stars soprano Robyn Dreidger-Klassen and pianist Terrence Dawson. “An attractive woman waits in a museum by a statue of the Goddess of Love to meet a man she has never seen. Her thoughts and emotions are a jumble {…}
Pacific Opera Project in California has announced its 2021-22 season, which will showcase four fairy-tale based operas. First up will be a production of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” which stars Stephanie Doche in the lead role alongside E. Scott Levin, Arnold Livingston, Joel Balzun, Andrew Allan Hiers, Meagan Martin, and Chelsea Lehnea. Josh Shaw directs a production conducted by Kristin Roach. {…}
On July 13, 2021, Chicago Summer Opera will present a staged performance of Händel’s “Alcina,” from the Prairie Lakes Theater in De Plaines, Illinois. Stage director Margaret Jumonville and conductor Johannes Löhner lead a double cast of artists, comprised of Caroline Brazelton and Blake Hetherington in the title role; Isabella Hanreiter and Clara Reeves as Morgana; Sydney Macnabb and Sophie {…}
Haymarket Opera Company has announced that the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the company with its first NEA grant for their upcoming production of Handel’s “Orlando.” The filmed production stars Bejun Mehta, Kim Jones, Emily Fons, Erica Schuller, and Dave Goverston. It follows on the success of the organization’s filmed versions of “Acis and Galatea” in 2020 and {…}
The American Classical Orchestra has announced its 2021-22 season, which will include live performances between Sept. 22 through April 5, 2022. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on vocal and operatic performances. First up will be “Revisit,” a concert set to take place at Harlem Parish in New York City. The showcase will feature mezzo-soprano Guadalupe {…}