The Cincinnati Opera has announced its 99th season featuring five productions including a world premiere and numerous top stars for the opera world. The season will also include numerous a number of concerts and programs. Here is a look at what to expect. Productions The season opens with Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” in a production by Stephen Lawless. Soprano Susanna Phillips will {…}
Jennifer Williams started off her own artistic career as a composer. But soon enough she found that her voice could only come to full fruition as a director. With a Ph. D. from Cornell University, as well as degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Chicago, she quickly built up a career in both {…}
Licia Albanese was one of the most influential sopranos of the 1900s. Born on July 22, 1909, in a quarter of Bari Italy, she would make her professional debut sometime in the mid-1930s (there has always been some controversy on when her true professional debut came about). But she did make her official La Scala debut in 1935 (she made {…}
Bare Opera has announced its 2018-19 season, which will feature operas from the art forms very beginnings and another from a more recent time. The season starts in November with performances of Monteverdi’s seminal “L’Incoronazione di Poppea.” The production will be directed by David Paul. “He enthusiastically approached me last year with the concept of his edgy production of Poppea {…}
Opera is the art form that is bringing you to this website. It’s an art form that is over half a century in age and has seen some tremendous evolution over that span of time. How well are you familiarized with that change? In this week’s quiz, we test that knowledge in the hopes of exciting drawing you to dig {…}
It’s an interesting question: should opera companies stage musicals? On one hand — especially for US opera companies and festivals — you can argue that it is a uniquely American art from, this descendant of operetta that entertains audiences all the way from Broadway and the West End, to Sydney and Shanghai. And, you might also argue that it is music, {…}
The Beth Morrison Projects has announced its 2018-19 season, featuring a number of world premieres and stops at numerous festivals. Here is a look. New York The Beth Morrison Projects will make a stop in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival with “Place’s” world premiere. The opera with music by Ted Hearne and a libretto {…}
Apart from the onslaught of syphilis, 1840 was a good year for Gaetano Donizetti. He become the first composer to have three operas (“La Fille du Régiment”, “Lucrezia Borgia,” and “La Favorite”) debut in three different theaters in Paris within a period of less than 12 months. The last of the trifecta was written specifically for Rosine Stolz (née Victoire Noël) {…}
As their 2018 Festival season draws to a close, Central City Opera has announced a run of performances certain to end things with a bang. “Encore: A Musical Revue,” running August 8, 9, and 11, 2018, will offer audiences in the Colorado region a night of musical theatre, with old and new selections from Broadway and Off-Broadway’s most celebrated names. {…}
Faber Music is set to release a new edition of Thomas Adès’ “The Tempest.” The score will be made available for the first time as a beautifully produced, limited-edition publication. Per a press release by Faber Music, the unique cased score, featuring color plates of the composer’s original manuscript and sketches, will be published on August 8, 2018. The 250 copies {…}
The Amigos de la Opera A Coruña has announced its upcoming 2018 program featuring two operas, a number of recitals and a gala featuring one of today’s biggest stars. Here is a look. Opera The series opens with Bellini’s “Il Pirata,” which will be presented for the first time with the company. The work, which was mastered by Maria Callas, {…}