The Dallas Opera has announced that Kristian Roberts will assume the role of Director of Education. Roberts has had a lengthy association with the company, starting with her participation as a performing artists in The Dallas Opera Chorus back in 2008 for a production of “Porgy and Bess.” She was also the co-host of the company’s outdoor live simulcast series. {…}
The Landestheater Linz, Austria has announced its 2020-21 season. For this article, we are highlighting the opera and operetta productions. Opera The season opens with Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Twice through the Heart.” Markus Poschner conducts the production by Hermann Schneider. Premiere Date: Sept. 19, 2020 Bellini’s “I Capuleti e I Montecchi” receives a new production with Enrico Calesso {…}
The Dallas Opera will be launching a Kids Opera Boot Camp starting on June 29, 2020. Throughout the free five-episode program, children and their families will have access to the Brothers Grimm story of “The Bremen Town Musicians.” Students will get a chance to learn how to create an opera through numerous activities. Students will also learn to sing vocal {…}
The Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro has long championed the operas composed by Rossini, including many of his forgotten works. Among those forgotten is “Ricciardo e Zoraide,” which was first performed in 1846 before disappearing from the stage until 1990 and then 1996. The festival revived the work in 2018, promptly releasing a DVD of the production; all of these {…}
Tenor Yann Beuron has announced his retirement from the opera stage. The French tenor, 51, announced via social media that “I have decided to end my job as a singer (without of course giving up my activity as part of the Masterclasses, which I love to share) and enjoy life differently. At almost 52 years old, I feel it’s time {…}
The New York City Opera has announced a series of events aimed at celebrating Pride month. On June 24, 2020, the company will present “Much to Be Done: A Live Stonewall Panel Discussion.” Starting at 8 p.m., audiences will hear from the cast and creative team behind the 2019 opera “Stonewall,” which was created by Mark Campbell and Iain Bell. {…}
PBS is set to present “Porgy and Bess” on July 17, 2020, as part of its Great Performances at the Met series. The telecast, which starts at 9 p.m., stars Eric Owens and Angel Blue in the title roles. Other cast members include Alfred Walker as Crown, Frederick Ballentine as Sportin’ Life, Latonia Moore as Serena, Golda Schultz as Clara, {…}
The Houston Grand Opera has announced that it will cancel 33 of 47 performances throughout the 2020-21 season due to continued concerns over the COVID-19 outbreak. The company announced that productions of “Carmen,” “Cinderella, “Werther,” “The Snowy Day,” and “Parsifal” would no longer be taking place. Instead, the organization will only move forward with performances of “Breaking the Waves” in {…}
La Monnaie de Mont has announced that through generous donations it was able to collect 240,000 euros. The Belgium company said in a press statement that the donations were “an essential financial backing to bridge this period of crisis.” The statement continued, “Thanks to these donations, our future creative output will not come under pressure. We would like to express {…}
The Estonian National Opera’s director Aivar Mäe has been accused of sexual harassment by several women. Reporters, after speaking to a dozen current and former female employees at the National Opera, revealed in an article released by Eesti Ekspress that the director had made inappropriate or humiliating comments to several female colleagues and touched them inappropriately. According to the report, the {…}
It was a hot summer afternoon and the journalists gathered in the shadow of Lithuanian National Opera’s massive building. Here, LNOBT art-director Sesto Quatrini, general manager Jonas Sakalauskas, principal conductor Ričardas Šumila, and choreographer Martynas Rimeikis are preparing to reveal a new season’s program. Everything gets off to a great start. Nothing reminds us of the global crisis still raging {…}
