New Mexico PBS and the Santa Fe Opera will present “An American Vision: The Santa Fe Opera” on Nov. 7 and 14, 2024. The showcase on Nov. 7 will be a free public screening at the The Lensic Performing Arts Center in downtown Santa Fe. Then a few days later, on the 14th, the channel will broadcast the documentary. “An {…}
Austin Opera has announced its new future home. The organization revealed a 16,000-square-foot programming, rehearsal, and administrative hub on Trade Center Drive. The building will feature a 195-seat performance theater and rehearsal space, as well as numerous other commercial amenities. “The establishment of this new performance center is a historic step for Austin Opera to expand our audience, secure a {…}
(Credit: Robert Shomler) San José is set to present Puccini’s “La Bohème” from Nov. 16 to Dec. 1, 2024. The opera will star Opera San José Artist-in-Residence tenor WooYoung Yoon as Rodolfo, sopranos Kearstin Piper Brown, and Mikayla Sager alternating as Mimì. The cast will also include baritone Kidon Choi as Marcello, soprano Melissa Sondhi as Musetta, and bass-baritone OSJ Artist-in-Residence Jesús Vincente Murillo as Schaunard. Three Opera {…}
Virginia’s Shakespeare Opera Theatre has announced its 2024-25 season. First up is “La Vie de Bohème” featuring Puccini’s famed opera. Performance Date: Dec. 6 – 15, 2024 Next up is “Drowning Ophelia,” a one-act dark comedy “about the long-term consequences of childhood abuse, and a love letter to those who have suffered. There is always hope.” Performance Date: April 1 – 12, {…}
California’s Independent Opera Company has unveiled its 2024-25 season. First up is “The Stone Guest” to open its 2024-25 season. The Russian opera by Dargomyzhsky, which is based on the Don Juan legend, will be presented at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall in Los Angeles. Performance Dates: Nov. 1 & 2, 2024 Then comes Strauss’ “Daphne” at La Cañada {…}
(Credit: Opus 3) Operalia winner Kathleen O’Mara has joined the roster of Opus 3 for general management. O’Mara is currently a member of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program and is a 2024 recipient of the prestigious Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. This season, O’Mara is set to make her Metropolitan Opera debut in the role of {…}
The Grange Festival has announced its 2025 season. First up is “La Traviata” in a production by Maxine Braham and conducted by Richard Farnes in his festival debut. Samantha Clarke stars as Violetta while Nico Darmian and Dario Solari star as Alfredo and Giorgio Germont, respectively. Performance Dates: June 4 – July 6, 2025 Edwin Outwater leads the BBC Concert Orchestra {…}
Australia’s Victorian Opera has unveiled its 2025 season. First up is “Follies” at Palais Theatre. The works stars Marina Prior, Antoinette Halloran, Adam Murphy, Alexander Lewis, Geraldine Turner, Rhonda Burchmore, Collette Mann, Evelyn Krape, Genevieve Morrow, and Merlyn Quaife. Stuart Maunder directs. Phoebe Briggs conducts. Performance Dates: Feb. 1 – 6, 2025 Then comes “Mansfield Park” at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Stuart {…}
(Credit: ©Musa) The XXIII Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra is set to open with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia on Oct. 23, 2024. The concert will be conducted by Daniel Harding at the Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura. Harding will conduct Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” with soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Yulia Matochkina, Charles Castronovo, and {…}
Opera Baltimore and OperaDelaware will join forces to present Puccini’s “La Bohème.” The Puccini classic will take the stage at Stephens Hall Theatre, Towson University in Baltimore on Oct. 18 and 20, 2024 followed by two showcases on Oct. 25 and 27 at The Grand in Wilmington, Delaware. Taking on the role of Rodolfo will be Edward Graves. Daniel Rich {…}
This week the Seattle Opera is set to world premiere “Jubilee” created by Tazewell Thompson and with vocal arrangements by Dianne Adams McDowell and orchestrations by Michael Ellis Ingram. The work tells the story of the historic Fisk Jubilee Singers that came together after the emancipation and the end of the Civil War. The work features important spiritual and and {…}