Sutton Cinemas in Grass Valley has announced that it will stop carrying the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series Music in the Mountains, which was the organization that convinced Sutton Cinemas to present the HD broadcasts, contacted The Nevada Theatre when it learned of the decision to see if it would be possible to stream the performances. However, the organization {…}
The Canadian Opera Company has announced a cast change for its production of “La Traviata.” The company said that Andriana Chuchman will sing the role of Violetta on Sept. 27, Oct 2, and 9, replacing Lucia Cesaroni. Chuchman made her Canadian Opera Company as as Gilda in “Rigoletto” last season and has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Vancouver Opera, San {…}
The Metropolitan Opera is set to host “Style Across the Aisle (SATA)” on Sept. 9, 2026. The famed event will see Google as the presenting partner and will bridging the gap between local fashion design and technology. This year’s event will honor the 25th anniversary of 9/11. In a statement, general Manager Peter Gelb, General Manager said, “The Metropolitan Opera {…}
(Photo: Genevieve Girling) Francesca Caccini holds a special place in the annals of the history of opera: she was the first woman ever to write a complete opera. It is thought that she may have written five in all, but like many operas of the period, they have all been lost, apart from her work “La Liberazione di Ruggiero dell’isola {…}
The Basque Educational Organization will present The History of Basque Music: A Living Portrait of an Ancient Land on Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco. The one-night-only West Coast exclusive brings together pianist Josu Okiñena, txistulari Garikoitz Mendizabal, and soprano Noelia Ibáñez for an evening that traces Basque musical heritage through live performance, narration, {…}
The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus has received a $2,040,000 general operating support grant from the Perenchio Foundation. The grant is the largest in the chorus’s 40-year history. The unrestricted gift will be distributed over three years and is intended to strengthen the organization’s infrastructure, long-term planning, and financial resilience as the GRAMMY-winning ensemble marks its 40th anniversary season. “The fact {…}
Brazilian composer Cyro Delvizio’s “Requiem Guarani-Kaiowá,” op. 33, will receive its world premiere on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, nearly a decade after its completion. The 70-minute symphonic-choral work, with a libretto by Gabriel Neves Camargo, will be performed by the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra under conductor Felipe Prazeres, with more than one {…}
Biran Jagde has shared an update on his health following a cancelation earlier this month at the Puccini Festival due to an urgent surgery. The tenor took to social media and said, “Thank you to everyone for the well wishes and support these last three weeks, as well as to my teams – including medical!!! – for looking after me. {…}
(Photo credit: Cassinoni) Aran O’Grady’s new chamber opera, “Hysterically Shopping! to some sort of end…” is set to makes its premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival. The opera is a love story that follows Carrie through her dream job at a supermarket. It explores themes of consumerism and contemporary romance. Andrew Gavin, Laoise Murray, Kathleen Nic Dhiarmada, Alexandra Vostokova, and {…}
(Credits: Rossini Opera Festival ©) Gioachino Rossini’s “Le siège de Corinthe” occupies a fundamental place both in the evolution of the composer born in Pesaro and in the history of the modern revival of his works. Premiered at the Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique in Paris on October 9, 1826, this tragédie lyrique represents Rossini’s first major foray into {…}
This title occupies a singular place within Gioachino Rossini’s early output. Composed in 1812 for Venice’s Teatro San Moisè, it belongs to the small group of one-act farces that the young composer, just 20 years old, wrote during one of the most frenetic periods of his career. It follows the tradition of the eighteenth-century opera buffa: a romantic entanglement built {…}