Tête à Tête announces its expansion to create opportunities to empower emerging local talents this spring and summer. The company will hold workshops with local opera makers, Tête à Tête singers, and instrumentalists from the Royal Northern Sinfonia as a first step in developing native new opera in the North East. The workshop is held in Newcastle on May 14 {…}
The Nashville Opera will close its 2023-24 season with Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” The opera will be directed by Nashville Opera CEO & Artistic Director John Hoomes and will be presented April 12 and 13 at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Jackson Hall. The production will include costumes created by Marie Ann Chiment for the Tennessee Bicentennial in 1996 and will star Jasmine Habersham {…}
The Mannes Opera is set to present “Flashpoints~the Mannes festival of short operas.” Directed by Emma Griffin and conducted by Cris Frisco, the festival will include eight dramas in 90 minutes. The Mannes’ first annual celebration of short opera is a theatrical sampler of incredible composers and librettists, new and old. The longest opera that will be presented is 15 {…}
Sir George Benjamin has been awarded the 16th annual Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Music and Opera category. The award is handed out by the BBVA Foundation and the organization noted that Benjamin has an “extraordinary contribution and impact in contemporary creation in the realms of symphonic music, opera and chamber music.” The committee added, “Using a highly personal {…}
Professional artists and more than 300 amateur members of the Los Angeles musical community gather under the baton of James Conlon to present two free, family-friendly performances of Benjamin Britten’s “Noah’s Flood.” Professional vocal soloists including baritone Ben Lowe as Noah, mezzo-soprano Peabody Southwell as Mrs. Noah and bass-baritone Patrick Blackwell as the Voice of God. They are joined by {…}
The San Francisco Opera Guild and Neiman Marcus San Francisco have announced that they will present a benefit luncheon and fashion presentation of the Michael Kors Spring/Summer 2024 Collection and a preview of Fall/Winter 2024. The benefit will be held on April 16, 2024, with a special appearance by designer Michael Kors. In a statement, Kors said, “This season we’re taking {…}
(Credit: Marty Sohl/Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera will revive Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” on April 8. The production, which is set to be performed seven times through May 2, will star Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green in his role debut as Charles, soprano Latonia Moore reprising the role of Charles’s mother, Billie and soprano Brittany Renee as Destiny {…}
Staatsoper Hannover has announced the extension of Music Director Stephan Zilias contract until the end of the 2025-26 season. In a statement, Zilias said, “I consider my job a privilege and am deeply grateful for all the artistic and human experiences that I am able to have every day. In intensive discussions with Bodo Busse, I discovered that there are {…}
Jonas Kaufmann has revealed a list of roles that he is interested in doing in the near future. During an interview with Gramophone about his latest recording of “Parsifal,” the tenor said that he has a short list “because I’ve done a lot already. Enzo in ‘La Gioconda,’ which is one of the great tenor parts, will come on stage {…}
Baryshnikov Arts is set to present “Jupiter’s Journey to the Earth.” The world premiere work which is created by the little OPERA theatre of ny, will be presented on May 10 – 12, 2024 and features Rufus Müller, Brian Downen, Jennifer Roderer, Paul Wheelan, Gregory Sheppard, Abigail Raiford, and David Morgans. The opera, which is based on “Philemon and Baucis” {…}
The Carroll County Arts Council in Westminster, Maryland is set to work premiere “A Pregnant Pause” on April 12, 2024. The new opera by Garth Baxter, composer of “Lily,” and Alize Francheska Rozsnyai, will be directed by Stephen Strosnider and stars Rozsnyai, Annie Gill, Katherine Boyce, and pianist Aaron Thacker. The work has a duration of 25 minutes and explores {…}