Lisette Oropesa is hinting at some future roles including “Norma.” In a recent interview with Forumopera, the soprano said, “Norma, I’ve already been asked to do it. And I have a contract to sing Norma in the future.” Regarding the role the soprano said, “Norma, for me, it’s interesting because Norma, you can hear all kinds of voices there. For {…}
Les Arts in Valencia, Spain is set to present “Woman at Point Zero” in collaboration with ENSEMS. The showcase, which is slated for Sept. 15, 2023 at 7:30 p.m., will be the Spanish premiere of the vocal multimedia and intercultural work by Bushra El-Turk and Stacy Hardy. It tells the story of Fatma, a former sex worker who was jailed {…}
Spoleto Festival USA has announced that Timothy Myers will be the company’s new Music Director. Myers is the Music Director at Austin Opera and has performed with such organizations as the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and the Wexford Festival. He has also been a speaker at the SXSW Festival, {…}
Long Beach Opera has announced its 2024 season, which will center on women composers and librettists with two world premieres, and an opera film, among other offerings. First up is Alyssa Weinberg and J. Mae Barizo’s “Isola.” George R. Miller directs and Lucy Tucker Yates conducts. Ariadne Greif stars. The work “engages questions and sensations of identity, multiplicities of self, {…}
The Tucson Desert Song Festival has unveiled its 2024 season. First up is “Blue Heron: Portraits in Song – Music from Renaissance Italy,” which features works by Johannes Ciconia, Guillaume Du Fay, Antoine Busnoys, and Heinrich Isaac, among others. Performance Dates: Jan. 14, 2024 Next up is “Mozart & Hagen” featuring True Concord Voices & Orchestra. The showcase will include Mozart’s {…}
Light Opera of New Jersey is set o present “A Celebration of the Stage: Opera to Broadway.” The event, which is slated for Oct. 8 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Basking Ridge, will feature opera and musical favorites performed by baritone Troy Cook as well as numerous rising stars including Gemma Nha, Cesar Parreño, James Conrad Smith. Karen Delavan will {…}
Composer Edmund Cionek and librettist Maryanne Bertollo’s “Returning; The Ordeal of Olive Oatman,” makes its world premiere with Tribeca New Music at the National Opera Center on Oct. 2. “Returning; The Ordeal of Olive Oatman,” is based on the true story of a Mormon girl taken captive by Native Americans, in the Southwestern USA in 1851. The opera depicts the {…}
The self-conducted Black and Latinx ensemble Sphinx Virtuosi will perform at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 20. Taking the stage in Stern Auditorium, the ensemble will present works inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes and Julia Alvarez. Making her Carnegie Hall debut, soprano Aundi Marie Moore performs “Aria” (“Cantilena”) from Villa Lobos’s “Bachianas brasileiras” No. 5. Also on the program are {…}
Bradford Opera Festival is set to premiere a new adaptation of Rossini’s most famous opera on Nov. 23, 2023. The showcase of “The Barber of Seville” will present the opera classic in Yorkshire dialect as adapted by Ian McMillan. The event will feature the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra and Bradford Festival Choral Society with Alex Chisholm directing and Ben Crick conducting. {…}
Opera Columbus will open its 2023-24 season with Bizet’s “Carmen.” The production will be performed at the Southern Theatre stage on Sept. 29 and Oct. 1 alongside the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. The new production will be directed by 2022-2023 Crane Directing Fellow Sarah Dahnke and will be conducted by Dr. Everett McCorvey. In a statement, Dahnke said, “The way ‘Carmen’s’ {…}
Soprano Aida Garifullina is set to appear at two concerts taking place at the Dubai Opera. First up, the Russian diva will appear at the Dubai Opera Ball on Nov. 18, 2023, performing alongside tenor Riccardo Massi, and others. The event will feature the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra under the musical direction of Fabio Mastrangelo. The next day, on Nov. 19, {…}
