Obituary: Metropolitan Opera Horn Player Howard T. Howard Dies

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The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra has announced the death of former Principal Horn, Howard T. Howard. Howard died on Oct. 30, 2021 after a long battle with cancer. The horn player began his music studies at the age of five playing piano and began playing French horn at the age of 14. He went on to receive a bachelor’s in music {…}

IndieOpera

IN Series to World Premiere ‘BOHEME in the Heights’

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IN Series is set to premiere its animated, Afro-Latinx reimagining of Puccini’s “BOHEME in the Heights.” The work will screen accompanied by live music on Oct. 29, 2021, at Creative Alliance in Baltimore, and Oct. 30 and Oct. 31at GALA Hispanic Theatre in Washington DC. The work takes place in a fictionalized Columbia Heights during the winter and spring of {…}

DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: ‘Mortal Dreams’

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Four electro-acoustic compositions, united by the vocals and unique musical approach of Uruguayan-born American composer Sergio Cervetti, make up his ninth album “Mortal Dreams” with Navona Records. Born 80 years ago with a career spanning more than half a century and over 100 compositions made for the concert stage, dance, theater, and film, the composer is best known and most {…}

Opera Wiki

Composer Profile: The Prolific & Versatile Terence Blanchard

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Terence Blanchard is one of the most versatile musicians in the world. Born on March 13, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana as an only child, his father Joseph Oliver Blanchard was a part-time opera singer. The young Terence began playing piano at five and then started on trump at age eight. He was a close friend of Wynton Marsalis from {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Soprano Leah Hawkins On Met Opera ‘Porgy and Bess,’ Maria Callas’ 7 Deaths & the Importance of Trust

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(Credit: Columbia Artists) On Sept. 23, soprano Leah Hawkins, a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, took part in the historic opening night performance of Gerswhin’s “Porgy and Bess” with the esteemed New York company. the Metropolitan Opera. While she was not one of the major headliners in a cast that feature Angel Blue, {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Tenor Josh Lovell on Mythology, Funding in Opera, & Opera’s Impact on Society

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(Credit: Simon Pauly) Canadian tenor Josh Lovell’s career started in his native home before shifting to Chicago and will now take its next big step in Vienna this fall. He is a 2018 Grand Prize and Opera Prize winner at the 52nd Annual International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the second place winner of the 2018 Dallas Opera Competition, third place winner of the Marcello Giordani {…}

News

Matthew Worth, Rhoslyn Jones, Frederica Von Stade & Marnie Breckenridge Join Faculty At San Francisco Conservatory Of Music

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Four singers have recently joined the voice faculty at San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM). Baritone Matthew Worth has been appointed to SFCM’s voice faculty, and is set to lead a full studio. According to the press release, both SFCM President David H. Stull and Voice Department Chair César Ulloa are thrilled to welcome Worth to the team. “His artistic {…}

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The Hartford Opera Theater To Present ‘New In November 9’

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The Hartford Opera Theater is set to perform “New in November 9,” a collection of short operas and opera excerpts. This opera festival will be performed on Nov. 18 at The Cathedral House at Christ Church Cathedral and the operas “A Bridge for Three” by Nathan Fletcher and Megan Cohen, “The Loathly Lady” by Paul Richards and Wendy Steiner, “Coal {…}