The Atlanta Opera Review 2024: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Photo credit: Raftermen “Toi toi toi, y’all,” intones the attractive, Southern-inflected t-shirt at The Atlanta Opera’s pop-up gift shop. An apt tagline for a company having outgrown regional status, still honoring its roots in this de facto capital of the American South. Like Atlanta—now the sixth most populous metropolitan area in the United States, having recently edged past Philadelphia and {…}

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The Atlanta Opera Announces 2024 96-Hour Opera Festival

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The Atlanta Opera has announced its 2024 96-Hour Opera Festival. The event will feature the world premiere of “Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier),” which won the 2022 competition. The opera will be staged by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden and conducted by Chaowen Ting. It stars Kevin Thompson (Church Jenkins), Minka Wiltz (Odella), Andrew Gilstrap (Mayor John Johns), Tiffany Uzoije (Butter), and Marnie Breckenridge. The opera’s {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: New Camarata Opera’s Animated Opera ‘One Train’ and Its Magic

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An exciting new project by New Camerata Opera, the animated short-film opera entitled “One Train,” bears the markers of a great path towards making opera more inviting. A joint effort by librettist Hannah McDermott and Hilary Purrington, the story weaves a path of awareness, magic and selflessness. It is bound to surprise even the most well-seasoned opera goer. This {…}

Artist of the Week, Special Features

Artist of the Week: Joseph Lattanzi

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The week the San Francisco Opera will showcase “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” for the first time in the company’s history. The production will feature a cast that includes Joseph Lattanzi, a baritone making his debut with the San Francisco Opera in the role Paul Jobs for the very first time. Over the past years, Lattanzi has been on the {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Delaware Valley Opera Company 2023 Review: The Stronger, Cavalleria Rusticana, and I Pagliacci

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Credit: Julie Smith Delaware Valley Opera Company (DVOC) presented a unique triple-bill on August 13, 2023, which included the Philadelphia debut of Misha Dutka’s “The Stronger.” This was accompanied by Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci.” The operas were performed at the Venice Island Performing Arts & Recreation Center in Philadelphia. It’s no small job to showcase three operas {…}

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Young Concert Artists 2023 Review: 62nd Annual Gala

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On May 8, 2023, Young Concert Artists (YCA) held their 62nd Annual Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center. This year’s gala honored Deborah Borda, the President and CEO of the New York Philharmonic, for her accomplishments in service to the arts. The concert was hosted by Kevin Joyce, who gave opening remarks before introducing YCA President Daniel Kellogg. “Tonight we {…}

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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2022-23 Review: WinterFest – Joélle Harvey

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Photo: Tristan Cook On Feb. 10, 2023, Chamber Music Society (CMS) of Lincoln Center presented the final program in this year’s WinterFest. Titled “The Magic of Schubert,” the festival celebrates the composer’s famous and lesser-known works, which opened on Jan. 22 with their “Into Eternity” program. This latest program, “From Song,” {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: The Marx Brothers & Verdi in ‘A Night at The Opera’

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Although they are best known for films such as “The Cocoanuts” (1929), “At The Circus” (1939), and “A Night in Casablanca” (1949), one of the Marx brothers operatic-related films was just as spell-binding and deserves its place in history. When “A Night At The Opera” first premiered in 1935 in the continental United States, the brothers were still under contract {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: The Hours

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SPOILER & CONTENT WARNING: There will be a lot of spoilers for the plot details of this opera. There are also references to self-harm and suicide. In 2012, Kevin Puts’s “Silent Night” won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. And following that victory, the opera, which premiered in Minnesota in 2011, seemingly toured all over the country getting performances at Arizona {…}

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The Atlanta Opera Review 2024: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Atlanta Opera Announces 2024 96-Hour Opera Festival

Opera Meets Film: New Camarata Opera’s Animated Opera ‘One Train’ and Its Magic

Artist of the Week: Joseph Lattanzi

Delaware Valley Opera Company 2023 Review: The Stronger, Cavalleria Rusticana, and I Pagliacci

Young Concert Artists 2023 Review: 62nd Annual Gala

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2022-23 Review: WinterFest – Joélle Harvey

Opera Meets Film: The Marx Brothers & Verdi in ‘A Night at The Opera’

Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: The Hours