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News, Season Announcement

Lincoln Center’s ‘Summer for the City’ Returns With Performances by Anthony Roth Costanzo & Julia Bullock

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The Lincoln Center’s “Summer for the City” program returns this summer. Only classical vocal events are featured in this article. Events are all free and pay-what-you-choose. The American Modern Opera Company presents a fusion of Monteverdi’s “The Coronation of Poppea” with W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story “The Comet” as part of the Run AMOC Festival. Performers include Anthony Roth Costanzo, {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Timothy Long on Modern Opera Audiences, Shorter Works & Education

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Timothy Long is a recognized conductor, pianist, and composer who is the Artistic and Music Director of Opera at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester and an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. Throughout his career, he has attempted to redefine opera for modern audiences by breaking traditional stereotypes and making performances shorter, more diverse, and {…}

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Foundation for Contemporary Arts Announces 2025 Grants to Artists Award Recipients

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(Photo credit: The Wilma Theater) The Foundation for Contemporary Arts announced the 23 artists and collectives who will receive its $45,000 Grants to Artists awards. Launched in 1993, the Grants to Artists awards are unrestricted, by-nomination grants that provide recipient artists working in Dance, Music/Sound, Performance Art/Theater, Poetry, and Visual Arts. Winners exemplify contemporary, experimental work being made today. The {…}

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Claire Galloway, Kirsten C. Kunkle, Marisa Robinson, & Kevin Patrick Star in Wilmington Concert Opera’s 2025 Season

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Wilmington Concert Opera has announced its 2025 season, “La Vie Parisienne!” Baritone Moses Possible and pianist Elina Galletta present “Resonating Heritage: A Tribute To The Diaspora.” This concert features the world premiere of a song cycle by Lorna Young-Wright. Performance Date: February 23, 2025 Baritones Chris Drago Fistonich and Daniel Neer make their Wilmington Concert Opera debuts in the Gala {…}

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Trinity Church Unveils 2024-25 Season

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Trinity Church has unveiled its 2024-25 season. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. First up is the “Community Hymn Sing” featuring music by Margaret Bonds, Ralph Vaughan Williams,  Janet Yieh, Sterling Procter, Alcée Chriss, and others. The performance features the Trinity Choir and NOVUS Brass led by Alcée Chriss at the organ. Performance Date: Sept. 8, 2024 Anthony {…}

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Ensemble for These Times Announces 2024-25 Home Season

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For its 2024-25 home season, Ensemble for These Times presents “Women in Transit.” This article only includes vocal performances. Opening the 17th anniversary season is “In Motion.” The concert features world premieres by Ursula Kwong-Brown, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Mary Bianco, as well as works by Benjamin Britten, York Bowen, Lisa Bielawa, Vivian Fung, Sage Shurman, and Zhou Tian, with {…}

Special Features

Trekking Through American Opera (Part Two)

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(Photo Credits: Karen Almon/Metropolitan Opera) Throughout this new series, we will be looking at the history of American opera, beginning in the 2000s through to the present, through revisiting certain iconic works of the past two decades and OperaWire’s coverage of them throughout the 21st century. In part one, we looked at the developments of the 2000s. In part two, {…}

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Here Is How Opera’s Biggest Stars Are Protesting Donald Trump’s Inauguration

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On Jan. 20 Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States with million of Americans protesting the controversial figure. The inauguration ceremony has stirred controversy as many musical figures have refused to perform while others have been forced to withdraw. There are also a number of concerts that will be performed at the same {…}