Alison Bolshoi to Perform at Rutherfurd Hall Cultural Festival

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The Rutherfurd Hall Cultural Festival is set to present “A Night at the Opera.” The performance on May 14 will see opera singer Alison Bolshoi sing alongside friends. Bolshoi has performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Carnegie Hall, Boheme Opera in New Jersey, Opera America in NYC, and Dallas Opera. Her repertoire includes Wagner and Verdi. The festival will {…}

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Michael Fabiano, Julia Bullock, Karah Son, Pretty Yende, Nina Stemme Headline San Francisco Opera’s Centennial 2022-23 Season

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San Francisco Opera has announced its 2022-23 season, which represents the 100th anniversary of the organization. To that effect, the company will aim to honor its history as just the third American opera company to ever reach the centennial milestone. The season will kick off with an “Opera Ball – The Centennial Celebration” which will feature such performers as Nadine {…}

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English National Opera 2021 Review: Satyagraha

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(Photo: ©Tristram Kenton) English National Opera haven’t had a live audience in their home at the London Coliseum since March 2020. But they’ve hardly been idle: their costume department made hospital scrubs, they devised a singing program for those suffering with “long COVID,” and performed “Tosca” and “La bohème” in striking outdoor settings. Their 2021-22 season opened last week with {…}

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Minnesota Opera to Present ‘Ópera Afuera’

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Minnesota Opera is set to present “Ópera Afuera” at the Allianz Field on Sept. 22, 2021. The showcase, which will spotlight Latin American music, will star Andres Acosta, Vanessa Alonzo, Vanessa Becerra, Levi Hernandez, and Zoie Reams. The concert will be divided into three parts with the first section highlighting Zarzuela, mariachi music from Mexico, and vals criollo from Peru. {…}

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Martha Collins to Take Prominent Leadership Position at Opera Sarasota

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Opera Sarasota in Florida has announced that Martha Collins has been appointed to the position of Director of Education. In her new role, Collins will be at the forefront of Sarasota Opera’s Youth Opera and Adult Education programs and community engagement efforts. “I am excited to take on an expanded role in passing on this art form that I love {…}

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Opera Memphis & Stax Music Academy’s 12-Year-Old Caleb Thompson Contracted at the Metropolitan Opera

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(Credit: Ticanda Thompson) 12-year-old, Caleb Thompson will understudy the role of “Char’es Baby” in Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in my Bones” at the Metropolitan Opera during the 2021-22 season. Thompson is a voice student at Stax Academy in Memphis, Tennessee. Here, he has also been a part of an opera class that started after the cancelation of Opera Memphis’s {…}

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Sonya Yoncheva, Ailyn Pérez, Olga Peretyatko & Benjamin Bernheim Lead Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2021-22 Season

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(Credit: Christoph Köstlin/Javier del Real/Chris Singer) (Artcle In collaboration with Dejan Vukosavljevic) The Staatsoper Hamburg has announced its 2021-22 Season featuring new productions, revivals and Opera Stabile. Here is a look at what audiences can expect. Premieres Bernhard Lang’s “Playing Trump” will star Donatienne Michel-Dansac. Performance Dates: August 20-25, 2021 Daniele Finzi Pasca directs a new production of Offenbach’s “Les {…}

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In Series Opera Announces 2021-22 Season

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In Series Opera in Maryland has announced its 2021-22 Season features films and live performances. The season opens with A Festival Through Grief to Hope. The opening festival weekend features live events based on the artistic achievements of IN Series 2020-2021 season and will showcase the film Gluck’s’ “Orpheus and Eurydice,” “Chronicle of a Life and Love,” and “Pieces of a {…}

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Kennedy Center Announces Spring & Summer Performances

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced a lineup of Spring/Summer Performances. The center will offer free in-person activities featuring Millennium Stage’s return to the REACH campus and will also showcase the return of Washington National Opera’s Pop-up Opera Truck with the premiere of Mo Willems’s first opera. The performances will be a lead-up to its highly {…}

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Alison Bolshoi to Perform at Rutherfurd Hall Cultural Festival

Michael Fabiano, Julia Bullock, Karah Son, Pretty Yende, Nina Stemme Headline San Francisco Opera’s Centennial 2022-23 Season

English National Opera 2021 Review: Satyagraha

Minnesota Opera to Present ‘Ópera Afuera’

Martha Collins to Take Prominent Leadership Position at Opera Sarasota

Opera Memphis & Stax Music Academy’s 12-Year-Old Caleb Thompson Contracted at the Metropolitan Opera

Sonya Yoncheva, Ailyn Pérez, Olga Peretyatko & Benjamin Bernheim Lead Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2021-22 Season

In Series Opera Announces 2021-22 Season

Kennedy Center Announces Spring & Summer Performances