Four Essential Operas by Women Composers

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(Photo credit: Christophe-Abramowitz) Throughout time, women have routinely been at the bad end of the deal when it came to composing, performing, or really anything that has to do with music. However, as we now know that didn’t mean women composers, performers, critics, and everything in between didn’t exist. Actually, the opposite! Composers like Hildegard von Bingen, Barbara Strozzi, Clara {…}

News

Opera Omaha Announces Poems Chosen For the 2023-24 “Poetry & Music Project”

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Opera Omaha has announced the selection of 13 poems for its 2023-24 “Poetry & Music Project.” Original poems were written by Nebraska and Iowa students grades K through 12. The chosen poems were selected from a pool of 102 submissions from poets across 12 counties. Students were prompted with the theme for this year’s project, “Discovery,” as well as the {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: ‘Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci’

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(Photo: Marc Brenner) They go together like cookies and milk…like bacon and eggs…like Adam and Eve! Nooooooo! Not “Cav” and “Pag,” as the fans insist on calling the operas, but Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak! The golden couple, currently on at the Royal Opera House in “Cavalleria Rusticana,” consolidated their positions as world class artists here with spellbinding performances from {…}

IndieOpera, News, Streaming

Opera on Tap Formalizes Partnership with Adrienne Danrich’s ‘Music as the Message’

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Opera on Tap has announced that it will be formalizing its partnership with Adrienne Danrich’s “Music as the Message.” The company will team up with Danrich to create interactive, hybrid performances. The series, which Danrich created during the COVID-19 lockdown in response to the murder of George Floyd, was previously presented by The American Opera Project and Opera on Tap. {…}

IndieOpera

White Snake Projects Presents World Premiere of ‘MONKEY’

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(Photo credit: Yvette Marie Dostatni/Chicago Puppet Studio) Activist opera company, White Snake Projects, is set to the world premiere of “MONKEY: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable” on Sep. 22-24, 2023. Per an official press statement issued by the company, composer Jorge Sosa and creator/librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs‘ “Monkey” is a family-friendly transmedia show featuring life-scaled Bunraku puppetry, Kung Fu, computer {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Venezuelan Soprano Maria Brea on Singing at the Metropolitan Opera in ABT’s ‘Like Water for Chocolate’

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(Photo Credit: Eliana Brea) For two-plus hours, the American Ballet Theatre’s “Like Water for Chocolate” takes the audience member on a rapturous journey about star-crossed lovers, Tita and Pedro, struggling with death and loss over the course of half a century. The work, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon and with music by Joby Talbot, is an adaptation of the iconic novel {…}

News

White Snake Projects Unveils 2023-24 Season

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White Snake Projects (WSP) has announced its 2023-24 season, featuring life-size puppets, holiday celebrations, recent works from composers worldwide performed by local artists, a community jam, and a satirical reimagining of “Don Giovanni.” WSP will present composer Jorge Sosa and creator/librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs’ “Monkey: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable. This family-friendly opera blends Bunraku puppetry, CGI, and live performances. {…}

Business, News

New Orleans Opera Association Receives Major Grant from NEA for ‘Blue’

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The New Orleans Opera Association (NOOA) has received a $25,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the southern premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue.” The production by the New Orleans Opera Association is one of 1,130 projects selected nationwide for funding in the second round of Grants for Arts Projects in the fiscal {…}

News

Association for Opera in Canada Names Finalists for 2023 New Works Pitch Program

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The Association for Opera in Canada has announced the finalists for the 2023 New Works Pitch Program. Finalists include “Jewish Space Lasers,” a cabaret-style theater piece that spotlights Jewish composers from the Holocaust. The showcase is presented by the Likht Ensemble. Another finalist is “The HAFU??? Project,” “an art-song autobiographical exploration of identity and disconnection from culture.” The work is {…}

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Four Essential Operas by Women Composers

Opera Omaha Announces Poems Chosen For the 2023-24 “Poetry & Music Project”

Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: ‘Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci’

Opera on Tap Formalizes Partnership with Adrienne Danrich’s ‘Music as the Message’

White Snake Projects Presents World Premiere of ‘MONKEY’

Q & A: Venezuelan Soprano Maria Brea on Singing at the Metropolitan Opera in ABT’s ‘Like Water for Chocolate’

White Snake Projects Unveils 2023-24 Season

New Orleans Opera Association Receives Major Grant from NEA for ‘Blue’

Association for Opera in Canada Names Finalists for 2023 New Works Pitch Program