MetLiveArts 2019-20 Review: The Mother of Us All

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(Credit: Stephanie Berger) As part of the MetLiveArts series and Project 19 initiative, The Met Museum collaborated with musicians from the NY Philharmonic and singers from The Juilliard School’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts in a historical performance of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s “The Mother of Us All.” This creative collaboration was the first of {…}

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Q & A: Conductor Daniela Candillari on the Importance of ‘The Mother of Us All’

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(photo credit: Damjan Švarc) Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s opera “The Mother of Us All” recently made a historical debut at The Met Museum in honor of Susan B. Anthony’s life and women’s suffrage movement. The production celebrates a unique collaboration between the NY Philharmonic, Juilliard, and The Met, which features some of today’s visionary young artists working in opera. {…}

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‘The Mother of Us All’ Coming to Metropolitan Museum of Art

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(Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art Official Website) The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s “The Mother of Us All” in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic and Juilliard School starting on Feb. 8, 2020. The run will last for four performances with additional shows taking place on Feb. 11, 12, and 14 at Gallery 700 {…}

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Adriana Gonzalez & Xabier Anduaga Win Top Operalia Awards

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Xabier Anduaga and Adriana Gonzalez have taken home first prize at the Operalia Competition. The two singers also won the zarzuela prizes. Anduaga won the Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize while Gonzalez won the Pepita Embil Prize. Second prize went to baritone Gihoon Kim and mezzo-soprano Maria Kataeva while third prize went to soprano Christina Nilsson and countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen. {…}

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Plácido Domingo Announces Operalia Competition 2019 Finalists, With A Twist

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The Operalia Competition has revealed the 12 finalists who will be competing for its top prize on Friday, July 26, 2019. The 12 finalists included Felicia Moore, Gihoon Kim, Christina Nilsson, Piotr Buszewski, Xabier Anduaga, Bongani Justice Kubheka, Liv Redpath, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Anna Shapovalova, Maria Kataeva, Adriana Gonzalez, and Mario Bahg. While making the announcement, legendary singer Plácido Domingo noted {…}

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Operalia Competition Announces Semi-Finalists

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The Operalia Competition has announced its semifinalists for both the opera and zarzuela competition. Audiences will be able to view the semifinals via live stream on Operalia’s Facebook page. In the opera competition, audiences will see baritone Germán Alcántara, tenor Xabier Anduaga, tenor Mario Bahg, tenor, soprano Lada Bočková, tenor Piotr Buszewski, soprano Adriana Gonzalez, mezzo-soprano Maria Kataeva, baritone Gihoon Kim, {…}

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The Operalia Competition Has Announced Contestants For 2019

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The Operalia Competition has announced the singers that will be competing this year in Prague. They include 12 sopranos, six mezzo-sopranos, 10 tenors, three basses, eight baritones, one bass-baritone, and one counter tenor. 10 contestants appear from the USA with five from Russia, three from South Korea, and two from South Africa. The host nation gets one representative in the {…}

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‘Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant’ Gets Preview Performance With ALT

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InSightALT is set to showcase “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant” on March 25, 2019 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City. The opera, written by composer Evan Meier and librettist E.M. Lewis, was commissioned by the American Lyric Theater as part of its initiative to develop operas that full length and family {…}

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The Dallas Opera Selects 20 Finalists For Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition

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The Dallas Opera has announced that 20 singers have been picked as finalists of the 31st Annual Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition presented, jointly, by The Dallas Opera and The Dallas Opera Guild. The artists include Lindsay Kate Brown, Jeff Byrnes, Anthony Ciaramitaro, Lauren Decker, Ben Edquist, Calvin Griffin, Pureum Jo, Meghan Kasanders, Andrew Manea, Felicia Moore, Rafael Moras, John {…}

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MetLiveArts 2019-20 Review: The Mother of Us All

Q & A: Conductor Daniela Candillari on the Importance of ‘The Mother of Us All’

‘The Mother of Us All’ Coming to Metropolitan Museum of Art

Adriana Gonzalez & Xabier Anduaga Win Top Operalia Awards

Plácido Domingo Announces Operalia Competition 2019 Finalists, With A Twist

Operalia Competition Announces Semi-Finalists

The Operalia Competition Has Announced Contestants For 2019

‘Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant’ Gets Preview Performance With ALT

The Dallas Opera Selects 20 Finalists For Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition