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Fresh Squeezed Opera Announces First Production

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The Fresh Squeezed Opera has announced its first production of the 2017-18 season. The company will present its annual “Showcase” of new chamber-vocal music at the Cell Theatre, featuring Paola Prestini’s Body Maps, on Thursday Nov. 2, 2017, 8:00pm. Selected from a call for scores yielding over 200 submissions, the “Showcase” will be an evening presentation of new vocal works {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2022: La Bohème

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Photo credit: © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. “La bohème”, as the archetypal verismo opera, tends to resist stagings that take it much beyond the confines of nineteenth-century Paris, and indeed non-naturalistic approaches to the work. (Audiences tend to resist them too.) The two most successful in London recently have been John Copley’s recently retired version at the Royal Opera House – {…}
Special Features

The Wonderful World of Opera Dogs: Frieda Hempel – Opera Star & Dogcatcher

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                                                (Photo Credits: Alamy Stock Photos) OperaWire is proud to present “The Wonderful World of Opera Dogs,” a series by Diana Burgwyn, which will focus on the relationship between opera’s most iconic stars and their beloved canines. The creation of this series and all research necessary for each individual piece were conducted solely by Diana. To learn more about the {…}
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Met Opera’s ‘Siegfried’ Leads Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend in North America (4/12-14)

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You won’t find a major repertory staple in this weekend’s previews, but all of these works are essential viewing for the opera lover. There are a few world premieres coupled with gems from famed composers that rarely take the stage. Then there’s a masterpiece embedded in this week’s top recommendations (in alphabetical order by company). Le Comte Ory – Edmonton {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Pittsburgh Opera 2017-18 Review – Tosca: Leah Crocetto Triumphs In Her First Tosca

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Leah Crocetto is having an epic season. While performing at Glimmerglass in upstate New York late this summer, she got the call as a late replacement for the Washington National Opera’s “Aida,” which she squeezed in just prior to her triumphant role debut last night as Tosca with the Pittsburgh Opera. If that last minute opportunity to portray Verdi’s final {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera Review 2016-17 – Il Barbiere di Sivilgia: You Will Have Fun Seeing Camarena, Yende, Mattei & This Refreshing Cast

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This review is for the performance on Monday Jan. 10, 2017.  Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” is one of the most famous works in the operatic repertoire as well as one of the funniest. It contains some of the most memorable melodies and space for singers to fool around and provide vocal fireworks. In recent years, the Metropolitan Opera has {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Prototype Festival 2024 Review: Adoration

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Photo:  Maria Baranova Prototype Festival presented “Adoration” at New York City’s The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture on January 12th, 2024. It was an innovative opera, featuring both voices, an amplified string quartet, and technical sound engineering, composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian with a libretto by Royce Vavrek. This world premiere, shockingly timely, challenged audience members to examine bias while {…}
IndieOpera

Philadelphia Fringe Festival to Present ‘Here Be Siren’s

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(Credit: Mary Grace Comber) Philadelphia Fringe Opera is set to present Kate Soper’s “Here Be Sirens” on Sept. 7 – 9 at the Great Hall at Neighborhood House in Phialdelphia. The opera, which tells the story of three silens who are cursed to allure killers, stars Melanie Culhane, Megnot Toggia, and Rachel DiBlasio. Anastassia Vertjanova directs a production that is {…}
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New York Comedy Club Review 2023: Fizz and Ginger

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Photo:  Brian E Long Immersive productions have become a thing within opera, with performances being held in places such as the Catacombs in Green-Wood Cemetery in New York and a comedy club turned speakeasy on the city’s Lower East Side. And the latter is where a jazz opera, “Fizz and Ginger,” composed by Whitney George to a libretto by Bea {…}

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