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West Edge Opera to Present ‘Jacqueline’ As Part of 2024 Festival

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West Edge Opera is set to present “Jacqueline” as part of its festival this August. The opera, which explores the story of famed cellist Jacqueline Du Pré, will feature cellist Matt Haimovitz and soprano Marnie Breckenridge. Both artists headlined the opera’s premiere at Tapestry Opera in Toronto in 2020 with Breckenridge winning the DORA award for “Outstanding Performances by an {…}
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Seattle Opera to Present ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’

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Seattle Opera is set to present “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” this February. The famed opera by Thulani Davis and Anthony Davis will be presented in a production by Robert O’Hara and stars Kenneth Kellogg in the title role. He is joined by Joshua Stewart, Joshua Conyers, Leah Hawkins, Ronnita Miller, and Allison Pohl, among others. Kazem {…}
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Diriyah Company Announces Saudi Arabia’s First Opera House

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The Diriyah Company has announced that it will work with the Royal Commision for Riyadh City to create the Royal Diriyah Opera House. This marks the first time that Saudi Arabia has an opera house. It will be located near the UNESCO World Heritage Site of At Turaif. “A testament to the Kingdom’s commitment to celebrating its rich culture and {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: Florencia en el Amazonas

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The Spanish language is pretty preponderant in the United States of America with a recent census stating that over 42 million people in the country aged five and older speak the language at home. It’s the second most learned language following English, with over 8 million students. And yet, it took until 2023 for the Metropolitan Opera to finally, and {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: Tannhäuser

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(Credit; Evan Zimmerman) “No Opera on a Dead Planet.” In the middle of Act two of the opening night of “Tannhäuser” as Wolfram delivered his “Blick ich umher in diesem edlen Kreise,” specifically as he sang that “love is a spring to be drunk from,” an audience member started shouting from the rafters of the Met Opera auditorium. The first {…}
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Opéra Louisiane to World Premiere ‘The Christmas Spider’

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Opéra Louisiane is set to present the World Premiere of “The Christmas Spider,” a holiday a one-hour opera in English by an American composer and librettist team. Inspired by a Ukrainian legend (which resulted in the placing of spider ornaments on Christmas trees for a lucky New Year), the opera is the third operatic collaboration between composer Clint Borzoni and {…}
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Angela Bassett to Host ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ for Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD Series

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(Credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023–24 Live in HD season will continue on Nov. 18 with Anthony Davis’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” The opera is set to be conducted by Kazem Abdullah in a new production by Robert O’Hara. The cast includes Will Liverman, Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Michael Sumuel, and Victor {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: X: the Life and Times of Malcolm X

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(Credit: Marty Sohl) The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season unfurled a tapestry of music, history, and Afrofuturistic magical realism with Broadway producer Robert O’Hara’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” composed by Anthony Davis, to a libretto by Thulani Davis, based on a story by Christopher Davis. The Met, traditionally a bastion of opera’s classic repertoire, transformed into a {…}
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Opera America Partners With US Opera Companies for Opera Passport Program

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Opera America has announced the creation of Opera Passport, a new program that offers savings to traveling operagoers. Per an official press statement, Opera Passport gives at least a 10 percent discount on tickets to subscribers at participating companies. Among the companies involved in the program are Anchorage Opera, Arizona Opera, Ars Lyrica Houston, Austin Opera, BARN Opera, Boston Baroque, {…}

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