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Bayreuth Festival 2023 Review: Der Ring des Nibelungen

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(Photo: © Enrico Nawrath) As the final cycle of Bayreuth’s 2023 “Ring des Nibelungen” came to a close, the air remained electric with the sounds of Wagner’s apocalyptic horns and the swirling raptures of the Rhine. Camps came away divided into those either outraged or captivated by director Valentin Schwarz‘s reinvention of the Walsung’s messy journey into oblivion. To be {…}
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Master Chorale of South Florida Reveals 2023-24 Season

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Credit: Wade Caldwell Master Chorale of South Florida has unveiled its 2023-24 schedule featuring music by  Fauré, Beethoven, and Mozart. The season opens with Fauré’s Requiem, which will be preceded by Joshua Rist’s powerful “Invictus” and followed by Joel Thompson’s “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” an emotional contemporary work based on the final words of Black Americans killed by {…}
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Chanticleer Announces 2023-24 Season ‘Music of a Silent World’

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Photo credit: Stephen K Mack Multiple Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has announced its 2023-24 season titled, “Music of a Silent World.” All programs are performed in the Bay Area and on tour, exact dates and locations can be found here. The new program “Music of a Silent World” centers on Majel Connery’s “The Rivers are our Brothers,” an ecological {…}
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New Music USA Unveils 2023 Organizational Fund Awardees

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New Music USA has announced its 2023 Organization Fund Awardees to 85 creators across the nation. The fund, totaling $620,750, goes to outstanding organizations the work and support the development of music creators and artists that offer a crucial resource to their community. Over 500 entities expressed interest during this year’s grant application process. Those awarded are notable for their {…}
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Kenneth Overton and Denyce Graves Headline Lyric Fest’s 2023-24 Season

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Lyric Fest has reveal a lineup of concerts in the Philadelphia metro area and a revival performance of “Cotton” at New York’s 92nd Street Y. Included in the program is a new commission from composer Benjamin P. Wenzelberg that explores Mexican song. Also on the schedule is a celebration of the renowned song composer Ned Rorem. Featured performers include Michelle {…}
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 {…}
Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Greg Hedgepath on ‘Chevalier’ and Working with the Sound of the Film

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Back in April, Searchlight Pictures released the film “Chevalier” about Joseph Bologne, one of the most acclaimed black composers of his generation. The film premiered to rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival and was distributed theatrically throughout the USA. A few months ago, the company released it on Hulu for streaming. With the film now widely available, OperaWire had {…}
DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Lawrence Brownlee’s ‘Rising’

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“The poem with this music is complete.” The final line to composer Shawn E. Okpebholo’s “Romance” reveals, in essence, the method behind Lawrence Brownlee and pianist Kevin J. Miller’s newest release, “Rising,” on Warner Classics: Setting poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to song. With its 29 tracks, the album includes texts from writers such as Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar Nelson, {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

International Händel Festival, Göttingen 2023 Review: Semele

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(Photo: Alciro Theodoro da Silva) The centerpiece of this year’s International Handel Festival in Göttingen was five performances of the composer’s 1644 music drama “Semele,” in a new production conducted and directed by the festival’s artistic director George Petrou. At the final curtain, the audience greeted the cast with a thoroughly deserved standing ovation. The bravos rang out around the {…}

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