Victory Hall Opera & University of Virginia to Present ‘Breaking the Sound Barrier: Deaf Opera Workshop’

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Victory Hall Opera will present “Breaking the Sound Barrier: Deaf Opera Workshop” on Feb. 27, 2020 at the Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia. The event will be presented in conjunction UVA’s Disability Studies Symposium. The workshop will present a reinterpretation of Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” in which three Deaf actors will work with three hearing opera singers {…}

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Prototype Festival 2020 Review: Ellen West

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This past summer, OperaWire published an interview with “Ellen West” headliner Jennifer Zetlan. When asked what she wanted audiences to take away from her experience with the opera, Zetlan’s replied that, to her, an extremely successful evening of live theater or opera was one in which the audience leaves feeling their soul touched, adding “… I hope our audiences will find themselves deeply moved {…}

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Michael Spyres & Pavel Cernoch Headline New CD/DVD Releases – August 5

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This week, a slew of rarely performed works are set for release, including live recordings and some world premieres. La Nonne Sanglante Gounod’s rarely performed work gets a release from the Opera Comique. The new release, by Naxos, stars Vannina Santoni, Marion Lebègue, and Michael Spyres. Laurence Equilbey conducts the Insula Orchestra in David Bobee’s production from 2018. Jane Eyre Louis Karchin’s {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann & Leo Nucci Lead Lead New CD/DVD Releases – June 24

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Three major releases are set for this week including two major box sets from one important artist and another of a major work. The Jonas Kaufmann Collection Arthaus is set to release a collection of three DVDs starring Jonas Kaufmann. The box set will include performances of “Fidelio,” “Nina,” and “Il Ritorno d’Ulisse” from Opernhaus Zurich. Artists in the box {…}

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Opera Saratoga To Present World Premiere Of Ellen West In 2019 Season

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Opera Saratoga’s has announced its 2019 season featuring three operas that will be featured at the center of the company’s 2019 Summer Festival. The season, which will run from June 29 through July 14, 2019, is set to present two classics from the standard repertoire and one world premiere. Program The season will open with Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment” in a {…}

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On Site Opera Announces New Production Set in Synagogue

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On Site Opera has announced its upcoming production of Ian Gordon’s “Morning Star.” The showcase will take place on March 21, 22, and 25, 2018 at the Eldridge Street Synagogue. It is slated to be a partnership with the Museum at Eldridge Street. Per a press release, “Based on the Sylvia Regan play by the same name, the opera tells {…}

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On Site Opera 2017 Review – Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt: A Fun Opera About the Imagination of Science

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In the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, I took my seat along the edge of a display featuring the fossils of an enormous Apatosaurus waiting for the opening notes of “Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt.” On a platform beneath the tail of this behemoth emerged conductor Jorge Parodi and one part of the orchestra, the string {…}

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New York Philharmonic 2016-17 Review: Alan Gilbert Says Goodbye With a Monumental ‘Das Rheingold’

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Alan Gilbert is saying goodbye to the New York Philharmonic as music director. It ends a tenure that brought significant new works and experimented with the standard repertoire alongside one of the finest orchestras in the world. But Gilbert has made sure to make opera a mainstay for the New York Philharmonic so it is no surprise that he ends his {…}

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Opéra de Montréal Presents ‘Emily’ With Atelier lyrique

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Members of Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal will present Christopher Allen and Johnathan McCullough’s new concert titled “Emily.” Allen and McCullough put together a theatrical production of Aaron Copland and Ricky Ian Gordon’s music set to poems by Emily Dickinson. Atelier lyrique’s sopranos Karoline Podolak, Lucie St-Martin, and Emma Fekete, mezzo-soprano Martina Myskohlid, and tenor Angelo Moretti take the stage {…}

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Victory Hall Opera & University of Virginia to Present ‘Breaking the Sound Barrier: Deaf Opera Workshop’

Prototype Festival 2020 Review: Ellen West

Michael Spyres & Pavel Cernoch Headline New CD/DVD Releases – August 5

Jonas Kaufmann & Leo Nucci Lead Lead New CD/DVD Releases – June 24

Opera Saratoga To Present World Premiere Of Ellen West In 2019 Season

On Site Opera Announces New Production Set in Synagogue

On Site Opera 2017 Review – Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt: A Fun Opera About the Imagination of Science

New York Philharmonic 2016-17 Review: Alan Gilbert Says Goodbye With a Monumental ‘Das Rheingold’

Opéra de Montréal Presents ‘Emily’ With Atelier lyrique