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Exploring Three Operas Based on LGBTQ+ Relationships from History

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Over the years, opera has come to embody an artform that represents all shades of the human experience.  From the traditional to the abstract, every form of love that can be expressed on earth has come to the operatic stage to live. One of those shades is the love shared between those belonging to the LGBT+ community. Some of the {…}
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Opera Profile: A Look at Wayne Shorter’s First Opera ‘Iphigenia’

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Jazz opera is not a new phenomenon when it comes to American opera and the “American” opera tradition. Rather, jazz has thoroughly permeated the fabric of opera since the tradition’s very beginning. By all accounts, George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” an opera rife with controversy and iconic music, is the most famous. Yet, others like Scott Joplin’s well-received opera “Treemonisha,” {…}
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Festival Opera Announces 2023 Season

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Festival Opera has announced its plans for the company’s 2023 season. Festival Opera General Director Zachary Gordin, said “It is with great pride that Festival Opera celebrates its 32nd anniversary season with a refreshed, contemporary interpretation of Bizet’s iconic opera, ‘Carmen.’ I’m especially pleased to present a cast of rising, highly talented opera stars in such a collaborative stage production {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Don Giovanni

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(Credit: Karen Almond / Met Opera) On May 5, 2023, the Metropolitan Opera finally put on its new production of “Don Giovanni” for a packed house. For those who don’t remember, this production was set to premiere during the previously announced 2020-21 season, but of course, we all know what happened. Fortunately, Ivo Van Hove’s production is finally here and {…}
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OperaUpClose & Manchester Camerata Present New Version of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ on Tour

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OperaUpClose and Manchester Camerata will present a new production of Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” on a UK tour this summer. English novelist and poet Glyn Maxwell reworked the libretto for Laura Bowler and Robin Wallington’s 8-piece chamber orchestration of Wagner’s classic. Under the stage direction of Lucy Bradley performers, instrumentalists, and singers will all reside on the stage, breaking the {…}
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Moody Center for the Arts to Present ‘Everything Rises’

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The Moody Center for the Arts will present “Everything Rises,” a multimedia musical work, on April 14 and 15, 2023, at Lois Chiles Moody’s Studio Theatre. Featured artists include Grammy Award-winning violinist Jennifer Koh and bass-baritone Davóne Tines. Developed over the course of several years by an all-BIPOC team of creatives, comprising composer Ken Ueno and director Alexander Gedeon, “Everything {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2023 Review: Voices of the Americas

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On March 17, 2023, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented its “Voices of the Americas” concert at Alice Tully Hall. The program was a rich assortment from the last century which explored and celebrated music through Latin America and beyond, curated by pianist Michael Stephen Brown and cellist Nicholas Canellakis, joined by percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, pianist Gilles Vonsattel, {…}
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Dutch National Opera Forward Festival 2023 Review: Perle Noire, Meditations For Joséphine

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Photo: Ruth Walz Josephine Baker was born into poverty in the early 1900s in St. Louis, Missouri, at a time when open discrimination against black people was enshrined in the Jim Crow laws. By the age of 12, she had dropped out of school and, within a year, was married. Fast forward to the mid-1920s, and she was the toast {…}

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