‘Angel’s Bone’ Composer Du Yun Signs Long-Term Contract with G. Schirmer

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(credit: © Xiao Nan) Composer Du Yun has signed a long-term contract to make G. Schirmer, part of Wise Music Group, the exclusive publisher for her concert works and operas. Du Yun is the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for hr opera “Angel’s Bone” and serves as Professor of Composition at the Peabody Institute and Distinguished Visiting Professor at {…}

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Teatro San Carlo to World Premiere Ennio Morricone’s ‘Partenope’

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Ennio Morricone’s sole opera “Partenope” will receive its world premiere at Teatro San Carlo. The work will be performed on Dec. 12 and 14 and will be conducted by Riccardo Frizza. The new Teatro San Carlo production will be entrusted to the vision of Vanessa Beecroft who will work alongside Daniela Ciancio and Danilo Rubeca. The cast will include Jessica {…}

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One Ounce Opera Takes Home B. Iden Payne Awards Ceremony

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One Ounce Opera was among top winners at the 2025 B. Iden Payne Awards. On Nov. 3, One Ounce Opera took home two awards in the Outstanding Production of a Short Play for and Outstanding Original Short Script categories. Both awards were given for Tyler Mabry’s micro-opera, “Ray Bradbury, Age 12, at the Carnival in Waukegan, IL.” The company also {…}

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One Ounce Opera Announces Holiday Programming

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One Ounce Opera releases its slate for the holiday season. Up first is the “Holiday Sing-a-long.” Music Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Peter Bay leads the choir and pianist Nathan Quiring along with bassist Win Bent. The concert features secular carols and traditional Christian and Jewish songs. Performance Date: December 11, 2025 One Ounce Opera and LOLA {…}

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Davóne Tines & Ruckus Announce U.S. Tour

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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines and the early music ensemble Ruckus are set to present their new program “What is Your Hand in This?” to ten cities across the United States this winter. Conceived by Douglas Adam August Balliett, Davóne Tines, and Clay Zeller-Townson, to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, “What is Your Hand in This?” resists {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society to Present ‘Cycles III: Die Schöne Magelone’

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On Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, the Brooklyn Art Song Society continues its 2025–26 season with Cycles III: Die Schöne Magelone. The Brahms song cycle features fifteen songs that bring to life Ludwig Tieck’s medieval romance about a young knight from Provence and his beloved Magelone, blending vivid storytelling, lyrical passion, and Brahms’s most dramatic writing for voice and piano. The {…}

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Davóne Tines Headlines New World Symphony’s 2026 I Dream A World Festival

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(Photo credit: Voxigma) The New World Symphony announces its line up for its 2026 I Dream a World Festival, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Soprano Kristin Young and bass-baritone Davóne Tines open the festival with “Salon: I, Too, Sing America: Langston Hughes & Margaret Bonds.” Performance Date: February 18, 2026 (Truist Pavilion) “I, Too, Sing America: Langston Hughes & Margaret {…}

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Fondazione Arena di Verona Postpones ‘Aida’ in Adelaide

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The Fondazione Arena di Verona has postponed its upcoming “Aida” in Adelaide, Verona, which was being produced by TEG Live. Limelight is reporting that the production, which was scheduled for Feb. 5 and 6, was postponed “due to unforeseen challenges related to the international transport of artistic assets”, which have upended plans to ship the production’s vast inventory of sets, {…}

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National Symphony Orchestra Forced to Postpone Concerts After FIFA Gets Free Use of Kennedy Center

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UPDATE: A spokesperson from the Kennedy Center told OperaWire: “FIFA is paying the Kennedy Center millions of dollars to rent the space. It is regular practice to shift programs or events when needed.” Regarding the Washington Post report, Kennedy Cener Execitive Director Richard Grenell took to X and said, “FIFA is paying the Kennedy Center multi-millions of dollars plus all {…}

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‘Angel’s Bone’ Composer Du Yun Signs Long-Term Contract with G. Schirmer

Teatro San Carlo to World Premiere Ennio Morricone’s ‘Partenope’

One Ounce Opera Takes Home B. Iden Payne Awards Ceremony

One Ounce Opera Announces Holiday Programming

Davóne Tines & Ruckus Announce U.S. Tour

Brooklyn Art Song Society to Present ‘Cycles III: Die Schöne Magelone’

Davóne Tines Headlines New World Symphony’s 2026 I Dream A World Festival

Fondazione Arena di Verona Postpones ‘Aida’ in Adelaide

National Symphony Orchestra Forced to Postpone Concerts After FIFA Gets Free Use of Kennedy Center