Tri-Cities Opera to Present ‘The Fantasticks’

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Tri-Cities Opera is set to revive “The Fantasticks” at the Tri-Cities Opera Center this February. “The Fantasticks” was originally created in 1960 and tells the metaphorical story, loosely based on the 1894 play “The Romancers (Les Romanesques),” of two neighboring parents who trick their children into falling in love by pretending to feud. “The Fantasticks” was written by Tom Jones, and {…}

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Chautauqua Opera Company & Conservatory Unveils 2023 Season

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Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory has announced its 2023 season. The season kicks off with “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Steven Osgood conducts and Dennis Whiteheard Darling directs. The opera stars Kevin Burdette, Eve Gigliotti, Amanda Lynn Bottoms, Arnold Livingston Geis, Michael Colman, Angela Yam, Louis Tiemann, Felix Aguilar Tomlinson, and Brian Jeffers. Performance Dates: June 30 {…}

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Elaine Alvarez, Samina Aslam, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Chauncy Packer Headline Chautauqua Opera’s 2022 Season

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Chautauqua Opera is set to kick off its 2022 festival this July. This season’s repertory was originally announced back in 2020 but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article represents an updated version of that announcement with a full rundown of the casts. The season opens with Kamala Sankaram and Susan Yankowitz’s “Thumbprint.” The opera will star Samina {…}

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Royal Opera House 2021-22 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Credit: ROH 2022 (c) Yasuko Kageyam) Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” an opera of community disaster, has lately belonged in London to Edward Gardner in the pit and Stuart Skelton in the title role, both searingly brilliant. Deborah Warner’s new production, headed by tenor Allan Clayton, offers a vivid and contemporary alternative vision of the work that deserves to run and {…}

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Los Angeles Philharmonic 2018 Review – Otello

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Last year, rising Verdi star Russell Thomas spoke to OperaWire about his strategy for easing into such a titanic role the title role in Verdi’s “Otello.” “I always thought if I would try to take on such a monumental task, the first outing would have to be in concert so I can focus only on the singing and not have to {…}

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Tri-Cities Opera to Present ‘The Fantasticks’

Chautauqua Opera Company & Conservatory Unveils 2023 Season

Elaine Alvarez, Samina Aslam, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Chauncy Packer Headline Chautauqua Opera’s 2022 Season

Royal Opera House 2021-22 Review: Peter Grimes

Los Angeles Philharmonic 2018 Review – Otello