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Ginaia Black, Erin Roth Thomas, Nathaniel Catasca, & Matthew Maisano Among Portland Opera’s 2024-25 Resident Artists

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Portland Opera has announced its selections for the company’s Resident Artist program for the 2024-25 season. The artists in residence for the 60th anniversary season are soprano Ginaia Black, mezzo-soprano Erin Roth Thomas, tenor Nathaniel Catasca, and baritone Matthew Maisano. Collaborative pianist Claire Forstman returns for a second year. For eight months, the residents will study with primary vocal coach Paul {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Göteborg Opera Artistic Director Henning Ruhe On What It Takes to Bring Opera Forward 

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(Photo credit: Tilo Stengel) Göteborg Opera won the award for Sustainability at the International Opera Awards 2022 Gala at Teatro Real in Madrid. Artistic Director for Opera/Drama, Henning Ruhe, makes his role a leading example by honoring ecological sustainability and collaborates with other opera house to make a positive difference along the way. This company celebrates its 30th year anniversary {…}

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Ontario Government to Recognize Tapestry Opera & Nightwood Theatre

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Michael Hidetoshi Mori, General Director, and Jaime Martino, Executive Director of Tapestry Opera will attend an event at Ramsden Park in response to receiving the provincial government’s Ontario Trillium Foundation grant for $150,000. The grant enabled Tapestry Opera and its partners, Nightwood Theatre and St. Clare’s Multifaith Social Housing to build Toronto’s most affordable, accessible and well-equipped theatre of its {…}

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Victorian Opera to Showcase ‘Eucalyptus: The Opera’

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Victorian Opera, in collaboration with Opera Australia, Perth Festival and Brisbane Festival, will present Jonathan Mills and Meredith Oakes’ “Eucalyptus: The Opera.” The production will take place at the Palais Theatre, St. Kilda from Oct. 16-19, 2024. Conductor Sir Jonathan Mills AC will lead Orchestra Victoria and a cast starring Desiree Frahn, Simon Meadows, and Michael Petruccelli, in a story {…}

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Cincinnati Opera & University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music to Workshop ‘Hildegard’

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(Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez) Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music will present a workshop for Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Hildegard” on Oct. 10, 2024. “Hildegard” was commissioned and produced by  Beth Morrison Projects and “imagines three of the most pivotal events in the life of 12th-century German Benedictine nun, visionary, composer, and polymath Hildegard von Bingen.” The {…}

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Roderick Williams & Lucy Crowe to Headline Royal Opera House’s ‘The Sound Voice Project’

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(Photo © Sound Voice) Royal Opera House Covent Garden is set to present “The Sound Voice Project” this fall at the Lindbury Theatre. From Nov. 14-20, 2024, audiences will get to experience a mix of personal documentary, graphics, digital projections and performance film that “invites the audience to explore the intrinsic value of the human voice and how it affects {…}

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Open Letter Demanding Support for Welsh National Opera Chorus Receives Over 1,000 Signatures

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Equity, the trade union representing the Welsh National Opera Chorus, has managed to obtain 1,000 signatures for an open letter to the Chair of the Welsh National Opera’s Board of Directors calling for support in its negotiations with the company’s management. The letter asks Chair Yvette Vaughn Jones to “intervene with management to save jobs, livelihoods and a treasured part {…}

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Latonia Moore & Kang Wang Headline Opera Italiana is in the Air 2024 Central Park Concert

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(Credit: Opera Italiana is in the Air) Opera Italiana is in the Air and Founder and Music Director Alvise Casellati is set to host an outdoor concert at the Naumberg Bandshell in New York City’s Central Park on Sept. 24, 2024. The special event is offered for free to the public with no tickets required. The program for the evening will begin {…}