Heartbeat Opera To Present ‘Tosca’ and ‘Lady M’ in Spring Festival

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Heartbeat Opera has announced the lineup of their Spring Festival, marking their return to live performances since the pandemic. The festival will see two well-known works given a modern treatment. The first will be Puccini’s “Tosca,” co-adapted by Iranian-American director Shadi G. and music director Jacob Ashworth. This 100-minute version sets the plot in a present-day religious dictatorship, with subtitles {…}

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Raehann Bryce-Davis, Quinn Kelsey, Will Liverman, Ana María Martínez & Christian Van Horn Lead Opera Philadelphia’s 2023-24 Season

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Opera Philadelphia has announced its 2023-24 season. Dubbed Festival 023, the company will bring music to venues around the city. The following productions are included in the Festival. The world premiere of composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch’s “Ten Days in a Madhouse,” starring Kiera Duffy, Will Liverman, and Raehann Bryce-Davis. Joanna Settle directs, and Daniela Candillari conducts. The work is co-commissioned {…}

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Carnegie Hall 2023 Review: SongStudio’s Young Artist Recital

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Photo : Jennifer Taylor Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall was filled with the wondrous sounds of a talented group of young artists in recital, each of whom had taken part in the 2023 SongStudio. The concert was the culmination of a weeklong series of workshops and masterclasses taught by renowned vocalists Golda Schultz, Hartmut Höll (pianist), and Jamie Barton. Under the {…}

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Opera Philadelphia Channel Announces Third Season

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Opera Philadelphia Channel has announced its third season. First up is “Black Lodge” by David T. Little, librettist and poet Anne Waldman, with the story and screenplay directed by Michael Joseph McQuilken blends opera, classical music, and goth rock. The surrealist cinematic opera pays homage to David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks.” “Black Lodge” is produced by Beth Morrison Projects and stars Jennifer {…}

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State Opera South Australia Names New Board Members & Chair

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The State Opera South Australia has announced a new chair and two new directors to its board. Master Elizabeth Olsson will take over the position of Chair of the Board. She will replace John Irving who has retired. Olsson joined the State Opera Board in 2014. She has been a legal practitioner for over 30 years and is the Master {…}

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Orchestra of The Bronx to Present ‘Messiah’

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Orchestra of The Bronx is set to perform Händel’s “Messiah” on Dec. 11, 2022. The showcase is set to take place at Bronx Community College’s Hall of Fame Playhouse. Michael Spierman conducts the performance which will star soprano Halley Gilbert, mezzo-soprano Caroline Tye, tenor Gabriel Hernandez, and bass Philip Bullock. Also appearing will be the Bronx Opera Chorus. There will {…}

Opera Meets Film

Watch This Before the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘La Traviata’ & ‘Tosca’

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As the Metropolitan Opera enters October, three new productions will open and as we pointed out in the first article of this series, entering into opera out of the blue can be a daunting task. Some works are more well-known than others but even for those that have never been to the opera, those classics don’t have the same meaning {…}

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San Francisco Opera 2022-23 Review: Antony and Cleopatra

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(Credit: Cory Weaver) “I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.” So sings Cleopatra in John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra.” The baser life about which Cleopatra sings is everything that is not she and everything that was not Antony. So Adams tells us in the latest from his roster of remarkable operas. San Francisco Opera {…}