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Opera America Announces Recipients of Commissioning Grants for Female Composers

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OPERA America has announced the nine companies that will be awarded $100,000 in grants for commissioning operas by female composers. The recipients include Beth Morrison Projects for Du Yun’s “In Our Daughter’s Eyes,” which is written by Michael Joseph McQuilken; Boston Lyric Opera for Ellen Reid and librettist Christopher Oscar Peña’s “The Desert Inn;” Guerilla Opera for “HER: alive / {…}
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Heartbeat Opera Extends Run of ‘Lady M’ Zoom Soirées

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Heartbeat Opera has announced more dates for its ever-popular “Lady M” Zoom soirées. The showcase, which originally ran between May 11-18, will now be extended between May 27-June 6, 2020. Each 60-minute soirée includes a welcome toast, live performances by two cast members (on a rotating schedule), screenings of a new behind-the-scenes documentary and a music video of Lady M’s Sleepwalking {…}
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Heartbeat Opera 2020 Review: ‘Lady M’ Virtual Soirées

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On Thursday, May 14th, Heartbeat Opera presented its seventh of 22 “Lady M,” Virtual Soirées.” The soirées which have, for the time being, supplanted the company’s staged re-imagining of Verdi’s “Macbeth,” having been such a hit that an additional 14 were added after selling out the originally slated 18. The extra meet-ups are scheduled for late-May through early-June. Be glad more {…}
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Opera Philadelphia Announces Week Three of Streaming

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Opera Philadelphia has announced Week three of its Digital Festival O. The company’s Digital Festival will feature a broadcast of Rossini’s comic masterpiece “The Barber of Seville,” premiering on May 15, at 8:00 p.m. on YouTube and operaphila.org and will stream on-demand through Monday, June 29. The production by Michael Shell features Jonathan Beyer as Figaro, Jennifer Holloway as Rosina, {…}
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Heartbeat Opera to Present ‘Lady M’ Online This May

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Heartbeat Opera will be presenting “Lady M” this May as part of its work-in-progress series of virtual soirées on Zoom. The work, which is an online fantasia for Verdi’s “Macbeth,” will present the work through the perspective of Lady Macbeth. The work was conceived, adapted, and directed by Ethan Heard with musical arrangements by Daniel Schlosberg. The opera will feature {…}
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Santa Fe Opera Announces Members Of It’s 2019 Season Apprentice Program For Singers

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Santa Fe Opera has announced the 42 new members of its 2019 Season Apprentice Program for Singers. Members were selected from a pool of over a thousand applicants by Program Director Gayletha Nichols and Head of Music Staff Robert Tweten. According to the press release, the program is meant to provide “training, performance opportunities and international exposure to young singers {…}
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Diana Damrau, Renée Fleming & Nina Stemme Headline Musikverein Wien’s 2019-20 Season

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Musikverein Wien has announced its 2019-20 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on vocal performances. Martin Haselböck will lead the Orchester Wiener Akademie in a performance of various works by Franz Schubert as well as Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 4 in D Minor. Baritone Thomas Hampson will be featured. Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2019 Bass Günther Groissböck and {…}
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LA Opera 2018-19 Review: La Clemenza di Tito

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Even before the curtain rose on this Los Angeles Opera production of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” which I saw on March 7th, 2019, I was excited by what I had read in the program booklet. LA Opera Music Director James Conlon’s article, “Clemency, Forgiveness and Love” with its emphasis on Titus’s closing message that “I know everything, absolve everyone {…}
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George London Foundation Announces Competition Finalists

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The finalists for the 48th annual George London Foundation Awards Competition have been revealed. The George London foundation announced that Sarah Joyce Cooper, Shannon Jennings, Rebecca Pederson, Elizabeth Reiter, Olivia Smith, Amanda Lynn Bottoms, Samantha Gossard, Carolyn Sproule, Polixeni Tsiouvaras, Matthew Swensen, Charles Sy, Joseph Tancredi, Kyle van Schoonhoven, Matthew White, Vartan Gabrielian, and Ron Dukes will compete on Feb. 22, 2019 in the finals. The George London competition {…}

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