Artist of the Week: Laura Karpman, Steven Mackey & Damien Sneed

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With live performances returning to the stage, OperaWire will continue its weekly artist of the week series highlighting some of the world’s greatest artists as they reach milestones in their careers. And this week will be an exciting one at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as the company will world premiere the News Works Bold Voices Lab featuring three {…}

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Michael Christie to Accompany Finalists of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2021

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The BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition has announced that Michael Christie will lead the Welsh National Opera Orchestra during the event. Christie will accompany contestants during the final of the main prize competition which is set for June 19, 2021. “I am thrilled to be conducting for the BBC Singer of the World Competition this, of all complicated {…}

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Karen Slack to Headline Film Adaptation of ‘dwb (driving while black)’

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The creators behind the opera “dwb (driving while black)” have announced that on April 23, they will premiere a film adaptation of the work, presented by UrbanArias. This production of the opera by Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel will showcase a cast featuring soprano Karen Slack, directed by Du’Bois and Camry A’Keen of A’KEEN Brand. The film will blend elements {…}

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Etta Fung & Samantha Chong Headline Istituto Italiano di Cultura Hong Kong’s New Year’s Recital

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The Istituto Italiano di Cultura Hong Kong is set to showcase a New Year’s Recital on Jan. 1, 2021. The showcase will feature soprano Etta Fung, mezzo-soprano Samantha Chong, and piano Wei-en Hsu as they take on solos and duets from opera, song, and film by Scarlatti, Caccini, Bellini, Donizetti, Tosti, Morricone, Rota and Piovani. Chong is a Malaysian-born mezzo {…}

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Artist Of The Week: Kathryn Lewek

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(Credit: Kathryn Lewek Official Facebook) Kathryn Lewek is the reigning Queen of the Night. She has performed the role in every major theater including the Metropolitan Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bregenzer Festspiele, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Festival Castell de Peralada, Opera Leipzig, Opera de Toulon, English {…}

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Interview: Baritone Lucia Lucas On Making Historic U.S. Debut In ‘Don Giovanni’

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On May 3, 2019 the Tulsa Opera will host an American first. According to a carefully worded press release, it will be “the first time a trans woman has performed a principal role on the operatic stage in the US.” Baritone Lucia Lucas will make her American main-stage debut in the title role of Mozart and da Ponte’s “Don Giovanni.” {…}

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Q & A: Composer Laura Kaminsky On the Development of ‘As One’

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Anywhere you look these days, you might find some major opera company programming “As One,” an opera by composer Laura Kaminsky and written by noted librettist Mark Campbell and filmmaker Kimberly Reed. The work, which depicts the journey of transformation for a transgender woman has mystified and engaged numerous audiences around the United States since it world premiere on Sept. {…}

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Obituary: Legendary Mezzo-Soprano Mignon Dunn Dies at 98

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American mezzo-soprano Mignon Dunn has died at the age of 98. Dunn was born on June 17, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Tyronza, Arkansas. Dunn went on to study with Karin Branzell and Beverley Peck Johnson and made her professional debut, in the title role of Bizet’s opera “Carmen,” on Sept. 8, 1955, at the New Orleans {…}

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Bringing Her Home – Composer Leonard Lehrman on the Decades-Long Journey to Get ‘Sima’ its NYC Premiere

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(Photo by Jonathan Slaff) In the 1970s, Leonard Lehrman, a Kansas-born but Long Island-raised composer of 12 operas and seven musicals whose major mentors include Elie Siegmeister, Lenore Anhalt, and Olga Heifetz, wrote “Sima,” an opera about a Jewish girl orphaned by a pogrom in 1905 in Ukraine. For decades, the composer attempted to bring the opera to a New {…}

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Artist of the Week: Laura Karpman, Steven Mackey & Damien Sneed

Michael Christie to Accompany Finalists of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2021

Karen Slack to Headline Film Adaptation of ‘dwb (driving while black)’

Etta Fung & Samantha Chong Headline Istituto Italiano di Cultura Hong Kong’s New Year’s Recital

Artist Of The Week: Kathryn Lewek

Interview: Baritone Lucia Lucas On Making Historic U.S. Debut In ‘Don Giovanni’

Q & A: Composer Laura Kaminsky On the Development of ‘As One’

Obituary: Legendary Mezzo-Soprano Mignon Dunn Dies at 98

Bringing Her Home – Composer Leonard Lehrman on the Decades-Long Journey to Get ‘Sima’ its NYC Premiere