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IndieOpera, Season Announcement

Beth Morrison Projects Unveils 20th Anniversary Season

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The line up for Beth Morrison Projects’ 20th anniversary and 2025-26 season is announced. Ahead of its rolling world premiere with LA Opera and in New York at the PROTOTYPE Festival, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “HILDEGARD” will have a pre-premiere program, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the opera’s development, a Q & A with creators, and more. Vocalists Nola Richardson and {…}

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Measha Brueggergosman-Lee to Headline Parlando’s ‘The Cabaret Project, Part II’

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Soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee will headline the final concert of Parlando’s 2025-26 season. The soprano will appear in “The Cabaret Project, Part II” on April 22, 2025, performing “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol as well as “Zombie Blizzard” by Aaron Davis and Margaret Atwood; Brueggergosman-Lee has championed “Zombie Blizzard” at National Sawdust and Opera Atelier this past season. An album of {…}

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Center for Contemporary Performance to Present ‘PORT(AL)’

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The Center for Contemporary Performance has announced that it will feature “PORT(AL)” by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus as part of its upcoming season. “PORT(AL),” which explores historical figures such as historian Howard Zinn, drag king Rusty Brown, activist Clarence L. Irving, and mezzo-soprano Eugenia Farrar, started its run on May 1, 2025 and features collaborations with co-composer and co-founder and {…}

Business, News

Fourth Wall Ensemble Appoints New Board President

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Fourth Wall Ensemble has announced that Janice Willett has been appointed to the position of Board President. Willet is a retired finance and editing professional who served as senior copy editor for the Journal of Financial Economics for 25 years. She was also Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. She has also worked with Stern Stewart consultancy, {…}

News

Nuestros Sonidos Festival Celebrating Latin Culture Continues Across New York City This Spring

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Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds) festival continues its run of concerts and partner events presented by leading cultural and academic institutions across New York City through May 2025. The season-long festival highlights the vibrant sounds, diverse traditions, and enormous influence of Latin culture in the US. Festival. This article only features classical vocal events. Nicaraguan-American soprano Gabriella Reyes and {…}

News

Common Senses Festival 2025 Aimed at Disability Acceptance

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The 2025 Common Senses Festival has announced its lineup of events aimed at disability acceptance. This year’s festival is divided into four tracks: Performing Arts, Science and Technology, Preferred Interests, and Film and Discourse. Each track focuses on the theme of ‘voice’ and features a wide range of programming aimed at promoting acceptance and inclusion of people with disabilities. Offerings {…}

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Fourth Wall Ensemble to Be Represented by Arabella Arts

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Fourth Wall Ensemble will now be represented by Arabella Arts, a wide-ranging management agency. “It is a true honor to join such an esteemed roster and collaborate with a team that shares our passion for bold, boundary-pushing artistry,” the organization noted in a newsletter regarding the new partnership. “Under the leadership of Artistic and Creative Director Christopher Allen, Fourth Wall Ensemble {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

MetLiveArts & VisionIntoArt 2025 Review: Primero Sueño

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(Photos: Jill Steinberg) Paola Prestini (composer, librettist and orchestrator), Magos Herrera (composer, librettist and Sor Juana), and Louisa Proske (director) transformed the Met Cloisters for their world premiere processional opera, “Primero Sueño,” for a sold out audience on January 26th, 2025. OperaWire’s initial introduction to a collaboration piece by Prestini and Herrera, “Con Alma,” made this premiere feel extra exciting {…}

News

Works & Process Announces Experiments in Opera’s ‘Custom of the Coast’

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Works & Process and Experiments in Opera are set to present “Custom of the Coast” by Kamala Sankaram and Paul Muldoon. The event will take place on Feb. 9, 2025, at the National Sawdust. The evening will showcase a first look at a new opera intercutting the life stories of an eighteenth-century Irish pirate who was sentenced to death and {…}