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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: X: the Life and Times of Malcolm X

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(Credit: Marty Sohl) The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season unfurled a tapestry of music, history, and Afrofuturistic magical realism with Broadway producer Robert O’Hara’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” composed by Anthony Davis, to a libretto by Thulani Davis, based on a story by Christopher Davis. The Met, traditionally a bastion of opera’s classic repertoire, transformed into a {…}
Business, News

Opera America Partners With US Opera Companies for Opera Passport Program

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Opera America has announced the creation of Opera Passport, a new program that offers savings to traveling operagoers. Per an official press statement, Opera Passport gives at least a 10 percent discount on tickets to subscribers at participating companies. Among the companies involved in the program are Anchorage Opera, Arizona Opera, Ars Lyrica Houston, Austin Opera, BARN Opera, Boston Baroque, {…}
News

International Opera Awards 2023 Announces Shortlist of Nominees

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The International Opera Awards has unveiled its shortlist of nominees for the 2023 edition. Winners will revealed on Nov. 9 when the event will take place at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, Poland. “This year’s International Opera Awards shortlist once again celebrates talent from around the world and proves that opera is truly the most international of artforms. Huge congratulations {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Las Vegas 2023 Review: Behold the Man

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Photo credit: © Richard Brusky “Behold the Man” made its world premiere at the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre for Opera Las Vegas’ 25th season on September 30th and October 1st, 2023. What began as a curious and fun project between creative team members, composer Paul Fowler, librettist Andrew Flack and producer Barbara Duff, has now evolved into something beyond their {…}
Business, News

OPERA America Names New Board Members & Chair

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(Photo credit: Billy Diaz) OPERA America has announced the addition of new members and officers to its Board of Directors. Here is a full list of the new board members. Angel Blue, Soprano Cheryl Slay Carr, Board President, Nashville Opera Antonio C. Cuyler, Professor, University of Michigan Barbara Lynne Jamison, General Director and CEO, Kentucky Opera Christopher Koelsch, President and {…}
News

MCANA Announces Winner of 2023 Best Opera Award

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The Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA) has announced that composer Nicole Lizée and librettist Nicolas Billon have been awarded the prestigious 2023 Best New Opera Award for their work, “R.U.R. A Torrent of Light.” The opera, introduced in North America during the previous calendar year, premiered on May 28, 2022, at the Great Hall at OCAD (Ontario College {…}
Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: The Cost of Harmony in Erick Oh’s Animated Short Film ‘Opera’

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Does a film titled “Opera” have to be about opera? Moreover, does it even have to use operatic music? Have we come so far as to distinguish between opera and Opera, and is there a difference between being ‘opera’ and ‘operatic?’ While the answer does not exist per se, animator Erick Oh’s short film entitled “Opera”—a Marxian look at the {…}
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Vancouver Opera Announces Retirement of Orchestra & Chorus Members

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The Vancouver Opera has announced the retirement of longtime trombonist Sharman King, principal trumpeter Tom Shorthouse, and chorus member Bette Cosar. King joined the Vancouver Opera Orchestra in 1977 and has performed in productions of “West Side Story” and “Nixon China.” In an official press statement, he said,  “my favorite aspect of being involved with the VO was our continued {…}
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State Opera Australia to Present Gilbert & Sullivan Festival

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State Opera Australia is set to host its first-ever Gilbert & Sullivan Festival. The festival, which kicks off  on May 11, will feature performances of numerous works by the famed pair. “It is incredibly exciting to see the opening of the new Gilbert and Sullivan Festival and its action-packed program of performances, conversations and laughs joining the rich tapestry of {…}

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