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Metropolitan Opera Wins Opera America Grant For New Work ‘Eurydice’

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 OPERA America has announced the grant awards for 11 opera companies through the Repertoire Development Grants program, supported by The Opera Fund. A total of $225,000 was awarded to 11 opera companies including the Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming opera “Eurydice” by composer Matthew Aucoin and librettist Sarah Ruhl. The work will be based on the play by Sarah Ruhl and tells the Orpheus story from the perspective of {…}

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Karen Slack to Perform Two Recitals in Detroit

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(Credit: Kia Caldwell Photography) Karen Slack is set to perform in two Detroit concerts in October. The first concert will be on Oct. 14 with the renowned Pacifica Quartet at Michigan’s Seligman Performing Arts Center/ The program will include new work by Baltimore-based composer James Lee III, written for the quartet and Slack through a co-commission from Carnegie Hall, Shriver Hall, {…}

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Enrique Mazzola to Lead Lyric Opera of Chicago’s ‘Sunday in the Park With Lyric’s Rising Stars’

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The Lyric Opera of Chicago is set to present “Sunday in the Park With Lyric’s Rising Stars” on August 29, 2021. Audience will get a chance to see the company’s new Music Director Enrique Mazzola as he leads the Lyric Opera Orchestra and sopranos Mathilda Edge, Maria Novella Malfatti, and Denis Vélez; mezzo-sopranos Katherine Beck, Katherine DeYoung, and Kathleen Felty; {…}