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‘The Silent Twins’ Wins Top Prize at Catapult Opera’s Accelerate Competition

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Catapult Opera has announced the winners of its Accelerate Competiton. The Competition was a team-based event intended to inspire innovation and creativity in the realm of socially distanced operatic performance. Teams were given four selection to choose from and had three weeks to put together a video that met categories of music excellence, dramatic integrity, and creativity. The first prize {…}

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Opera Meets Film: The Emotional & Metaphorical Use of Wagner’s ‘Tannhaüser’ in Jules Dassin’s ‘Brute Force’

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“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a film section or a film in its entirety and highlight the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Jules {…}

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Catapult Opera Launches New Initiatives to Re-Imagine Opera for Future

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Catapult Opera has announced several initiatives to alter the face of opera in the United States. In a press release unveiling its mission, the organization offered up four new programs that it intends to implement to re-imagine opera. “We believe that the American opera industry, as we have known it, is no longer sustainable,” say the opening lines of Catapult {…}

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Sondra Radvanovsky, Tapestry Opera, Tamara Wilson Headline 2020 Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominees

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(Image Source: Canadian Opera Company) The Toronto Alliance for Performing Arts has unveiled the nominees for the 2020 Dora Mavor Moore Awards. For this article, our sole focus will be on nominations related to the opera world. Tapestry Opera led the way with 13 nominations spread over two different projects, including three nominations apiece in the Outstanding Achievement in Design {…}

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Tapestry Opera to Present World Premiere of Opera Inspired by Jacqueline Du Pré

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Tapestry Opera is set to present the world premiere of “Jacqueline: A Portrait of Virtuosity” starting on Feb. 19, 2020 at the Betty Oliphant Theatre in Toronto, Canada. The opera, which is written by Royce Vavrek with music by Luna Pearl, tells the story of iconic cellist Jacqueline Du Pré and her battle with the multiple sclerosis that ultimately took {…}

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Opera Meets Film: ‘The Age of Innocence’ Is A Faustian Metaphor

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“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment is Martin Scorcese’s “The {…}

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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – North America (Feb. 2-4): Lyric Opera of Chicago & Others Showcase Classic Repertory Staples

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The opera world continues to showcase more and more around the continent and this week’s recommendations stretch around the US and Canada, with the focus solely on staples of the operatic canon. If last week’s emphasis on the modern was too much for the more conservative opera goer, then this week will offer a “palette cleanser” of sorts. I Puritani {…}

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Opera Tampa Taps Three Guest Conductors For 2017-18

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Opera Tampa has named guest conductors for the 2017-2018 season. The news comes after the resignation of previous artistic director Daniel Lipton. The result is three conductors for the company. The first will be Jorge Parodi, now a vocal coach and music director of the Senior Opera Theater at the Manhattan School of Music. The Argentine native will conduct Rossini’s “The {…}

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Philippe Jordan Tapped For Top Vienna State Opera Position

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Philippe Jordan has been tapped as music director for the Vienna State Opera position. According to the Associated Press, Bogdan Roscic, the incoming Vienna State director says he has signed conductor Jordan as the opera house’s music director. Roscic described Jordan as “one of the few conductors of note who focused on opera from the start of their artistic career.” {…}