(Updated) Every Opera Company that Has Lost NEA Grants Under New Trump Rule Changes

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Last week, President Donald J. Trump threatened to shut down the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for good by gutting its funding under the new budget proposal. In response, and not for the first time, the NEA opted for fighting another day by submitting to new requirements under Trump to remain a viable institution in the land. However, in {…}

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Musicians of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra to Showcase Free Concerts

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(Credit: Stefan Cohen) Musicians of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra are set to present several free events at locations around San Francisco and Oakland. First up is “Music and Flowers” at the Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. The concert features music by Puccini, Mahler, Ginastera, Milone, and Delibes.” The concert will feature a reception, as well as an opportunity {…}

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Festival Opera Announces 2025 Season

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Festival Opera in Walnut Creek, California, has announced its 2025 season. Festival Opera’s Spring Soiree wil be an annual company benefit event with musical performances by Festival Opera artists Shawnette Sulker, Courtney Miller, Taylor Thompson, and pianist Daniel Lockert with benefit host Zachary Gordin. Performance Date: May 3, 2025 Ruggero Leoncavallo’s classic one-act opera “Pagliacci” will be performed in concert Vincent {…}

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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, {…}

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New Orleans Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Madama Butterfly’

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The New Orleans Opera has announced a cast change for its production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” The company said that “tenor Bryan Hymel has regretfully withdrawn from the production” and in his stead, “NOOA is excited to present tenor Jonathan Kaufman in the role of Lt. Pinkerton in his New Orleans Opera debut.” Kaufman is an accomplished vocalist who has {…}

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Toledo Opera Unveils Resident Artists for 2022-23 Season

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Toledo Opera has announced its Resident Artists for the 2022-23 season. The artists include soprano Julia Swan Laird, mezzo-soprano Imara Miles, tenor Brendan J. Boyle, and baritone Matthew Payne; joining the group will also be pianist Steven Naylor. The resident artists will all be part of the Opera on Wheels program which visits educational institutions and brings live opera throughout Toledo. For {…}

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Festival Opera to Launch New Programming with ‘And Yet She Persisted’

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The Festival Opera Artist Recital Series, in collaboration with the Piedmont Center for the Arts, has announced the first of the online concerts in the company’s new digital programming “SalON Demand!” Titled “And Yet She Persisted,” the concert will be headlined soprano Carrie Hennessey and pianist Jennifer Reason as they celebrate women composers. The duo will perform works by such {…}

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Karen Slack Joins Opus 3 Artists for Management

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Karen Slack has joined the roster of Opus 3 Artists for General Management. The soprano is curator and artistic advisor known for her fiery charisma and groundbreaking approach to engagement. Her debut album, “Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price” on Azica Records, won a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. Most recently Slack has toured her {…}

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Claire Griffin to Headline University of North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra’s Debut at Washington National Cathedral

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The University of North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra will make its Washington National Cathedral debut on April 14, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will feature Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, headlined by A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute soprano Claire Griffin. A North Carolina native from Brevard in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Griffin completed her Master of Music at {…}

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(Updated) Every Opera Company that Has Lost NEA Grants Under New Trump Rule Changes

Musicians of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra to Showcase Free Concerts

Festival Opera Announces 2025 Season

Opera America Partners With US Opera Companies for Opera Passport Program

New Orleans Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Madama Butterfly’

Toledo Opera Unveils Resident Artists for 2022-23 Season

Festival Opera to Launch New Programming with ‘And Yet She Persisted’

Karen Slack Joins Opus 3 Artists for Management

Claire Griffin to Headline University of North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra’s Debut at Washington National Cathedral