Opera Columbus has announced its 2023-24 season featuring four productions. The season opens with Bizet’s “Carmen” starring Tesia Kwarteng in the title role. The 90-minute production explores sexual freedom, social hierarchies, and the class system and will also see the return of Adam Diegel as Don Jose. “Carmen” will be stage directed by 2022-23 CRANE Directing Fellow, Sarah Dahnke, and {…}
The Charlottesville Opera has announced the casts and operas for its 2023 season. The season will include Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls” and Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” two works never performed by the company. “We are excited to present these classic productions for our audience here in Charlottesville. Both shows exemplify what we all love about musical storytelling, great characters, and {…}
The Atlanta Opera has announced its 2022-23 season featuring some of the great classics in the repertoire. Mainstage Season Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” opens the season with Timothy Myers conducting the production by Tomer Zvulun. Yasko Sato stars in the title role with Gianluca Terranova, Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Julius Ahn, and Allen Michael Jones. Performance Dates: Nov. 5-13, 2022 Arthur Fagen {…}
Boston Lyric Opera opens its new season on Oct. 1 with Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana.” The company will showcase the production at the Leader Bank Pavilion in Boston’s Seaport District in order to ensure the safest possible performances for audience members, artists, staff, and backstage workers. The Pavilion’s open-air structure allows BLO to produce large-scale live performances, with a full live {…}
The Boston Lyric Opera has announced that it will move its 2021-22 Season opening performances of “Cavalleria Rusticana” to the Leader Bank Pavilion, a large, open-air venue in Boston’s Seaport District. The new venue will allow for a full, live-orchestra and chorus. As a result, the performances originally scheduled for Oct. 8 and 10, will now be performed on Oct. 1 {…}
The Lithuanian National Opera has announced its 2020-21 season. Here is a look at the operas and operettas for the upcoming season. Opera Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena“ opens the season with Sesto Quatrini and Ričardas Šumila conducting. Francesca Sassu and Joana Gedmintaitė headline the cast in the title role, with Raffaella Lupinacci, Justina Gringytė, and Eglė Šidlauskaitė as Giovanna, Tadas Girininkas {…}
Pensacola Opera is set to present Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” the final mainstage operatic performance of the 37th season. Verdi’s masterpiece will be shown at the Saenger stage with a cast that includes Mary Evelyn Hangley as Leonora, Adam Diegel as Manrico, Dennis Jesse as Di Luna, and Renée Tatum as Azucena. Verdi’s opera will be directed by John Hoomes with {…}
The Mill City Summer Opera will kick off a summer production of Bizet’s “Carmen” at the Milly City Ruin Courtyard starting on July 13, 2018. The production, which will be directed by Fenlon Lamb, will star Audrey Babcock as the title character with Adam Diegel as Don José and Karen Slack as Micaëla. Luis Orozco stars as Escamillo. The production {…}
The Metropolitan Opera will premiere Verdi’s early masterpiece “Nabucco” on Monday December 12 in a performance featuring legendary tenor-turned-baritone Placido Domingo. The Performers This series of six performances will be Domingo in the title role at the Met after he successfully performed it at the Royal Opera House. The performance was released on DVD. Domingo has showcased a number of {…}