(Credit: Arizona Opera) Arizona Opera has announced its 2024-25 season Studio artists. The company revealed that the artists for its 18th season of the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio include Peter Barber, Sam Krausz, Sedona Libero, Ava Linvog, Emma Marhefka, Vlad Soloviev, Madeleine Snow, and Yichen Xue. The studio artists program bridges the gap between academic studies and a {…}
The Arizona Opera President & General Director, Joseph Specter, has announced that he will conclude his tenure with the company at the end of this fiscal year when his current contract expires, on June 30, 2025. Specter will be moving on to new professional opportunities over the next year and is now entering his ninth year with the organization, and {…}
Arizona Opera has announced its 2024 New Works Festival. The festival kicks off with a party at 5 p.m. on May 10 followed by a preview of the “Zorro” and “Intimate Apparel” and a screening of “The Copper Queen.” On May 11, there will be a panel on how opera gets from page to stage, followed by previews of “Zorro” {…}
The Arizona Opera is set to conclude the 2023-24 Season with a production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” The story of legendary libertine Don Juan is set to star Richard Ollarsaba, Joseph Lattanzi, Vanessa Vasquez, Lydia Grindatto, Toni Marie Palmertree, Mary-Hollis Hundley, Brad Bickhardt, Zachary Nelson, Vanessa Becerra, Véronique Filloux, Peter Barber, and Adam Lau. Daniela Candillari conducts the production by Tara Faircloth. {…}
Photo credit: Shervin Lainez Arizona Opera released new details of its expanded programs for the 2023-24 season. “Lawrence Brownlee in Recital” is scheduled for March 13 in partnership with the Tucson Desert Song Festival. The “Opera Outdoors” will take place at community venues such as Reid Park Zoo and the Temple of Music and Art, performed by the Marion Roose {…}
The Arizona Opera is set to perform the world premiere of Gregg Kallor’s “Frankenstein.” The opera will be part of the company’s McDougall RED Series and is based on the iconic novel by Mary Shelley. The production will star Edward Parks, Terrence Chin-Loy, Katherine Beck, Gordon Hawkins, Armand Delgado, Andrew Stuckey, Brad Bickhardt, Melissa Solomon, and Chelsea Rose Neiss. Clinton Smith {…}
This past week, the Arizona Opera presented the world premiere of Greg Kallor’s second opera “Frankenstein.” Kallor is a composer and pianist whose first opera “The Tell-Tale Heart” will be performed at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has also collaborated Dover and Escher String Quartets and Tuesday Musical and has also performed in recital at Carnegie Hall. {…}
Gregg Kallor’s “Frankenstein” is commissioned by Arizona Opera and will make its world premiere in October 2023 with performances in Phoenix and Tucson. This opera in two acts; adapted from Mary Shelley’s novel, brings to the surface humanity’s dire need for greater empathy. Composer and librettist Gregg Kallor in collaboration with director Sarah Meyers, dramaturg Cori Ellison and conductor Nicole {…}
The Arizona Opera has announced its 2023-24 season. The McDougall Red Series The season opens with The McDougall Red Series with the world premiere of “Frankenstein” by Gregg Kallor. The score is a riveting, cinematic work and follows the successes of “Riders of the Purple Sage” and “The Copper Queen.” Edward Parks, Terrence Chin-Loy, Katherine Beck, Brad Bickhardt, and Melissa {…}
The Arizona Opera is set to present the world premiere of Gregg Kallor’s new opera “Frankenstein.” The opera, which opens on Oct. 13, 2023, will run through Oct. 22 and will mark Arizona Opera’s third world premiere, following the successes of “Riders of the Purple Sage” and “The Copper Queen Film.” In a statement, Kallor said, “What drives my creation {…}
Photo: Caitlin Oldham On March 3, Arizona Opera is set to present a production of “The Sound of Music.” It’s a rare moment when an opera company brings a musical to its stage. The 1959 musical is most famous for its movie adaptation, which won the Oscar for Best Picture and has some of Rodger and Hammerstein’s most iconic work. {…}