Austin Opera General Director & CEO Annie Burridge has announced the appointment of Timothy Myers, the company’s current Artistic Advisor, as the newest member of its artistic leadership team. Supported by a $2.5-million endowment fund created by longtime patrons Sarah and Ernest Butler, Myers will become the Sarah and Ernest Butler Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor, effectively immediately through 2023. {…}
Austin Opera has announced a revised 2020-21 season featuring a new slate of performances and partnerships as it continues to explore new ways to bring opera to Austin audiences during the pandemic and beyond. In a new partnership with the Blue Starlite Drive-In, the company will present a series of operas and concerts filmed for the screen to movie theaters {…}
(Credit / Image Source: Gabriel Couret / Bryan Hymel Official Twitter) Austin Opera will bring its summer programing to a close with two episodes of “Live from Indy Terrace” featuring baritone Weston Hurt and tenor Bryan Hymel. “Live from Indy Terrace” is a free weekly online series produced by Austin Opera. It originally kicked off on Friday, March 20, 2020 and {…}
(Credit: Fay Fox) Austin Opera is offering up its own unique streaming service during this time when people are engaged with social distancing to contain the spread of COVID-19. Each Friday, the company will offer up a 30-minute recital of music recorded live in their rehearsal hall. The videos will be sent out live on Faccebook and YouTube, though there {…}
Mark Campbell and Mason Bates’ Grammy-award winning opera “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” will be making a three-city tour next January with stops in Austin, Atlanta, and Kansas City. From Jan. 28-31, audiences in Austin, Texas will witness the famed work at The Long Center for the Performing Arts. Austin Opera will present the production. A few weeks later, the {…}
Those expecting repertory classics in this weekend’s recommendations might wind up a bit disappointed. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t any exciting operas on offer. There are a ton of new works and some unlikely classics on display. Scalia / Ginsburg & Trial By Jury – Baltimore Concert Opera This unique double bill will be showcased on Friday and Sunday, {…}
If you checked out last week’s edition, you may have noticed a stark preference for 20th century works. Things continue this week with a number of 21st century operas making the list; the only standard repertory piece in this week’s edition is a controversial one. Here is the list (in alphabetical order by company). Silent Night – Austin Opera The {…}
The Austin Opera has announced its 2019-20 season which will include a new opera and two classics of the standard repertory. “Next season continues the excellence that our audiences have come to expect—pairing beautiful productions of classic works with the thought-provoking voices of the new masters of 21st-century opera,” said Annie Buridge, General Director & CEO of Austin Opera in {…}
November means a lot of opera. And a lot of opera means almost endless choices. So in picking this week’s major selections, we recommended a mix of new and old works across the States and Canada. Otello – Austin Opera Verdi’s great masterpiece gets a concert production at the Austin Opera with Marina Costa-Jackson headlining the cast as Desdemona. She {…}
Austin’s four premiere nonprofit performing arts organizations Austin Opera, Ballet Austin, The Paramount Theatre, and ZACH Theatre have partnered to create the ATX Arts Pass. The 2018–19 ATX Arts Pass gives a taste of Austin’s performing arts organizations at one low price with four hand-picked performances: “Shinyribs (The Paramount Theatre),” “The Nutcracker (Ballet Austin),” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch (ZACH Theatre),” {…}
The Austin Opera has announced its 2018-19 season, which will feature four major operas spread between November 2018 and May 2019. The season opens with Verdi’s “Otello,” the first time the opera will be showcased with the company in 20 years. Issachah Savage takes on the iconic tenor role while Marina Costa-Jackson interprets his wife desdemona. Michael Chioldi rounds out {…}