The Kaufman Music Center in New York has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances: VOCES8 perform Choral Dances: Wm. Byrd to V. Morrison. Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2022 VOCES8 will showcase “Underneath the Stars,” which includes music by Byrd, Britten, Gibbons, Smith, Schütz, Rheinberger, and Alfvén, among others. Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2022 Briana {…}
The Pittsburgh Opera has announced its 2021-22 season featuring two repertory staples and three modern masterpieces. Here is a look. Benedum Center Productions Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” will open the 2021-22 season with David Portillo as Tamino, Kathryn Bowden as Queen of the Night, Adelaide Boedecker as Pamina, Véronique Filloux as Papagena, and Tom McNichols as Sarastro. Antony Walker conducts. {…}
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 {…}
Over 100 singers came together for a video performance of “Light Shall Lift Us,” a work by librettist Mark Campbell and composer Paul Moravec. The duo, which has worked together on “The Shining” proposed the idea to Marc Scorca of Opera America, who embraced the idea and helped put together the 107 artists who would eventually record their individual parts {…}
“As One” has become one of the major works of American opera in the 21st century. The work has been the most produced new opera in North America since its debut in September of 2014 and its revival by the New York City Opera this summer bears out why. The work, created by composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist Mark Campbell {…}