Opera San José (OSJ) is set to present Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” The opera is set to be directed by Michelle Ainna Cuizon and conducted by Joseph Marcheso. OSJ Artist-in-Resident Emily Michiko Jensen will take on the lead role of Cio-Cio-San alongside César Delgado as Pinkerton. The cast will be rounded out by OSJ regular Eugene Brancoveanu as Sharpless. “Madama Butterfly” {…}
Nashville Opera closes its season with two performances of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” The opera will feature Rainelle Krause in the title role alongside César Delgado as Edgardo, Timothy Mix as Enrico, William Guanbo Su as Raimondo, Sara Crigger as Alisa, and Gregory Sliskovich as both Arturo and Normanno. The opera will be directed by Nashville Opera CEO and Artistic {…}
The Nashville Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Marina Costa Jackson leads Bizet’s “Carmen” with Zach Borichevsky, Kathryn Lewek, and Richard Ollarsaba. Dean Williamson conducts the production by John Hoomes. Performance Dates: Sept. 26 & 28, 2024 “The Cook-Off” with a libretto by Mark Campbell will make its world premiere alongside Lee Hoiby’s “Bon Appetit!” Craig Irvin, Emily Pulley, Amy {…}
(Photo credit: Simon Pauly) Opera San José brings free music to the community, in celebration of the first Spanish language opera performed on its mainstage. Free community concerts with excerpts from “Florencia en el Amazonas” are offered on March 22 at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, March 24 at the Biblioteca Latinoamericana Library, and at the East San José Carnegie Library {…}
This is the second major opera based on the writings of British neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose case study “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” was adapted by Michael Nyman in 1986. “Awakenings,” by American composer Tobias Picker, is inspired by Sacks’ 1973 account of treating victims of encephalitis lethargica. Nicknamed the “sleeping sickness,” this coma-like condition is {…}
The Tulsa Opera will premiere a new production of “Salome” on April 29 and May 1, 2022 at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. The cast of this production stars Julia Mintzer, Wayne Tigges, Jay Hunter Morris, Katharine Goeldner, César Delgado, Kevin Thompson, Ryan Belongie, Kevin Thompson, Spencer Hamlin, Ashraf Sewailam, Pavel Suliandziga, Makudupanyane Senaoana, Marc Molomot, Jason Ferrante, and Joe {…}
Fort Worth Opera (FWO) has announced its 2021-22 season which marks the 75th anniversary of the company. The upcoming season shifts away from FWO’s festival model to year-round programming. Here’s what the company has in store for its audiences. The season kicks off with a special one-evening only performance of “Entre Amigos: A Concert in Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.” {…}
On December 8, 2018, audiences gathered in St. Brigid – Saint Emeric Church to hear the story of Christ birth in a slightly different way: through opera. “El Rey Nacio,” by composer Jose Luis Gonzalez Moya, bills itself as the “first opera composed about the birth of Jesus,” and this structure serves the miraculous nature of the narrative in highly {…}
