Laureano Quant, Sara Gartland, Efraín Solís, César Delgado & John Moore Lead Utah Opera’s 2026-27 Season

The Utah Opera has announced its 2026-27 season. Héctor Armienta’s “Zorro” will be conducted by Alex Amsel and directed by David Toro. The cast will include César Delgado, Zulimar López-Hernández, Stephanie Sanchez, Octavio Moreno, and Armando Contreras. Performance Dates: Oct. 10-18, 2026 Steven White conducts Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” with Michael Shell directing. The opera will star Camille Sherman, Chris Mosz, {…}

May 17, 2025

Tulsa Opera Unveils 2025-26 Season Featuring Meghan Picerno, Kevin Thompson & Leona Mitchell

Tulsa Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The “Music from the Shadows” concert opens the season. Performance Date: October 25, 2025 Jenn Gambatese, Leona Mitchell, and Sam Briggs star in “The Sound of Music.” Machelle Miller Dill directs. Aaron Beck conducts the Tulsa Opera Signature Chorale and Tulsa Opera Orchestra. Performance Date: November 15, 2025 “Pirates of Penzance” stars Meghan Picerno, {…}

Apr 16, 2024

Robert Stahley & Alaysha Fox Open Opera Santa Barbara’s 2024-25 Season

(Photo credit: Dune Alford & Fay Fox) Opera Santa Barbara has released its lineup for the 2024-25 season. All productions are held in the Lobero Theatre. Tenor Robert Stahley and soprano Alaysha Fox star as Canio and Nedda in “Pagliacci.” The new production is inspired by neorealist Italian cinema by Octavio Cardenas and Daniel Chapman, the creative team behind “Zorro” {…}

Nov 10, 2023

Wexford Festival Opera 2023 Review: La Fille du régiment

(Photo: Padraig Grant) The second of Wexford Festival’s pocket operas, Opera Beag, was a presentation of Donizetti’s opéra-comique “La Fille du régiment.” Operating on a low-budget and using only piano accompaniment, director Heather Hadrill was under no illusions of the difficulties involved. In her program notes, she stated “The challenge of pocket operas is to give as full a sense {…}

Nov 27, 2022

Wexford Festival Opera 2022 Review: Armida

(Photo: Clive Barda) Of Dvorak’s 10 operas, only “Rusalka” receives regular stagings outside his Czech homeland. Listening to the recordings of his other operas, it is not clear as to why this should be the case. Certainly, the dramatic quality of the music is strong and contains plenty of engaging melodies, and they would certainly bear comparison with many operas {…}

Nov 9, 2022

Wexford Festival Opera 2022 Review: The Master

(Photo: Padraig Grant) As part of Artistic Director Rosetta Cucchi’s remodeling of the Wexford Festival Opera, the afternoon performances of “opera shorts,” shortened versions of well-known operas played to piano accompaniment, have been replaced by a production for young singers from the Wexford Factory program and “pocket operas,” new or rarely performed operas, aimed at providing members of the Wexford {…}