Karen Slack, Sarah Tucker, & Jessica Vosk Among Performers in Newport Classical Music Festival 2025

The Newport Classical Music Festival announces its 2025 season. This article only features classical voice performances. “Opera Night: An American Tapestry” features sopranos Sarah Tucker and Melissa Joseph, mezzo-soprano Renée Rapier, tenor Dane Suarez, and bass Michael Colman, with pianist and narrator Charlie Kim. The program features English arias from works such as “Porgy and Bess,” “The Ballad of Baby {…}

Jun 10, 2025

Maria Brea & Dane Suarez to Headline Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra Showcase

The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra is set to present a concert of opera selections starring Maria Brea and Dane Suarez on June 15, 2025 at the Brooklyn Museum. The program, which will be conducted by Felipe Tristan, features music by Verdi, Leoncavallo, Puccini, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. “I’m thrilled to work with two fantastic artists for this concert with the {…}

Feb 1, 2025

Opera Southwest Adds Performance to ‘Llantos 1492’ Run

Opera Southwest has announced that it is adding a performance for its run of “Llantos 1492.” The company announced on social media, noting that an extra showcase would take place on Feb. 19, 2025. Adam del Monte’s new opera blends flamenco with history, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition and the fall of Granada. The story follows Jewish {…}

Nov 27, 2024

Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: The Critic

(Photo: Patricio Cassinoni) History has not been kind to Charles Villiers Stanford’s reputation as an opera composer. During his lifetime he wrote nine complete operas, which, apart from his comic opera “Seamus O’Brien,” was met with limited success. Today, they are rarely performed, and none have found their way into the mainstream repertoire. In 2019, the Wexford Festival Opera produced {…}

Jan 25, 2024

Opera Columbus & Columbus Symphony Orchestra Present ‘Eugene Onegin’

(Photo credit: Curtis Brown Photography) For the first time in Columbus, Ohio, Opera Columbus and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra put on Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” Soprano Lydia Grindatto leads the cast as Tatyana, with baritone Morgan Smith in the title role. Tenor Dane Suarez sings Vladimir Lensky and mezzo-soprano Hilary Ginther takes on the role of Olga Larina. They are joined {…}

Sep 15, 2023

OperaDelaware Unveils 2023-24 Season

OperaDelaware has unveiled its 2023-24 season. First up is Verdi’s “Rigoletto” in a production starring Grant Youngblood, Rachel Blaustein, Dane Suarez, Young Bok Kim, Megan Marino, and Joseph Lodato, among others. Kristen Barrett directs and Viswa Subbaraman conducts the production. There will be a microgala prior the opening performance to give audiences a chance to meet the artists of the {…}

Feb 15, 2022

Shana Blake Hill, Alex Boyer, Dane Suarez Headline Walnut Creek’s Festival Opera

(Photo Credit: Micael Calas) Walnut Creek’s Festival Opera has announced its 31st season. The season will be headlined by a production of “Norma” directed by Mark Foehringer and conducted by Bryan Niles. Shana Blake Hill stars in the title role with Ashley Dixon as Adalgisa. Dane Suarez plays Pollione while Kevin Thompson stars as Oroveso. Performance Dates: July 8 & {…}

Dec 25, 2021

Opera in the Heights 2021 Review: Il Trovatore

(Photo credit: Lerner Productions, LLC) Whether or not it’s been spurred by COVID, more and more companies seem to be making post-streams or online streams of their productions available. This one, of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” comes from Houston’s Opera in the Heights, a regional company that seeks to provide a platform for emerging artists and affordable and accessible productions for {…}

Oct 15, 2020

Tri-Cities Opera Announces Finalist for TCO Next Virtual Competition

Tri-Cities Opera has announced the 10 finalists for its TCO Next Virtual Competition. Finalists include Rachel Blaustein, Aaron Crouch, Kelly Glyptis, Symone Harcum, Allen Michael Jones, Grace Kahl, Chasti Lashay, Dane Suarez, Schyler Vargas, and Ethan Vincent. The final is set to take place on Oct. 18, 2020 at 3 p.m. EDT. On its official social media, the company also {…}

May 15, 2020

Ailyn Pérez, Matthew Polenzani Among 100 Singers Join Forces for Campbell & Moravec’s ‘Light Shall Lift Us’

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 {…}

Mar 12, 2019

Opera San José To Present Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

Opera San José will conclude its 35th season with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” directed by Brad Dalton. The production, which features set design by Kent Dorsey and costumes by Alyssa Oania, will run for six performances at the California Theatre in downtown San José. Maria Natale will star in the role of Cio-Cio-san, alongside Dane Suarez and Derek Taylor, who will {…}