(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 {…}
The Dallas Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Mainstage Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “La Traviata” featuring Chilean soprano Yaritza Véliz, Spanish tenor Xabier Anduaga, and baritone Alfredo Daza. Louisa Muller directs and Iván López Reynoso conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 18-27, 2024 Claude Debussy’s “Pelléas and Mélisande” will be conducted by Ludovic Morlot and will star Benjamin Appl, Lauren {…}
The Staatsoper Hamburg has announced its 2023-24 season. Opera Kent Nagano conducts Frank Castorf’s production of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov.” The opera will star Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Kady Evanyshyn, Olivia Boen, Renate Spingler, Matthias Klink, Alexey Bogdanchikov, Vitalij Kowaljow, Oleksiy Palchykov, and Ryan Speedo Green. Performance Dates: Sept. 16-Oct. 7, 2023 Catherine Foster and Ewa Płonka sing the title role of Puccini’s {…}
Opera San José has announced its 2023-24 season celebrating the company’s 40th anniversary. The season opens with an all-new production of Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by Shawna Lucey. The production will star Indian-American soprano Melissa Sondhi in the role of Juliet and tenor Joshua Sanders as Romeo. Alex Boyer returns to the California Theatre in the role of Tybalt, {…}
The Minnesota Opera has announced its 2023-24 season featuring four productions. David Radamés Toro directs “Cruzar la Cara de la Luna” with a cast that includes Octavio Moreno, Cecilia Duarte, Vanessa Alonzo, Efraín Solís, Zulimar López-Hernández, Efraín Corralejo, and Daniel Montenegro. Performance Dates: Nov. 4–12, 2023 Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” is set to star Vanessa Becerra, Andrew Stenson, Joseph Lattanzi and Stefano de Peppo. Daniel Ellis directs. Performance Dates: Jan. 27–Feb. 4, {…}
On Feb. 17, the Hawai’i Opera Theatre is set to open a production of “L’Elisir d’Amore” with a cast of rising stars making a house debut. Among the stars is Efraín Solís. The Latine singer is a graduate of the San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship where he sang his first performances of Papageno in “Die Zauberflöte,” Dandini in “La Cenerentola,” {…}
(Credits: Virginia Opera) The Virginia Opera has announced its upcoming performances of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Three Decembers.” The work, which opens on Jan. 28, and is set to run through Feb. 13, 2022, is based on the unpublished play, “Some Christmas Letters,” by Terrence McNally. The cast includes Karen Ziemba, Efraín Solís, and Cecilia Violetta López. Adam Turner {…}
The Opera Buffs is set to present “Music of the Spanish Speaking World.” The program will be presented on Jan. 8 at the Barrett Recital Hall in the Pasadena Conservatory of Music and will feature a program of song, aria, and zarzuela. Orianna Falla, Anthony León, and Efrain Solis will serve as soloists of the evening. Falla is a Colombian-American {…}
(Credit: Joey Miller/Scott Draper) Opera San José is set to return to live performances with Purcell’s masterpiece, “Dido and Aeneas.” The opera will be performed at the historic California Theatre with Joseph Marcheso conducting and Elkhanah Pulitzer directing the new production. Michael Pappalardo will choreograph, while mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz will sing Dido and baritone Efraín Solís will take on the {…}
On Sept. 12, the Washington Concert Opera will present “Opera Outside.” The performance will be a casual outdoor concert on the upper field of Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park and will feature soloists soprano Ashley Marie Robillard and baritone Efraín Solís accompanied by David Hanlon. The event, which will begin at 11 A.M, will be free of charge with audiences of {…}
Opera San José has announced its 2021-22 season, which includes four opera productions between September 2021 and May 2022. “We have spent the past year keeping faith with our artists and our audiences, finding ways to continue to create and share vibrant work, and welcoming a wider audience to engage with us than ever before,” Khori Dastoor, the company’s General {…}