Fresh Squeezed Opera Company NYC has announced its 2019-20 season. Entitled “Delicate Systems,” the new season begins with a 2019 showcase at the National Opera Center in New York. This performance will feature works by Sunny Knable, Julia Seeholzer, and the premiere of an FSO commission by Kaley Lane Eaton. Performance Date: Nov. 5, 2019 The season continues with “Electronic {…}
You won’t find a major repertory staple in this weekend’s previews, but all of these works are essential viewing for the opera lover. There are a few world premieres coupled with gems from famed composers that rarely take the stage. Then there’s a masterpiece embedded in this week’s top recommendations (in alphabetical order by company). Le Comte Ory – Edmonton {…}
Fresh Squeezed Opera is set to showcase the New York Premiere of Huang Ruo’s “Bound” in a production by Ashley Tata on April 13-18, 2019. The work will be presented at the Rose Nagelberg Theatre and is supported by a grant from the Mills-Tanenbaum Foundation. The chamber opera was inspired by the headline “Diane Tran, Honor Student at Texas High {…}
The Baruch Performing Arts Center is readying for three nights of laughter and reflection when Fresh Squeezed Opera stages the New York premiere of composer Constantin Basica’s “Knot an Opera!” “Knot an Opera!” aspires to live on the fringe between solemnity and mockery, ambitious and trivial, (melo)dramatic and comic, traditional and experimental,” says Basica. “Perhaps, above all, my intent was to {…}
Fresh Squeezed Opera has announced its upcoming production of “Here Be Sirens” by Kate Soper. The production is slated for Jan. 28 at 4 p.m. EDT at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. Per a press release, “’Here Be Sirens’ presents the daily life of three sirens, who kill time on their island as they await an endless procession of {…}
Fresh Squeezed Opera Company is slated to do a “Showcase” on Nov. 2, 2017, which will feature a number of new songs and arias. Per a press released, the performance will feature such pieces as “Epitaphs” (World Premiere) by Marcus Maroney, “Leda Songs” (U.S. Premiere) by Monica Pearce, “Body Maps” by Paola Prestini, “Random Blackouts I” by Dr. Greg A. Steinke, and “The Gorgeous Nothings” by Ingrid Stölzel. Soprano Maggie Finnegan and cellist Maureen Kelly will perform “Body Maps.” Meanwhile {…}
The Fresh Squeezed Opera has announced its first production of the 2017-18 season. The company will present its annual “Showcase” of new chamber-vocal music at the Cell Theatre, featuring Paola Prestini’s Body Maps, on Thursday Nov. 2, 2017, 8:00pm. Selected from a call for scores yielding over 200 submissions, the “Showcase” will be an evening presentation of new vocal works {…}