Wolf Trap Opera has announced its summer season including three fully-staged productions. The season will also showcase American soprano Tamara Wilson as the 2025 Filene Artist-in-Residence. Wilson will work closely with Wolf Trap Opera’s emerging artists and will lead a public master class with WTO’s Studio Artists on June 11. Opera The company will present Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” {…}
The Gerda Lissner Foundation has announced the 2024 winners of its International Vocal Competition. In the Opera Division, countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen took home the top prize, the Liederkranz Foundation Award. The other winners in the division include baritone Yeongtaek Yang (First Prize), mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack (second prize), and soprano Karoline Podolak (third prize). Taking home the Judge’s Special {…}
Music at Kohl Mansion has announced the addition of a joyous seasonal concert, “Holiday Roulette: A Mezzo Mash-up!” on Dec. 3, 2023. The performance will feature mezzo-sopranos Nikola Printz and Gabrielle Beteag, along with pianist-producer Ronny Michael Greenberg. The concert will be held against the backdrop of Burlingame’s historic Kohl Mansion, adorned with its renowned holiday lights and decorations. The {…}
(Credit: Cory Weaver) “I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.” So sings Cleopatra in John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra.” The baser life about which Cleopatra sings is everything that is not she and everything that was not Antony. So Adams tells us in the latest from his roster of remarkable operas. San Francisco Opera {…}