Haymarket Opera Company is set for its second commercial recording on Cedille Records with Leonardo Vinci’s “Artaserse” (1730). The recording, scheduled for release on March 13, 2026, features the original cast from Haymarket Opera Company’s American stage premiere of the work, presented in June 2025, and the Haymarket Opera Orchestra under the direction of Craig Trompeter. The cast includes countertenor {…}
(Photo credit: Elliot Mandel) Chicago’s Haymarket Opera Company has released details for its upcoming season. The season kicks off with the U.S. premiere of Johann Adolf Hasse’s “La Semele,” marking its 300th anniversary. Performance Date: March 27, 2026 Up next is the annual Early Opera Cabaret. Performance Date: April 30, 2026 (Arts Club of Chicago) Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “David et Jonathas” {…}
(Photo credit: Elliot Mandel) Haymarket Opera Company has announced its 2024 season. The season kicks off with “La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista.” Mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron makes her Haymarket debut, along with bass-baritone Christian Pursell as Herod and tenor Eric Ferring. Sopranos Erica Schuller and Kristen Knutson return to Haymarket. Craig Trompeter leads the chamber ensemble. Performance Date: March 22, {…}
Haymarket Opera Company has unveiled its 2023 season. It all kicks off with Scarlatti’s 1693 oratorio “La Giuditta.” The work will star Emily Birsan, Sophie Michaux, Sarah Brailey, William Dwyer, and David Govertsen. Craig Trompeter leads a chamber ensemble. The performance will take place at Gannon Concert Hall at DePaul University’s Holtschneider Performance Center. Performance Date: March 24, 2023 That {…}
Haymarket Opera Company has announced that it is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The company revealed that it received a grant in support of its upcoming June production of Hasse’s “Marc-Antonio e Cleopatra.” The production will be headlined by Lauren Decker and Kangmin Justin Kim. “The National Endowment for the Arts is {…}
Haymarket Opera Company’s recording of Joseph Bologne’s “L’Amant Anonyme” is set to hit the airwaves on Nov. 5 via WFMT Radio Network. The broadcast represents a preview of the world-premiere recording, which will be released on Feb. 10, 2023 by Cedille Records. This is the first album to be funded, in part, by the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fund for Vocal {…}
Haymarket Opera has announced its return to live performances in 2022. The Chicago-based company will kick things off with Stradella’s “La Susanna,” live from the Gannon Concert Hall. The oratorio will star Kaitlin Foley, Kristin Knutson, Quinn Middleman, Aaron Wardell and William Dwyer alongside such musicians as Craig Trompeter, Jeri-Lou Zike, Martin Davids, Brandon Acker, and Jason Moy. Performance Date: March {…}
(Credit: Anna Cillan) Following the halt on live performances due to COVID-19, opera houses and companies alike were forced to reform how they brought music to their traditionally in-person audiences. Via digital means, like prerecorded content, subscription-based videos, and online events, the traditional venues of opera were radically altered. But as lockdowns start to end, and restrictions begin to be {…}
Fifteen years ago, I had just enrolled in my second year at university studying economics. I was working at the small gallery of contemporary art and enjoyed daily communication with living artists, interpretations, ideation, and everything my 18-year-old brain could give to the visual arts. And for five long years, I was absolutely sure that I was doing a great {…}
Haymarket Opera Company has announced its annual Early Opera Cabaret fundraiser, which will take place on May 13, 2021. The showcase will feature sopranos Kimberly Jones and Erica Schuller alongside bass-baritone David Govertsen as they perform music by Händel, including selections from “Orlando.” “As a Handelian myself, it has been such a joy to work on an all-Handel season for {…}
When the COVID crisis has hit literally every opera company — big or small – every manager was forced on deciding how to overcome it, based on their own experiences. Tenor and Opera Manager Chase Hopkins didn’t have much under his belt when in February 2020, just before the pandemic hit the United States, he was offered the position of {…}