The New School’s Mannes Opera Announces Women-led 2025-26 Season

(Photo credit: Mannes Opera) Mannes Opera at The New School’s College of Performing Arts announces its 2025-26 season led by women composers and directors. As part of the school’s New Work Incubation, Alyssa Weinberg and J. Mae Barizo’s workshop version of “DRIFT” is presented in partnership with Saratoga Opera. Performance Date: Oct. 4, 2025 A double bill featuring concert versions {…}

Jan 9, 2021

OPERA America Announces Inaugural IDEA Resident Artists

OPERA America has announced the inaugural participants of their new IDEA Opera Residencies (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) program. Supported by the Katherine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund of The Scherman Foundation, this initiative will allow NYC-based composers and librettists of color an opportunity to explore opera as an expressive medium. The first resident artists are composers Laura Jobin-Acosta {…}