Cincinnati Song Initiative has announced its 2020-21 season which will feature all-digital performances. The season will feature mainstage projects including “A World of Song,” “Winter Song Festival,” and “Let it Be New.” A World of Song The main slate will kick off with “For the Dream Unfinished” starring Jasmine Habersham, Nicole Heaston, Nicholas Newton, Blair Salter, and Rolando Salazar. The {…}
In honor of Pride Month, this week’s word search is dedicated to major opera artists from the LGBTQIA+ community both past and present. Instructions: You are free to solve the word search directly on your mobile or desktop device; just click the first and last letter of each word for it to appear on the screen. For those using a {…}
San Francisco Performances has announced its “Sanctuary Series,” which will stream for free online between June 25-July 16, 2020. The series will consist of four concert showcases. “Throughout many periods of challenge and change in human history, we have sought refuge and retreat. From cloisters and cathedrals to mountain tops and forests, we look for places to find sanctuary from {…}
Star mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton has announced her new album entitled “Unexpected Shadows.” The new album includes a recital of songs by Jake Heggie, with the composer at the piano. The album is a celebration in words and music of powerful, exceptional women and contains four song cycles, a standalone art song, and an opera aria. Among the song cycles included {…}
Music of Remembrance will stream Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “For a Look or a Touch” between May 18-25. The opera was inspired by a true love story of Manfred Lewin and Gad Beck, two men persecuted during the Holocaust for being Jewish and gay. Lewin was murdered in Auschwitz, but his memoirs were preserved. Gad meanwhile overcame poverty and {…}
With opera companies remain closed, there is still plenty of opera that will be streamed this week. Here are our recommendations for the week. Don Pasquale – New National Theatre Tokyo (NOW) For those interested in some comedy, there is no doubt that “Don Pasquale,” Donizetti’s greatest comedy, is the best offering this week. The cast is top-notch, led by {…}
Jonathan Palant, the director and founder of the Dallas Street Choir and the Credo Community Choir, has launched “Artistry Today,” an online education platform for artists. Every week, Palant, who is also Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Texas at Dallas, is launching a 30-minute Facebook Live event modeled on James Lipton’s iconic “Inside the {…}
(Credit: Frances Marshall) “Opera in the Time of COVID” is an interview series in collaboration with photographer Frances Marshall of Marshall Light Studio. We talk to notable figures from around the opera world to get their perspective on how they feel these challenging times may change opera’s present and future. Jake Heggie is one of the renowned opera composers of {…}
Music of Remembrance has launched a series of weekly online programs in light of having canceled its upcoming major concerts this coming May. The series kicked off on Monday April 20 and runs through May 24, 2020, though a press release has indicated that the company plans to update the streaming slate through July. All performances can be streamed directly {…}
Music of Remembrance will end its 22nd season with music by Jake Heggie. The concert, set for May 17, 2020 at Seattle’s Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, will feature a double bill of rare works by the composer and librettist Gene Scheer. Up first on the program will be “Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope,” which {…}
The New York Festival of Song has announced its next two concerts set for March and April. On March 25, 2020, the company will showcase a celebration of the centennial of women’s suffrage in the U.S. This concert, entitled “And Still We Dream” will be curated by composers Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum and Laura Karpman. Both will showcase new pieces for the {…}