Grammy and Pulitzer award winning composer, Musical America Composer of the Year, Kevin Puts received the much coveted 1573 Award for Best Composer in Shanghai on September 17th. The award is sponsored by Luzhoulaojiao (literally the ancient cellars in Luzhou of Sichuan province), China’s famed liquor brand and manufacturer. The award ceremony took place at the Shanghai Symphony Hall. It {…}
(Photos: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera presented the tenth performance of composer Kevin Puts’s “The Hours,” with libretto by Greg Pierce, on Friday, May 10th 2024. In November 2022, OperaWire reviewed “The Hours” debut with great attention towards how the opera came to the Met, including Kevin Puts’s score, Greg Pierce’s libretto, and the undeniable beauty of the {…}
The University Musical Society at the University of Michigan is set to present Renée Fleming and Inon Barnatan in concert. The recital, which is set to take place on Sept. 28, 2023 at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, will be based around the soprano’s 2023 Grammy Award-winning recording “Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene.” The showcase will feature music by Caroline {…}
SPOILER & CONTENT WARNING: There will be a lot of spoilers for the plot details of this opera. There are also references to self-harm and suicide. In 2012, Kevin Puts’s “Silent Night” won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. And following that victory, the opera, which premiered in Minnesota in 2011, seemingly toured all over the country getting performances at Arizona {…}
(Photo Credit: Grant Legan) Jennifer Johnson Cano will join forces with musicians from the Met Orchestra for “Music of Kevin Puts” on Nov. 21, 2022 as part of Music Mondays in New York City. The showcase, which will take place at the Advent Lutheran Church on Broadway, will feature selections from Puts’ new opera “The Hours,” his “Credo,” “Seven Seascapes,” {…}
This week audiences will get a chance to hear a debut album by one of the world’s great tenors, a recording of one of Puccini’s most beloved works, a world premiere recording of a great contemporary opera, and many more. Madama Butterfly Lawrence Foster expands his Puccini discography on PENTATONE with “Madama Butterfly,” together with the Coro & Orquestra Gulbenkian. {…}
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 {…}
It’s not often that the weather takes prominence in a review of any concert. But for this Tanglewood concert, on this Saturday night –anniversary of the moon landing! — an exception must be made. Because as much as any other element in the evening’s performances, weather — in this case, record temperatures and devastating humidity – also took center stage. {…}
Composer Kevin Puts is set to world premiere his new “The Brightness of Light” next month with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry. The new song cycle, which was co-commissioned by the BSO, is set to be based on the letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and her husband Alfred Stieglitz. The cycle will follow their relationship from when {…}
“Silent Night,” Puts’ first opera, received its premiere at Minnesota opera in 2011 and won a Pulitzer Prize the following year. According to its libretto, during a late December in World War I, French, German and Scottish troops found it possible to declare an unofficial “truce” and celebrate a common holiday in brotherhood. This story has been told in several other artistic formats including the French film “Joyeux Noël” on which Campbell based his libretto.
Opera North has announced it’s 2018 – 19 season, marking the company’s 40-year anniversary, which was established in November 1978. The season will include numerous classic works including one UK premiere of an acclaimed U.S work. Here is a look at what this season has to offer. September – December 2018 The season opens with Puccini’s classic “Tosca” in a {…}