Renée Richardson, Diego Torre, Won Whi Choi & Amanda Batista Lead Minnesota Opera’s 2025-26 Season

The Minnesota Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. Kylie Kreucher, Kara Morgan, Ángel Vargas, David Wolfe, John Mburu, and Lindsay Ohse star in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” Christopher Franklin conducts the production by Doug Scholz-Carlson. Performance Dates: Nov. 1-9, 2026 B.E. Boykin and Harrison David Rivers’ “My Name is Florence” is set to make its world premiere starring Renée Richardson, {…}

Sep 12, 2023

OrpheusPDX 2023 Review: Dark Sisters

(Written by: James Bash) OrpheusPDX, a new company founded by Christopher Mattaliano in Portland, Oregon, concluded its second season with a brilliant and thought-provoking production of Nico Muhly’s “Dark Sisters,” at Lincoln Hall on August 24. “Dark Sisters” explores and exposes relationships in a polygamous sect and reveals the courage of one sister-wife to leave it. With Stephen Karam’s libretto {…}

Jun 9, 2018

Aurelia Florian, John Moore Among Stars of Portland Opera’s 2018-19 Season

The Portland Opera has announced its 2018-19 season, which five opera productions. “Each opera in the 2018/19 season brings us on a journey – whether that journey is across land, into the arms of love, or an internal journey into self-acceptance and belonging,” says General Director Christopher Mattaliano in a press release. “These stories inspire us time and time again. {…}