The New York City Opera has announced a series of events aimed at celebrating Pride month. On June 24, 2020, the company will present “Much to Be Done: A Live Stonewall Panel Discussion.” Starting at 8 p.m., audiences will hear from the cast and creative team behind the 2019 opera “Stonewall,” which was created by Mark Campbell and Iain Bell. {…}
It’s Pride Month and in honor of the month that celebrates the LGBT community, OperaWire is putting a spotlight on some of the most important LGBT artists in the opera world. For this list, we have looked at Transgender performers who have become influential voices in the opera community. Lucia Lucas Lucas made history in becoming the first Trans singer {…}
Over 100 singers came together for a video performance of “Light Shall Lift Us,” a work by librettist Mark Campbell and composer Paul Moravec. The duo, which has worked together on “The Shining” proposed the idea to Marc Scorca of Opera America, who embraced the idea and helped put together the 107 artists who would eventually record their individual parts {…}
The Nov. 8th, 2019 performance of Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed’s “As One,” produced by Liz Bouk and directed by Bea Goodwin, was a brilliant display of what a small, tightly-knit artistic team can create using a “less is more” approach. Bouk’s “As One” was staged in a white box theater, using stacked cardboard boxes, a folding table, {…}
(Credit: Carlos Vasquez) Bea Goodwin and Whitney George, the creative team behind “Princess Maleine,” will present Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell, and Kimberly Reed’s “As One” at Alchemical Studios on Nov. 8 and 9, 2019. The production will star Nathaniel Sullivan as Hannah Before and Liz Bouk as Hannah After. George will conduct a quartet of members of The Curiosity Cabinet. {…}
Dell’Arte Artistic Director Chris Fecteau was working on putting together the 2019 season for the company when he happened upon Lili Boulanger’s “Princess Maleine.” His hope had been to create a season centering on the works of Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, who had inspired such works as Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” and Dukas’ “Ariane et Barb Bleu.” “My mentor Fiora {…}
It was March of 2018 and New York City Opera General Manager Michael Capasso wanted to make a big statement with his 2019 season. The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots would take place in 2019 and it was the perfect opportunity for New York City Opera, which has championed operas about the LGBTQ+ community over the last few years, {…}
(Credit: Joe Ritter, courtesy of Utopia Opera) This week Iain Bell and Mark Campbell’s new opera “Stonewall” makes its world premiere at the New York City Opera, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Riots at the Stonewall Inn. The opera has a particular significance as it will continue the New York City Opera’s annual pride initiative by showcasing operas with LGBT themes. {…}
As the 2018-19 season comes to an end, the opera season continues with festivals and many companies opening new productions. With a ton of selections to choose from, we eventually whittled it down to the 10 Must-See productions, as we did internationally. Here is a look at the operas you cannot miss this summer in the U.S.. 10. Hérodiade – New Amsterdam {…}
Mezzo-soprano Liz Book is set to showcase a program entitled “New Beginnings” on April 3, 2019, at the Lounge at Dixon Place in New York. The concert performance will feature a number of arias that showcases Bouk’s life as a transgender opera singer. There will be arias from “The Rape of Lucretia,” “The Ballad of Baby Doe,” “Der Rosenkavalier,” as {…}
“For 30 years my Dad thought he was a girl. This is the story of how he found himself.” So says eight-year-old William Bouk regarding “Mr. Liz: Living in the In-Between,” a showcase featuring mezzo-soprano Liz Bouk and his family. The show had a series of successful previews in late 2018, but will now get a run of shows at {…}