Festival Opera in Walnut Creek, California, has announced its 2025 season. Festival Opera’s Spring Soiree wil be an annual company benefit event with musical performances by Festival Opera artists Shawnette Sulker, Courtney Miller, Taylor Thompson, and pianist Daniel Lockert with benefit host Zachary Gordin. Performance Date: May 3, 2025 Ruggero Leoncavallo’s classic one-act opera “Pagliacci” will be performed in concert Vincent {…}
Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will get a good helping of baroque favorites and rarities, star-studded albums, world premieres and some fantastic modern works by recognized composers. Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem The new album showcases Wainwright’s “Dream Requiem,” an epic work for orchestra, chorus, soprano, {…}
The score of Gordon Getty’s “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” breathes all the unpretentiously sweet melancholy of its many predecessors – from James Hilton’s 1933 novella of the same title to subsequent adaptations as, among others, radio plays and lavishly cast movie musicals. Yet it is not exactly the feel-good opera advertised in Pentatone’s press release; rather, the eponymous Mr. Chips – {…}
Los Angeles-based MUSE/IQUE is set to present “Indivisible: The Glory of Lincoln’s Musical Soul.” “Audiences will thrill to hear ‘The Battle Cry of Freedom,’ songs from contemporary operettas, traditional spirituals, along with the folk-inspired works of Stephen Foster and traditional Scottish ballads, including excerpts from Lincoln’s many speeches, letters and documents,” says an official press release for the event. The {…}
Soloist Jamie Chamberlin Granner, Nathan Granner, and Colin Ramsey perform in the Verdi Chorus’ 40th Anniversary season finale concert “Star Crossed!” The Verdi Chorus presents selections from Mozart’s “Idomeneo” and “Don Giovanni,” Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor,” Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette,” and Lehar’s “The Merry Widow,” with guest soloists soprano Jamie Chamberlin Granner, tenor Nathan Granner, and bass Colin Ramsey. Artistic {…}
San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle will present a benefit evening entitled, “A Night at The Overlook Hotel….No Work-All Play” at the Lodge at the Regency on April 26, 2023. Inspired by the upcoming opera performance of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell‘s opera, “The Shining,” the event will transport guests to the theatrical excess and luxury of the Gilded Age. The opera {…}
This week audiences will get to hear the final recording of one of the greatest pianists of his generation, a rare verismo opera, an original version of a Verdi opera, and modern works. Here is a look! Zingari Opera Rara releases its recording of Leoncavallo’s “Zingari” internationally via Warner Classics. Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi conducts the restored original version of {…}
New York City Opera is set to present a season of four free, live shows for its Park Series in Bryant Park’s Picnic Performances. The company will present one-night-only operas accompanied by live music including “The Barber of Seville,” “La traviata,” “Lucia di Lammermoor,” and a special Pride in the Park performance. The first showcase will be held on May {…}
Portland Opera has announced its 2021-22 season. The company revealed that it will be performing three opera productions in addition to several community, digital, and educational programs. “We’ve spent the past year digging deep into our identity, and listening to community members,” said Sue Dixon, General Director in a press release. “The core of our work is to share stories {…}
Opera Orlando has announced the 2020-21 season, working closely with the Dr. Phillips Center and other venues to ensure safety protocols for the company’s live performances. “In addition to getting input from fellow opera and theater companies who have started to re-open, we are incorporating CDC recommendations, local official guidance, and input from our Company partner Orlando Health in preparing {…}
Los Angeles Opera has announced its streaming slate for performances during the week of Oct. 5, 2020. The first event will be another edition of “Opera Family Time” featuring soprano Jamie Chamberlin and tenor Nathan Granner. The duo will celebrate the autumn baking season. Streaming Date: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 at 2 p.m. PDT Tenor Ashley Faatoalia will perform alongside {…}