The New Camerata Opera has announced its 2019-20 season. The company will open with its traditional Black & White Gala at Open Jar Studios in Time Square. The event will feature performances from the company’s co-founders with Pianist Eric Sedgwick as music director. Performance Date: Sept. 24, 2019 The company will then showcase the zarzuela “El Barbero de Sevilla” at {…}
The true tragedy of Benjamin Britten and Ronaldo Duncan’s “The Rape of Lucretia” is that its story, about a virtuous woman in Ancient Rome who is raped by a powerful man, continues to re-enact itself in the modern world. What is arguably most complicated about the opera itself is that this tragedy is framed by the male gaze, which only {…}
This weekend has a ton of incredible productions to behold. The New York Opera Festival is in full swing as some of the major companies from around the country start to close their doors for the summer. The Rape of Lucretia – New Camerata Opera The Britten piece gets a unique new production directed by Bea Goodwin that will also {…}
In Benjamin Britten and Ronald Duncan’s “The Rape of Lucretia,” a young Roman soldier is goaded into testing the chastity of Lucretia, who was the only woman not to betray her husband Collatinus. This roman soldier, Tarquinius, proceeds to show up at Lucretia’s home, awaken her from bed, and, despite being repeatedly rejected, he rapes her. Lucretia winds up killing {…}
The New York Opera Fest 2019 kicked off on Monday, April 29 and for the next several weeks, New Yorkers will get ample opportunity to enjoy opera in a variety of unique ways. As has been OperaWire’s tradition over the years, we have reached out to a number of the companies participating in the festival and have asked them a {…}
New Camerata Opera has commissioned a short opera film based on the life of Julie d’Aubigny and has launched an Indiegogo campaign to help finance the project’s production. The opera film will be written by librettist Lila Palmer with music by Whitney George. The production will be directed by Chloe Treat with Paul Ashey as Assistant Director. Audio for the {…}
The New Camerata Opera has revealed that it will be working with “A Modern Reveal: Songs and Stories of Women Composers” to present “Leading Ladies Liberated.” The performance, slated for May 3, 2019, at 7 p.m., will take place at the Flea Theater in New York. The concert is set to feature music by Isabella Colbran, Maria Malibran, and Pauline {…}
The New Camerata Opera is now an official member of Opera America. The company made the announcement via its social media channels, noting that “it is an honor to be part of an organization that furthers the cause of this great art form through the support of the most innovative and engaging opera companies in the country.” New Camerata has {…}
The New Camerata Opera is set to showcase “Heroines of Opera” on March 26, 2019. The event will feature arias and songs that represent the strongest female characters in the world. The performance is expected to be a preview for the company’s hotly anticipated production of “The Rape of Lucretia,” which will be directed by Bea Goodwin and will star {…}
Arguably the biggest New York City opera event of the summer is the New York Opera Festival, which will be entering its fourth iteration this summer. The beauty of the festival is that it features a plethora of major companies coming together to express themselves through opera. This has not changed in 2019, which features performances throughout May and June. {…}
New Camerata Opera has announced the “United We Sing” concert on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. The concert, which will feature such artists as Barbara Porto, Eva Parr, Nicole Leone, Erik Bagger, Victor Khodadad, Scott Lindroth, Stan Lacy, Shawn Farrar, Charles Temkey, April Lindevald, and Angela Dinkelman Shan, is in partnership with the Congregationalist Church of Manhasset and is part of {…}