Opera on Tap is teaming up with Kinesis Project dance theatre and Anti-Social Music with Summer on the Hudson to present “Capacity, or: the Work of Crackling” on Sept. 24 and 25, 2022. The showcase will feature music by composers Diana Woolner, David Friend, Eyal Moaz, and Brian McCorkle as well as costumes by Rebecca Kanach, and sound design by {…}
New Music USA has announced the selection of 100 organizational awardees as part of the 2022 Organizational Development Fund. Each organization will receive, on average, $6,780.00. A panel of 21 artists, creators, musicians, and administrators selected the 100 recipients from a pool of 392 applicants. To knock bias out of the selection process, 76 percent of panelists identified as women {…}
Opera On Tap New York has announced its 2022 slate through August. First up, Samantha Nahra presents “A Dramatic Soprano Tries Cooking.” There will be a total of 12 editions of this showcase. Performance / Streaming Date: Feb. 19 – July 23, 2022 Next up, Danny Bernardo, Joy Jones, Kathleen Berger, Stacy Dove, Blake Friedman, Halley Gilbert, Jackie Katz-Rabinoff, Nicole {…}
Opera on Tap in New York has canceled “The Longest Night.” The company made the announcement via social media, stating, “friends, we regret to inform you that 1 of our essential production team members has been exposed to COVID. For everyone’s safety, we have decided to postpone the show. Given our winter solstice theme, we are working with HERE to {…}
Opera on Tap’s flagship education program, Playground Opera, received a grant from the Renée Fleming Foundation to study the effects of music on empathy development and social-emotional learning in children. Dr. Indre Viskontas, a neuroscientist at the University of San Francisco, will partner with Opera on Tap to conduct research that tracks improvements in students’ emotional regulation and other cognitive {…}
Opera on Tap is set to present “Black Renaissance: trauma, drama, and love.” The one-hour show curated by Joy Jan Jones and Victoria Davis was created for audiences to come away from an expected black history month experience focusing on three aspects of black culture expressed in three contrasting ways. The first aspect is trauma in which creative artist, Rachael {…}
The American Opera Project (AOP) will present the second installment of “Music as the Message: Sing Me to the End of Love” on February 14 at 4:00 p.m. EST. The event is free with goodwill donations accepted and will stream on Zoom through AOPTV. EMMY® Award-winning soprano and “Music as Message” (MaM) creator, Adrienne Danrich, will host a performance involving {…}
On Saturday, Jan. 23, MassOpera and Opera on Tap Boston will present a special broadcast of MassOpera’s 2018 performance of the comedic opera, “The Beautiful Bridegroom,” by composer Dan Shore. The performance was originally presented at the Boston Center for the Arts in the South End. In a joint statement, the companies said, “MassOpera and Opera on Tap are partnering {…}
Opera on Tap has announced the Virtual Playground Opera, a collaborative experience between students, educators, teaching artists. The portal will be available for schools in Spring 2021 with demonstrations and tours of the portal set to being in December 2020. The program will allow students to learn about the fundamentals of opera and take a deep dive into what a {…}
OPERA America has announced the nine companies that will be awarded $100,000 in grants for commissioning operas by female composers. The recipients include Beth Morrison Projects for Du Yun’s “In Our Daughter’s Eyes,” which is written by Michael Joseph McQuilken; Boston Lyric Opera for Ellen Reid and librettist Christopher Oscar Peña’s “The Desert Inn;” Guerilla Opera for “HER: alive / {…}
The New York Opera Fest has announced its fifth annual showcase, which will feature over 60 performances across New York City’s five boroughs. With such a diverse number of productions, this article will divide up the section to cater to differing operatic tastes. It all kicks off with the traditional NYOA Service Awards, which will honor a special contributor to {…}