Rhymes With Opera has announced its final season, celebrating the company’s history of commissioning and performing new opera since its founding in 2007. The company will celebrate its 15th season and will feature a special live retrospective concert at The Flea Theater in New York City, an online Cyber Salon, and the release of the studio cast album of Red {…}
Rhymes with Opera will present a live, virtual production of Adam Matlock’s “Red Giant” starting on June 20, 2021. The work is a sci-fi opera that tells the story of three people who are lost in space. The opera premiered in 2014 with Rhymes With Opera and is the organization’s first revival. The showcase will present three singers performing from {…}
Rhymes with Opera has announced that it will be presenting one-minute operas by 23 different composers. The series is part of the company’s Cyber Season and will feature founding members Robert Maril, Bonnie Lander, and Elisabeth Halliday-Quan. There will be world premieres by such composers as Andrew Histand, Anna Meadors, Ashley Wang Lyth, Chris Cresswell, Colin Read, Daniel Thomas Davis, {…}
The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is set to present Rhymes with Opera as part of its Parlour Room Sessions on Feb. 22, 2020. The showcase will feature a retrospective of the company’s numerous chamber opera premieres since 2012, including music from the 2020 production of Adam Matlock and Brian Slattery’s “Red Giant.” Other works that will be featured include “Rumpelstilskin,” “On {…}
Rhymes With Opera will present its annual Opera Potluck Salon on Dec. 4, 2019 at the Flea Theater in NYC. The showcase will feature performances from the Rhymes With Opera ensemble, composer and cellist Fjóla Evans, songs from the Downtown alt-cabaret songwriting No Hope, and sound artist Matthew Sullivan. The RWO Salon series was founded in 2011 as a communal event at {…}
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. {…}
The New York Opera Fest has been announced and it will feature a ton of new productions and performances to behold. The showcase kicks off on May 1, 2018, with an opening night launch at Opera America and runs all the way until June 26. So here is a breakdown of what’s in store for audiences. As has been the {…}
As part of the New York Opera Fest, Rhymes with Opera will present “Coping Mechanisms” on May 19 at 8:00 p.m EDT and then again on May 20 at the same time. The production will take place at the 124 Bank Street Theatre for both nights. This will be the final show of Rhymes With Opera’s (RWO) 2016-2017 season. Founding {…}
In less than one month, opera audiences in New York will be greeted with the New York Opera Fest, a massive celebration of the art form across the city. The festival kicks off on May 1 and runs all the way through the end of June thanks to the New York Opera Alliances (NYOA), a consortium of New York opera companies {…}