The Richard Tucker Music Foundation has announced that Clay Hilley is the 2024 Richard Tucker Award winner. The award comes with a $50,000 cash prize as well as the ongoing support of the Tucker family and foundation. It is hoped that the award acts as a well-timed catalyst to elevate the selected artist’s career to even greater heights. In a {…}
Photos: Dario Acosta The Richard Tucker Award and Gala came back in full force after two years with no awards. A galaxy of operatic stars was on hand for the event held in the newly renovated David Geffen Hall, which was designed to remedy the venue’s seemingly intractable issue with—of all things—acoustics. (Geffen Hall is the home of the New {…}
The Richard Tucker Foundation Gala kicks off one Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. For years, this has become a touchstone event in New York City opera culture. Winners are announced in the spring to great fanfare with the famed fall / winter gala’s lineup among one of the most anticipated announcements of the opera season. In this week’s quiz, we will {…}
Last year Lisette Oropesa had one of the most successful years breaking out in the opera world and signaling a new star. The soprano was a sensation in “Lucia di Lammermoor” at the Teatro Real and made stepped in last minute in “Les Huguenots” at the Opera de Paris and opened the Teatro dell’opera di Roma season. She also announced {…}
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation has announced that Lisette Oropesa is the winner of the 2019 Richard Tucker Award. The prize, referred to as the “Heisman Trophy of Opera,” is an award given to an American singer at the threshold of a significant international career and carries the foundation’s most substantial cash prize of $50,000. Oropesa is coming off a {…}
Christian Van Horn is one of today’s rising stars in the opera world, the bass making major role debuts and opening new productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company and the Metropolitan Opera. This year, he became the third bass-baritone to win the Richard Tucker Award and the first of his voice type since 2003. Van Horn’s {…}
Soprano Nadine Sierra is having a 2018 to remember. The Florida-born artist, who turned 30 this past May, recently announced her first-ever solo album, is performing at the top theaters on the planet, has been garnering a plethora of accolades, and is set to perform in the opening night gala of the Festival Napa Valley, a leading performing arts organization that {…}
Bass-baritone Christian Van Horn has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Richard Tucker Award, given to an American singer on the “threshold of an international career.” The announcement was made on Monday. The award comes with a $50,000 cash prize in addition to a high-profile concert in late 2018 which will feature Van Horn singing alongside past recipients {…}
Jamie Barton is one of the fast-rising stars of the opera world. Born on Oct. 17, 1981, you might already call her an operatic superstar, her performances drawing the most enthusiastic raves from critics the world over. Her showcase at the Met in 2016-17 in Dvorak’s “Rusalka” was continually lauded as “scene-stealing” and she just seems unstoppable. In looking at {…}
Single tickets have gone on sale for the Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala concert on Dec. 10. This is its second season back home at Carnegie Hall after spending more than 25 years at Lincoln Center. Nadine Sierra, winner of the 2017 Richard Tucker Award, will be joined onstage by past winners as they perform works from Handel, Verdi, Donizetti, {…}