Alexandra LoBianco, Nathan Granner, Cree Carrico Headline Portland Opera’s 2021-22 Season

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 {…}

Ashley Marie Robillard, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Joshua Blue, Will Liverman Headline East Passyunk Opera Project’s ‘Love Notes’ Virtual Valentine’s Concert

East Passyunk Opera Project has partnered with local Philadelphia businesses Psitaloa’s del Sur, Sancho Pistola’s, and Jose Pistola’s for a virtual Valentine’s Day concert titled “Love Notes.” Presented by RE/MAX One Realty – The Capri Dessecker Team, the concert will feature soprano Ashley Marie Robillard and tenor Joshua Blue; the real-life couple will be accompanied by pianist Aurelien Eulert, and {…}

Alexandra Loutsion & Nathan Gunn Lead Pittsburgh Opera Premiere Of ‘Florencia En El Amazonas’

(Credit: Matthew Staver) Pittsburgh Opera is set to continue its 81st season with its first-ever Spanish-language opera, Daniel Catán and Marcela Fuentes-Berain’s “Florencia en el Amazonas.” The acclaimed work is inspired by the magic realism of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez and his novels “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude” will feature a {…}

Handel And Haydn Society To Present Mozart’s ‘Requiem’

The Handel and Haydn Society will conclude its 2018-19 season with a performance of Mozart’s final masterpiece, “Requiem.” The program is also set to include Mozart’s intensely emotional “Masonic Funeral Music,” Allegri’s “Miserere mei, Deus,” which “captures the profound sadness, weight and power of the Passion story,” and Bach’s motet “Singet dem Herrn.” Featured vocalists will include soprano Joelle Harvey, {…}