(Photo credit Kaleigh Rae Gamache) Opera Southwest has announced the lineup for its New Year’s Eve Concert. The performance, set for Dec. 31, 2024 at 2 p.m., followed by a dinner at La Fonda at 5:30 p.m., will feature tenor Clay Hilley as its featured guest singer. The heldentenor is having a massive international career and was recently the recipient {…}
(Credit: Kaleigh Rae Photography) The opera lifestyle is one of the most complex and challenging. Working singers are constantly on the road and generally have little time to truly establish a homebase where they spend most of their time with families and loved ones. If anything, the idea of a homebase can be fleeting with many singers and their families {…}
The double bill of Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” and Michael Ching’s “Buoso’s Ghost” is currently enjoying a successful run at Opera Delaware, where it will finalize its run this coming weekend. Two of the performers taking part in the production are soprano Sara Duchovnay and mezzo Claudia Chapa, who also have a unique connection through Shoperatic.com, a peer-to-peer online fashion marketplace {…}
Shoperatic.com will host its first curated collection of “contemporary, luxury and vintage in the popular live sale format” on the company’s private Facebook page Shoperatic (formerly) Opera Diva Dress Collection this Thursday. The presentation will kick off at 9 p.m. EST. The sale will be set in the living room of co-founder and soprano Sara Duchovnay’s RV. Duchovnay will co-host the event with {…}
It was 2013 and Suzanne Vinnik was contacted by soprano Zulimar López, who was looking to solve a problem that every female opera singer faces – getting rid of a bunch of gowns that were hogging her closet space. “I had also experienced the same issue with my over-stuffed closet in my one bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side,” Vinnik told {…}