The Fort Worth Opera is set to conclude its 79th season with Rossini’s “La Cenerentola.” The company will present the work at Bass Performance Hall on April 25 and 27, 2025, marking the company’s first full-scale production in the iconic location since 2019. In a statement, General & Artistic Director Angela Turner Wilson said, “This is a thrilling moment for Fort {…}
(Photo credit: Opera Memphis) The Opera Memphis Handorf Company Artist Program has announced its 2024-25 class. The newest cohort includes soprano Marquita Richardson, mezzo-soprano Sarah Neal, and bass Robert Feng. These young artists will participate in a wide variety of performance opportunities, including roles in our Masterworks Opera series, numerous appearances during Opera Memphis’s award-winning program “30 Days of Opera,” {…}
Bellini’s “I Capuleti e I Montecchi” has long been ignored in the New York tri-state area. Even though the work has had several performances in New York City, first in 1848, then in 1958 in Carnegie Hall, and later in 1999 with the Opera Orchestra of New York, the work has remained absent from major theaters like the Metropolitan Opera. {…}
Photo: Dave Clements Texas Young Artists awarded mezzo-soprano Stephanie Doche a total of $10,000 at its Finalists’ Concert & Awards presentation. Doche won the grand prize and gold medal in voice for her performances of Handel’s ‘Dopo notte atra e funesta’ from “Ariodante” and ‘Sein wir wieder gut’ from “Ariadne auf Naxos” by R. Strauss. Bass William Guanbo Su received {…}
The Pacific Opera Project will continue its 10th Anniversary Season with a revival of its wildly popular 2012 “Gone with the Wind-inspired” production of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” The opera, which is written by Da Ponte, is set open on March 28 and runs through April 5, 2020 at the El Portal Theatre. Audiences will get a chance to see {…}