The Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) has announced the details of its 90th anniversary season. Staring off the 2024-25 season is the New Artist Recital, featuring the 10 resident artists of the incoming class. Performance Date: September 26, 2024 The Giargiari Bel Canto Competition comes next. Danielle Orlando accompanies. Performance Date: October 5, 2024 Steven White returns to AVA to {…}
(Photo credit: Charles Gilmore) Janiec Opera Company of the Brevard Music Center’s 2024 Summer Festival production of Puccini’s “La bohème” embodied the brilliance of the opera company tucked away in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. Vocal Highlights The charming nature of this production was evident from the start as Emesh Wijewardena who sang Rodolfo, and Charles Daniel as Marcello {…}
(Photo credit Madeline Grey) Lacking public monies common in Europe, opera becomes ever harder to produce in the USA, but its enthusiasts are a determined lot. The Old Line State used to enjoy a typical American setup for presenting opera, an established twentieth-century organization, the Baltimore Opera Company, situated in a sizable venue in Maryland’s largest city, the Lyric Opera {…}
Opera Omaha has named Maestro Steven White the company’s first Principal Guest Conductor. White will begin a three-year engagement with the Omaha company. In a statement, Opera Omaha General Director, Allison Swenson said, “Steven White has been a superlative colleague and a consistent force of musical excellence in Omaha for 10 years, and we are delighted that he will join {…}
(Photo: Clive Barda) For this year’s Wexford Festival Opera, its artistic director, Rosetta Cucchi, decided upon “Magic & Music” as its defining theme. As an umbrella term, it gives plenty of scope for selecting the operas for performance. The term can be applied narrowly, restricted to spells, wizards and witches, or more widely, bringing in fairy tales, legends, myths, ghosts, {…}
