Tulsa Opera Unveils 2025-26 Season Featuring Meghan Picerno, Kevin Thompson & Leona Mitchell

Tulsa Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The “Music from the Shadows” concert opens the season. Performance Date: October 25, 2025 Jenn Gambatese, Leona Mitchell, and Sam Briggs star in “The Sound of Music.” Machelle Miller Dill directs. Aaron Beck conducts the Tulsa Opera Signature Chorale and Tulsa Opera Orchestra. Performance Date: November 15, 2025 “Pirates of Penzance” stars Meghan Picerno, {…}

Sep 13, 2023

Tesia Kwarteng Leads Opera Columbus’ ‘Carmen’

Opera Columbus will open its 2023-24 season with Bizet’s “Carmen.” The production will be performed at the Southern Theatre stage on Sept. 29 and Oct. 1 alongside the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. The new production will be directed by 2022-2023 Crane Directing Fellow Sarah Dahnke and will be conducted by Dr. Everett McCorvey. In a statement, Dahnke said, “The way ‘Carmen’s’ {…}

Apr 7, 2023

Opera Columbus Announces 2023-24 Season

Opera Columbus has announced its 2023-24 season featuring four productions. The season opens with Bizet’s “Carmen” starring Tesia Kwarteng in the title role. The 90-minute production explores sexual freedom, social hierarchies, and the class system and will also see the return of Adam Diegel as Don Jose. “Carmen” will be stage directed by 2022-23 CRANE Directing Fellow, Sarah Dahnke, and {…}

Mar 16, 2022

Feinstein’s/54 Below to Present ‘Love in Springtime’ Concert Featuring Slate of Rising Opera Stars

Four of New York’s rising opera stars are set to perform a program of popular love songs from classical to ragtime and much in between at Broadway’s Supper Club, Feinstein’s/54Below on March 20, 2022. The featured artists have performed at the Metropolitan Opera in recent runaway productions. Slated to sing are tenor Christian Mark Gibbs (Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”/Met and Ricky {…}

Mar 15, 2022

Alexandra Lang, Tesia Kwarteng, Zoe Marie Hart to Headline ‘Liter Abend Vol. II’

“Liter Abend, Vol. II” is coming to New York City this April. “Liter Abend” is a celebration of German Lied headlined by soprano Alexandra Lang and music director Eric Sedgwick. This edition will also include performances by mezzo-soprano Tesia Kwarteng and soprano Zoe Marie Hart. Audiences will hear music by such composers as Brahms and Berg. The showcase, which will {…}

Sep 26, 2021

Karen Slack, Tesia Kwarteng, Javier Abreu, John Castillo Headline World Premiere of Decameron Opera Coalition’s ‘Heroes’

The Decameron Opera Coalition is set to present the world premiere of “Heroes” on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. The company will release eight world premieres across three episodes with composer Peter Hilliard and librettist Matt Boresi’s “Hero Songs” framing the other three episodes. “Hero Songs” will feature Karen Slack alongside Tesia Kwarteng, Javier Abreu, and John Castillo. Episode one is {…}

Jul 8, 2021

On Site Opera Announces ‘What Lies Beneath’

On Site Opera has announced that it would return to live performances this fall with “What Lies Beneath.” The showcase, which will take place between August 28- Sept. 2 at the ship Wavertree, is a vignette featuring music by such composers as Anthony Davis, Juliana Hall, Damien Geter, Benjamin Britten, E.M. Forester, John Ireland, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performers include {…}

May 15, 2020

Ailyn Pérez, Matthew Polenzani Among 100 Singers Join Forces for Campbell & Moravec’s ‘Light Shall Lift Us’

Over 100 singers came together for a video performance of “Light Shall Lift Us,” a work by librettist Mark Campbell and composer Paul Moravec. The duo, which has worked together on “The Shining” proposed the idea to Marc Scorca of Opera America, who embraced the idea and helped put together the 107 artists who would eventually record their individual parts {…}