The Utah Symphony has announced its 2022-23 season featuring film screenings, world-class soloists, and repertory staples. Enrique Lopez-Yañez conducts José Sibaja and Mónica Ábrego in a program of Latin American music. Performance Dates: Sept. 20, 2022 Benjamin Manis conducts the Utah Opera Chorus in Händel’s “Messiah.” Performance Dates: Nov. 26 & 27, 2022 Teddy Abrahms conducts Morgan James in a Christmas concert. {…}
On Feb. 26, 2021, the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera announced the return of audiences to live performances at Abravanel Hall and Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre. Both venues will reopen to the public on March 25 through the remainder of the spring season. The companies announced that six Masterworks concert programs are planned alongside a May opera production. In {…}
In a decision announced by the Utah Symphony-Utah Opera on June 24th, Steven Brosvik, chief operations officer at the Nashville Symphony, has been named President and CEO of Utah’s flagship music organizations. Brosvik has held the position of COO at Nashville for 15 years and will assume his new role on August 17th. Since September 2019, USUO has been lead by interim {…}
The Utah Symphony has announced its 2020-21 season featuring a diverse program. For this article we will only highlight the vocal programming. Shiyeon Sung conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with soloists Celena Shafer, Kirstin Chávez, Arnold Livingston Geis and Andrew Foster-Williams. The concert will also include Mozart’s “Ave verum corpus” and “Misericordias domini” as well as Arlene Sierra’s “Aquilo.” Performance {…}
It is yet another busy opera weekend across North America, with the Metropolitan Opera’s 2016-17 season, the longest running in the country, coming to a close. Here is a rundown of the companies and works they will be presenting on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. As with last weekend’s edition, we will list the companies and corresponding productions. For more information {…}