Victory Hall Opera has released details of its 2024 season. The company’s ninth season starts off with an open casting call for the chief subjects/co-creators of YAPs, for its new documentary film “YAPs.” The film release is planned for 2025. “SOUNDFLIGHT 3” stars soprano Sarah Wolfson and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson. They are to perform a program of operatic, popular, {…}
Virginia’s Victory Hall Opera will present a unique rendition of a classic masterwork spotlighting deaf performers. On March 21, 2023, the company will showcase Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” at the Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia. The work will feature deaf stars Amber Zion and John Maucere as they battle numerous personal challenges at the hands of their {…}
(Credit: Victory Hall Opera official website) The Victory Hall Opera has announced the upcoming world premiere of Matt Boehler and Miriam Gordon-Stewart’s chamber opera “Fat Pig.” The opera, which features a libretto is based on the play by Neil LaBute, stars Tracy Cox in the role of Helen, Troy Cook as Tom, Will Ferguson as Carter, and Sarah Wolfson as Jeannie. {…}
Charlottesville, Virginia’s Victory Hall Opera (VHO) has announced the February 27 release of “Unsung,” a documentary film created after the cancellation of its production of “La traviata.” In response to the cancellation, Artistic Director Miriam Gordon-Stewart presented to the principals an exciting challenge: create a movie filmed only on iPhones, in their own cities, under Gordon-Stewart’s remote direction. “When the pandemic {…}
Victory Hall Opera will present “Breaking the Sound Barrier: Deaf Opera Workshop” on Feb. 27, 2020 at the Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia. The event will be presented in conjunction UVA’s Disability Studies Symposium. The workshop will present a reinterpretation of Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” in which three Deaf actors will work with three hearing opera singers {…}