Renée Fleming & Will Liverman Headline Aspen Music Festival & School’s 75th Anniversary Season

(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles & Jaclyn Simpson) The Aspen Music Festival and School has announced its 75th anniversary season. This article features vocal performances only. Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Co-Artistic Director Renée Fleming and opera director Peter Sellars coach the program’s major emerging talents in arias and scenes. Performance Dates: June 29 & July 13, 2024 Soprano Renée Fleming, {…}

Feb 4, 2024

The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration & Festival Schedule Announced

The Experiential Orchestra and Videmus present the Julia Perry Centenary Celebration and Festival in New York City. Julia Perry (1924-79) was an African-American composer, born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in Akron, Ohio. She spent two summers at the Berkshire Music Center, studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and briefly with Nadia Boulanger. She won the Prix Fontainebleau and two Guggenheim Fellowships, {…}

Jan 25, 2024

Opera Philadelphia to Celebrate David B. Devan

(Photo credit: Gene Smirnov) Opera Philadelphia is set to hold “Toi Toi Toi,” a fundraising event celebrating David B. Devan’s contributions to the company. Devan, the company’s General Director and President since 2011 has announced the end of his tenure. During his time leading Opera Philadelphia, the opera company has been described as “a hotbed of operatic innovation” by the {…}

Nov 5, 2023

Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: X: the Life and Times of Malcolm X

(Credit: Marty Sohl) The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season unfurled a tapestry of music, history, and Afrofuturistic magical realism with Broadway producer Robert O’Hara’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” composed by Anthony Davis, to a libretto by Thulani Davis, based on a story by Christopher Davis. The Met, traditionally a bastion of opera’s classic repertoire, transformed into a {…}

Nov 5, 2023

Will Liverman, Philippe Jaroussky, & Victoria de los Ángeles Lead New CD/DVD Releases

Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week several new solo albums will be released. There will also be an album released for the centennial of Victoria de los Ángeles. Here is a look at the new releases. Forgotten Arias Philippe Jaroussky releases his latest album which pays tribute {…}

Oct 27, 2023

Will Liverman Leads Metropolitan Opera’s ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’

(Credit: Zenith Richards / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is set to present the company premiere of Anthony Davis’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” The opera will open on Nov. 3 and will be conducted by Kazem Abdullah in a newly revised score, which features a layered, jazz-inflected setting. The opera will star baritone Will Liverman, soprano Leah {…}

Oct 6, 2023

National Sawdust and the Metropolitan Opera’s New Series ‘Opera Evolved’

Photo credit: Zenith Richards, Paola Kudacki, Met Opera “Opera Evolved” is National Sawdust and the Metropolitan Opera’s new programming partnership. Throughout the 2023-24 season, National Sawdust will showcase conversations with composers and artists that focus on the contemporary operas featured at the Met this season. They will highlight and explore the ways opera is evolving today and discuss the inner-workings {…}

Sep 25, 2023

Portland Opera Receives Major Grant to Support ‘The Factotum’

(Photo credit: Cory Weaver) Portland Opera has announced the receipt of a grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust. The grant for $31,669 aims to support the company’s workshop of “The Factotum.” The opera, created by Will Liverman and DJ King Rico, sets the famed Rossini opera “The Barber of Seville” in a Black barbershop n Chicago. The work feaures opera, {…}

Sep 6, 2023

Metropolitan Opera & Will Liverman to Perform at U.S. Open

The U.S. Open has announced that Will Liverman, the Metropolitan Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra will perform at the Men’s final on Sept. 10, 2023. They will perform “America the Beautiful/Lift Every Voice and Sing” on Arthur Ashe Stadium court prior to the 2023 US Open men’s singles championship and it will mark {…}

Aug 4, 2023

The Lyric Opera of Chicago Now Streaming Will Liverman’s ‘The Factotum’ Film

Photo credit: Cory Weaver The original film of the world-premiere production of “The Factotum” by Grammy award-winning baritone Will Liverman, DJ King Rico, and Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj is now available for free streaming through Sept. 5 on Lyric Opera of Chicago’s YouTube channel. The film version of “The Factotum,” which premiered in the spring of this year, features the full {…}

Jul 14, 2023

Caramoor Announces Fall 2023 & Spring 2024 Season

Caramoor maintains its dedication to innovative programming with it’s 2023-2024 season, showcasing a diverse selection of genres and exceptional artists. The Emmet Cohen Trio is joined at Caramoor by American-Armenian vocalist Lucy Yeghiazaryan, a frequent collaborator who has become a leading voice in American straight-ahead jazz. Presented in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center. Performance Date: Sept. 29. 2023 Carole {…}

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