(Photo credit: Hogan Media) The Ivors Academy revealed the 11 winners of the Ivor Novello Awards at The 2024 Ivors Classical Awards. Only winners in the opera and choral music categories are listed in this article. Roxanna Panufnik received her first Ivor Novello Award in recognition of her diverse and ever-growing body of work. Panufnik’s choral compositions and operas include {…}
The Music Theatre Now Competition 2023 has named its six winners. This year’s recipients include “The Urban Tale of a Hippo,” “Black Lodge,” “At Your Doorstep,” “Woman at Point Zero,” “Halleluja,” and “History of the Present.” “The Urban Tale of a HIppo is a Lithuanian production by Kokoras, Katinas, Vapaavuori, Nakaitė, Synaesthesis & Operomanija. Meanwhile, David T. Little’s “Black Lodge” {…}
Les Arts in Valencia, Spain is set to present “Woman at Point Zero” in collaboration with ENSEMS. The showcase, which is slated for Sept. 15, 2023 at 7:30 p.m., will be the Spanish premiere of the vocal multimedia and intercultural work by Bushra El-Turk and Stacy Hardy. It tells the story of Fatma, a former sex worker who was jailed {…}