White Snake Projects (WSP) has announced its 2023-24 season, featuring life-size puppets, holiday celebrations, recent works from composers worldwide performed by local artists, a community jam, and a satirical reimagining of “Don Giovanni.” WSP will present composer Jorge Sosa and creator/librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs’ “Monkey: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable. This family-friendly opera blends Bunraku puppetry, CGI, and live performances. {…}
The Maryland Lyric Opera is set to open its 2022-23 season with Verdi’s “Macbeth.” The opera, which is set to be presented on Sept. 23 and 25 at Strathmore, will star baritone Lester Lynch as Macbeth and Jill Gardner as Lady Macbeth. The cast will be rounded out by MDLO favorites Andrea Silvestrelli as Banco and Yi Li as Macduff. {…}
The Maryland Lyric Opera is set to perform its first fully staged production of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” The showcase will be the first addition of a full-scale grand opera production to the Washington-Baltimore region’s opera calendar in recent memory and features rising young stars from the Maryland Lyric Opera Young Artist Institute. In the title role soprano, Maeve Höglund makes {…}