Review: DON PASQUALE at Union Avenue Opera
by Steve Callahan
- Jul 31, 2023
Scott Schoonover and his Union Avenue Opera have a long history (now twenty-nine years) of gathering remarkable operatic voices. Their current production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale has voices that are astonishingly beautiful! It’s a work you should not miss! Two brilliant young stars—Christine Lyons (as Norina) and Namarea Randolph-Yosea (as Ernesto) will show you the real meaning of that mysterious term “bel canto”.
BWW Review: Utopia Opera Takes on Thea Musgrave's STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN
by Richard Sasanow
- Nov 15, 2018
Short on financial resources but long on ambition, Utopia Opera started its eighth season last weekend with a New York premiere: Thea Musgrave's THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. It's a 90-minute chamber version, orchestrated by composer Julian Grant, of Musgrave's full-length, two-act HARRIET, THE WOMAN CALLED MOSES, which debuted in 1985 at the Virginia Opera, with some fervent portrayals by its cast of about two dozen, including the stellar soprano MaKayla McDonald as Harriet and mezzo Karmesha Peake as her mother, Rit.
BWW Interview: Thea Musgrave at 90, Queen of SCOTS and Composer for all Seasons
by Richard Sasanow
- May 22, 2018
Composer Thea Musgrave is celebrating these days. It's not just that she's marking her 90th birthday on May 27 with a concert in New York, but that the concert is showcasing a gaggle of world premieres, US premieres and NY premieres (along with more familiar works), which highlight her rich musical vocabulary and keen sense of drama.
Opera Ithaca Presents CARMEN
by Stephi Wild
- Mar 3, 2018
Opera Ithaca presents Bizet's masterpiece, Carmen, March 9th and 11th at the Hangar Theatre in a production by director-designer team Adrianna Desier Durantt and Andrew Boyce, lighting designer Seth Reiser and Associate Designer Anna Grigo.
Teatro Nuovo Announces its Inaugural Bel Canto Festival
by Julie Musbach
- Feb 20, 2018
Teatro Nuovo, the new organization led by Will Crutchfield, is proud to announce its inaugural Bel Canto Festival at Purchase College, The Dawn of Romantic Opera, July 28-August 5 2018, in collaboration with The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College.
Teatro Nuovo Announces Its Inaugural BEL CANTO FESTIVAL at Purchase College This Summer
by Macon Prickett
- Feb 20, 2018
Teatro Nuovo, the new organization led by Will Crutchfield, is proud to announce its inaugural Bel Canto Festival at Purchase College, The Dawn of Romantic Opera, July 28-August 5 2018, in collaboration with The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. The Festival will present semi-staged productions of Rossini's Tancredi, Mayr's Medea in Corinto, two operas premiered in 1813; one by a mature master and the other by a budding genius, both pointing the way for opera's Romantic century. The Festival will also include a second version of the Rossini score, Tancredi rifatto, incorporating extensive music that the composer wrote for later revivals. Teatro Nuovo will also introduce a radical new adventure with early 19th-century performing style and period orchestral instruments.
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