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Review Roundup: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR and NABUCCO at Dorset Opera Festival
by BWW News Desk on August 22, 2019 in Opera Lucia di Lammermoor and Nabucco are now playing at Dorset Opera Festival! What did the critics think? Read all the reviews! (more...) 
Review Roundup: BREAKING THE WAVES at Edinburgh International Festival
by BWW News Desk on August 22, 2019 in Opera Breaking the Waves is now playing at the Edinburgh International Festival! What did the critics think? Read all the reviews! (more...) 
Production Recording Of PAUL'S CASE Released
by BWW News Desk on August 21, 2019 in Opera National Sawdust Tracks released the recording of the chamber opera Paul's Case, composed by Gregory Spears, libretto by Kathryn Walat and Gregory Spears and conducted by Robert Wood. (more...) 
New York City Opera Announces Program For 75th Anniversary Concert In Bryant Park
by BWW News Desk on August 20, 2019 in Opera New York City Opera (NYCO), under the direction of Michael Capasso, General Director, has announced that it will celebrate its 75th Anniversary with a free concert in Bryant Park on Monday, September 9 at 6pm. The anniversary concert, which will be the finale to Bryant Park Picnic Performances presented by Bank of America, will feature soloists Michael Chioldi, Lisa Chavez, Glen Seven Allen, Mark Rucker, Brandie Sutton, Won Whi Choi, Kristin Sampson, Mark Delavan, Inna Dukach, and Megan Picerno, backed by a 30-member chorus, accompanied by a 30-piece orchestra led by a quartet of conductors: Carolyn Kuan, James Meena, Gil Rose, and James Lowe. The celebratory concert will be narrated by Mr. Capasso. (more...) 
Opera Saratoga Announces 2020 Summer Festival Programming
by BWW News Desk on August 19, 2019 in Opera Opera Saratoga announced today the three operas that will be featured at the center of the company's 2020 Summer Festival, to be presented at The Spa Little Theatre in Spa State Park, from June 20th through July 5th, 2020. (more...) 
BWW Review: A GRIM AND POWERFUL 'GLORY DENIED' at Union Avenue Opera
by Steve Callahan on August 19, 2019 in Opera A soldier gone to a far off war, absent for years. His wife in anguish, not knowing whether she's a widow. It's a story far older than The Odyssey. (more...) 
San Francisco Opera Opens 97th Season With ROMEO AND JULIET
by BWW News Desk on August 16, 2019 in Opera San Francisco Opera inaugurates its 97th season on Friday, September 6 with Charles Gounod's romantic Romeo and Juliet (Roméo et Juliette) and two season-opening benefit eventsa?"Opera Ball 2019: The Capulets' Masked Ball and BRAVO! CLUB's Opening Night Gala. The Company's opening weekend also includes Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd in director Michael Grandage's acclaimed production opening on September 7; and on September 8 San Francisco Chronicle Presents Opera in the Park, the annual free concert tradition celebrating the opening of the opera season. (more...) 
BroadwayWorld Seeks Regional Opera Contributors
by BWW News Desk on August 16, 2019 in Opera BroadwayWorld is looking for Dance and Opera loving contributors to join our team to cover Opera across the United States and Canada! (more...) 
Photo Flash: Get A First Look At Glimmerglass Festival's Production Of SHOW BOAT
by BWW News Desk on August 16, 2019 in Opera BroadwayWorld has a first look at the Glimmerglass Festival production of SHOW BOAT! Check out photos of the cast in action! (more...) 
Review Roundup: West Edge Opera's BREAKING THE WAVES; What Did The Critics Think?
by BWW News Desk on August 15, 2019 in Opera The final opera of the season is the West Coast Premiere of Breaking the Waves by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek with performances on Saturday, August 10 at 8:30, Friday, August 16 at 8:30 and Sunday, August 18 at 3:00. Based on a film by Lars von Trier, Breaking the Waves has been hailed as one of the best new operas of recent years. The opera premiered in Philadelphia in 2016 and had subsequent performances in New York in 2017. (more...) 
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Opens September 28th at Lyric Opera
by BWW News Desk on August 15, 2019 in Opera First show of Lyric's 65th season: A delightful production of the perennially popular Rossini opera gets the 2019/20 season off to an effervescent start. (more...) 
Cincinnati Opera and CCM Partner Residency for New Opera CASTOR AND PATIENCE
by BWW News Desk on August 14, 2019 in Opera Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) announce that their groundbreaking joint program, Opera Fusion: New Works, will host a residency for the new opera Castor and Patience from August 26 through September 4, 2019, in Cincinnati. (more...) 
Review Roundup: RIGOLETTO at Seattle Opera; What Did The Critics Have To Say?
by BWW News Desk on August 14, 2019 in Opera Rigoletto is now open at Seattle Opera! What did the critics think? Read all the reviews! (more...) 
BWW Review: COUNT ORY, Arcola Theatre
by Gary Naylor on August 14, 2019 in Opera Opera Alegría plonk Rossini's naughty Count on the Home Front in 1943, with lots of laughs in between the fine singing and beautifully played piano. (more...) 
San Francisco Opera Cancels Plácido Domingo Concert Following Allegations of Sexual Assault
by BWW News Desk on August 13, 2019 in Opera San Francisco Opera today announced it is cancelling the October 6, 2019 concert featuring Plácido Domingo. (more...) 
Odyssey Opera Resurrects HENRY VIII
by BWW News Desk on August 13, 2019 in Opera One of the nation's most adventurous opera companies, Odyssey Opera, begins its seventh season with a concert performance of Henry VIII (1883) by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns based on El cisma en Inglaterra (The schism in England) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. (more...) 
Opera Southwest Unearths Forgotten Bottesini Opera ALI BABA This Fall
by BWW News Desk on August 12, 2019 in Opera Continuing its tradition of presenting largely forgotten and exotic operas of the 18th- and 19th-centuries, Opera Southwest will open its 47th Season with the chance to hear and see Giovanni Bottesini's Alì Babà, Sunday afternoon, October 20, 2019 at 2 pm, Friday evening, October 25, 2019 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday afternoon, October 27, 2019 at 2 pm, all at Albuquerque's Journal Theatre (National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 4th Street SW Albuquerque NM 87102). (more...) 
BLO's PAGLIACCI Rolls Into Boston's North End To Open 2019/20 Season
by BWW News Desk on August 12, 2019 in Opera Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) opens the 2019/20 Season with its first production of Ruggero Leoncavallo's indelible and enduringly popular 1892 Italian opera, PAGLIACCI, running September 27 to October 6, 2019 and starring tenor Rafael Rojas (in BLO's Werther and La Traviata, 1998, and Madama Butterfly, 2000) as Canio, and soprano Lauren Michelle making her company debut as Nedda. (more...) 
BWW Review: PROM 31: BRAHMS, BRUCKNER & STRAUSS, Royal Albert Hall
by Sophia Lambton on August 11, 2019 in Opera Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted an evening of music where emotion overrode pristine beauty. (more...) 
San Francisco Opera Announces Winner Of 2019 Jan Shrem And Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition
by BWW News Desk on August 09, 2019 in Opera San Francisco Opera announces Canadian soprano Andriana Chuchman as the winner of the 2019 Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition. Chuchman made her Company debut as Mary Hatch in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's It's a Wonderful Life last fall and was named a?oe2019 Emerging Star of the Yeara?? based on a popular vote conducted online at sfopera.com from July 9a?"July 31, 2019. As winner of the competition, now in its fourth year, Chuchman receives a $10,000 cash prize. (more...) 
Tobacco Factory Theatres Presents THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
by BWW News Desk on August 08, 2019 in Opera Following a break in 2018, Opera Project are back at Tobacco Factory Theatres this autumn with a joyous, exuberant opera by Rossini - The Barber of Seville. (more...) 
Metropolitan Opera Guild's 85th Annual Diamond Jubilee To Honor Martina Arroyo & Teresa Stratas
by BWW News Desk on August 07, 2019 in Opera The Metropolitan Opera Guild today announced that the honorees of its “Diamond Jubilee” celebration will be luminaries Martina Arroyo and Teresa Stratas. The Guild's 85th Annual Luncheon will take place on Wednesday, November 20th at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Special remarks by Stephanie Blythe and musical tributes by Ailyn Pérez and Matthew Polenzani will be performed during the event. (more...) 
Metropolitan Opera and James Levine Settle #MeToo-Related Lawsuit
by BWW News Desk on August 07, 2019 in Opera The closely watched #MeToo-related legal battle involving conductor James Levine and the Met Opera, which fired Levine in 2018 after accusations of sexual misconduct - came to an inconclusive end on Tuesday, according to The New York Times. (more...) 
Sarasota Opera Announces Casting For The 2019-2020 Season
by BWW News Desk on August 06, 2019 in Opera Victor DeRenzi, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, and Richard Russell, Executive Director, are pleased to announce the casting for the 2019-20 season at Sarasota Opera, welcoming back returning Sarasota audience favorites as well as introducing new artists for their company debuts. (more...) 
Michigan Opera Theatre Single Tickets On Sale Next Monday
by BWW News Desk on August 05, 2019 in Opera Single tickets for Michigan Opera Theatre's (MOT) 2019-20 season will go on sale Monday, Aug. 12. The MOT opera series features a?oeDon Giovanni,a?? a?oeSweeney Todd,a?? a?oeGianni Schicchi/Buoso's Ghost,a?? a?oeChampiona?? and a?oePagliacci.a?? The dance series includes performances by the Joffrey Ballet, Malandain Ballet Biarritz and Dance Theatre of Harlem and concludes with American Ballet Theatre's (ABT) a?oeSwan Lake.a?? (more...) |
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