Video: First Look At DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN At Metropolitan Opera by BWW News Desk
- November 29, 2024 Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to lead Strauss’s grand mythological epic in Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten. See video highlights from the production.
Applications Open For The Inaugural National Opera Studio Academy by BWW News Desk
- November 26, 2024 The National Opera Studio has announced the launch of the National Opera Studio Academy, a transformative programme designed to identify and nurture emerging operatic talent from across the UK.
Wagner College Opera Presents SOMETHING MORE… In December by BWW News Desk
- November 22, 2024 Wagner College Opera will present SOMETHING MORE..., an opera scenes concert featuring masterpieces by Donizetti, Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, Bernstein, Menotti, and more.
OPERA America Reveals 18 Participants for 2025 Leadership Intensive by BWW News Desk
- November 20, 2024 OPERA America has revealed the 18 global participants selected for the 2025 Leadership Intensive. The Intensive offers participants an extended professional development experience. Learn more about the program!
Review: MACBETH at Kennedy Center by David Friscic
- November 18, 2024 Malevolence, greed, the thirst for power and the never-ending quest for revenge dominate the Washington National Opera production of composer Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth. The vocals by the company of classical singers assembled here are the glory of this production.
Review: THE ELIXIR OF LOVE, London Coliseum by Alexander Cohen
- November 18, 2024 Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. That’s the hypothesis of Harry Fehr’s new iteration of The Elixir Of Love, a self-reflexive swipe on 1970s sitcoms drunk on the saccharine sentimentalism of second world war triumphalism. Pip pip. Tally ho.
Photos: LA BOHEME at Opera San Jose by Blair Ingenthron
- November 17, 2024 San Jose Opera's production of La Bohème is currently being presented through December 1, 2024 at the California Theatre in San Jose. Check out the production photos here!
Long Beach Opera Announces 2025 Season Of Works By Pauline Oliveros by BWW News Desk
- November 15, 2024 Long Beach Opera announced its 2025 season featuring works by Pauline Oliveros, highlighting site-specific performances. Discover how these innovative productions will transform traditional opera experiences.
Photos: Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s BLUE Opens At Chicago Lyric Opera by BWW News Desk
- November 15, 2024 An intimate look at family, faith, and community in times of grief and healing, Blue makes its Chicago premiere at Lyric Opera of Chicago from November 16 to December 1, 2024. See photos of the production.
Daniele Rustioni Appointed The Met Opera's Principal Guest Conductor by BWW News Desk
- November 13, 2024 Daniele Rustioni has been appointed as the Metropolitan Opera's Principal Guest Conductor, becoming only the third person to hold this position in the company's history.
Florida Grand Opera Presents THE MAGIC FLUTE by BWW News Desk
- November 07, 2024 Florida Grand Opera has announced the season kickoff with a new production of THE MAGIC FLUTE on November 16th.
BWW Q&A: Denyce Graves on THE PASSION OF MARY CARDWELL DAWSON at North Carolina Opera by Joshua Wright
- November 06, 2024 Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves’ career has garnered unparalleled popular and critical acclaim. Ms. Graves’ acclaimed appearances as Carmen and Dalila in Samson et Dalila have resounded in the world’s greatest opera houses, and her success has been recognized in notable television appearances, interviews, masterclasses, and magazines.
Review: SAN DIEGO OPERA PRESENTS LA BOHÈME at San Diego Civic Center by Ron Bierman
- November 06, 2024 What did our critic think of SAN DIEGO OPERA PRESENTS LA BOHÈME at San Diego Civic Center?
San Diego Opera celebrated the opening of its 60th season with Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, the same opera the company staged to open its first season. Its magnificent melodies, a touchingly tragic love story, and arias that are among the most beautiful ever written have made it one of the world’s most performed operas for many years, an obvious choice for attracting audiences and donors.
The story begins in a bohemian Parisian garret where Rodolfo, a young writer, rooms with a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Money is scarce, and the only source of heat is a small stove. With no wood left to burn, Rodolfo begins to use pages from the manuscript of a play he’s writing for what few moments of heat they can provide. When the flames die down a roommate comments, “It opened and closed on the same night.”
Review: Top Singing and Tap Dancing Highlight Richard Tucker Awards Gala by Richard Sasanow
- November 02, 2024 As usual, the gala concert of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation started off with an interloper from the golden age of opera: Richard Tucker himself, singing Mascagni’s “Addio alla Madre” from CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA. A tough act to follow for those singing live at Carnegie Hall, but happily no one seemed daunted by it. That doesn’t mean everything went smoothly at the gala concert, which is par for the course of the annual event. Despite the prestige of the Richard Tucker Awards, the world doesn’t stop when the Tucker Foundation comes a calling.