Opera Austin Festival to Celebrate New Operas This November by BWW News Desk
- May 15, 2024 Discover the Opera Austin Festival, a one-night event in November, celebrating new opera works by local and regional composers and performers in Central Texas. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Cincinnati Opera to Host Creators Forum in June by BWW News Desk
- May 14, 2024 Cincinnati Opera will host Creators Forum, a rare and insightful conversation with the creative teams behind two operas. Learn more and see how to take part.
Review: Exquisite THE HOURS by Puts Triumphs Again at the Met under Watanabe by Richard Sasanow
- May 13, 2024 When I first heard Kevin Puts’s gorgeous, melodic score for THE HOURS back in 2022, I was blown away, thinking it was almost too good to be true. Could it be a classic? I wanted to hear it again, though not too soon, to give it a chance to settle in its own skin. Lucky us—lucky me—that the Met brought it back so quickly. It reminded me that first impressions are sometimes on the mark.
Opera In The Pines to Present THE CRUCIBLE by Robert Ward by BWW News Desk
- May 11, 2024 Opera in the Pines will present the Maine premiere of Robert Ward's The Crucible in an immersive theater experience that summons the audience as the jury of the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
Opera Saratoga Will Host Cabaret At The Mansion Next Month by BWW News Desk
- May 10, 2024 Opera Saratoga opens its 2024 season with Cabaret at the Mansion, a showcase of the fabulous voices of this year's Festival Artists at one of Saratoga's most charming venues, The Mansion Inn, only minutes from downtown Saratoga Springs.
Video: Get A First Look At THE JUNIPER TREE at Opera Orlando by Joshua Wright
- May 09, 2024 Get a first look at Opera Orlando's dark retelling of Grimm’s The Juniper Tree, a contemporary chamber opera by composers Philip Glass and Robert Moran to a libretto by Arthur Yorinks. Check out the video!
New Opera DIE GRÖSSTE FUGE To Have U.S. Premiere At Roulette Intermedium by BWW News Desk
- May 06, 2024 On Thursday, June 13, 2024, at 8 pm, composer Elliott Sharp will present the US Premiere in English of Die Grösste Fuge (The Greatest Fugue), A Time Travel Opera at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn.
Video: Watch Excerpts from The Met Opera's EL NIÑO by BWW News Desk
- May 04, 2024 Watch excerpts from The Met Opera's El Niño, running through May 17th. In these videos, the chorus sings 'For With God No Thing Shall Be Impossible,' from Part I and 'In the Day of the Great Slaughter' from Part II during the final dress rehearsal.
Video: Go Behind the Scenes at Met Opera's EL NIÑO by BWW News Desk
- May 04, 2024 Go behind the scenes of John Adams’s El Niño and watch the cast and creative team bring Lileana Blain-Cruz’s vibrant production to life in the video here!
Bronx Opera to Present Gilbert & Sullivan's IOLANTHE or THE PEER AND THE PERI This Month by BWW News Desk
- May 04, 2024 GILBERT & SULLIVAN will pay a visit to The Bronx when the BRONX OPERA COMPANY performs IOLANTHE or The Peer and the Peri, the G&S comic opera, filled with their special talent for satirical humor. Performances May 11-18, 2 evenings and 2 matinees, at the Lovinger Theater at Lehman College.
Review: SAN DIEGO OPERA'S MADAMA BUTTERFLY at San Diego Civic Center by Ron Bierman
- May 03, 2024 Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular operas ever written. It has a wonderfully lyrical score, familiar arias and a story that remains compelling even after often heard. San Diego Opera’s most recent production played to a full house on opening night, and under the direction of Jose Maria Condemi the well-chosen cast delivered a performance with impressive emotional depth. Corinne Winters’s convincing portrayal of the naïve 15-year-old Cio-Cio-San brought bravas and enthusiastic applause at curtain call. But her portrayal of innocence exploited meant both bravos and boos over extended applause for tenor Adam Smith’s convincing version of her heartless seducer, Lieutenant Pinkerton.
Cork Opera House Announces Cast of SUMMER REVELS! by BWW News Desk
- May 01, 2024 Get the latest updates on Cork Opera House's upcoming premiere of SUMMER REVELS! Led by Cork's West End stars, this new musical theatre summer show is set to be a spectacular event.