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New Camerata Opera Announces Seventh Season by BWW News Desk
- July 12, 2022 New Camerata Opera has announced details for the company's groundbreaking seventh season. The upcoming season breaks boundaries by bringing classic stories to the stage and re-contextualizing them for today's audience.
Houston Grand Opera Appoints Maureen Zoltek as Music Director of the HGO Studio by BWW News Desk
- July 11, 2022 Houston Grand Opera has announced Dr. Maureen Zoltek as the incoming Music Director of the HGO Studio, the company’s prestigious training program for the next generation of opera artists. When she assumes the position in September 2022, Zoltek will occupy the Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. Alkek Chair.
Michael Sheen to Star in New Production of AMADEUS at Sydney Opera House by BWW News Desk
- July 11, 2022 Acclaimed Welsh actor and producer Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga, Frost/Nixon, The Queen, Tron: Legacy, Masters of Sex, Good Omens, Amadeus) will star as Salieri in a gripping new production of Peter Shaffer’s Tony and Academy Award®-winning masterpiece Amadeus at the Sydney Opera House from 27 December, 2022 – 21 January, 2023.
Review: EUGENE ONEGIN at Union Avenue Opera by Steve Callahan
- July 11, 2022 Glorious voices fill Tchaikovsky's masterpiece with beauty. After the tribulations of the pandemic the Union Avenue Opera returns to its lovely home. Here, in the nave of the Union Avenue Christian Church, the company presents first-class opera up-close and intimate. They open their 28th season with a superb production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
SeokJong Baek Joins CAVELLERIA RUSTICANA/ PAGLIACCI at Royal Opera House by Grace Cutler
- July 08, 2022 The Royal Opera House today announces that sadly Jonas Kaufmann has withdrawn from all performances of Cavalleria rusticana. Mr. Kaufmann is continuing to recover from COVID-19 and is not well enough to sing the remaining performances.
World Premiere of HOLY GROUND and TAKING UP SERPENTS to be Presented at the 2022 Glimmerglass Festival by BWW News Desk
- July 07, 2022 Librettist Lila Palmer and Director Chloe Treat join forces this summer on the World Premiere production of HOLY GROUND at the 2022 Glimmerglass Festival. The opera by Damien Geter and Palmer will be performed as part of a “Double Bill” along with Kamala Sankaram and Jerry Dye’s TAKING UP SERPENTS, also directed by Treat.
Opera Maine Presents Richard Wagner's THE FLYING DUTCHMAN This Month by BWW News Desk
- July 06, 2022 Opera Maine presents The Flying Dutchman at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine on Wednesday, July 27 and Friday, July 29, 2022. The opera will be sung in German with English supertitles. It will be sung in two acts with one intermission.
Individual Tickets for Opera Orlando's Summer Concert Series On Sale Now by BWW News Desk
- July 05, 2022 Individual tickets are now on sale for Opera Orlando in Concert: Summer Concert Series. The Opera’s annual series returns with three concerts by world-class artists in the intimate setting of the University Club of Winter Park, and this season it's a hot soprano summer as Opera Orlando welcomes back divas from past seasons.
Opera in the Movies Takes Centre Stage With Free Vancouver Opera Concert at Deer Lake Park This Month by BWW News Desk
- July 05, 2022 Join Vancouver Opera for the inaugural Opera In The Park in beautiful Deer Lake Park located in Burnaby at 6450 Deer Lake Avenue. Presented in partnership with the City of Burnaby on Sunday July 17, this free family friendly event is an operatic journey through some of our pop culture movie favourites.
Soprano Angela Brown Receives Lifetime Achievement Award by Grace Cutler
- July 03, 2022 On June 25, opera soprano Angela Brown received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA)
Warner Theatre Announces THE MET: LIVE IN HD 2022-23 SEASON by BWW News Desk
- July 01, 2022 The Warner Theatre has announced the 2022-2023 season of The Met: Live in HD, featuring ten Saturday matinee simulcasts streaming live from The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
Salon/Sanctuary Concerts Partners With Razom For Ukraine For Benefit Concert by BWW News Desk
- June 30, 2022 Salon/Sanctuary Concerts will lift its voice to help Razom for Ukraine provide urgently needed humanitarian relief where it is desperately needed in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia.
Pentabus Announces 2022 Season Featuring New Commissions and More by BWW News Desk
- June 30, 2022 Today Pentabus announced their 2022 Season which features a new commission touring in the autumn, the return of Pentabus Young Writers live production and three new digital projects.
Greek National Opera Announces 2022-23 Season Featuring World Premiere of New GNO Production of Verdi's FALSTAFF by BWW News Desk
- June 28, 2022 The Greek National Opera’s 2022-23 season curated by GNO Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis will feature ten new opera and ballet productions, one newly commissioned opera, five revivals of past productions, music concerts, major co-productions with some of the world’s foremost opera houses, collaborations with leading conductors and more.
On Site Opera Presents Comedy And Tragedy Under The Stars At Caramoor by BWW News Desk
- June 27, 2022 On Site Opera, New York's pioneering opera company rooted in site-specific storytelling and the immersive experience, returns to Katonah's Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts for a one-night-only performance entitled A Night at the Opera with Stephanie Blythe and Laquita Mitchell, July 22 at 8:00 p.m. Reimagining the company's winter digital production of Lesson Plan for the live and in-person stage, along with arias and duets from the timeless opera, Carmen, the evening, presented in partnership with Caramoor brings comedy and tragedy to the stage under the billowing tent of the outdoor Venetian Theater.
Opera Naples Hosts Exclusive Summer Opera Film Series Featuring MADAMA BUTTERFLY and More by BWW News Desk
- June 27, 2022 Opera Naples, one of Naples' leading performing arts organizations, has announced tickets are on sale for HD at Opera Naples, a summer film series of classic European operas. Showings will take place on the first and third Wednesday of each month July 6 through Oct. 19, 2022, at the Wang Opera Center.
Cincinnati Opera 2022 Summer Festival Continues With FIERCE And THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE by BWW News Desk
- June 27, 2022 This July 6 through 10, Cincinnati Opera continues its 2022 Summer Festival with two uplifting productions: the world premiere of Fierce (July 6, 9, 10 at SCPA's Corbett Theater), with music by William Menefield and libretto by Sheila Williams, and Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious The Pirates of Penzance (July 7, 8, 10 at Cincinnati Music Hall).
Opera Naples Announces Summer Opera Film Series Featuring Renée Fleming & More by BWW News Desk
- June 27, 2022 Opera Naples has announced tickets are on sale for HD at Opera Naples, a summer film series of classic European operas. Showings will take place on the first and third Wednesday of each month July 6 through Oct. 19, 2022, at the Wang Opera Center.
The American Opera Project Examines Women's WWI Experience With New Opera by BWW News Desk
- June 23, 2022 The American Opera Project (AOP), a Brooklyn based opera think-tank at the forefront of contemporary opera development and collaboration, announces the world premiere of Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices from the Great War, July 29-August 7 at The Space at Irondale.
Review: CENTER STAGE at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis by Steve Callahan
- June 23, 2022 What did our critic think? Center Stage is a great smörgåsbord of opera- No, no, that's far too Swedish and Lutheran and heavy. If the whole OTSL festival is a great feast, then Center Stage is the delicious icing on the top of that final cake. It's all dessert and no vegetables.
Classic Lyric Arts to Present A Celebration Of Mozart's Italian Operas At Bard College by BWW News Desk
- June 22, 2022 From July 5-10, 2022, Classic Lyric Arts will present four concerts celebrating Mozart's Italian operas, performed by the 2022 artists selected for the institution's annual two-week summer training experience in the Berkshires devoted to mastering the artistry of Mozart's Italian operas.