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Richard Tucker Music Foundation Names 2025 Award Winner and Grant Recipients
by Josh Sharpe - May 8, 2025

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation has announced the recipients of its prestigious Richard Tucker Award, Richard Tucker Career Grant, and Sara Tucker Study Grant. 
Madison Opera To Present DON GIOVANNI
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 3, 2025

Madison Opera concludes its 2024/25 mainstage season with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni, the company's first production of this classic work in twelve years. 
Monét X Change To Make Opera Colorado Debut In DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 11, 2024

Opera Colorado has announced that Monét X Change, celebrated drag queen and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, will make her highly anticipated debut with the company in Donizetti's beloved comic opera, Daughter of the Regiment.
Richard Tucker Music Foundation Announces 2024 Award Winner And Grant Recipients
by A.A. Cristi - May 11, 2024

Discover the 2024 award winner and grant recipients announced by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation.
Richard Tucker Music Foundation Announces 2022 Award Winner And Grant Recipients
by A.A. Cristi - May 7, 2022

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation today announces the 2022 recipients of its prestigious Richard Tucker Award, Richard Tucker Career Grant, and Sara Tucker Study Grant.
BWW Review: FLIGHT Soars through an Exciting and Enlightening Journey at The Dallas Opera
by Zac Thriffiley - Mar 7, 2022

The Dallas Opera’s premiere production of Jonathan Dove’s Flight beautifully captures these happenstance experiences in all their simplicity, magic, humor, and heartbreak, reminding us that we are at our most human when we find ourselves at our most vulnerable.
Dallas Opera Presents FLIGHT, March 4
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 17, 2022

The Dallas Opera has secured the cabin and announced takeoff for Flight, the opera based on the real-life story that also inspired Steven Spielberg's The Terminal. The Dallas premiere of Jonathan Dove and April De Angelis' contemporary masterpiece opens at the Winspear Opera House on Friday, March 4, 2022.
Madison Opera Returns to Garner Park for Opera in the Park 2021
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 7, 2021

Madison Opera’s Opera in the Park celebrates its twentieth year on Saturday, July 24 at 8pm in Garner Park on  Madison’s West Side.
Seattle Opera Unveils First Outdoor Recital Series"and More
by A.A. Cristi - May 19, 2021

From a new streaming production of Tosca filmed at a historic Seattle cathedral, to live outdoor recitals at Seattle Center, and a conductor dialogue on race and gender, there's plenty of ways to engage with music through Seattle Opera's June offerings.
Madison Opera's OPERA IN THE PARK Will Return For Summer 2021
by Stephi Wild - May 15, 2021

Madison Opera's Opera in the Park 2021 will take place in person in Garner Park in 2021.  As always, it is free to attend, thanks to generous sponsors.
#StopAsianHate Benefit Concert Will Be Presented by Wear Yellow Proudly
by Stephi Wild - Apr 18, 2021

In light of ongoing and rising violence against Asian people in the US, Wear Yellow Proudly is producing The #StopAsianHate Benefit Concert in partnership with the Asian American Federation to raise awareness, funds for social change, and provide solace through music and art.
BWW Review: Seattle Opera Streams DON GIOVANNI
by Maria Nockin - Mar 6, 2021

On March 5, 2021, Seattle Opera presented Mozart’s Don Giovanni to its worldwide online audience. Stage director Brenna Corner notes that the 1964 Hamlet on Broadway directed by Richard Burton inspired her to do this black-and-white film production and use it to communicate the opera’s basic premise. Corner says she intended to emphasize the drama.
Seattle Opera Streams DON GIOVANNI
by Stephi Wild - Feb 17, 2021

For many years, the character of Don Giovanni was celebrated as “Mozart's bad boy”—an evil but charming anti-hero of opera. But for Stage Director Brenna Corner and Maestro Lidiya Yankovskaya—the duo behind Seattle Opera's streaming Don Giovanni—there's so much more to this masterpiece than toxic masculinity.
Music and Arts Lovers Can Now Purchase 'Single Tickets' to Seattle Opera Streams
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 6, 2021

Seattle Opera is introducing “single tickets” to its 2021 streaming productions of Don Giovanni, Flight, and Tosca—plus a bonus reprise of The Elixir of Love. This is the company’s first foray into pay-per-view streaming content, which can be enjoyed by opera lovers worldwide.
BWW Interview: THE ELIXIR OF LOVE at McCaw Hall
by Erica Miner - Nov 2, 2020

Available to season ticket holders from November 13–December 4, 2020 , Recorded on the McCaw Hall stage
Seattle Opera Unveils Virtual Fall Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 27, 2020

As Songs of Summer, a free, 15-performance recital series concludes this week, Seattle Opera unveils its Fall Season. With a variety of free performances and programming to enjoy at home, the Fall Season was created with both artistic innovation-and public safety-in mind, said General Director Christina Scheppelmann.
Long Beach Opera Community Conversations Return In June 2020
by A.A. Cristi - May 13, 2020

Long Beach Opera is bringing back its popular and relevant series of Community Conversations June 14, 21, and 28 that were inspired by the LBO world premiere production of  The Central Park Five, which recently won the Pulitzer prize.  These Conversations are available on facebooklive and archived following at www.longbeachopera.org.
Utah Opera Presents 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner SILENT NIGHT
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 20, 2019

Witness rare and poignant moments of humanity during the world's most brutal war in this stunning musical depiction of the legendary Christmas truce of 1914. a?oeSilent Night,a?? one of the most performed American operas of our time, is based on the 2005 screenplay a?oeJoyeux Noëla??. Tomer Zvulun will direct the production, and Robert Tweten will conduct the cast, Utah Opera Chorus, and Utah Symphony.
Photo Flash: New-York Historical Society Presents Excerpts Of David Henry Hwang And Huang Ruo's Opera, AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
by Stephi Wild - Apr 27, 2019

On April 23rd, the New-York Historical Society's latest installment of the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series showcased An American Soldier, a two-act opera composed by Huang Ruo, featuring a libretto by David Henry Hwang, in the Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024.
Utah Opera Continues With THE MAGIC FLUTE
by BWW News Desk - Mar 9, 2019

Utah Opera continues its 2018-19 season with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute, a fairytale-like story with lessons of courage, respect, and truth. Utah Symphony Music Director Thierry Fischer together with Stage Director Paul Peers will lead five performances at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre (50 West 200 South) on March 9 and 15 at 7:30 PM, March 11 and 13 at 7 PM, and March 17 at 2 PM. Tickets, priced from $29-$108, and $15 student tickets, are available for purchase through www.utahopera.org or by calling 801-533-6683.

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