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Mannes Opera to Present U.S. Premiere of THE SILENT SERENADE
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 26, 2026

Mannes Opera at The New School College of Performing Arts will present the U.S. premiere of THE SILENT SERENADE (Die Stumme Serenade) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold on March 13 and March 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York City.

Wolf Trap Unveils 2026 Summer Season of Classical and Opera Performances
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 11, 2026

Wolf Trap will present a diverse lineup of classical music and opera performances for its 2026 summer season, featuring renowned global artists and ensembles.

Mannes Opera To Present U.S. Premiere of Korngold’s THE SILENT SERENADE
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 21, 2026

Mannes Opera will present the U.S. premiere of The Silent Serenade, a rarely performed operetta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York City.

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES and More Set for Chautauqua Opera Company And Conservatory 2026 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 18, 2025

For its 2026 season, Chautauqua Opera Company is deepening its commitment to developing new operas while bringing fully staged productions to Chautauqua Institution's Amphitheater.

Mannes Opera Reveals 2025�"2026 Season Led by Women Composers and Directors
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 20, 2025

​​​​​​​Mannes Opera at The New School’s College of Performing Arts has announced its 2025–2026 season, a bold lineup that will spotlight women composers and directors across all productions.

Opera Double Bill Features One-Act Operas by David T. Little and Kamala Sankaram
by Stephi Wild - Oct 11, 2024

Mannes Opera at The New School’s College of Performing Arts has announced a duo of one-act operas by Mannes faculty members and prolific composers David T. Little and Kamala Sankaram.

The College Of Performing Arts At The New School Announces 2024-2025 Performance Season
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 26, 2024

The College of Performing Arts at The New School announced its 2024-2025 performance season, featuring a range of concerts, recitals, and theatrical productions by students and faculty.

Cast Set For SOMEONE SPECTACULAR at The Pershing Square Signature Center
by Stephi Wild - Jun 13, 2024

Full casting has been announced for someone spectacular, the world premiere of a new play by Domenica Feraud, directed by Tatiana Pandiani.

Curtis Institute Of Music Celebrates 100 Years With 2024�"25 Season: GREAT TO GROUNDBREAKING
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 21, 2024

Celebrate the Curtis Institute of Music's historic 100th anniversary with the 2024-25 season, 'Great to Groundbreaking'.

Works & Process Will Host 'Experiments In Opera: The Lives And Dreams Of Nikola Tesla'
by Stephi Wild - Mar 15, 2024

Works & Process presents Experiments in Opera: The Lives and Dreams of Nikola Tesla as summoned by the Honorable Spirits of the Grand Gotham Hotel by Phil Kline and Jim Jarmusch, featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo on Monday, April 15, 2024 at 7pm.

Jillian Walker's THE WHITNEY ALBUM Comes to Soho Rep This Month
by Stephi Wild - May 15, 2023

Soho Rep presents the world premiere of multidisciplinary theater-maker, musician, and composer Jillian Walker's The Whitney Album. Walker's ritual performance flows between incantation, love lecture, scene, and song as it considers the labor of performance itself and honors the legacy of Whitney Houston and so many other Black women beloved, and consumed, for their art.

Jillian Walker's THE WHITNEY ALBUM Premieres at Soho Rep in May
by Stephi Wild - Apr 12, 2023

Soho Rep presents the world premiere of multidisciplinary theater-maker and “imaginary historian” Jillian Walker's The Whitney Album, a meditation on the artist's relationship to Whitney Houston's work and personal life, and perceptions of both in the American imagination. The production concludes a 2022-23 Soho Rep season consisting entirely of works commissioned by the organization

PlayCo's LUNCH BUNCH Extended Through Late April
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 5, 2023

PlayCo has extended Sarah Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and presented with Clubbed Thumb.

Louisa Jacobson, Ugo Chukwu & More to Star in Sarah Einspanier's LUNCH BUNCH at PlayCo & Clubbed Thumb
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 14, 2023

PlayCo has announced the cast and creative team of Sarah Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch, a playful comedy surrounding a group of public defenders’ occasionally outsized emotional investment in the meals they share, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and presented with Clubbed Thumb.

Mannes Opera Presents LA CALISTO
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 27, 2022

Mannes Opera presents La Calisto with rising star conductor Kamna Gupta working with Artistic Director Emma Griffin to create a vivid and contemporary take on this wild tale. This presentation of La Calisto is part of the @Abrons Series Program, a subsidized theater rental program that provides access to spaces and subsidized production services.

The New School's Mannes Opera to Stage IN THE GREEN
by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 30, 2022

The College of Performing Arts at The New School is proud to present a Mannes Opera production of Grace McLean's In the Green from Tuesday, May 10 through Saturday, May 14 at the Bank Street Theater. Premiered at Lincoln Center Theater in 2019, and praised as “Ingenious & Wildly Inventive” by The New York Times, Mannes Opera has expanded on McClean’s original vision by weaving in additional choral pieces by Hildegard von Bingen, performed by a full chorus.

Wolf Trap Announces 50th Anniversary Season
by Stephi Wild - Apr 27, 2021

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announces plans to  welcome audiences back with its first set of concerts for summer. Re-emerging from a one-year pandemic closure of the Filene Center and Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods, Wolf Trap will celebrate the 50th anniversary season at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts with its first live music performances since December 2019.

BWW Reviews: Once Again, PROTOTYPE Shows What "Opera-Theatre-Now" Means to Musical Life in New York
by Richard Sasanow - Jan 21, 2020

This year's edition of PROTOTYPE, which refers to itself as 'Opera-Theatre-Now,' has come and gone. You never know what to expect, for better or for worse: Try guessing what's going to be 'the next big thing' at your own peril, even if it has played somewhere else first, for they things might not be what you expected at all.

Jennifer Zetlan Will Sing Ellen West At PROTOTYPE Festival
by Stephi Wild - Dec 23, 2019

Soprano Jennifer Zetlan reprises the title role in the New York City premiere of composer Ricky Ian Gordon and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Frank Bidart's Ellen West in Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center at the PROTOTYPE Festival. In the summer of 2019, Zetlan portrayed Ellen in the world premiere of the opera in Saratoga Springs, in a performance hailed by critics as 'brilliant,' 'penetrating' and 'a tour de force.' The PROTOTYPE production will also star Metropolitan Opera baritone Nathan Gunn. Performances will run from January 14-19, 2020.

Prototype: Opera I Theatre I Now Announces Eighth Annual Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 10, 2019

With its eighth innovative season in 2020, PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now continues its rigorous exploration of the work, producing and presenting an abundance of provocative shows in the interstitial realms between music, operatic tradition, and theatre. This season, Beth Morrison Projects and HERE's meteoric annual festival lands on stages across New York from January 9-18, presenting 6 works by 23 composers and librettists along with hundreds of collaborators - productions ranging from black-box chamber opera to multi-media rock concerts.