Anthony Durone, president of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City Board of Trustees, has announced that Deborah Sandler Kemper, the company's General Director and Chief Executive Officer since 2012, will be retiring effective June 30, 2027, after 15 years of leadership.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City has received a grant from The Missouri Humanities Council to support their new touring program, LANGSTON HUGHES: A LYRICAL LIFE.
The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra will launch its 2025–26 season on September 20 with Prohibition, a 1920s-inspired Pops program at the Capitol Theatre. The evening will celebrate the glamour and extravagance of the Jazz Age with some of the most recognizable songs of the era, including “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” “La Vie en Rose,” “We’re in the Money,” and “Mack the Knife.”
Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Black Leadership Arts Collective will present Echoes of Excellence: Celebrating the Legacy of Chicago’s Black Voices. Learn more!
The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, designed to discover and assist with the career development of tomorrow's opera stars, will host the final round for the Middle Atlantic Region at the Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center.
OPERA America has announced grants to five companies to support the commissioning of new works by women composers as part of its Opera Grants for Women Composers program, generously supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.
See first look photos of Pittsburgh Opera's production of ‘The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson’.
The highly anticipated world premiere of the rock-meets-classical fusion concert experience, Rock Me Amadeus - Live!, came to the stage last Sunday, January 21st, at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, FL. Check out photos here!
The world premiere of Rock Me Amadeus - Live! is set to captivate audiences with its groundbreaking fusion of rock and classical music. Featuring a star-studded cast of vocalists and instrumentalists, this extraordinary concert experience interweaves classic rock anthems with timeless compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, and Puccini.
Now being performed at the Kauffman Center and concluding this weekend is a wonderful rendition by the Lyric Opera of Kansas City of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final composition together, “The Sound of Music” This production is as good as it gets. Framed by massive settings by Peter J. Davison and glorious costumes by Alex Valasek, “Sound of Music” is the incredible, mostly true tale of the Von Trapp family singers and their escape from the Nazis taken from the Matriarch Maria Von Trapp’s 1949 memoir.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announced the beloved American Broadway Musical, The Sound of Music, Nov. 4-12, 2023 at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City has announced the next production of the 2023-2024 season, The Sound of Music. Learn more about the musical and find out how to get tickets here!
Sarasota Opera will host the finals for Schmidt Vocal Arts (SVA) second annual national Schmidt Vocal Competition at Sarasota Opera House June 2-4, 2023.
Tickets for Opera Carolina's 2022/23 season are now on sale to the public. This season will explore iconic women in opera and focus on the power of opera by emphasizing HERstory. The season will open in October with Puccini's Tosca, continued in January 2023 with Porgy & Bess, and will conclude in April with Verdi's La traviata. All performances will be held at the Belk Theater.
The world-premiere recording of James M. Stephenson's Symphony No. 3, 'Visions,' the prolific Chicago composer's largest orchestral work to date, will be released digitally August 5, 2022, on Cedille Records.
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.
Arizona Opera announced casting today for their vibrant 2022/23 Season, which will feature an exciting array of productions, ranging from beloved classics to new works, including a return to five in-theater shows in both Phoenix and Tucson.
Today, Opera Carolina proudly announces its 2022/23 season. With an emphasis on exploring iconic women in opera, this season focuses on HERstory and includes three major productions of fan-favorite operas.
Five outstanding young artists have been selected to participate in Opera Columbus' annual Cooper- Bing Competition. The operatic vocal competition drew a record-breaking pool of 270 submissions, attracting talent from around the world to compete for the grand prize of $10,000.
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center’s Executive Director Janis Martinson has announced the return of the special one-night-only benefit performance of Broadway in the Berkshires on Monday, August 2 at 7:00PM at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA.
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