Masquerade Theatre is dedicated to exploring the humanity beneath our masques by using theatre to enlighten, to celebrate our diversity as a vital part of our human experience and to inspire us to think, react and learn. New works by contemporary artists are essential to engaging audiences in a shared dialogue reflective of our own time.
This year has been a challenging one to say the least; particularly in the arts. Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre, like other performing arts organi-ations, has been facing a changing landscape, not only due to the pandemic (which forced HOT to postpone the 20-21 season) but also in the way people consume entertainment.
Center Theatre Group’s L.A. Writers’ Workshop Festival: New Plays Forged in L.A. moves to the Digital Stage this season with a virtually produced reading of “Christa McAuliffe’s Eyes Were Blue” written by Kemp Powers (2019-2020 L.A. Writers’ Workshop participant).
Boston Baroque has introduced its Resource Library, a digital archive of performance sources, including program notes written by Boston Baroque Founder and Music Director Martin Pearlman, orchestration charts, and more, for free on its website. With more than 30 composers and 235 musical works, the digital resource is a significant contribution to the early music field.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of the undisputed music genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa is celebrating him by sharing a part of its New Year's Eve Gala, which was centered around the opera work of Mozart and Rossini!
Houston Grand Opera has announced the nine finalists for this year’s Concert of Arias, the 33rd Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, to be presented live from the Wortham Theater Center on February 5, 2020, at 7 p.m. CT.
'Marin Sorescu' National Theatre Craiova, one of Romania’s biggest theatres and a landmark theatre in Craiova, with a 170-year tradition in theatre production reaching international notoriety, announces the launch of its international project THE HEKTOMERON, an universal message of hope, on January 15, 2021.
Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, Heresy Films a division of Heresy Records, has released Love's Fever, a short covid-19 Pandemic relevant music film created by international opera and stage director Eric Fraad.
The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company's website during the coronavirus closure. The schedule includes a week of Leading Ladies: Opera’s Greatest Heroines and an Antiheroes Week.
Los Angeles Opera’s Modulation, presented in collaboration with the Prototype Festival, adapts opera and theater to a new interactive format.
The voices of extraordinary artists show us the irrepressible power of music to provide comfort and instigate contemplation of ourselves, our art, our world. Access to Modulation, available January 8–16, 2021, costs $25 per viewing household. Access will enable you to enjoy Modulation for one week.
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.
Victor DeRenzi, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, and Richard Russell, Executive Director, are pleased to announce the casting for the 2021 Winter and Spring Opera Festivals.
Both Los Angeles and San Francisco Opera companies are closed right now, but there is still a wealth material to see and hear on each of their websites. LA has recitals and Coffee with Conlon. SFO has links to Eun Sun Kim’s conducting dates at La Scala. https://www.laopera.org/discover/la-opera-on-now/
https://sfopera.com/opera-is-on/