While acknowledging that the landscape for future performing arts events is currently uncertain, Long Beach Opera is forging ahead with plans for its 2021 a?oeSeason of Solidaritya?? beginning in January. Both LBO and Interim Artistic Advisor Yuval Sharon believe that collaboration and creative thinking will be the key to returning to performing arts activities, and understand that adaptability may be necessary to return to the important work of connecting individuals and communities through live, in-person artistic expression.
The season finale of “For Life” grew over the prior week by 17% in Total Viewers (4.1 million vs. 3.5 million) to mark the series' most-watched telecast in 2 months, and by 13% among Adults 18-49 (0.9/5 vs. 0.8/4) to score its highest-rated telecast in 4 weeks – since 3/10/20 and 4/14/20, respectively.
Netflix has shared a first look at season two of The Politician, starring Ben Platt, Bette Midler, Judith Light, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laura Dreyfuss, and more!
Regina Opera Company, which is celebrating its 50th season of great opera at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy of Brooklyn, has curated a collection of its best performance videos to help ease the strain of these difficult times.
Los Angeles Opera always has interesting items online that help opera lovers keep up with their favorite art. Since the cancellation of Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, Music Director James Conlon has written a blog telling readers why it needs to be played and heard by audiences everywhere. The blog also gives us a clip from David McVicar's production at Scottish Opera. Theirs is the production that was to come to us in LA.
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.
The Met has announced the Week 10 schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure.
During its unplanned hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO at Home. Here's what's on tap for next week.
Today, the San Antonio Symphony announced details of the 2020-21 Classical Season which will mark its first concerts back in the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.
MassOpera is presenting a virtual fundraising event Mother's Day Songs and Shout-outs. As many of us cannot presently be with loved ones for special events, MassOpera is presenting an opportunity to connect our audience and their loved ones through song and messages of love.
Il Maestro Simone Martino proprio non ci sta a rimanere in silenzio in questa pandemia. Il suo amore per la musica ed il teatro non si fa intimidire dalle restrizioni a cui tutti noi siamo sottoposti. Dopo averci regalato la scorsa settimana, due première in streaming YouTube di due dei suoi lavori più significativi, Beatrice Cenci e Roma Opera Musical (ancora disponibili per chi se li fosse persi), ci offre un altro emozionante momento di arte con la diffusione del brano 'Sogno' da lui composto.
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced their new online workshop titled Introduction to the Joys of Opera, an enlightening and empowering survey of opera led by soprano Ashley Galvani Bell and stage director Antón Armendariz Diaz.
Today, Savannah VOICE Festival (SVF) announces the schedule for its latest initiative, a?oeVirtually Live,a?? which will offer online audiences a way to experience live music during this time of social distancing.
Riempiamo il silenzio è un progetto musicale che nasce nel periodo della pandemia globale causata dal coronavirus. L'idea è del maestro Diego Cal, grande trombettista della scena musicale italiana, che ha pensato di coinvolgere alcune personalità eccezionali come Amii Stewart, Mike Applebaum, Fabrizio Bosso, Eric Daniel, Stefano Amerio. L'unione di questi talentuosi artisti sta per portare alla creazione di una grandissima orchestra virtuale, che attingerà ai musicisti di tutto il mondo per creare una performance mai vista prima. La particolarità dell'orchestra sarà che questi artisti non avranno mai suonato insieme e lo faranno per la prima volta proprio in questa occasione.
On April 25, 2020, The Metropolitan Opera presented many of its top ranked artists performing from their homes or where they were staying on that date. Met General Manager Peter Gelb, the master of ceremonies, chatted with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin as they presented each performer. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, artists were recorded alone or with people they know well.
Opera singer Ellen Chickering has died at age 77. According to Portland Press Herald, she was diagnosed with abdominal cancer at the time of her retirement in December 2019.
In the midst of this COVID-19 crisis that is gripping the world--and keeping so many people in quarantine--the Metropolitan Opera managed to pull off a brilliantly executed music coup. It connected stars, chorus members and orchestral musicians in an “At-Home Gala”--a combination fund-raiser for the Met with wonderful entertainment. And the technology worked!
