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The A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a special gala concert featuring Fletcher alumni, current Fellows, the UNCSA Cantata Singers, and the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra in a program of selections from operatic favorites including “Don Giovanni,” “La cenerentola,” “L'elisir d'amore” and “Eugene Onegin.”
After Aida: Comedy & Arias About the Retirement That Wasn't is at Atheneum Two – from 20 – 22 May, 2022.
Eyre’s take on La Traviata quite rightly deserves to be seen as a jewel in ROH’s crown but Angel Blue lifts it to a new level. Read our critic's review.
Opera Carolina presents Thursday, April 7 | 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 9 | 1 p.m. & 8 p.m..
On April 30 at the Mellon Institute Auditorium in Oakland, international superstar soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas gives a moving solo recital dedicated to women artists who shaped the 20th century. On May 20 and 22 at the Carnegie Music Hall in Carnegie, Resonance Works presents a reimagined version of Giuseppe Verdi's heartbreaking opera masterpiece Rigoletto set in 1930s Hollywood.
General Director Ken McConnell and Artistic Director Tobias Picker today announced Tulsa Opera’s 75th anniversary season, which opens October 28 & 30 with the company premiere of Rossini’s The Italian Girl (L’italiana in Algeri).
Dutch National Opera has announced its 2022/2023 season, with La Liberté? as its central theme. It promises to be a jam-packed season with no fewer than 15 productions, 4 world premieres, 2 European premieres, 6 new productions, 4 family operas as well as a new edition of the Opera Forward Festival.
Last season, Dutch National Ballet celebrated its anniversary by primarily showcasing Dutch choreographers, but this season the company will also turn the spotlight on prominent international choreographers as well as on major works from abroad. Dutch National Ballet will be presenting a season jam-packed with new creations as well as a few classics.
Lawrence Brownlee est l’un des plus brillants belcantistes de notre temps. Sa virtuosité légendaire et la beauté lumineuse de sa voix l’ont fait triompher dans Rossini, Bellini et Donizetti. Aujourd’hui il tend la main à un tout jeune artiste lui même d’une virtuosité éblouissante, le ténor sud-africain Levy Segkapane. Amateur de folies vocales, ne manquez pas ce rendez-vous rare !
The 2022 Fall Season will feature Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage, along with a production of the Sarasota Youth Opera, Dean Burry's The Secret World of Og. Opening the 2023 Winter Opera Festival on February 18 will be Puccini's Madama Butterfly, followed by Mozart's Don Giovanni, Verdi's Ernani, and Massenet's Thérèse.
Canadian Opera Company has announced its lineup of performances and special events in April 2022.
Violetta Valéry ist jung, begehrt und todkrank. In der glamourösen Halbwelt von Paris führt sie als Edelprostituierte ein ausschweifendes, aber isoliertes Leben im Luxus – bis sie mit Alfredo den Mann trifft, für den sie alles aufgeben und mit dem sie einen bürgerlichen Neuanfang wagen will. Doch die Moralvorstellungen von Alfredos Familie sowie das Fortschreiten ihrer Krankheit machen Violettas Pläne zunichte.
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra and Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov are proud to announce a 2022-2023 Season filled with top guest artists and varied programming including lesser known important works and a range of genres from thrilling dances to enthralling arias.
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov have announced a 2022-2023 Season filled with top guest artists and varied programming including lesser known important works and a range of genres from thrilling dances to enthralling arias.
Spectacular party scenes, gorgeous period costumes, and show-stopping arias bring 1850s Paris to lavish life in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. The production marks the first in-person opera performances staged at the Canadian Opera Company’s downtown opera house since the beginning of the pandemic.
The season includes four mainstage productions at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Carmen, La traviata, The Shining, and Sondheim on Sondheim in addition to live performances of the holiday classic, Amahl and the Night Visitors and the Kansas City premiere of Listen, Wilhelmina!, an imaginative children's opera at the Michael and Ginger Frost Production Arts Building. All Kauffman Center performances will be accompanied by the Kansas City Symphony.
The tragic incidents of the last week have shocked us all. The attack on Ukraine is an attack on the ideals of freedom and democracy that we share with the people of Ukraine. The works we perform always raise the question of humanity and take sides against the injustice that befalls individuals as well as entire peoples.
The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street, NYC), home of Sleep No More, announced today that the New York premiere of Heartbeat Opera’s QUANDO, a short film and live performance mashup, will play a strictly limited engagement starting on April 7. Just five performances will be offered in The Club Car through April 9.
Single tickets are now on-sale for all of the Canadian Opera Company's 2022 in-person programming.
Cincinnati Opera today shared updated cast, production, and schedule details for its 2022 Summer Festival, which will take place June 18 through July 31, 2022. After two seasons away, the company returns this summer to its longtime performance venues, Cincinnati Music Hall and the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA).
