BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR No. 40 at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin
- Jan 8, 2021
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.
BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR No. 39 at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin
- Jan 3, 2021
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/
The Met Announces Three-Week Schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Sep 24, 2020
The Met has announced themed lineups for the next three 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 Met Cancels 2020-21 Opera Season, Announces Premieres for 2021-22
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Sep 23, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera announced today that the ongoing health crisis has resulted in the cancellation of the entire 2020-21 season, but the company also announced ambitious artistic plans for its 2021-22 season, which will open with the Met premiere of Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
Festival Napa Valley Presents ONE NIGHT, MANY VOICES
by A.A. Cristi
- Jun 29, 2020
Festival Napa Valley, California Wine Country's flagship music festival, is announcing a?oeOne Night, Many Voices,a?? a free, global, virtual concert featuring original performances by some of today's most renowned artists in Classical music.
The Met Opera Presents AT-HOME GALA: Encore Screening, 12-13 Jun 2020
by Gilbert Kim Sancha
- Jun 12, 2020
As part of The Metropolitan Opera's (Met Opera) urgent “The Voice Must Be Heard” fundraising campaign to support and protect the future of opera amid the COVID-19, more than 40 leading opera artists and members of the company's brilliant orchestra and chorus performed from their respective homes all around the world. The unprecedented virtual gathering of Met Opera's principal artists, ensemble, and orchestra, billed as At-Home Gala, was streamed live around the world in 162 countries on 25 April 2020, viewed by more than 750,000 global audience members.
BWW Review: Metropolitan Opera's At-Home Gala
by Maria Nockin
- Apr 26, 2020
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.
BWW Review: Met's Round-the-World, At-Home Gala Proves 'Music is Nutrition for Our Souls'
by Richard Sasanow
- Apr 26, 2020
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!
Merola Opera Program Announces Participants/Dates for 2020 Summer Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Mar 26, 2020
After debuting its first-ever commissioned work in the program's history last season, San Francisco's acclaimed Merola Opera Program, one of the most prestigious and selective opera training programs in the world, returns with a new group of rising opera stars for its 63rd season.
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