Pacific Symphony Presents DEFIANT REQUIEM: VERDI AT TEREZIN
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 28, 2019
Praised by The New York Times as 'poignant ... a monument to the courage of one man to foster hope among prisoners with little other solace,' Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terez n will be performed by Pacific Symphony on April 16, 2019 at 8 p.m. at the Ren e and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall (600 Town Center Drive) in Costa Mesa, CA. The 'extraordinarily beautiful and moving' concert/drama commemorates the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp during World War II who performed Verdi's Requiem 16 times, as an act of defiance and resistance to their Nazi captors. Defiant Requiem is a complete live performance of Verdi's Requiem interspersed with historic film, testimony from survivors and narration that tells this tale of audacious bravery. For this performance, Murray Sidlin will conduct the full Verdi Requiem with the soloists, Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony.
BWW Review: DON GIOVANNI at Virginia Opera
by Kelle Long
- Nov 11, 2018
Mozart's Don Giovanni is a must in every opera goer's repertoire. If you are looking for a first encounter with the Don, you could be in no more responsible hands than the Virginia Opera. The material and musical mastery are deliciously indulgent in equal measure. Director Lillian Groag's rendition is a vibrant and youthful take on the infamous playboy invigorated by lively performances. The work may be named for the relentless philanderer, but the ensemble offers a rich bounty of characters.
Opera San José Presents Mozart's THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO
by A.A. Cristi
- Aug 14, 2018
On September 15th, Opera San Jose's 35th season opens with Mozart's comedy The Abduction from the Seraglio. The opera was commissioned by Emperor Joseph II, and as the myth goes when he first heard it, he complained to Mozart, 'That is too fine for my ears - there are too many notes.' Mozart replied, 'There are just as many notes as there should be.'
BWW Review: OTSL Stages a Shocking Story in AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
by Steve Callahan
- Jun 9, 2018
Opera Theatre St. Louis continues its 43rd season of exceptionally fine opera with another world premiere. An American Soldier is their twenty-seventh such premiere, a record which sets OTSL among the forefront of producers of new opera in America.
Join Black Swan This Winter For Conversation Two With ASSASSINS And THE EVENTS
by Stephi Wild
- May 29, 2018
Join Black Swan State Theatre Company for Conversation Two as the company enlivens the winter months of June and July, with the multiple Tony Award-winning musical Assassins , music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, directed by Roger Hodgman (As You Like It, Twelfth Night) from 16 June to 1 July in the Heath Ledger Theatre.
BWW Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE at Granada Theatre
by Maria Nockin
- Mar 3, 2018
On March 2, 2018, Opera Santa Barbara presented Gioachino Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. Based on a libretto by Cesare and staged in a more modern manner by director Josh Shaw, the California performance of the early nineteenth century work was thoroughly amusing from overture to final bow.
Boston Baroque Announces 2018-2019 Season
by Stephi Wild
- Mar 2, 2018
Conducted by music director Martin Pearlman, the season is anchored by a powerful new performing version of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea by Pearlman. The season includes the Boston Baroque debuts of countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and soprano Layla Claire, with performances by renowned Baroque interpreters such as David Daniels, Nicholas Phan, Amanda Forsythe, and clarinetist Eric Hoeprich.
POP's Josh Shaw Takes On 'Barber' For Opera Santa Barbara
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 8, 2018
Gioachino Rossini's laugh-out-loud romantic comedy returns to Opera Santa Barbara for the first time since 2001. The Barber of Seville has been entertaining audiences for more than 200 years with its outrageous stage antics and vocal acrobatics. Featuring some of opera's most recognizable tunes, audiences are sure to leave the theater singing Figaro, Figaro, Fiiiiiii-garo!
Opera Orlando to Launch 2017-18 Season with Puccini's LA BOHEME
by BWW
News Desk
- Nov 15, 2017
Opera Orlando has chosen Boh me to open their 2017-2018 main-stage season-Love Lost and Found-on November 15, 17, and 18 at 7:30 p.m. and November 19 at 2 p.m. in the Alexis and Jim Pugh Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., Orlando, Florida.
Opera Orlando Announces 'Boheme Buildup' Events
by BWW
News Desk
- Oct 21, 2017
Opera Orlando once again will hold a series of events to engage the Central Florida community in anticipation of each mainstage opera presentation. Boh me Buildup is a series of seven events, beginning on October 21. All events are free and open to the public except where noted.
Musical Theatre Star Silvie Paladino Joins Arts Centre Melbourne's Christmas Melodies Concert
by Julie Musbach
- Oct 10, 2017
Musical theatre star Silvie Paladino and special guest Nathan Stark will herald the arrival of the festive season in Arts Centre Melbourne's Christmas Melodies at Hamer Hall on 11 December 2017.The Salvation Army Melbourne Staff Band and National Boys Choir will join the pair for some feel-good Christmas entertainment to round off a year of exciting Morning Melodies performances.
Opera Orlando Announces 'Boheme Buildup' Events
by BWW News Desk
- Oct 5, 2017
Opera Orlando once again will hold a series of events to engage the Central Florida community in anticipation of each mainstage opera presentation. Boh me Buildup is a series of seven events, beginning on October 21. All events are free and open to the public except where noted.
Opera Orlando to Launch 2017-18 Season with Puccini's LA BOHEME
by BWW News Desk
- Sep 28, 2017
Opera Orlando has chosen Boh me to open their 2017-2018 main-stage season-Love Lost and Found-on November 15, 17, and 18 at 7:30 p.m. and November 19 at 2 p.m. in the Alexis and Jim Pugh Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., Orlando, Florida.
Canton Symphony Orchestra Presents Verdi's Requiem Mass, 4/29
by Christina Mancuso
- Apr 7, 2017
For our season finale, the Canton Symphony Orchestra pulls out all the stops for the massive Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi. This powerful concert full of splendor begins at 8:00pm on April 29, 2017at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall at the Zimmermann Symph
BWW Review: To the Genius of Oscar Levant - FOR PIANO AND HARPO at Falcon Theatre
by Ellen Dostal
- Feb 13, 2017
Pulling double duty as both playwright and star, Dan Castellaneta portrays Oscar Levant in his latest new work, FOR PIANO AND HARPO. Levant was a concert pianist, and contemporary of George Gershwin, whose genius gave him entree into the glittering worlds of classical music, Broadway, and Hollywood but whose private demons ultimately undermined his career. The play explores Levant's addictions and mental health issues while committed to a Mt. Sinai psych ward in 1956, on the Jack Paar Show in 1962, and during an extended stay at the home of his friend, Harpo Marx, in 1935.
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