Sarasota Opera Announces 2022-2023 Season
by Stephi Wild
- Mar 28, 2022
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.
Michigan Opera Theatre Single Tickets On Sale 8/20
by A.A. Cristi
- Aug 16, 2018
Single tickets for Michigan Opera Theatre's (MOT) 2018-19 season will go on sale next Monday, Aug. 20. The MOT opera series celebrates masterworks of literature turned opera, by authors like John Steinbeck and Voltaire. The MOT dance series will celebrate modern dance, following the movement through multiple generations. It also includes a program featuring ballet legend Alessandra Ferri as well as local favorite "The Nutcracker" with BalletMet.
Michigan Opera Theatre Announces 2018-19 Opera Season, Celebrates Literary Masterworks
by A.A. Cristi
- Apr 5, 2018
Michigan Opera Theatre CEO and President Wayne S. Brown and Principal Conductor Stephen Lord today announced the company's 2018-19 opera season. MOT's 48th opera season will be the second under Lord's artistic leadership and celebrates masterworks of literature turned opera, with "Eugene Onegin" (Pyotr Tchaikovsky), "Candide" (Leonard Bernstein) and "The Grapes of Wrath" (Ricky Ian Gordon/Michael Korie). The season also includes a staple of the opera repertoire, "The Barber of Seville" (Gioachino Rossini) and a fairytale opera, "Hansel and Gretel" (Engelbert Humperdinck). The season begins Sept. 29 with a gala concert featuring opera superstar Renee Fleming.
Sarasota Opera Commissions Rachel J. Peters for Next Youth Opera World Premiere
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 10, 2016
After a nationwide search, Sarasota Opera is proud to announce that composer/librettist Rachel J. Peters has been commissioned to compose Sarasota Youth Opera's next world premiere. Ms. Peter's opera, Rootabaga Country, which is being written now and will have its premiere in November 2017, was selected over 12 other submissions. This will be the sixth opera commissioned by the Sarasota Youth Opera program.
Sarasota Opera Will Premiere ROOTABAGA COUNTRY, Nov. 2017
by Molly Tracy
- Aug 10, 2016
After a nationwide search, Sarasota Opera is proud to announce that composer/librettist Rachel J. Peters has been commissioned to compose Sarasota Youth Opera's next world premiere. Ms. Peter's opera, Rootabaga Country, which is being written now and will have its premiere in November 2017, was selected over 12 other submissions. This will be the sixth opera commissioned by the Sarasota Youth Opera program.
Sarasota Opera Announces Casting, Schedule for Upcoming Season
by Matt Smith
- Jul 21, 2016
Sarasota Opera – Thrilling music, exciting new voices, and compelling theater will launch Sarasota Opera into its 58th Season of presenting grand opera on the south Florida gulf coast, the first season in 28 years to not include any operas by Giuseppe Verdi.
Sarasota Opera Announces Casting for 2016/2017 Season
by Rebecca Russo
- Jul 20, 2016
Thrilling music, exciting new voices, and compelling theater will launch Sarasota Opera into its 58th Season of presenting grand opera on the south Florida gulf coast, the first season in 28 years to not include any operas by Giuseppe Verdi.
Pierre Trudeau Teams Up With Pierre Berton to Fight a Wendigo or Two
by Robert Diamond
- Nov 29, 2015
A 12-year-old Pierre Trudeau learns he's spending the summer in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, instead of with his friends in Montreal. As if that's not bad enough, he's forced to work with a know-it-all Dawson City boy named Pierre Berton who thinks Trudeau is a big city snob. But the pair of Pierres call a truce after their fathers' gold camp is attacked by a mysterious creature.
BWW Reviews: MAKING LOVE IN A CANOE is a Glorious Celebration of Canadian Musical Theatre
by Lauren Gienow
- Jan 26, 2014
On a frigidly cold night in the middle of a long Canadian winter, a group of people gathered together in a cozy cafe to experience what is quickly becoming Canada's newest national treasure. MAKING LOVE IN A CANOE (which can also be experienced in album form) is a review of beautiful Canadian music theatre, created and performed by CanCon-loving duo Kyle Golemba and Adam White.
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