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Charlie Widmer met his wife’s eyes in the front row. âThere is nothing for me other than to love you and what you look like tonight,â ... -
Amadigi, critic of Garsington’s opera – geometries of enchantment
Thank goodness Irish soprano Anna Devin, as a loving enchantress, graces Netia Jones’ ingenious, albeit somewhat hyperactive, production of Handel’s Heroic Romance of 1715 in the ... -
White Snake Projects announces “A Survivor’s Odyssey”
White Snake Projects has announced that it will present âA Survivor’s Odyssey,â the third virtual opera in the company’s Pandemic trilogy, next September. The artwork uses ... -
Homestake Opera House Hires Artist-in-Residence with Funding from the CARES Act | Local News
LEAD – Bringing artists together with the public to share COVID-19 recovery stories and tell the story of the region is the goal of the Residencies ... -
First live opera performance confirmed for Cork Opera House on July 10
Cork Opera and Irish National Opera are joining forces to produce and present a pilot event at Cork Opera on Saturday 10 July. The event will ... -
Glyndebourne Announces Freelance Fund and 2022 Season Programming Launch
Glyndebourne announced the launch of the Glyndebourne Freelancer Fund, intended to support freelancers in the performing arts industry and help them recover from the economic damage ... -
Opera launches interest-based social clubs in its growing chat service Hype
OSLO, Norway, June 22, 2021 – Opera launches Hype Clubs, public and interest-based group chats in Hype, the new chat service built into the Opera Mini ... -
Marble City Opera announces its 2021-22 program
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (WVLT) – The Marble City Opera has announced its lineup for the 2021-2022 season. Marble City Opera will produce 3 contemporary American operas for ... -
Elīna Garanča and Jonathan Tetelman conduct “Carmen” in Belgrade
(Credits: © Holger Hage / Deutsche Grammophon / Semperoper Dresden official website) The Belgrade Summer Festival has announced that mezzo-soprano superstar ElÄ«na GaranÄa will perform the ... -
EMF Partners With Greensboro Opera For Special July 14 Concert | Music
Eastern Music Festival pianist Awadagin Pratt will be one of the star performers in a special July 14 concert between EMF and Greensboro Opera. Rob Davidson, ... -
Heartbeat Opera Announces Company Changes, Including Derrell Acon as Associate Artistic Director
Heartbeat opera announced that from July 1, 2021, the bass-baritone Derrell Acon will become the company’s first associate artistic director. Acon will also serve part-time on ... -
Dallas Opera’s ‘Great Scott’ Stirs Deep Emotions With This Vivid DVD and Star Cast
Six years after its world premiere at the Dallas Opera, Great Scott, by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally, was released on a beautifully produced ... -
Opera Tampa and Florida Orchestra reunite for 2022 season after 20 years of separation
TAMPA, Fla – For the first time in 20 years, two of Tampa’s most beloved performance groups, Opera Tampa and The Florida Orchestra, will team up ... -
Portland Opera launches Ensemble Leaders scholarship program
Portland Opera is thrilled to launch the Ensemble Leaders Fellowship Program, a new program of professional development opportunities for emerging opera directors focused on artistic operations, ... -
Review of the 2021 Grange Park Opera: La Bohème
Grange Park Opera, the brainchild of impresario Wasfi Kani, has taken a forceful approach to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year, seeing the opportunity in ... -
Soprano Hove “honored” by MBE for services to opera
Nadine Benjamin. Photo: Devon Cass Nadine Benjamin, 47, who specializes in Verdi, Strauss and contemporary American song, was an artist at English National Opera Harewood from ... -
Opera film review: Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” is a delicious film | Vermont Arts
MIDDLEBURY – The Opera Company of Middlebury has entered the world of cinema – and with a glorious video production putting its own stamp on Leonard ... -
The GladAfrica soap opera continues as Royal AM calls on Sekh …
(Photo: Gallo Images / Sharon Seretlo) After a court ruling validates Sekhukhune United’s promotion to the top flight of South African football, the second-place team Royal ... -
Ffflypaper will present the FREEFEST 2021
Ffflypaper will present âFREEFEST 2021â, a June 14 festival that will take place from June 14 to 18, 2021. For the purposes of this article, we’ll ... -
black storyteller tells about the last production of Opera Philadelphia | Arts
Charlotte Blake Alston loves telling stories and this love story may have started before she could even read. âI remember my 2nd grade teacher opening his ... -
Opera Las Vegas returns to the shows
As magic shows, pop stars and mega-artists return to the Strip, Las Vegans now has another live performance option: opera. Opera Las Vegas returns to the ... -
Opera star Placido Domingo honored in Spain, fans back despite sexual harassment allegations, Arts News & Top Stories
MADRID (REUTERS) – Spanish opera star Placido Domingo received an award at the Teatro Real in Madrid on Thursday (June 10), a day after receiving a ... -
Grand Opera House Belfast unveils £ 12.2million restoration – in pictures
Tours of the public theater will take place from July before the theater reopens for performances in the fall The £ 12.2million restoration and development of ... -
Charlottesville Opera Kicks Off 43rd Season Singing at IX Art Park | Arts & Theater
âShe’s also worked with DMR, so she’s no stranger to Charlottesville,â DeMarea said. Allison Danielle Semmes sang the role of Diana Ross on the Broadway tour ... -
Opera-inspired pasta is on the rise
Taste the flavors of Sicily in this traditional Sicilian dish. Eggplant gives a meaty texture to this vegetarian dinner. The recipe originates from Catania on the ... -
The family opera house visits Holbeck
Families are invited to sample opera for the first time this summer as Opera North hosts their Whistle Stop Opera: The Magic Flute tour, which kicks ... -
Utah Opera announces 2021-22 season schedule
After having to cut its final season short, the Utah Opera returns to the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theater for live performances during the 2021-22 season. ... -
The open-air opera returns for the public
Mid Wales Opera (MWO) has played a plethora of dates for outdoor performances since coronavirus restrictions were relaxed and the last performance was at Bishop’s Castle ... -
Oswego Opera Theater to Celebrate 10th Annual Golf Tournament | Donations to the community
OSWEGO – The Oswego Opera Theater will host its 10th annual Battle Island Golf Course on Saturday, June 19. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. and the ... -
Marble City Opera delivers a fabulous “Tosca” – Arts Knoxville
BY ALAN SHERROD When I gave a preview of the very first performance of the very young Marble City Opera in a Pulse of the metro ... -
BRAVO from the San Francisco Opera! The club explores opera in the 8-bit world of PianoFight on June 10
Experience opera in PianoFight’s 8-bit virtual world with San Francisco Opera BRAVO! Club Thursday June 10 at 6 p.m. Personalize your avatar and enter the digital ... -
Uproar around child marriage scenes in Indonesian soap opera
Quick News “Suara Hati Istri”, which means “a woman’s innermost thoughts”, elicits negative reactions after choosing a 14-year-old girl as his bride in a polygamous marriage. ... -
Edgar Wright praises Annette from the Sparks Brothers: a cinematic opera
Wright may be biased because he just completed a documentary about the songwriters behind âAnnette,â but his praise is still huge. Director Edgar Wright might be ... -
Santa Fe Opera Gears Up For Pandemic Altered Season | Local News
The Santa Fe Opera House announced Wednesday that it had been approved to increase in-person attendance and would increase the number of available seats by around ... -
Opera lights up for Italy
The Festa della Repubblica is an important Italian national holiday celebrated every year on June 2 to commemorate the institutional referendum organized by universal suffrage in ... -
Mission Opera returns to live events
This summer, Mission Opera will present a live one-act open-air operetta from the rarely performed French comic operetta “Le 66”. The story centers on two traveling ... -
Holidays to Sydney, Blue Mountains with Phantom of the Opera tickets, hotels, cruise and more
Thirty-five years ago, Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Phantom of the Opera opened in London’s West End with resounding success. Now you can relive the famous musical in your ... -
A new act for the opera
Opera has become a joke in modern pop culture. From commercials to movies, it’s always considered funny to make a crack on opera and its singers. ... -
The opera appears at Oban High
Want to know more? At the start of the pandemic in March, we made the decision to make online access to our news free of charge ... -
Opera drama highlights opera problems
When was the last time you went to the opera? No, here’s a better trivial question: What are the two shows staged by New Zealand Opera ... -
Local 802 targets Lincoln Center restart milestones
President Adam Krauthamer sent a letter to members of Local 802 condemning the Lincoln Center restart steps. Krauthamer, who has been outspoken about the Metropolitan Opera ... -
Live music returns to opera | New
During the long year of the pandemic, most music lovers shared a similar question at one point: What was the last gig you went to before ... -
Regé-Jean Page talks about his “ insane journey ”, from the soap opera to “ Bridgerton ”
Actor Regé-Jean Page, who played Simon Bassett, The Duke of Hastings, has been recognized for his performance in the highly acclaimed series Bridgerton. However, the actor ... -
Camden Opera House Welcomes Audiences Again
CAMDEN – After a year of limited, audience-less performances, Camden Opera is ready to welcome audiences once again for a safe and busy season of arts ... -
Phantom of the Opera arrives in Melbourne in November
We already talked about ghosts at the Arts Center Melbourne, and the lights on to keep them company. But now the biggest ghost of all is ... -
Emily D’Angelo signs exclusive agreement with Deustche Grammophon
Emily D’Angelo has signed an exclusive agreement with Deutsche Grammophon. The 26-year-old Italian-Canadian mezzo-soprano is well known as a recitalist and concert singer as well as ... -
SJ Opera offers ‘Love & Secrets’
Opera San Jose’s latest digital offering, âLove & Secrets: A Domestic Trilogy,â is available until Monday. The fully staged production includes three stories of passion and ... -
Israeli Opera production The Medium receives applause
THE WAY Israel Opera Tel Aviv, May 23 Pianist Yael Kareth signals to her co-pianist Alexander Ivanov across the stage that the two, together, provide the ... -
Wyndham deploys Oracle’s OPERA Cloud globally
The mobile platform enables faster innovation while helping hotels improve guest personalization, reduce costs and increase operational efficiency. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is deploying the next ... -
Living is easy in Cork City if you can afford the chic Opera Lane apartments
For anyone who still thinks downtown apartment living is sort of the poor cousin of a three-bed suburban semi-d, a peek inside Opera’s showhouse condos. Lane ... -
Report offers ideas for the Opera’s strategic plan | News, Sports, Jobs
Clarity Creations team members include (front row, from left): Carol Loja, Alexis Witkowski; (back row): Devin Wiencek and Adil Kadwa, as well as Rick Davis, executive ... -
Wyoming Opera returns live to Casper on Saturday with mermaids and wizards
By Greg Hirst on May 22, 2021 Andrea Sipe (left) and Byron Gray (right) Opera Wyoming, Facebook) CASPER, Wyo – Wyoming Opera will present Saturday Evenings ... -
Shanul Sharma of Opera Australia is feeling the troughs of pandemic as her family in India battles COVID-19
Shanul Sharma of Opera Australia is caught in the many lows of the global pandemic. Key points: Shanul Sharma of Opera Australia says her entire family ... -
Lexington Opera House announces 2021-2022 season
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Broadway and theater fans rejoice! The Lexington Opera House announced its 2021-22 season of Broadway Live and Variety Live on Thursday. Audiences will ... -
The loves of Apollo and Dafne (Opera Pinchgut)
Francesco Cavalli was the top of pop in the 17th century. His Giasone, which premiered in 1649, has been performed more times than any other opera ... -
Boston Lyric Opera postpones production of ‘Madama Butterfly’
The Boston Lyric Opera has postponed plans for its new production of “Madama Butterfly”. The company announced that âafter internal reflection and discussions with company management ... -
A season of change for classical music, opera and dance | Life and entertainment
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – As the summer art scene quickly approaches, I offer some advice. Buy your tickets early. A second tip is to learn to ... -
$ 45 Mobile Rush tix offered for Opera Australia’s first spectacular all-digital AIDA
Rush mobile tickets at $ 45 will be offered, exclusively through TodayTix, for the acclaimed production of Aida, by the famous Italian director and choreographer Davide ... -
Ben Mingay plays Sweeney Todd for State Opera of SA
Victorian-era villain Sweeney Todd, who murders his victims with a razor before his criminal partner turns them into pies, offers bass-baritone Ben Mingay another dark and ... -
New York opera impresario Paul Kellogg dies aged 84
Mr. Kellogg joined Glimmerglass Opera as Executive Director in 1979. In 1995 he was appointed General and Artistic Director. Under his leadership, the company grew to ... -
An unknown season of classical music, opera and live dance
With the summer art scene almost upon us, I offer a tip. Buy your tickets early. A second tip is to learn to love your GPS, ... -
Bayerische Staatsoper cancels production of ‘Falstaff’
(Credit: Bayerische Staatsoper official website) The Bayerische Staatsoper has canceled the broadcast of Verdi’s “Falstaff” which was scheduled to be played between May 16 and 22, ... -
Baritone Michael Honeyman in Opera Australia’s AIDA
Opera Australia returns to Melbourne with its critically acclaimed production Aida. A production like no other, Aida features ten floor-to-ceiling digital screens with immersive video designs, ... -
Explanation of Tenet’s opening opera scene
The bag contains a strange metallic object which, if you look at this for the second time, you will immediately recognize as part of the algorithm ... -
Rossini at drive-in as sci-fi opera returns
It almost sounds too good to be true after a Wagnerian-wide pandemic shutdown: Audiences watching a cast of singers enter the War Memorial Opera House here ... -
Fabio Luisi conducts the Dallas Symphony, musicians from the Metropolitan Opera in the dramatic Mahler First Symphony
Rarely is a concert hall as charged with electricity as the Meyerson Symphony Center was on Friday night. Although it was heralded as the first live ... -
Michigan Opera Theater moves Cavalleria Rusticana performance to June – CBS Detroit
(CBS DETROIT) – Michigan Opera Theater management has postponed the premiere performance for the 2021-2022 season. A concert version of Cavalleria rustiqueana was scheduled to be ... -
Mobile Billionaire Ross Leaves Months After Starting Royal Opera House | Economic news
David Ross, the billionaire co-founder of The Carphone Warehouse and prominent Conservative Party donor, is set to step down as president of the Royal Opera House ... -
Irish National Opera’s new Opera Explorer series starts this week
A new Irish National Opera Friday Opera Explorer series will begin today (Friday April 30) at 5:00 p.m. ET. Each week the series will focus on ... -
Astana Opera House celebrates 115th anniversary of Kazakh composers Akhmet Zhubanov and Latif Khamidi with performance of opera “Abai”
NUR-SULTAN – This year Kazakhstan celebrates the 115th anniversary of Kazakh composers Akhmet Zhubanov and Latif Khamidi. On separate days, honored workers of Kazakhstan and main ... -
From Idaho Farm Fields to the Opera Stage | Arts
ONTARIO – Cecilia Violetta Lopez comes from a family of musicians. She remembers her grandmother in Mexico bursting with song when she is summoned by a ... -
Setven Mackey and Rinde Eckert complete the “ Moon Tea ” for the Opéra Théâtre de Saint Louis
GRAMMY-winning composer Steven Mackey and Obie-winning librettist Rinde Eckert have completed a new opera for the Opera Theater in Saint Louis. The book was written in ... -
How the Germans treasure their opera – Slipped disc
norman lebrecht April 30, 2021 From an intensive report in the Christian Science Monitor: ⦠About a third of all opera performances in the world take ... -
Opera Columbus will return to a redesigned performance space
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – For the first time in over a year, Opera Columbus will perform to a live audience in a redesigned performance space. The ... -
Opera for Android finally gets casting support, but probably not the way you want it to
It’s not easy to try to compete with Chrome. Not only is Google’s browser the most popular way to access the web around the world, it’s ... -
Dallas Opera House Launches Streaming Platform: thedallasopera.TV
thedallasopera.TV represents a new way of presentation and production for an opera company, beyond the performing arts. Tweet this “We are delighted that thedallasopera.TV is launched ... -
Austin Opera performs ‘Tosca’ at COTA despite rainy weather
Under ideal circumstances, producing an opera on a large scale is a gigantic task. Now try to do this during a pandemic outside on a wet ...