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Liceu Opera House Closes Due To Spain’s Economic Crisis
MADRID — Barcelona’s renowned Liceu opera house says it must cancel shows and close its doors for two months because of the economic crisis hitting Spain. The theater says in a statement it is running a deficit of Euro3.7 million ($4.87 million) following cutbacks in government subsidies and a drop in sponsorship. The theater will [...]
Utah Opera Announces 2012-2013 Season
In October of 2012, the season will open with Verdi’s fiery and adventurous “Il Trovatore” (The Troubador), the gypsy tale of forbidden love that became a smash-hit opera at its premiere in 1853. The Utah Opera premiere of Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas” (Florencia in the Amazon) will come next in January of 2013 [...]
Angela Meade Receives Seventh Annual Beverly Sills Artist Award
American soprano Angela Meade is having a momentous season. In October she caused a sensation in the title role of the Metropolitan Opera’s premiere production of Anna Bolena, delivering what the New Yorker’s Alex Ross called “as pure a display of vocal power as I’ve heard at the Met in the past few years.” A [...]
Operagasm’s First ‘Hot Opera Plot’ Contest!
by Melissa Wimbish Are you tired of entering classical singing competitions and not winning or having any fun? So are we! That’s why we’re launching our own WAY cooler contest where you can let loose, be yourself, be funny, act silly, educate in a fun way, and win a chance at Operagasm fame! All you [...]
RIP Camilla Williams
(Associated Press) African-American opera pioneer Camilla Williams has died in Bloomington. She was 92. The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music says Williams died Sunday. The cause of her death was not immediately released. The school says the soprano became the first African-American female to appear with a major U.S. opera company when she debuted [...]
Houston Grand Opera Announces 2012-13 Season
Houston Grand Opera, with Music Director Patrick Summers and Managing Director Perryn Leech, announces its 2012-13 season, headlined by four new productions. The first of these is Puccini’s La bohème, which launches the new season with a new staging by award-winning British director John Caird. To honor 2013’s joint bicentennials of Wagner and Verdi, the [...]
RIP Ruthhilde Boesch
(Associated Press) – Ruthlide Boesch, whose more than three-decade singing career took her to the world’s top opera stages, has died. She was 94. Boesch’s death was announced Tuesday by the Vienna State Opera. A statement said she died Friday. Born Jan. 9, 1918, Boesch debuted in 1945 as Susanna in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di [...]
Center City Opera Theater World Opera Premiere
Philadelphia, Pa. – (January 24, 2012) – Center City Opera Theater is proud to present the first staged workshops previewing an emotionally moving and musically eclectic new opera. Slaying the Dragon, a powerful new piece by composer Michael Ching and librettist Ellen Frankel which confronts contemporary themes such as ethnic tolerance and stereotyping, is set [...]
OPERA AMERICA ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF 2012 NATIONAL OPERA TRUSTEE RECOGNITION AWARD
New York, NY—OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 National Opera Trustee Recognition Award. In its fifth year, this award honors outstanding trustees of U.S. opera companies for exemplary leadership, generosity and audience-building efforts on behalf of their respective opera companies. The recipients of the [...]
Skylight Opera Theatre to Change Name
Milwaukee, WI – Skylight Opera Theatre is very pleased to announce that beginning on February 1, 2012, its name will change to Skylight Music Theatre. Over fifty years ago, Skylight began as Skylight Theatre and evolved through the years to Skylight Comic Opera, The Skylight and the current Skylight Opera Theatre. In recent years, the [...]
