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The Dallas Opera Announces 2012 – 2013 Season
DALLAS, JANUARY 19, 2012 — The Dallas Opera is proud to announce the three profoundly passionate musical masterpieces that will comprise the company’s 2012-2013 Season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The 56th International Season, “Pursuits of Passion” will transport audiences to three distinct and remarkably different [...]
THE DALLAS OPERA PROUDLY ANNOUNCES A MAJOR NEW COMMISSION
Composer Jake Heggie and Librettist Terrence McNally Team to Create A TDO World Premiere Opera! GREAT SCOTT TO OPEN TDO’S 2015-2016 SEASON STARRING WORLD RENOWNED MEZZO-SOPRANO JOYCE DIDONATO IN HER NORTH TEXAS DEBUT! MAESTRO EVAN ROGISTER, CONDUCTING ~~~~ WITH SUPPORT FROM THE EUGENE McDERMOTT FOUNDATION AND THE HOBLITZELLE FOUNDATION ~~~~ Commission Announced During Celebrations Marking [...]
Virginia Opera Announces the 2012-2013 Season
NORFOLK, Va. – Virginia Opera, The Official Opera Company of the Commonwealth of Virginia, announced its 2012-2013 season today, featuring four operas that delve into themes of love, jealousy, and revenge. The season opens with The Pearl Fishers in September, followed by Die Fledermaus in November, A Streetcar Named Desire in February, and closes with The [...]
San Francisco Opera Announces 2012 – 2013 Season
SAN FRANCISCO —San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley today announced the Company’s 2012–13 repertory season, guest artists and performance schedule, in addition to three world premiere commissions slated for 2013 by Nolan Gasser and Carey Harrison (The Secret Garden), Mark Adamo (The Gospel of Mary Magdalene), and Tobias Picker and J.D. McClatchy (Dolores Claiborne). [...]
Lyric Opera of Chicago Announces 2012 – 2013 Season
Anthony Freud, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, announced today the repertoire, principal singers, conductors, directors, and designers for Lyric’s 2012-13 season. This was Freud’s first news conference since becoming Lyric’s general director on Oct. 1, 2011. Joining Freud for today’s announcement was Sir Andrew Davis, Lyric’s music director; and Lyric’s creative consultant, Renée [...]
Fort Worth Opera Announces Frontiers, a New Works Showcase
Inaugural Program Will Occur during the 2013 Opera Festival Featuring Unpublished 21st Century Operatic Works Deadline for Composers’ Submissions is May 31, 2012 FORT WORTH, Texas – Fort Worth Opera expands its reputation as a champion of new and rarely performed works and as a leader in producing contemporary operas with the establishment of Frontiers, [...]
Guerilla Opera joins the Conversation with Boston Lyric Opera at Opera Night at the BPL
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:00-7:00pm Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square “Any place can be an opera house if you make it one.” (BLO Website) Guerilla Opera joins Boston Lyric Opera General & Artistic Director, Esther Nelson and Producing Director, Dan Duro for a conversation on the creativity and challenges that go with [...]
Colorado State University Announces the Charles and Reta Ralph Opera Center
(via Colorado State University) – The Department of Music, Theatre and Dance is thrilled to announce the creation of the Charles and Reta Ralph Opera Center, a program named in honor of Charles and Reta Ralph in recognition of their lengthy, generous and continuing support of opera at Colorado State University. The Ralph’s benevolence establishes [...]
Deborah Voigt is Brünnhilde in Met’s Götterdämmerung
Reigning American dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt once again brings Wagner’s warrior-goddess Brünnhilde alive at the Metropolitan Opera when she stars in Götterdämmerung, the climactic chapter of the composer’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen tetralogy. The January 27-February 11 run of Götterdämmerung, in the new Robert Lepage production, follows her acclaimed performances as Brünnhilde in the [...]
Mahler’s Marimba?
by Christie Connolley No, that wasn’t Mahler’s Marimba that interrupted the New York Philharmonic’s performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, it was the iPhone’s marimba ring tone that rang incessantly somewhere in the first few rows. In what I can only imagine was simultaneously one person’s perfect revenge and another persons worst nightmare, conductor, Alan Gilbert [...]
