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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 [...]
CENTRAL CITY OPERA & CU OPERA PRESENT THEIR 15th ANNUAL OPERA ROCKS THE ROCKIES TOUR
PARKER PERFORMANCE REPRESENTS CENTRAL CITY OPERA’S PARTICIPATION IN OPERA AMERICA’S NATIONAL OPERA WEEK FOR THE THIRD YEAR Denver, Colo. – Central City Opera (CCO) and the University of Colorado (CU) Opera Studies program team up to present the 15th annual Opera Rocks the Rockies tour, kicking off Nov. 4 and running through Nov. 12. [...]
Susanna Phillips Stars in Lucia at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Minnesota Opera, Plus Musetta in Met’s La Bohème
Susanna Phillips, winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award, has launched the 2011-12 season with a bang, winning glowing reviews for her “beautiful, velvety tone and dignified, carefully shaped phrasing” (New York Times) in the New York premiere of Juraj Filas’s 9/11-themed requiem Oratio Spei, and, at Lyric Opera of Chicago’s annual [...]
Greensboro Opera Postpones La Boheme
The production of La Bohème, the popular opera by Giacomo Puccini, scheduled as part of Greensboro Opera’s performance season on November 5, 2011 at 8:00 P.M. at War Memorial Auditorium, has been postponed until 2012 due to budgetary constraints. At yesterday’s Greensboro Opera’s Board of Trustees meeting, the Board voted in favor of postponing the [...]
Seventies Scotto!
by Melissa Wimbish This is the CUTEST interview ever! Diva extraordinaire, Renata Scotto discusses her favorite composers, how often she practices, her first opera, and the myth about sex before singing. Spicy!
What would we have left to sing about?
Originally published during Operagasm’s Health and Wellness month, this examination of ‘character issues’ warrants another hilarious visit! by Christie Connolley This month at Operagasm we have focused on the role health and wellness plays in our lives and in our art. However, I wonder what we would have to sing about if the characters we [...]
Baltimore Concert Opera Announces Second Season
Baltimore Concert Opera is proud to announce our second complete season which includes three opera favorites and an American premiere of an opera that hasn’t been performed since 1871. We invite you to enjoy concert opera in our casual, open environment. Start off with an optional brunch or dinner in the dining room of the [...]
Skylight Opera Presents Rent!
Set in 1989, in New York City’s thriving Bohemian East Village, Rentis a modern take on Puccini’s 1896 classic, La Boheme. With a driving rock score integrating dance, pop, rock ‘n roll, R&B and salsa, Rentfeatures video artists, performance artists, guitarists, strippers, cross-dressers, and drug addicts, all trying to find themselves and find their way [...]
Gheorghiu in, Netrebko out
by Christie Connolley What is an ailing diva to do? Play the part of the ailing Mimi in the Met’s production of La Boheme or call in sick? Well, when Angela Gheorghiu is available to fill in, you go home and take a nap. That is exactly what Anna Netrebko did on Saturdays performance. Read [...]
Boheme always puts butts in the seats!
by Christie Connolley Arizona Opera had a huge success with their recent run of Puccini’s La Boheme. It is the company’s first completely sold out run since Aida in 1999. Congratulations to Arizona Opera for growing your community’s interest in opera! Now party like it is 1999! Take a look at the story in the [...]
