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2021-05-07 07:44:21
Laura Kaminsky's chamber opera, As One, to make its UK debut at 8th London Festival of American Music
Odaline de la Martinez' London Festival of American Music is returning for its eighth iteration from 13 to 18 September 2021 at The Warehouse in Waterloo. This year, the festival will feature works by Florence Price, Daniel Asia, Margaret Bonds, Augusta Read Thomas, Fred Lehrdal and Odaline de la Martinez herself, plus the UK premiere of Laura Kaminsky's transgender opera As One. Laura Kaminsky's 2014 chamber opera, As One, features a transgender protagonist who is played by two singers, here baritone Simon Wallfisch as Hannah before and mezzo-soprano Carolyn Dobbin Hannah after. The production is directed by Sarah Chew and Odaline de la Martinez conducts the London String Quartet. The opera was commissioned by American Opera Projects and premiered in 2014 at the Brooklyn Academy, New York, since then it has had more than 30 productions across the USA but this will only the second time that the work has been […]
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2019-06-08 17:27:00
50 Years After Stonewall, Classical Music Still Fights the Fight – Exhibits, panels, opera, more mark 50th anniversary of Stonewall riots
[…] fighting Jew" after centuries of persecution. The Vietnam War was being still being protested. Topping it off on the day the riots began was the depressing funeral of Judy Garland, who had made impromptu visits to West Village bars. Yet, fighting back at that particular moment had a singular price that was characterized in a number of different directions in the Stonewall Operas.The four works by New York University Tisch School graduate students, co-produced by American Opera Projects, were first seen at NYU's Schubert Theatre, and then crammed into a stage space about a tenth of that size on the Stonewall Inn's second floor. The dim lights and lack of dinner menu told you this was a place to hide out from the world, and not something that made you feel especially great about being gay. Yet being there was essential to understanding how fighting back was possible only among […]
2019-04-21 00:33:00
American Opera Projects: "Composers & the Voice," Tuition-free Training Program
Composers & the Voice, a tuition-free training program, is a competitive two-year fellowship offered to composers and librettists. AOP welcomes applications from musicians of all backgrounds interested in composing for opera and music theatre and seeks to present a group of fellows that represent the diversity of our community and country. Applications are reviewed and fellowships are selected by the C&V artistic team and a panel of industry professionals chosen with an emphasis on diversity. APPLICATIONS AND INFO AT www.aopopera.org/composers_voice ABOUT American Opera Projects Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, American Opera Projects (AOP) is at the forefront of the contemporary opera movement through its commissioning, developing, and producing of opera and music theatre projects, training programs for student and emerging composers and librettists, and community engagement. The company is recognized […]
2019-04-13 06:14:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 13, 2019
[…] by Outhere Music and its artists, and will work closely with the recording group on additional initiatives such as video productions to provide the most engaging classical listening experience possible for IDAGIO subscribers. IDAGIO has licensing agreements with over 1,000 labels and rights holders, making more than 2 million tracks available to its global subscriber base. Birgit Gehring, IDAGIOTickets Now on Sale for the NYC Return of As One Since its 2014 Brooklyn premiere by American Opera Projects, As One has become the most performed opera in the U.S. and Canada written in the 21st century. American Opera Projects and New York City Opera, and Kaufman Music Center are proud to bring As One back to New York in a new production with that joins the citywide celebrations that mark the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and a half-century of LGBTQ+ liberation. In As One, two voices share the […]
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