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2023-09-23 16:07:51
Half of San Francisco turned up last night at the War Memorial Opera House for Mason Bates’s new opera. Boston listeners can view the full electro-acoustic spectacle this Wednesday when the 100-minute production is livestreamed ] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2021-11-18 02:25:00
The Spoleto Festival has exciting plans for 2022, including two world premiers and a staging of La Boheme by Yuval Sharon. Here is a chunk of their press release, about Rhiannon Giddens (!!!) and Michael Abels' new opera Omar. Make sure that you read as far as the boldfaced text: Omar World premiere Music by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels Libretto by Rhiannon Giddens Directed by Kaneza Schaal Conducted by John Kennedy Principal cast: Jamez McCorkle, Omar Cheryse McLeod Lewis, Omar’s mother Laquita Mitchell, Julie By 1808, Charleston’s ports alone recorded more than 100,000 West Africans who had been stolen from their homelands, whose brutal vanishings left families and generations to come wondering of their whereabouts and existences. Omar, a new opera based on the life and 1831 autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, tells one such story. Opening in Senegal, the opera’s narrative traces Omar Ibn […]
2020-07-19 23:10:00
Some excellent news about works in development that have received support from Opera America: • Beth Morrison Projects (Brooklyn, NY) for In Our Daughter’s Eyes by Du Yun • Boston Lyric Opera (Boston, MA) for The Desert Inn (working title) by Ellen Reid • Guerilla Opera (Haverhill, MA) for HER:alive/un/dead: a media opera by Emily Koh • HERE (New York, NY) for A Practical Breviary: Terce by Heather Christian • Houston Grand Opera (Houston, TX) for Turn and Burn, a Rodeo Opera by Nell Shaw Cohen • Opera on Tap (Brooklyn, NY) for Joan of the City by Kamala Sankaram • Opera Orlando (Orlando, FL) for The Secret River by Stella C. Y. Sung • Opera Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA) for The Listeners by Missy Mazzoli • The American Opera Project (Brooklyn, NY) for Precipice by Rima Fand The rest of the press release is after the cut. I'll just […]
2019-09-11 20:48:04
Austrian-born American conductor Erich Leinsdorf died on this day in 1993 – aged 81. Maestro Leinsdorf served distinguished conducting positions with The Metropolitan Opera, The Cleveland Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, New York City Opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and the West Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. BEETHOVEN | ‘EGMONT’ OVERTURE | ERICH LEINSDORF & BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 1968 The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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