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2023-10-29 16:10:28
Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s “Grounded,” which Washington National Opera premiered on Saturday, is headed to the Metropolitan Opera next year.
2023-09-12 01:30:00
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[…] at international festivals, including the MATA Festival (New York), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Darmstadt), New Talents (Cologne), Donaueschinge Musiktage, (Donaueschingen), Warsaw Autumn (Warsaw), and Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival (New York), among others. This will mark the second Metropolitan Opera / Lincoln Center Theater New Works Program commission for American playwright and librettist George Brant. He has written numerous plays, including Grounded, which was developed as an opera through the program with composer Jeanine Tesori before being given a full commission by the Met. Grounded is scheduled to premiere at Washington National Opera on October 28, 2023, ahead of its Met premiere in fall 2024. “We’re proud to continue to support Ukraine on the cultural front. The heroism of these Ukrainian mothers in the face of Russian atrocities is a story that should be amplified theatrically and is in the good creative hands of Maxim and George,” said Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera’s Maria Manetti Shrem General Manager. “Lincoln Center Theater is honored to be part of […]
2023-08-27 18:11:04
Bernstein: Candide; The Glimmerglass Festival, Cooperstown, NY, August 13, 2023—The 2023 Glimmerglass Festival is the first helmed by Rob Ainsley, late of the Washington National Opera and of the American Opera Initiative. For six years, he commissioned and premiered more than 30 new operas and other works. This inventiveness and, I might add, fearlessness, turned […]
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