Jonathan Dove News

Music by Mozart, including some works he composed as early as age five, interspersed with lively enactments of the youthful composer’s letters to his father create a vivid picture of this remarkable musical wunderkind at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s (LACO) final Family Concert of the season, “Mozart & Me,” on Sunday, May 6, 2012, 2 pm, at the Alex Theatre. (more...)

The International City Theatre will host a staged reading of INNOCENCE, a new musical by British team Jonathan Dove and Alasdair Middleton. The reading will be held on Monday, April 24, at 7 PM and will be free and open to the public. (more...)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art today unveiled the 2012-13 season of Met Museum Presents, its newly-renamed series of performances and talks. This is the first full season to be programmed by Concerts & Lectures General Manager Limor Tomer, who assumed her post at the Met in July 2011. The program offers interpretations of and reflections on the Museum’s collection, special exhibitions, and tradition through the work of some of today’s most celebrated composers and performing artists. (more...)

Just as the 2012 presidential race heats up,International City Theatre (ICT) presents the West Coast premiere of a hard-boiled, darkly comic, Olivier Award-nominated rock musical about the American political machine. With book and lyrics by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe, The Fix begins a four-week run on April 27 at International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Randy Brenner is at the helm, with musical direction by Darryl Archibald, choreography by Heather Castillo, and Sal Mistretta reprising his Helen Hayes Award-winning role as Uncle Grahame. Low-priced previews take place on April 24, 25 and 26. (more...)

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, has announced the recipients of the 2012 National Opera Trustee Recognition Award. (more...)

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) will present nearly 1,000 public events throughout the year and offers free admission to many of its performances. (more...)

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) will present nearly 1,000 public events throughout the year and offers free admission to many of its performances. (more...)

This November, in Juilliard School’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Anne Manson will conduct the U.S. premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!) – an opera co-commissioned by Juilliard and the Royal Academy of Music – which received its world premiere in London this past March to remarkable critical acclaim. The production opens Juilliard‘s 2011-12 Vocal Arts season on Wednesday, November 16 at 8 PM, with additional performances on Friday, November 18 at 8 PM and Sunday, November 20 at 2 PM. David Pountney, librettist of the opera, provides stage direction, sets and costumes are by Robert Innes Hopkins, and choreography is by Carolum Choa. (more...)

This November, in Juilliard School’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Anne Manson will conduct the U.S. premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!) – an opera co-commissioned by Juilliard and the Royal Academy of Music – which received its world premiere in London this past March to remarkable critical acclaim. The production opens Juilliard‘s 2011-12 Vocal Arts season on Wednesday, November 16 at 8 PM, with additional performances on Friday, November 18 at 8 PM and Sunday, November 20 at 2 PM. David Pountney, librettist of the opera, provides stage direction, sets and costumes are by Robert Innes Hopkins, and choreography is by Carolum Choa. (more...)

This November, in Juilliard School’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Anne Manson will conduct the U.S. premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!) – an opera co-commissioned by Juilliard and the Royal Academy of Music – which received its world premiere in London this past March to remarkable critical acclaim. The production opens Juilliard‘s 2011-12 Vocal Arts season on Wednesday, November 16 at 8 PM, with additional performances on Friday, November 18 at 8 PM and Sunday, November 20 at 2 PM. David Pountney, librettist of the opera, provides stage direction, sets and costumes are by Robert Innes Hopkins, and choreography is by Carolum Choa. (more...)

Sydney Chamber Opera presents The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janá?ek (chamber version by Jonathan Dove) (more...)

The hills will be alive in Thousand Oaks as Cabrillo Music Theatre proudly announces its brand-new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE SOUND OF MUSIC. THE SOUND OF MUSIC clsoes Sunday, July 31st, at the 1,800-seat Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks. (more...)

Sydney Chamber Opera presents The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janá?ek (chamber version by Jonathan Dove) (more...)

Janá?ek's classic modernist opera The Cunning Little Vixen comes to life at CarriageWorks in a new production directed by Kate Gaul, featuring Julie Goodwin, acclaimed star of West Side Story (2010/11) and The Phantom of the Opera (2007-9), as the Vixen and Bryony Dwyer, the Royal Australian Navy's principal singer as the Fox. (more...)

The hills will be alive in Thousand Oaks as Cabrillo Music Theatre proudly announces its brand-new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC. (more...)

Sydney Chamber Opera presents The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janá?ek (chamber version by Jonathan Dove) (more...)

Janá?ek's classic modernist opera The Cunning Little Vixen comes to life at CarriageWorks in a new production directed by Kate Gaul, featuring Julie Goodwin, acclaimed star of West Side Story (2010/11) and The Phantom of the Opera (2007-9), as the Vixen and Bryony Dwyer, the Royal Australian Navy's principal singer as the Fox. (more...)

Janá?ek's classic modernist opera The Cunning Little Vixen comes to life at CarriageWorks in a new production directed by Kate Gaul, featuring Julie Goodwin, acclaimed star of West Side Story (2010/11) and The Phantom of the Opera (2007-9), as the Vixen and Bryony Dwyer, the Royal Australian Navy's principal singer as the Fox. (more...)

The long overdue London premiere of the Broadway musical The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, directed by acclaimed West End and RSC director Ian Judge, and designed by three time Olivier Award winner Tim Goodchild, opens for a four week limited season at the Finborough Theatre on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 (Press Night: Thursday, 9 June 2011 at 7.30pm). (more...)

The hills will be alive in Thousand Oaks as Cabrillo Music Theatre proudly announces its brand-new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC. (more...)