Review: Top Singing and Tap Dancing Highlight Richard Tucker Awards Gala
As usual, the gala concert of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation started off with an interloper from the golden age of opera: Richard Tucker himself, singing Mascagni’s “Addio alla Madre” from CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA. A tough act to follow for those singing live at Carnegie Hall, but happily no one seemed daunted by it. That doesn’t mean everything went smoothly at the gala concert, which is par for the course of the annual event. Despite the prestige of the Richard Tucker Awards, the world doesn’t stop when the Tucker Foundation comes a calling.
The Bengsons & More to Receive 2024 Democracy Cycle Commissions
The Perelman Performing Arts Center and Civis Foundation (a Galvan Initiatives affiliate) revealed the eight artistic commissions for the inaugural year of The Democracy Cycle, a program which invites artists to explore themes relating to the nature, practice, and experience of democracy. Learn more!
More Artists Join Lineup for Richard Tucker Music Foundation 2024 Opera Gala at Carnegie Hall
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation presents its annual Gala on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, tenor Anthony Léon, soprano Nadine Sierra, and soprano Elena Villalón join the star-studded line-up of previous Richard Tucker Award Winners, Grant Recipients, and special guests.
Review: Droning Overwhelms the Lives of THE LISTENERS in New Mazzoli-Vavrek Opera
It’s fascinating that within two weeks, as the new US opera season began in earnest, Northeast operagoers heard a pair of new (or new-ish) operas by well-known creators: the US premiere of THE LISTENERS at Opera Philadelphia, by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek and the much-revised GROUNDED by Jeanine Tesori and George Brant, the gala opening night at the Met.
Interview: Anthony Roth Costanzo of THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at Little Island
Anthony Roth Costanzo is the first opera singer in a generation to make consistent headlines - not just for his marvelous singing! ARC was recently named General Manager and Artistic Director of Opera Philadelphia -- where only yesterday his new 'Pay what you can,' ticket program broke all boxoffice records! The effort is designed to attract a generation of new operagoers.
Photos: First Look At OPEN THROAT On New York City's Little Island
Ahead of opening night tonight, Little Island shared a first look at production photos of Open Throat, a theatrical adaptation of the acclaimed and award-winning novella of the same name by Henry Hoke, directed by Caitlin Ryan O’Connell, and starring Chris Perfetti, Jo Lampert, and Calvin Leon Smith. Open Throat will run at Little Island’s The Amph through Sunday, July 14.