SHOW BOAT Opens The Glimmerglass Festival
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opened at The Glimmerglass Festival July 6 in the company's first-ever production of America's original "musical play."
Seattle Opera Presents PORGY AND BESS
When you think of the song, 'Summertime,' perhaps you hear the elegant Ella Fitzgerald-or the earthy Janis Joplin-singing in your mind. But, while many great covers exist, there's nothing like experiencing the song where 'fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high,' as Gershwin first wrote it: for the powerful voice of an opera singer.
French Composer Pascal Dusapin's TO BE SUNG to Be Presented by the Center for Contemporary Opera
Pascal Dusapin's chamber opera in one act, To Be Sung, will be staged by the Center for Contemporary Opera on Thursday, May 17 and Saturday May 19, 2018, both performances at 8pm, in Brooklyn's Irondale Center (85 South Oxford Street). The libretto was adapted by the composer from Gertrude Stein's short story A Lyrical Opera Made By Two (To Be Sung).  Stein conceived her sensual text To Be Sung as a declaration of love to her wife Alice written for their 20th anniversary.  The piece is an erotic, exciting and intimate idyll that describes the love between two women.Â