Opera America Awards $180,000 In Civic Practice Grants
OPERA America has awarded $180,000 in Civic Practice Grants, supported by OPERA America's Opera Fund. Civic Practice Grants assist Professional Company Members in learning more about civic priorities in their communities, developing robust, reciprocal relationships with other arts and non-arts organizations, and delivering services through authentic, mutually beneficial partnerships.
Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival Enters Final Week
The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival is a groundbreaking digital series of audio and video streams featuring newly created content being recorded at Tanglewood's Linde Center in July alongside previously recorded material from Tanglewood being released for the first time.
Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival Announces Week Three Programming
The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival is a groundbreaking digital series of audio and video streams featuring newly created content being recorded at Tanglewood's Linde Center in July alongside previously recorded material from Tanglewood being released for the first time.
Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival Begins This Week
The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival is a groundbreaking digital series of audio and video streams featuring newly created content being recorded at Tanglewood's Linde Center in July alongside previously recorded material from Tanglewood being released for the first time.
OPERA America Awards $1.2M In Innovation Grants
OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion of American opera, is pleased to announce the recipients of the second cycle of Innovation Grants, generously funded by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
The Grand Finale Of HK Phil's Journey Through Wagner's Epic Ring Cycle: Part IV Götterdämmerung
The internationally and locally acclaimed performance of Wagner's complete Ring Cycle given by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil), reaches its fourth and last part - G tterd mmerung - on 18 and 21 January 2018 at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Once again, the HK Phil's Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts the performances and is joined by a cast of world-renowned Wagnerian singers and outstanding choruses.
Seattle Opera Names New Director of Education
General Director Aidan Lang announced Thursday, May 14, that Barbara Lynne Jamison Seattle Opera's Youth Programs Manager, will now serve as the company's Director of Education & Community Engagement effective immediately. Jamison, a 2014 recipient of the prestigious OPERA America Leadership Intensive Award, succeeds Sue Elliott, who has taken a position at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada.
Seattle Opera Celebrates Wagner Bicentennial in 2013
Under General Director Speight Jenkins' 30 years of leadership, Seattle Opera has become known as "America's Bayreuth," drawing worldwide audiences to its acclaimed productions of all of Richard Wagner's major works, especially to the company's signature work, Wagner's ambitious four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. To date, opera-goers from 22 countries and all 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) have purchased tickets for Seattle Opera's 2013 Ring.