Wolf Trap Announces First Opera, Classical, Music, Film, And Dance Performances For The 2023 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 1, 2023
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts has announced the initial lineup for the Summer 2023 season, including the Wolf Trap Opera (WTO) season, classical, symphony, and dance programming, and films with live orchestral music. The performances take place at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts at the Filene Center and The Barns at Wolf Trap.
Classical Movements Announces 2021 Prague Summer Nights To Be LIVE & IN-PERSON
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 24, 2021
Classical Movements' Prague Summer Nights: Young Artists Music Festival has decided, like several other prestigious summer festivals, to plan to be live and in-person this summer. To make this more possible, the festival will be moved two weeks later and will now take place July 5 to August 2, 2021.
Seven New Works and More In Development from Guerilla Opera Composers
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 4, 2020
The Coronavirus emergency left the landscape for the arts gloomy, but Guerilla Opera's thirteenth season had successes which propelled the company into a new era of female leadership and artistry. Guerilla Opera's composers are equally winning. With seven works in development, many smaller projects, and new digital programming, the company's fans and supporters have a lot to look forward to in future seasons.
Guerilla Opera Receives Commissioning Grant For Female Composers Award For Composer Emily Koh
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 17, 2020
On July 16, 2020 OPERA America announced that Guerilla Opera received an award from OPERA America's Opera Grants for Female Composers: Commissioning Grants program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation for composer Emily Koh. This award is to directly commission the creation and support the premiere of her first evening length opera, HER:alive|un|dead: a media opera.
Baruch Performing Arts Center Announces 2018/2019 Season
by Tori Hartshorn - Aug 7, 2018
Baruch Performing Arts Center announces their 2018/2019 season, featuring premieres by composers Huang Ruo, Gregory Spears, and the late Matt Marks, and choreographer Dusan Týnek. The season includes the 27th year of the Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives series, a 5th Anniversary celebration of the CUNY Dance Initiative, and work in progress by veteran writer-performer Penny Arcade. For more information and tickets, visit http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac/. All performances take place at 55 Lexington Ave. (enter 25th Street between Lexington & 3rd Aves.)
Baruch Performing Arts Center Announces 2018/2019 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 7, 2018
Baruch Performing Arts Center announces their 2018/2019 season, featuring premieres by composers Huang Ruo, Gregory Spears, and the late Matt Marks, and choreographer Dusan Týnek. The season includes the 27th year of the Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives series, a 5th Anniversary celebration of the CUNY Dance Initiative, and work in progress by veteran writer-performer Penny Arcade. For more information and tickets, visit http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac/. All performances take place at 55 Lexington Ave. (enter 25th Street between Lexington & 3rd Aves.)
Susan Graham to Reprise Title Character THE MERRY WIDOW at The Met Opera
by BWW
News Desk - Dec 14, 2017
Fresh from a rapturously received account of Berlioz's La damnation de Faust with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles Dutoit, Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham reprises her 'vivacious and creamy-voiced' (New York Times) star turn as the wealthy widow Hanna Glawari in Susan Stroman's production of Leh r's The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera this winter (Dec 14-Jan 11).
Susan Graham to Reprise Title Character THE MERRY WIDOW at The Met Opera
by BWW News Desk - Nov 20, 2017
Fresh from a rapturously received account of Berlioz's La damnation de Faust with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles Dutoit, Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham reprises her 'vivacious and creamy-voiced' (New York Times) star turn as the wealthy widow Hanna Glawari in Susan Stroman's production of Leh r's The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera this winter (Dec 14-Jan 11).
Ken Urban's A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK to Play Huntington This Fall
by BWW
News Desk - Oct 6, 2017
The Huntington Theatre Company presents a provocative new drama A Guide for the Homesick, by Huntington Playwriting Fellow Ken Urban and directed by Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo (Dragon King in Journey to the West and Jim in Well at the Huntington, Mr. Bones in The Scottsboro Boys on Broadway, and Victor Strand in AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead").