The Marriage of Figaro - Articles Page 15

Currently, on the Los Angeles Opera website you can hear Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville.' Music Director James Conlon conducts baritone Rodion Pogossov as Figaro, mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as Rosina, and tenor René Barbera as Count Almaviva.

During its unplanned hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO At Home.

This week, Los Angeles Opera's website features a wonderful recital by the renowned bass who has portrayed so many great characters in that house, Morris Robinson.

Opera San José announces plans to create the Fred Heiman Digital Media Studio, a new performance/film space that will enable the company to stream high-quality, fully-produced operatic performances into the living rooms of patrons. The Fred Heiman Digital Media Studio is made possible by a generous lead donation from Opera San José trustee Peggy Heiman in honor of her late husband, devoted Opera San José supporter Fred Heiman.

Bergen National Opera has teamed up with Sound Artist Zoë Irvine to explore a different kind of listening  using an 'opera call centre'. THIS EVENING'S PERFORMANCE HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED will give patrons the unique opportunity to reach the theatre by phone.

San Diego Opera has announced its 2020-2021 season, after the premature ending of the Company's previous season this winter in response to the global coronavirus pandemic.

San Francisco Classical Voice has reported that the San Francisco Opera is helping to create masks for health professionals and other essential workers.

Ian Derrer, the Kern Wildenthal general director and CEO of The Dallas Opera, today announced major changes to the company's 2020/2021 Season brought about by the serious ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

BBC One has acquired the first two series of the critically-acclaimed Australian serial drama The Heights, with the first series confirmed to begin in a daytime slot on 15 June and the second series coming later this year.

Virginia Opera has announced its upcoming 2020-21 season!

St. Paul Pioneer Press has reported that Minnesota Opera has made five operas available for listening online at mnopera.org/opera-series. Some of the titles will be broadcast on Classical MPR. Titles available include Minnesota Opera's original a?oeThe Shining,a?? based on Stephen King's novel and more. 

Queens Public Library today announced the continued expansion of its online cultural programming, ranging from concerts to virtual community hangouts, in its ongoing effort to engage patrons with the Library online.

What's Streaming: Classical

New World Symphony Fellows Corbin Castro and Christopher Robinson today announced the launch of VIA, a virtual summer music academy supported by the New World Symphony (NWS) as part of its NWS BLUE program of Fellow-led initiatives. VIA, which stands for Virtual Inclusion Artists, seeks to engage young musicians from communities underrepresented in classical music through Zoom-based individual lessons and group classes offered over the course of a week-long, summer music intensive. VIA sessions are tailored to string, woodwind, and brass instrumentalists (grades 7a?"12), and are led by NWS Fellows, alumni, and guest speakers, including performance specialist Noa Kageyama (BulletProofMusician.com).

Minnesota Opera has announced its lineup for the 2020 Digital Opera series!

Classical Programming Streaming The Week Of May 11–17:

Madison Opera's Opera in the Park will be moving on-line this summer, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the first Opera in the Park concert in 2002, it has become a Madison summer tradition, a free concert that draws over 10,000 people to Garner Park for selections from opera, Broadway, operetta, and zarzuela.

Opera Atelier has announced Together/Apart - a one-hour virtual showcase of music and dance to connect, uplift, and inspire - featuring an all-star line-up of Opera Atelier's longstanding and audience-favourite artists from around the globe, Wednesday, May 20 at 8pm EST, streaming at OperaAtelier.com.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Rosalind Elias, a longtime performer with the Metropolitan Opera, has died at age 90.

On Friday May 1, 2020, Florence Italy's Maggio Musicale presented a a?oeHome Galaa?? featuring artists singing at home accompanied by themselves, their housemates, or a pre-recorded track. In this year of pandemic, Opera Superintendent Alexander Pereira could not open his theater to its usual crowds, so he invited his artists to sing from their places of quarantine.

During its unplanned hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO at Home. Here's what's on tap for next week.

LA Opera announced today that it has cancelled all performances of The Marriage of Figaro, originally scheduled for June 6-28, 2020, due to international travel restrictions affecting cast members and larger ongoing efforts to address the COVID-19 public health crisis.

Now that the Metropolitan Opera has had a major success with its At-Home Gala, there are other opera companies with similar ideas. The Florence May Festival, (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), will offer its presentation on Friday, May 1, 2020, at noon. P.D.T. Since many opera lovers are working from home, the audience should be enormous. 

While McCaw Hall's stage may be dark, opera music continues to reverberate in the Pacific Northwest and beyond: Starting every Saturday on April 25, Enjoy Seattle Opera Mornings On KING FM. Classical KING FM 98.1 will broadcast recordings of previous Seattle Opera performances including Tosca, La traviata, The Magic Flute, and Madame Butterfly. Broadcasts will be available on the radio and at king.org every Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Pacific Time.