(Art by Rainer Gross) On Nov. 22, Composers Concordance is set to present soprano Ljiljana Winkler and trumpeter Peter Oswald. The concert will take place at St. John’s in the Village and will showcase the two musicians alongside CompCord String Quartet in a concert of new compositions and older music. The evening will include “Corazón Coraza” by Graciela CarriquÍ with words {…}
Regina Opera Company has announced its upcoming fall festival concert. The concert will take place on Oct. 27, 2024 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Academy in Brooklyn, NY. The concert will celebrate autumn with a two-hour Fall Festival Concert of opera, zarzuela, and popular selections. The evening also showcases soloists sopranos Tate Chu and Sabrina Palladino, mezzo-soprano Melina Jaharis, {…}
Holy City Arts and Lyric Opera (HALO) will present “HALO-ween” on Oct. 25, 2025 at Battery Gadsen in South Carolina. The showcase is the first event of the organization’s residency at Battery Gadsen and features musical performances by such artists as Leah Edwards, Dimitri Pittas, Kenneth Stavert, and pianist Hyemin Jeong. The program includes music from “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “Pagliacci,” {…}
Tribeca New Music will present “New York Stories” on Nov. 14, 2024. The showcase will feature three pieces by such composers as Arthur Gottschalk, Edmund Cionek, and William Bolcom. The performance will be held at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Kicking off the program is Gottschalk’s “Six Counteracts: When George Met Dorothy,” interpreted by bass-baritone Timothy Jones and pianist {…}
Texas-based One Ounce Opera is set to showcase two special events this fall. First up is “Songs My Mother Taught Me: Mozart Edition.” The event, scheduled for Nov. 10, 2024 at Covenant United Methodist Church, will feature Bethany Naef Ammon, June Julian, Icy Monroe, and Maureen Broy Papovich. Pianist Jeanne Dayton Sasaki accompanies the singers in a series of Mozart {…}
New York’s first disability-affirmative opera company Opera Praktikos has announced its upcoming matinee performance series. “There Will Be Cake,” is a matinee mono-opera concert series with performances by abled and disabled artists. Hailey McAvoy and Shanley Horvitz make up the cast. They are accompanied by music director and pianist Calvin Hitchcock. Gwynn MacDonald directs the productions of Lee Hoiby’s “Bon {…}
Tapestry Opera has unveiled its 2024-25 season. “We are thrilled to unveil our 2024-25 season as we celebrate 45 years of Tapestry Opera with an exciting and dynamic array of productions welcoming performing-arts-loving audiences to our newly built downtown home. It’s a remarkable moment for Tapestry and Toronto to add a vital new venue to the independent performing arts scene,” {…}
Opera Steamboat will present a screening of “Everest – A Graphic Novel Opera” on Oct. 22, 2024 at the Bud Werner Memorial Library. The screening will showcase the new film production by Opera Parallèle. The one-act opera by Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer focuses on the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster during which several mountaineers died after a severe storm hit {…}
Encompass New Opera Theatre’s Artistic Director Nancy Rhodes and The Board of Trustees have announced its 2024 music gala. The evening hosted by Midge Woolsey of Thirteen/WNET and WQXR Radio, will feature recollections, tributes, and entertainment by well-known musical theatre personalities, as well as stars of stage and screen. The main event will see Brian Stokes Mitchell will present Tony {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present “Histories II: Medieval.” The concert will be performed on Nov. 3, 2024, at Roulette in Downtown Brooklyn. “Histories II: Medieval” will showcase medieval-inspired works by modern composers including Samuel Barber’s “Hermit Songs,” Libby Larsen’s Irish and Gnostic texts (Donal Oge, The Magdalene), and Gilda Lyons’ “Songs of Lament and Praise.” The {…}
John Dante Prevedini and Raffaele Sorbo’s Augenmusik opera “Mascagni a Cerignola,” has made its world premiere. Augenmusik, or eye music, is a form of notated music that is also visual art. The technique has been used by various influential composers since the Middle Ages, but has never been used to compose an opera until now. The new opera, “Mascagni a {…}