On August 1, 2015, Santa Fe Opera presented the world premiere of Cold Mountain, a brand new opera composed by Pulizer Prize and Grammy winner Jennifer Higdon.
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Scalia/Ginsburg Premiere at Castleton Festival
Derrick Wang is a composer who graduated from law school and has an interest in this country’s highest court.
Sara Gartland Takes on Jen?fa
Sara Gartland is an emerging singer who brings an enormous talent and a delightful personality to the opera stage. Having sung lighter soprano roles such as Juliette in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette and Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata, Gartland is now taking on the title role in Leoö Jan·?ek’s dramatic opera Jen?fa.
A Chat with Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer Jennifer Higdon
American composer Jennifer Higdon has won many awards for her imaginative music. Her percussion concerto received the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
Dog Days at REDCAT
On Saturday evening June 13, 2015, Los Angeles Opera presented Dog Days, a new opera with music by David T. Little and a text by Royce Vavrek. In the opera adopted from a story of the same name by Judy Budnitz, thirteen-year-old Lisa tells of her family’s mental and physical disintegration resulting from the ravages of a horrendous war.
Opera Las Vegas Presents Exquisite Madama Butterfly
Audiences at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan first saw Madama Butterfly on February 17, 1904. It was not the success it is these days, and Puccini revised it before its scheduled performances in Brescia.
Pacific Opera Project Presents Ariadne auf Naxos
Pacific Opera Project, a small Los Angeles company, presented a production of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Ebell Club with an excellent group of young singers at the beginning of what should be good careers.
Mariachi Opera El Pasado Nunca se Termina Comes to San Diego
On April 25, 2015, San Diego Opera presented it’s second Mariachi opera: El Pasado Nunca se Termina (The Past is Never Finished) by Jose “Pepe” Martinez, Leonard Foglia and Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitl·n.
San Diego Opera Celebrates 50 Years of Great Singing
San Diego Opera, the company that General Manager Ian Campbell had scheduled for demolition, proved that it is alive and singing as beautifully as ever. Its 2015 season was cut back slightly and management has become a bit leaner, but the company celebrated its fiftieth season in fine style with a concert that included many of the greatest arias ever written.
A Chat with Tenor RenÈ Barbera
American tenor RenÈ Barbera is fast making a name for himself as one of the
top bel canto singers in opera houses around the world.