By Gregory Moomjy Whether you like opera or not, everyone knows the old cliché that the leading lady always ends up dead at the end. Some of us opera lovers might even find ourselves in the position of having to refute that and coming up against the dearth of works with happy endings. But the…Continue reading Review: Medea
Podcast 91: Roundtable, Opera and Community
Listen to the Audio Only Version Here We welcome ourselves back to discuss opera productions we’ve seen this summer all over the country, as well as some that we are waiting for with bated breath. Letters That You Will Not Get: Women’s Voices from the Great War at AOP and Quamino’s Map at Chicago Opera Theater are both operas that opened recently whose…Continue reading Podcast 91: Roundtable, Opera and Community
OperaFix: Juana at dell’Arte Opera Ensemble
August 21-27 dell’Arte Opera Ensemble is presenting the professional premiere of Carla Lucero’s opera Juana at The Rose Nagelberg Theater In New York. We’ve followed this project over the years, and in honor of this premiere, we’re collecting clips from our shows beginning with when the project won OPERA America Opera Discovery Grants for Female…Continue reading OperaFix: Juana at dell’Arte Opera Ensemble
operaFix: Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville
Grace Galu, Composer/MD & Baba Israel, Librettist/Co-Director. July 14 -31, Tuesday-Saturday 8:30pm, Saturday & Sunday 4:00pm. Commissioned, Developed and Produced by HERE, Co-Presented by La MaMa. 120 minutes with intermission (Cannabis originally planned to open its run during HERE and BMP’s PROTOTYPE Festival on January 7, 2022. Due to COVID, the 2022 Festival and all…Continue reading operaFix: Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville
Show 90: Part 2 – OPERA America Discovery Grant 2020 Recipients
The Indie Opera Podcast is releasing part two of an episode that was recorded in the Spring of 2020 that got derailed during the start of the pandemic and features all the composer/librettist teams to receive the 2020 OPERA America Discovery Grants which support composers who identify as women in the development of new operatic…Continue reading Show 90: Part 2 – OPERA America Discovery Grant 2020 Recipients