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BWW Blog: Leah Edwards - Practice. Perform. Repeat

In the beginning, there is an artist and a dream. Then there are lessons and years of practice and graduations and eventually the realization that you're succeeding at making a living doing what you ... (more...)

Duke Ellington, Ernest Bloch and Two German Operas Set for Chicago Opera Theater's 2014 Season

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) General Director Andreas Mitisek announces programming for COT's 2014 season, including two operas and a double-bill of one-acts. Mitisek comments, 'It's a season that is 1... (more...)

After a sold-out premiere in November 2012 at Dixon Place, Figaro! (90210) returns for a limited run between June 11 and 16, 2013. Morningside Opera will present the show in concert performances at Th... (more...)

Guerilla Opera to Live Stream GIVER OF LIGHT World Premiere in Boston, 5/23

Guerilla Opera will live stream the World Premiere performance of Giver of Light on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at 8:00 p.m. EST from The Zack Box Theater at The Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA. (more...)

13th Annual Mario Lanza and Elaine Malbin Vocal Competitions Set for 5/26

Legendary opera star, Elaine Malbin, will be among a panel of experts judging the 13th Annual Mario Lanza and Elaine Malbin Vocal Competitions which will be held on the main stage at Broadway and 86th... (more...)

BWW Reviews: 'And the Winners Were...' A Report Card for the Metropolitan Opera's 2012-2013 Season

The regular season just ended for the Metropolitan Opera--all that's left is a series of HD rebroadcasts on Lincoln Center Plaza and a couple of low profile concerts in New York City parks--and it's t... (more...)

Morningside Opera to Bring FIGARO! (90210) to The NSD Theater, 6/11 & 16

After a sold-out premiere in November 2012 at Dixon Place, Figaro! (90210) returns for a limited run between June 11 and 16, 2013. Morningside Opera will present the show in concert performances at Th... (more...)

Washington National Opera to Premiere APPROACHING ALI, 6/8-9

Washington National Opera (WNO) will present the world premiere of Approaching Ali on Friday and Saturday, June 8-9, 2013 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Approaching Ali features music by compo... (more...)

Soprano Angela Meade Named Washington National Opera's Artist of the Year

Angela Meade has just been named Artist of the Year by the Washington National Opera (WNO). The May 13 announcement comes on the heels of the soprano's triumphant company debut, in which she "thrilled... (more...)

Met Opera to Stream 'NICO MUHLY, TWO BOYS, AND OTHER WORKS' Live from Le Poisson Rouge, 5/14

The Metropolitan Opera announced that 'An Evening with Nico Muhly, Two Boys, and other works' will be available for live video streaming on both NPR Music (www.npr.org/music) and WQXR's Q2 Music onlin... (more...)

BWW Blog: Leah Edwards - Evolving Art

On January 13, 1910, the first American public radio broadcast aired, featuring Enrico Caruso live from the stage of The Metropolitan Opera. On April 15, 1923 came the first commercial screening of a... (more...)

TOSCA, NABUCCO and More Set for Lyric Opera Baltimore's 2013-14 Season

The Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric's Artistic Director James Harp has announced the third annual opera season at the new Modell Lyric. Two grand operas will be featured-Puccini's Tosca and... (more...)

BWW Reviews: GOTTERDAMMERUNG Brings Another Twilight to the Met's RING

Katarina Dalayman is one of a handful of top Wagnerian sopranos in the world, but for the first act of the Met's GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, the climax of the Met's second 'Ring' cycle of the season, she didn't ... (more...)

FUNNY GIRL, PINK SKIES, Marcia Ball and More Set for Napa Valley Opera House, May 2013

The Napa Valley Opera House today announced the following schedule of performances taking place throughout the month of May 2013. (more...)

BWW Reviews: The Met's Stirring Production of Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES is 'the Anti-Machine'

What would the Metropolitan Opera (and its audiences) do without its production of Francis Poulenc's DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES, which opened for the season with Saturday's matinee, May 4? As created in... (more...)

NYC Opera Accepting Submissions for 2013-14 VOX

Today New York City Opera announced that it is accepting submissions for the 2013-14 VOX, the company's workshop for new American operas, presented in conjunction with OPERA America's New Works Forum.... (more...)

Joshua Benevento, Melanie Goerlitz and Liora Michelle Perform at Enrico Caruso Room Tonight

Tenor Joshua Benevento, who joined the Metropolitan Opera Chorus this season, will perform operatic arias with sopranos Melanie Goerlitz and Liora Michelle at the Enrico Caruso Room in Little Italy's ... (more...)

Verdi's JERUSALEM and More Set for Sarasota Opera's 55th Season

Sarasota Opera has announced its 2013 - 2014 Fall and Winter programming which will mark the company's 55th consecutive season of performing grand opera on the Florida gulf coast. Highlights will incl... (more...)

STAGE TUBE: First Look at Ashley Brown, John Cudia and More in Highlights of Lyric Opera's OKLAHOMA

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! premiered at Lyric Opera of Chicago Saturday, May 4. The new production, which includes the original choreography by the legendary Agnes De Mille, will have 16 perfor... (more...)

BWW Reviews: SHOW BOAT Rolls Along at Washington National Opera

SHOW BOAT is back in an appealing production by the Washington National Opera. The Kennedy Center Opera House is a fitting berth for Captain Andy's Cotton Blossom and the happy/troubled show folk who ... (more...)

LA VOIX HUMAINE and SUOR ANGELICA Conclude Seattle Opera's 2012-13 Season, Now thru 5/18

Seattle Opera's 2012/13 season concludes in May with a double bill of compelling twentieth-century operas, both new to the company: La Voix Humaine, by Francis Poulenc, and Giacomo Puccini's Suor Ange... (more...)

Indianapolis Opera to Present THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, 5/10 & 12

Indianapolis Opera is set to present Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, on May 10 & 12, 2013 at Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis. The Flying Dutchman, a three-act opera, captures legends of a g... (more...)

Gotham Chamber Opera Presents LA HIJA DE RAPPACCINI, 6/17 & 24

Gotham Chamber Opera presents Daniel Catan's 1988 opera, La hija de Rappaccini (Rappaccini's Daughter), on Mondays, June 17 and 24, 2013 at 7pm at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (rain date June 25). Seating ... (more...)

Regional Opera Company of the Week: Los Angeles Opera

Los Angeles Opera has been a tour de force since its inaugural production of Verdi's Otello starring Placido Domingo in October 1986. Both Founding General Director Peter Hemminds and subsequently aft... (more...)

OPERA CONFERENCE 2013: OPERA OUT OF BOUNDS Runs 5/7-11

OPERA America, the national nonprofit service organization for opera, is pleased to announce details of Opera Conference 2013: Opera Out of Bounds, to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia from May 7... (more...)