WEXFORD FESTIVAL OPERA OPERA COVERAGE

Wexford Festival Opera Expands Friends of Wexford Program

Wexford Festival Opera recently launched a new and exciting expansion of its renowned Friends of Wexford Opera membership. At a special reception in the European Parliament Building in Brussels, the E... (more...)

Thomson Smillie Hosts DEMYSTIFYING OPERA Event at The Bard's Town Today

Many people are intimidated by the very word 'opera', yet would love to know more. IF University will team with Louisville writer and speaker Thomson Smillie to pull back the curtain on the complexity... (more...)

Wexford Festival Opera Nominated for Major International Opera Award

Wexford Festival Opera, long considered one of the finest opera festivals in the world, has been nominated in the Festival Opera category in the inaugural International Opera Awards, announced recentl... (more...)

Thomson Smillie to Host DEMYSTIFYING OPERA Event at The Bard's Town, 2/27

Many people are intimidated by the very word 'opera', yet would love to know more. IF University will team with Louisville writer and speaker Thomson Smillie to pull back the curtain on the complexity... (more...)

American Lyric Theater Presents THE LIVING LIBRETTO at National Opera Center Tonight

American Lyric Theater presents the next installment in its popular series, The Living Libretto, at the National Opera Center, tonight, February 6th, 2013. Featuring guest actors from the Broadway and... (more...)

American Lyric Theater Announces National Expansion of Composer Librettist Development Program

Lawrence Edelson, Producing Artistic Director of American Lyric Theater, announced today the national expansion of the company's core initiative, The Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP). Th... (more...)

American Lyric Theater Presents THE LIVING LIBRETTO Based on the Book THE LONG WALK, at National Opera Center, 2/6

American Lyric Theater presents the next installment in its popular series, The Living Libretto, at the National Opera Center, Wednesday February 6th, 2013. Featuring guest actors from the Broadway an... (more...)

American Lyric Theater Awarded Two $15,000 Grants by OPERA America

American Lyric Theater (ALT) has been awarded two grants of $15,000 each from OPERA America's THE OPERA FUND for Repertoire Development. Announced earlier today by OPERA America, the grants are for tw... (more...)

American Lyric Theater's THE GOLDEN TICKET Live Recording Released Today

American Lyric Theater (ALT) announces that the live recording of its first commissioned opera, The Golden Ticket, a comic opera by Peter Ash and Donald Sturrock based on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the ... (more...)

American Lyric Theater's THE GOLDEN TICKET Live Recording Available for Pre-Order

American Lyric Theater (ALT) announces that the live recording of its first commissioned opera, The Golden Ticket, a comic opera by Peter Ash and Donald Sturrock based on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the ... (more...)

American Lyric Theatre to Receive $20,000 NEA Art Works Grant

American Lyric Theater has been selected by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a $20,000 grant to support its Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP), a full-time resident art... (more...)

Christopher Feigum to Replace Johan Reuter in the Met's THE MAKROPULOS CASE Tomorrow, 5/5

Christopher Feigum will sing the role of Jaroslav Prus in tomorrow's (May 5) matinee performance of Jananek's The Makropulos Case, replacing Johan Reuter, who is ill. (more...)

Christopher Feigum Replaces Jaroslav Prus in Met's THE MAKROPULOS CASE Tonight

Christopher Feigum will make his Met debut as Jaroslav Prus in this evening's performance of Janacek's The Makropulos Case, replacing Johan Reuter, who is ill. (more...)

GOLDEN TICKET Recording Gives Supporters Chance to Become Oompa Loompas

The Golden Ticket, American Lyric Theater's first opera commission - based on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - is being produced for the third time this winter. The Golden Ticket recei... (more...)

Soprano Angela Meade Receives Seventh Annual Beverly Sills Artist Award

Soprano Angela Meade has been named the recipient of the seventh annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers at the Metropolitan Opera (more...)

Julliard Presents KOMMILITONEN! Opera Nov. 16-20

This November, in Juilliard School's Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Anne Manson will conduct the U.S. premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!) - an opera co-commissioned by Juillia... (more...)

Julliard Presents KOMMILITONEN! Opera Nov. 16-20

This November, in Juilliard School's Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Anne Manson will conduct the U.S. premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!) - an opera co-commissioned by Juillia... (more...)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D. Opens the 60th Wexford Festival Opera

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D. formally opened the 60th Wexford Festival Opera in front of an estimated crowd of 20,000 in a ceremony on Wexford's glorious quay front, following which a fanfare from th... (more...)

Wexford Festival Opera Presents The Rare Polish Opera Maria 10/22

On Saturday, October 22, 2011 Wexford Festival Opera will produce, for the first time outside its native Poland, the tragic opera, Maria by Roman Statkowski. (more...)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D. Opens the 60th Wexford Festival Opera

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D. formally opened the 60th Wexford Festival Opera in front of an estimated crowd of 20,000 in a ceremony on Wexford's glorious quay front, following which a fanfare from th... (more...)

60th Season Wexford Opera Festival 2011 To Include La Cour de Celimene

The 60th season Wexford Festival Opera 2011 will kick off with La Cour de Célimène by Ambroise Thomas, a show that has not been seen since 1855 (more...)

Julliard Presents KOMMILITONEN! Opera Nov. 16-20

This November, in Juilliard School's Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Anne Manson will conduct the U.S. premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!) - an opera co-commissioned by Juillia... (more...)

American Lyric Theater Announces Upcoming Season

American Lyric Theater (ALT), home to the nationally acclaimed Composer Librettist Development Program, has announced the 2011-2012 public performance season, featuring workshop performances of seven ... (more...)

60th Season Wexford Opera Festival 2011 To Include La Cour de Celimene

The 60th season Wexford Festival Opera 2011 will kick off with La Cour de Célimène by Ambroise Thomas, a show that has not been seen since 1855 (more...)

Wexford Festival Opera Presents The Rare Polish Opera Maria 10/22

On Saturday, October 22, 2011 Wexford Festival Opera will produce, for the first time outside its native Poland, the tragic opera, Maria by Roman Statkowski. (more...)