Houston Grand Opera, known for innovation, unveils Jake Heggie’s “Intelligence,” directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and featuring Urban Bush Women.
Category: Opera
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Review: Kate Soper’s ‘The Hunt’ Makes the Medieval Modern
Kate Soper’s latest stage work freely moves between legend and anachronism for a story about three virgins taking charge of their bodies.
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North Carolina Radio Station Won’t Ban Met Opera Broadcasts After All
The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh language,” reversed course.
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Kate Soper Returns to Opera With a Story Medieval and Modern
“The Hunt,” set to premiere this month in New York, mines ancient lore about unicorns, but asks questions of today. Who has power, and who has rights?
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James Jorden, Parterre Box Opera Blog Creator, Dies at 69
With Parterre Box, he brought together high culture, punk aesthetics and gleeful camp in an irreverent source for news, criticism and gossip.
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The Met’s ‘Dead Man Walking’ Goes to Sing Sing
Metropolitan Opera stars joined prisoners for a one-night-only performance of “Dead Man Walking.”
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Nancy Van de Vate, Composer and Advocate for Women in Music, Dies at 92
An American who settled in Vienna, she had a prolific career in contemporary classical music and broke gender barriers in her field.
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Verdi’s ‘Nabucco’ and Requiem Showcase the Met Opera Chorus
The company’s opening week included performances of “Nabucco” and the Requiem.
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Review: The Met Opera’s Season Opens With ‘Dead Man Walking’
As part of its push to stage more contemporary works, the company has turned to one of the most widely produced operas of the 21st century.
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Christian Thielemann to Succeed Daniel Barenboim at Berlin State Opera
The conductor, an acclaimed Wagnerian, was named to replace Barenboim, who stepped down in January after three decades because of health problems.
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Opera Philadelphia Cuts Its Budget, but Not Its Ambition
The company, a haven for contemporary and innovative opera, presented a scaled back yet rich edition of its season-opening festival.
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A Film-Minded Director Returns to the Metropolitan Opera
Mariusz Trelinski returns to the Metropolitan Opera next year with a new staging of “La Forza del Destino,” which leans into psychoanalysis and fate.