DoK! A fresh concert version. youtu.be/n07_Q3cZxqM?...
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Yowza! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDN2...
It's not quite #brandnewopera but it's online now thanks to Houston Grand Opera's Butler Studio, Des Moines Metro Opera, & Lyric Opera of Kansas City. So great to revisit Steinbeck (whom they have somehow forgotten to credit at the time of this posting 🤔) while becoming more acquainted with Floyd.
Ten years since Fallujah premiered with Long Beach Opera. #opera #newopera #fallujah Great singers, and an orchestra with drum kit, electric guitar and oud. A delve into a Middle East war’s effects on mothers and families on any side …
Proving the power of contemporary opera to move and unsettle audiences, Mary Motorhead & Trade, presented by @acoco_go, stand as compelling examples of modern storytelling intensified through musical and vocal soundscapes. My thoughts at #ArtsReview: artsreview.com.au/mary-motorhe...
The Whom announcing, “Tonight's program will be selections from our new opera, "Thomas."
🚨 LAYOFF ALERT – New York 🇺🇸
The Metropolitan Opera will lay off 22 employees in New York City as part of cost-cutting measures tied to financial shortfalls. The opera company is also reducing executive pay and postponing productions as it works to stabilize finances.
Fallujah, the opera provides a glimpse inside real hearts and minds before and after one of Iraq War’s biggest battles. From Canadian composer Tobin Stokes and award-winning Iraqi American playwright Heather Raffo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZ9...
Thanks for the review! I’m trying to find a ticket for Wed!
The NOA's new chamber opera finals last night were seriously problematic. All three operas/scenes were full of toxic masculinity and women as victims/healers of the men. Apparently the judges neither see these issues nor reject them. This is not the way forward for contemporary opera.
A Bold Alliance Ends as Innovative Opera Director Bows Out in Detroit
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Natasha, by Toshio Hosokawa, is streaming for free on OperaVision’s YouTube channel and from their website: www.operavision.eu. It is stunning. #newopera #brandnewopera #operavision
New opera version of "The Railway Children" is a #coldwar #thriller www.colinscolumn.com/glyndebourne...
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The Met Opera Turns to Saudi Arabia to Help Solve Its Financial Woes www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...
Mr. Gelb said his support for cultural exchange with Saudi Arabia was different.
Coming this fall? Super!
Unsuk Chin’s new opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes was meant to be a must-see — so what went wrong?
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Opera Philadelphia 2025–26 season just went on sale, and again *every* seat in the house is available for as low as $11. Bought my tickets for 'Complications in Sue,' the new opera by 'A Strange Loop' playwright Michael R. Jackson with 10 brilliant composers. www.operaphila.org/whats-on/252...
a digital poster at the Metropolitan Opera House box office that shows Gerald Finley as Mark Antony dipping back Julia Bullock as Cleopatra. it announces ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA OPENS TONIGHT
A mirror selfie of a plus size woman with red hair wearing a dress patterned with van Gogh’s Starry Night
The Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 SEASON The Metropolitan Opera premiere of JOHN ADAMS'S ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA This performance is being broadcast live on the SiriusXM app and streamed at metopera.org. CONDUCTOR John Adams IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE CLEOPATRA Julia Bullock CHARMIAN Taylor Raven DEBUT ANTONY Gerald Finley EROS Brenton Ryan ENOBARBUS Alfred Walker* CAESAR Paul Appleby* AGRIPPA Jarrett Ott DEBUT LEPIDUS Kevin Short OCTAVIA Elizabeth DeShong SCARUS Michael Adams IRAS Eve Gigliotti Monday, May 12, 2025, 7:30-10:55PM
messenger screenshot: ozymegdias: oh my GOD this shit rips twiliteisntlit: what a way to word that, lol ozymegdias: genuinely had to stop myself from shouting that at Adams as soon as the lights came back up twiliteisntlit: you've gone full tilt opera, good lord ozymegdias: listen this was always a latent threat
[dril voice] modernist opera. I live for this
So delighted to see this. Excellent bunch of people.
Fedora Prize 2025: Irish composer Michael Gallen wins €100,000 award for new opera
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I heard Sarah this evening. Um, wow!
“The Central Park Five,” an opera about the Black and Latino boys wrongly convicted of raping a Central Park jogger, opens next month at the Detroit Opera House. We spoke with the company about the perils of mounting a production that waves a red cape at Donald Trump's reactive presidency.
Congrats! That’s quick writing!
Check out the new opera feed I'm attempting to curate using the skyfeed builder. It's a bit like herding cats. Meow. Search "brand new opera' in your feeds tab (the # ).