How do you like your Carmen? Mezzo or soprano? Flirtatious? Confrontational? Smolderingly sexy?
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Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Opera Philadelphia announced today that Lawrence Brownlee has joined the company as an Artistic Advisor.
Tancredi, given on February 10th, was a credit to Opera Philadelphia, who offered a well-considered and compelling production.
How Verdi’s opera might address this particular nightmare was unclear.
Missy Mazzoli, a 36-year-old composer from Brooklyn, has created the most startling and moving new American opera in memory.
In Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, an opera based on the famed jazz musician’s life, the title character asks, “So if there is a God, why does the negro suffer? Is my prayer, my music lesser, smaller in God’s eyes?”
Jarrett Ott is a star. That is the only surprise takeaway from the well-intended snore, Cold Mountain.
The Apollo Theater and Opera Philadelphia just announced that Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD will have its New York premiere in a co-production between the two institutions, April 1 and 3, 2016.
Lisette Oropesa sang “The Lost One”—the meaning of “traviata.”
It’s a place where the one thing you can expect is the unexpected. The place is… Philadelphia?
