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The New York Opera Alliance NYOANext Brings Opera To and From The Bronx

New York Opera Alliance NYOANext The Bronx The first staging of the New York Opera Alliance's NYOANext, a five-borough showcase of local opera companies, presents the Bronx Opera, International Brazilian Opera Company, Manhattan Opera Repertory Ensemble, Encompass New Opera Theatre, Little Opera Theatre of NY with Harlem Opera Theater, SAS Performing Arts Company and … [Read more...] about The New York Opera Alliance NYOANext Brings Opera To and From The Bronx

Il Divo Brings French & Spanish Pop Opera to the Beacon Theatre

Il Divo is a crossover pop opera quartet with French, Swiss, and American tenors, and a special guest Mexican baritone. 🇫🇷🇲🇽 Il Divo Il Divo is Swiss tenor Urs Buhler, French tenor Sebastien Izambard, American tenor David Miller with special guest, Mexican baritone Steven Labrie. Carlos Marín, the original Spanish baritone died of Covid in 2021. They were discovered in … [Read more...] about Il Divo Brings French & Spanish Pop Opera to the Beacon Theatre

Prototype Festival 2023

The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater presents great new voices during the APAP convention of presenters and booking agents. It's produced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, the energy behind a lot of great musical theatre in New York City. Prototype Festival 2023 The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater … [Read more...] about Prototype Festival 2023

Andrea Bocelli Brings “A Family Christmas” to Madison Square Garden

Andrea Bocelli is a multiple Grammy-nominated Italian tenor who has crossed over into pop music. He is one of the best-selling classical music artists of all time. Many artists who work with Bocelli, speak of a special something, which can only be described as a strong spirituality. The World's Greatest Voice Andrea Bocelli was born in 1958 in Lajatico, a small village … [Read more...] about Andrea Bocelli Brings “A Family Christmas” to Madison Square Garden

New York City Opera Bryant Park Picnic Performances: “Lucia di Lammermoor”

New York City Opera Bryant Park picnic performances are a New York City summer tradition. It's great opera in a beautiful setting for free. New York City Opera Bryant Park 2022 New York City Opera performs highlights from Rossini's Italian opera "Barber of Seville" in a picnic performance at Bryant Park in Manhattan's Garment District on May 27, 2022 from 7-8:30pm. Free. … [Read more...] about New York City Opera Bryant Park Picnic Performances: “Lucia di Lammermoor”

Opera Lafayette Redraws French Opera from the Time of Maria Antoinette in a Colonial Mexican and Caribbean Context at El Museo

Under the theme of the "The Era of Marie Antoinette Rediscovered" the Opera Lafayette New York Festival redraws three French Baroque operas in a Tejano, Caribbean and West African context at El Museo del Barrio in "El Barrio" East Harlem, Tue-Thu, Jun 7-9, 2022 at 7pm. operalafayette.org 🇫🇷🇬🇳🇲🇽🇵🇷 Opera Lafayette New York Festival Relates Historical Women to the Music of … [Read more...] about Opera Lafayette Redraws French Opera from the Time of Maria Antoinette in a Colonial Mexican and Caribbean Context at El Museo

The Metropolitan Opera Premieres a New “Lucia de Lammermoor” with Nadine Sierra & Javier Camarena

The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2021-22 season and season tickets are on sale. Whether the season can take place or not depends entirely on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, but for now, it is on. Tickets at metopera.org French Canadian music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the company again. 🇨🇦 The Met is working on racial and gender equity. Classical … [Read more...] about The Metropolitan Opera Premieres a New “Lucia de Lammermoor” with Nadine Sierra & Javier Camarena

Isabel Leonard Grammy-winning Argentine-American Opera Star

Isabel Leonard is a Grammy®-winning Argentine-American mezzo-soprano. We've watched her perform at the Argentine Consulate in New York. When Ms. Leonard starts to sing, you can't help but stop whatever you are doing and just listen. She has a really commanding stage presence. Isabel Leonard Live with Carnegie Hall Isabel Leonard performs for Live with Carnegie Hall … [Read more...] about Isabel Leonard Grammy-winning Argentine-American Opera Star

Tosca is an Italian Opera Love Triangle, “I Lived for Art, I Lived for Love”

"Tosca" is Puccini's dramatic Italian opera about a love triangle from 1900. Tosca 2020 March 26 - April 18, 2020 ~ Tosca is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center on selected days. Soprano Anna Netrebko returns as the explosive diva. Bertrand de Billy conducts. Tickets from $30 at metopera.org Tosca "Tosca" is Giacomo Puccini's Italian opera about … [Read more...] about Tosca is an Italian Opera Love Triangle, “I Lived for Art, I Lived for Love”

Madama Butterfly

"Madama Butterfly" is Giacomo Puccini's Italian opera about a Japanese geisha's broken heart. The librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica also worked with Puccini on Tosca and La Bohème. Madama Butterfly premiered at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy in 1904. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1907. Madama Butterfly 2020 Madama Butterfly is at … [Read more...] about Madama Butterfly

Così fan tutte

Così fan tutte, ossia La Scuola degli amanti (Women are like That, or The School for Lovers) is Mozart's two-act, Italian comic opera about the sexes. This is tricky material for what was once tolerated, in the age of #MeToo has become unacceptable. You probably have to be "Latin" about it and don't worry too much. Just enjoy, and do behave. Così fan tutte … [Read more...] about Così fan tutte

Magic Flute

The Magic Flute is Mozart's fairy tale opera. The Metropolitan Opera's short family version in English has become a New York City holiday tradition. The Magic Flute 2019 December 15, 2019 - January 4, 2020 ~ Julie Taymor's production is filled with puppetry and unforgettable scenes. Lothar Koenigs (Aachen, Germany) conducts. David Portillo from San Antonio, Texas is the … [Read more...] about Magic Flute

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin's classic 1935 opera about Black life in America's old South, is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center for fourteen performances between September 23, 2019 and February 1, 2020. From $30 Get tickets from $30 at metopera.org The opera is set in the 1920s on the streets of a poor Black fishing community in Charleston, South Carolina. Porgy … [Read more...] about Porgy and Bess

Aida

Aida opens at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 7:30 pm. It is performed fourteen times with two casts through March 7, 2019. From $25 This is the last season for Sonja Frisell's production. 'Aida' will return in the 2020-2021 season with a brand new production. Get tickets at … [Read more...] about Aida

Rigoletto

The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's Italian opera 'Rigoletto' at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center thirteen times with two casts between February 12 and May 10, 2019. From $20 The womanizing Duke of Mantua wants to sleep with Gilda, the beautiful daughter of his court jester Rigoletto. This is Michael Mayer's production which moves the scene from Renaissance … [Read more...] about Rigoletto

Pelléas et Mélisande

The Metropolitan Opera performs Debussy's French opera Pelléas et Mélisande just five times at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center from January 15-31, 2019. From $30 Get tickets Argentine mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard stars with American tenor Paul Appleby. Ms. Leonard is a joy to the senses. The Met's French-Canadian Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin … [Read more...] about Pelléas et Mélisande

Carmen

Carmen is Bizet's French opera about a fiery Romani woman whose passion knows no boundaries. Carmen premiered in 1875 at Opéra Comique in Paris. Henri Meilhac, also known for Manon,  wrote the French libretto with Ludovic Halévy. It is based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée. The opera is set in Seville, Spain, the capital of Spain's southern Andalusia region, the heartland … [Read more...] about Carmen

Mile-Long Opera, a biography of 7 o’clock, 1,000 singers, 100 stories

The Mile-Long Opera, a biography of 7 o'clock, is on the High Line in Chelsea and Manhattan's Meatpacking District, Wednesday - Sunday, October 3 - 7, 2018. Free with ticket RSVP. Extended to Monday, October 8, 2018. @highlinenyc #MileLongOpera Mile-Long Opera, a biography of 7 o'clock https://youtu.be/hWZjUqRYj0U The Mile-Long Opera is free public opera sung by … [Read more...] about Mile-Long Opera, a biography of 7 o’clock, 1,000 singers, 100 stories

Samson et Dalila

Samson et Dalila is a Grand Opera in three acts and four scenes by Camille Saint-Saëns with a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire. It is about the biblical characters Samson and Delilah. Samson was a military leader with incredible strength. He loved Delilah. She was bribed to find the source of his strength. On discovering it was his hair, she order a hair cut while he … [Read more...] about Samson et Dalila

Kamchatka

Americas Society presents the U.S. premiere of Kamchatka, a new Argentine - French opera at Dixon Place in Manhattan's Lower East Side on Tuesday & Wednesday, June 5 - 6, 2018 at 7 pm. $10 - $20 Get tickets #thisisopera #nyoperafest Facebook: musicoftheamericas Instagram: @musicamericas Twitter: @musicamericas Kamchatka Peninsula The Kamchatka Peninsula is … [Read more...] about Kamchatka

Roméo et Juliette

The Metropolitan Opera performs Charles Gounod's French opera Roméo et Juliette at The Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, April 23 - May 12, 2018. Ailyn Pérez and Charles Castronovo star. Plácido Domingo conducts. Charles Gounod Gounod (Paris, 1818 - 1893, Saint-Cloud) is best known for his version of Bach's Ave Maria and his opera Faust. Roméo et … [Read more...] about Roméo et Juliette

Plácido Domingo

Plácido Domingo is a world-renowned Spanish tenor from Madrid. Domingo is most famous for singing Otello, his Pop album Perhaps Love, and The Three Tenors. Plácido Domingo helped popularize Opera in Mexico Domingo was born into a singing family in Madrid, Spain on January 21, 1941. His parents started a Zarzuela company in Mexico in 1949, so Domingo grew up there. … [Read more...] about Plácido Domingo

The Met Opera’s “Cinderella” Stars Isabel Leonard

"Cendrillon" is Jules Massenet's French opera based on the ancient Cinderella fairy tale. The Metropolitan Opera presents Laurent Pelly's 2018 production. The Metropolitan Opera's "Cinderella" English holiday version of Massenet's "Cendrillon" stars Argentine American mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center from Dec 17, 2021 - Jan 3, … [Read more...] about The Met Opera’s “Cinderella” Stars Isabel Leonard

Luisa Miller

Luisa Miller is an Italian tragic opera by Giuseppe Verdi. It's about a poor woman loved by a rich man, though they are both destined to be married to others because of their social status. Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) was an Italian composer who was one of the leading opera composers in history. His most famous operas are Rigoletto, Il trovatore, and … [Read more...] about Luisa Miller

Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor is an Italian tragic opera by Gaetano Donizetti. It's about a fragile young woman who is forced into marriage, but goes mad and kills her husband on their wedding night. The extended mad scene in Act III is the most famous scene of madness in the entire opera repertoire. The Met Opera draws the point that Lucia is not mad as in insane. She reaches a … [Read more...] about Lucia di Lammermoor

Semiramide

Semiramide https://youtu.be/uRGW4_7wP7E Semiramide is Gioachino Rossini's tragic two-act Italian opera based on French philosopher Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis (1748). The story is based on the legend of Semiramis, a queen of the ancient empire of Assyria (Mesopotamia and Egypt). All sorts of buildings across the Middle East and Armenia are attributed to her, including … [Read more...] about Semiramide