While the first seven installments of Frontiers highlighted thrilling new unproduced works-in-progress, the company's latest workshop strips away the musical elements and focusses entirely upon the ...

In a letter to his mother from May 1817 sent from Naples, Gioachino Rossini asked her to send the poet Gaetano Rossi a libretto she would find in a trunk. It was the libretto of 'Laurina ...

Guerilla Opera will offer two courses to artists who are interested in exploring the art of writing through the lens of opera. The first is the “Guerilla Lab: Libretto Writing”, a four-class summer ...

Prologue. Time, the early 1930s; place, Manhattan. A series of vignettes depicts the childhood successes of a little blonde from Brooklyn, Belle (“Bubbles”) Silverman. At three, she sings and ...

Lincoln Center Theater will stage a new opera next year based on Lynn Nottage‘s 2004 play Intimate Apparel. Nottage will write the libretto, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, to be directed by To Kill A ...

Jazz composer Terence Blanchard couldn't have imagined how timely his opera about a gay boxer would become when he accepted a commission three years ago. Blanchard's ''Champion'' - with a libretto by ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. It takes talent to compose an opera. Wearing the right hat is also important. In the autumn of 2016, faced with the ...

As Houston Grand Opera embarks on its new season, the company will put an emphasis on opera as an American form – not, as HGO general director and CEO Khori Dastoor said at an announcement Wednesday ...