OPERA
2024 The Glimmerglass Festival: Opera in Cooperstown
Glimmerglass Festival 7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NYJULY 22 – AUGUST 20, 2024 The Festival invites you to immerse yourself in myth, mystery, and adventure as the repertory for the 2024 season explores the connection between identity and illusion. Mainstage productions will include Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, Cavalli’s La Calisto, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, and Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree. The 2024 Festival […]
James Kuslan: Barber of Seville: Opera Lecture at Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library
Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library 2 Library Lane, Old LymeThe title of the talk is The Barber of Seville's Close Shaves. In addition to briefly describing the plot, James will discuss Figaro's embodiment of revolutionary aspirations against the ancien régime and Rossini's own aspirations to compose serious music in addition to the opera buffa that made him famous, Barber being foremost amongst those. To RSVP contact Salt Marsh Opera: info@SaltMarshOpera.org […]
Salt Marsh Opera Barber of Seville at The Kate
The Kate 300 Main Street, Old SaybrookOctober 11 at 7:00pm and Sunday, October 13 at 3:00pm! Immerse yourself in the timeless hilarity and musical brilliance of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," an Italian comic opera that has charmed audiences for generations. Inspired by the antics of Figaro, the wily barber of Seville, this production promises an evening full of great music […]
Emma Mistele presents “Perfect Lives”— A TV Opera by Robert Ashley at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, Middletown11am to 1:30pm Graduate music student Emma Mistele presents a day-long (from 11am to 11:30pm) screening of her adaptation of "Perfect Lives" (1977-1983), a TV opera by Robert Ashley (1930–2014). Ashley’s original television opera is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, et al., in the American Midwest. One of the definitive text-sound compositions […]
HOLGER FALK WITH NUOVO ASPETTO Il Gondoliere Veneziano: Lenard Chamber Music Series at UCONN
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts 2132 Hillside Rd, StorrsStep into a Venetian gondola with baritone Holger Falk and journey through a song repertoire beloved by generations including Mozart, Goethe and Rousseau. Falk, well-known for his contemporary opera and recital work, is joined by the wonderful baroque Cologne ensemble Nuovo Aspetto, who supplies the delightful instrumental accompaniment with interludes by Vivaldi and Tartini. Merzouga, […]
Yale Opera presents Iolanta
Schubert Theater New Haven 247 College Street, New HavenYale Opera presents a new production of Tchaikovsky’s romantic fairy tale Iolanta. Metropolitan Opera conductor J. David Jackson leads the Yale Philharmonia and an exciting young cast in this lush opera about the transformative power of love. For more information